BERKELEY'S NEWS • APRIL 01, 2023
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Culture Shot
JANUARY 11, 2021
Cinema Spelunking: War films (What are they good for?)
By drawing on history, fiction and national memory, war films often invoke national security, collectivism and the social order as virtuous ideals that merit violence — a righteous country deserves to be defended to the death
Culture Shot
JANUARY 11, 2021
Cinema Spelunking: War films (What are they good for?)
By drawing on history, fiction and national memory, war films often invoke national security, collectivism and the social order as virtuous ideals that merit violence — a righteous country deserves to be defended to the death
Culture Shot
AUGUST 16, 2018
Oscars’ creation of ‘achievement in popular film’ category preserves status quo of exclusion and favoritism
Even for an institution as terminally sanitized as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the group’s newly announced changes to its telecast read as its deepest kowtow yet.
Culture Shot
AUGUST 16, 2018
Oscars’ creation of ‘achievement in popular film’ category preserves status quo of exclusion and favoritism
Even for an institution as terminally sanitized as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the group’s newly announced changes to its telecast read as its deepest kowtow yet.
