Vonnegut, Kurt. 2016. In If This Isn’t Nice, What Is? Edited by Dan Wakefield. New York: Seven Stories Press. A 1970 commencement speech from Kurt Vonnegut, in which he argues that art restores innocence and optimism…
Carpenter, Lynette. 1986. Film criticism 11, no. 1/2: 56-65. Lynette Carpenter argues the 1949 film The Third Man serves as a warning to European political powers about the dangers of the Cold War mentality, which was…
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…
Harvey, Stephen. 1972. Film Comment 8, no. 3: 20–22. Author Stephen Harvey presents an analysis of Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 film The Great Dictator, and in particular its political comedy and its relationship to the bulk…
Senior, William A. 2006. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 17, no. 4: 317-321. An introduction to a journal, this paper analyzes Frank Herbert’s Dune as an allegory for US and UK intervention in the Middle East.…
Souillac, G., Fry, D.P. 2016. In: Richmond, O.P., Pogodda, S., Ramović, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Disciplinary and Regional Approaches to Peace. Palgrave Macmillan, London. This chapter provides an introduction…