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In the war to secure exclusive content, the ability to invest in the acquisition or production of original content has become crucial ammunition.
The latest movie to take on this classic story sentimentalizes history in the name of inspiring religious devotion.
Some critics are complaining that sex scenes have vanished from cinema. But they’re still very much present – in all their awkward, perverse glory.
Soo Yong’s career, particularly when contrasted with Anna May Wong’s, shows how Hollywood and Chinese popular culture aimed to depict Chinese women amid shifting Chinese-American relationships.
Relying on familiar stereotypes and images can make us miss this critical opportunity to reshape the ways in which Asian women are viewed as individuals and artists.
Loudly proclaiming your dislikes isn’t snobbery. There can be a power and poetry to putrescence.
There are signs that home movie viewing could meet a resurgence of local movie-going that draws on entertainment conventions that preceded Hollywood’s rise.
An Italian media scholar raised on American TV assesses Netflix’s ambitious strategy to create original productions in Italy, Japan, Brazil and beyond – and distribute them globally.
Hollywood movies have long leaned into colonial representations of the tropics: imagined as romantic palm-fringed coasts full of abundance, but also scary places full of pestilence and primitiveness.
Hollywood loves a good monster battle, and where better to turn for inspiration than the animal kingdom? Traits from real animals can provide clues about the fighting prowess of Kong and Godzilla.
The French government, by prioritizing only “essential” sectors during the Covid-19 pandemic, is ignoring the importance of its culture and cultural assets.
Hollywood continues to dramatically exaggerate the medical risks associated with abortion while downplaying barriers to access.
Holiday movies have been an essential part of the American winter celebrations. They offer a glimpse into how the world is could be, often in sharp contrast to reality.
Renting locations, hotel rooms, offices and cast trailers can eat the lion’s share of a budget. We rented an off-season summer camp and won best feature film at the Chicago Comedy Film Festival 2020.
Canadians won’t be able to stream ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ when it launches Christmas Day. Surfing streaming menus and reviews for what to watch and where may become a new Christmas movie tradition.
The movie is indeed a silly look at how sharing song and media in popular culture can affect how we relate as individuals and nations but it also carries deeper insights.
A stark divide in the response to the film suggests a deep disconnect between media elites and the rest of the country.
From mythical beasts to extinct creatures, the pioneering special effects work of Ray Harryhausen inspired a generation of zoologists, palaeontologists and ecologists.
Despite recent social movements that have garnered greater inclusivity in the arts, disabled actors are still waiting for their moment in the spotlight.
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Professor of Film Studies, North Carolina State University
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Senior Research Fellow, Development, Policy and Practice (DPP), The Open University
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Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor of Economics, Scripps College
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Professor, University of Gondar
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Texas State University
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Associate Professor. Cinema Arts, School of Creative Arts, University of Windsor
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Leo S. Bing Chair in English and American Literature, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Religious Studies and Cinema and Media Studies, by special appointment, Hamilton College
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Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies, University of South Australia
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Professor of Physics and Astronomy, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Lecturer, Faculty of Creative & Cultural Industries, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of History, Wesleyan University
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