Hopefully, Academy Award winners will be chosen because voters believed in the actors’ performances − not because of some meta narrative about their off-screen behavior.
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A new report disputes the heritage claims of Native American activist Sacheen Littlefeather. A scholar explains why scrutiny over alleged ethnic fraud is essential.
Inspired by real events, the films tackle issues of race, gender and class in ways that will resonate with many of today’s viewers.
Considered one of the greatest films of all time, Francis Ford Coppola’s sweeping epic is back on the big screen for its big birthday.
Francis Ford Coppola’s story of warring Mafia families is truly a story of the changing moral, cultural and social fabric of the United States.
Leathermen expose the myth of hypermasculinity by refusing the violence and aggression which is normally attached to it.
Revelations of sexual abuse in the making of Last Tango in Paris give the film ‘the air of a snuff piece’. Film scholars must reassess the work – there is no place for revering artistic achievement over human suffering.
Peter Watkins may not be a household name, but The Hunger Games, John Lennon’s Imagine and the Bourne films would be very different without him.
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