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A seed was planted in front of Sproul Hall on November 9 by a few students and their ill-placed tents. That seed has sprouted. Spring has come early. The roots of the Occupy Cal movement grow in the ripples of the Internet, in the rhetoric of the classroom, in the hallowed
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Fifteen months after the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, New York City was reborn in glorious fashion on celluloid. It took a pair of feature films from two of the city’s most influential filmmakers to do it. The first, Queens native Martin Scorsese’s “Gangs of
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In literary terms, September 11 no doubt reshaped the way we consider the trauma narrative. The turn-of-the-century tragedy, and the millennium itself, announced not just the boom of postmodernism, but also a question to be answered: Where do we go from here? Jonathan Safran Foer’s exuberant, wildly stylized novel “Extremely
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‘United 93’ galvanized American cinema Dramatizations of defining moments in history are nothing new for movies, or any other artistic medium for that matter. World War II and Vietnam films belong to their own subgenres of war movies, while a typical period piece always has the need to wink at
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