Picketers carry signs outside Paramount in Times Square on July 17, 2023, in New York.
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The Hollywood actors’ strike is a watershed moment for the entertainment industry, marking a turning point for the future of labour in the arts.
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The new sincerity of horror has been sapping the genre of its fun. Netflix’s newest Australian offering is just the latest victim.
Jewelry of the kandake Amanishakheto from a pyramid at Meroe.
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The way many Americans think about racial identity today is hard to map onto the complex history of ancient Egypt and ancient Nubia.
We need to understand two things about Netflix’s support for original film and TV creation: Are creators getting to tell their own stories? Are these stories being bought?
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Understanding how Netflix, to date, has fostered screen sector equity and capacity matters as the CRTC consults about Canadian and Indigenous content.
Steven Yeun as Danny and Ali Wong as Amy in Beef.
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Through collector Jordan’s fetishistic interest in Asian women, Beef shows the troubling link between collecting artefacts and sexual control.
Anna Nicole Smith posing with her Guess billboard.
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It’s questionable how ethical it is to retell the story of women whose lives have already been damaged by media depictions of them.
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The backlash against Netflix’s documentary asks the question of how brands should take more responsibility when representing other cultures.
David Gyasi and Keri Russell in The Diplomat.
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The Diplomat suggests that if the ‘special relationship’ is to survive into a world turned topsy turvy by Brexit, Trump and war in Europe, it demands a little TLC.
Keri Russell plays a a nonpolitical straight shooter in a political role that she grudgingly accepts.
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Although the series perpetuates the stereotype that politically ambitious women can’t be trusted in high office, it thoughtfully portrays the ubiquity of everyday sexism in political culture.
Cleopatra (centre) is played by a black actress, Adele James, in the new Netflix docudrama series.
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The ethnicity outcry says more about today’s preoccupations with race than ancient Egypt’s.
When someone humiliates themselves on TV, you want to look away, but you can’t.
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What does secondhand embarrassment say about your own anxieties and biases?
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Beef gives permission to its feuding central characters and minority audience members to feel complex and nuanced emotions.
Striking workers picket outside of Warner Bros. Studios on the second day of the Hollywood writers strike on May 3, 2023, in Burbank, Calif.
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The writers strike lays bare all the ills of working on one of the lowest rungs of the entertainment industry.
Adele James in Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra.
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The modern soundtrack and dialogue feels far more anachronistic and intrusive than the diverse casting.
On a road trip journey of self-discovery, three women friends of ‘Another Self’ visit ruins of the Temple of Athena in Assos, Turkey. (Herbert Weber/Wikipedia)
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As a displaced scholar, I never thought a show depicting events affecting modern Turkey would so strongly impact my interpretation of historical and political contexts intersecting with my family.
An online exhibition includes access to personal newspaper advertisements from 1860 to 1879 transcribed from archives.
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Personal ads of ‘the Agony Column’ were full of longing, tragedy and profound misfortune. Intrigue they generated has had an enduring effect on literature and film.
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These feuding strangers hate each other because they hate themselves.
In ‘Beef,’ two L.A. strangers (played by Steven Yeun and Ali Wong) end up in an escalating feud after a road rage incident. The identity of the characters is both incidental and central to the story, blasting through stereotypes.
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The brilliance of the new Netflix TV show, ‘Beef,’ which looks at loneliness and urban life, is threatened by the controversial history of one of its supporting actors, David Choe.
The Online Streaming Act aims to level the playing field between streaming giants and legacy Canadian radio and television broadcasters.
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The Online Streaming Act is set to soon become law in Canada. The act is a step in the right direction, but more needs to be done to support BIPOC content.
The drama series Rough Cut on Netflix follows a group of misfits as they try to pull off a diamond heist.
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Welsh language heist drama, Dal y Mellt, is being streamed on Netflix with the title, Rough Cut.