Toles analyzes the antagonist of The Third Man (1949), Harry Lime, arguing he is an allegory for Hitler and Stalin, among others. Lime behaves in the same despotic way during peace as during war, and thus his character…
This article presents an analysis of the appearance of Habsburg monarchs and the pre-World War I Austrian Empire which was common in Austrian film from the 1910s until the 1950s and 1960s. These appearances were partly…
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…
McCormick provides an analysis of the three most popular films of comedic director Ernst Lubitsch, and how each was infused with political agenda in the decade leading up to World War II. In an era where most comedies,…
Postcolonial scholar Sneharika Roy claims that in narratives of traumatized American expatriates, physical wounds serve as metaphors for psychological turmoil. She provides an interesting commentary on how post-war…
This text investigates Samuel Beckett’s novel Murphy as a potentially pacifist text. Published in 1938, Murphy is an avant-garde novel whose eponymous protagonist, an unemployed Irishman in London, finds pleasure only…