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New U.S. Black Cinema

Taylor, Clyde. 1983. in Jump Cut, no. 28, 46-48 The L.A. Rebellion was a group of black UCLA film students from the 1960-80s who focused on creating a black cinema to combat the racist stereotypes portrayed in classic…

Western Masculinities in War and Peace

Nye, Robert A. 2007. in The American Historical Review, 112 (2): 417-438. An exploration of the gender roles presents in soldiers throughout the war, examining how the existence of beliefs in these roles determined the…

The Imagination of Disaster

Sontag, Susan. 1965. in Commentary Magazine. 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…