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Tuesday, January 26, 2021

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Culture Shot

Monday, 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
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Culture Shot

Thursday, 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.
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Voices

Monday, April 7, 2014

Student artist fights for feminism in his mother’s footsteps

I slip into a boxy little apartment building beside a tattoo shop and head up the stairs. I’m checking my phone for the number when the main door clacks behind me and a lithe, bearded young man comes bounding up the stairs. His arms are loaded with packages and rolls of
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