Chenoweth, Erica, and Maria Stephan. U.S.A.: Columbia University Press, 2011. This book takes an academic and data-based approach to exploring the efficacy of nonviolent civil resistance to transform, and to make more…
Setka, Stella. Jewish Film & New Media volume 3 no. 2 (Fall 2015), pp. 141-169. This article details how Inglourious Basterds (2009) examines political art and its relationship to history and historiography. Stella…
Rabinowitz, Paula. History and Theory volume 32, no. 2 (May 1993), pp. 119-137. In this insightful article, Paula Rabinowitz writes that documentary films ask their audiences to consider memory, both individual and…
Toles, George. 2012. Cinema Journal 51, no. 3: 142-149. 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…
Leidinger, Hannes. 2018. University of New Orleans Press. 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…
Herman, Peter C. 2018. Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme 41, no. 3: 165-193. Peter C. Herman argues that Thomas More’s novel Utopia, Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, and Dave Eggers’s novel The…
McCormick, Rick. 2020. In Sex, Politics, and Comedy: The Transnational Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch, 282–307. Indiana University Press. In this book chapter, Rick McCormick discusses Ernst Lubitch’s 1942 comedy To Be Or…
McCormick, Rick. 2020. In Sex, Politics, and Comedy: The Transnational Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch, 244–81. Indiana University Press. McCormick provides an analysis of the three most popular films of comedic director…
Roy, Sneharika. 2018. A Poetics of Neurosis. Postcolonial scholar Sneharika Roy claims that in narratives of traumatized American expatriates, physical wounds serve as metaphors for psychological turmoil. She provides…
Wallace, Jeff. 2015. Twentieth Century Literature 61, no. 3: 352–72. This text investigates Samuel Beckett’s novel Murphy as a potentially pacifist text. Published in 1938, Murphy is an avant-garde novel whose…