So many movies and show seem hopelessly quaint and naïve at this point in history. I happen to have the end of The Day After Tomorrow on at the moment, you know, the disaster movie… Continue reading…
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/19/t-magazine/sigourney-weaver.html
“[A]ctors’ brands are now so much more narrowly defined and so much more painstakingly maintained, their presence on social media absorbing as much strategic thought as their actual professional development. [Sigourney] Weaver —… Continue reading…
This post responds to the article here.
So, I haven’t seen the movie Yesterday, and not sure if I will. But here’s a post in which philosophers debate the central premise of… Continue reading…
From Oct. 15, 2017
So, here’s a question for the media history people out there. I have a strong sense that after the invention of the printing press, the popular or vernacular press had relatively… Continue reading…
From Dec. 3 2016
I was reading through my June 1903 copy of The American Boy, as one does, and came across this little racist nugget in an article on lacrosse:
“It is characteristic of… Continue reading…
