Sontag carries out a criticism on audience response to 1950’s science fiction films seemingly drawing from the apocalyptic experiences in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. She defends the inappropriate nature of public…
Benjamin Franz writes a review of Taika Waititi’s film Jojo Rabbit, analyzing Waititi’s use of genre-blending to create a simultaneously comic and horrific depiction of Nazi Germany. In it he argues the bright colors,…
This journal article examines the life of writer Aldous Huxley, from his youth to his political opinions as a young man to his fascination with religion in his later years. Semmler connects each of these facets of…
Monk discusses war and peace in two of the interwar novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald, who fought in World War I and lived and travelled throughout Europe in the 1920s, witnessing firsthand the effects of both war and the…
In this introduction to a literary journal, David Higgins analyzes the political undertones in novels such as Frank Herbert’s Dune and Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, particularly as those political themes…
Bahoora presents a discussion of three Iraqi novels (Luay Hamza Abbas’s Closing His Eyes, Hassan Blasim’s The Reality and the Record, and Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad) written during and after the Arab…
Kraemer argues the animation in Waltz With Bashir (2008) softens the real violence and atrocities committed by the characters in the film, allowing blame to be pushed off of Israeli soldiers and government officials.…
A 1970 commencement speech from Kurt Vonnegut, in which he argues that art restores innocence and optimism in its creators and its consumers alike. He advises students to “skylark,” or shirk duty, when they are young,…
Peter C. Herman argues that Thomas More’s novel Utopia, Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, and Dave Eggers’s novel The Circle each present an ideal reality or utopia which have since drawn criticism from readers…
In this book chapter, Rick McCormick discusses Ernst Lubitch’s 1942 comedy To Be Or Not To Be, a film about a small theatre troupe living in Poland during the Nazi occupation. McCormick analyzes Lubitsch’s…