Readings:
LA Times: Birth of a Nation
New Yorker: The Birth of a Nation Isn’t Worth Defending
Deride the Lightning: assessing the Birth of a Nation 100 years on
Birth of a Nation review by Roger Ebert
The_Birth_of_A_Nation (Nate Parker, 2016)
Sontag_Susan_2003_Regarding_the_Pain_of_Others
Ideology and Reality: Society and Pudovkin’s “Mother”
Film Technique and Film Acting by Pudovkiin
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Review 1919
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Roger Ebert Review
Evolution of the Western Genre
The Western Film Genres Evolution
How Hollywood Whitewashed the Old West, The Atlantic
Little Big Man: Moral Uncertainty in 1960s America
No Place for a Woman: The Femme Fatale
The Seductive Power of the Femme Fatale
The Evolution of the Femme Fatale
Femme Fatale in Early Silent Cinema and Classic Film Noir
The Femme Fatale: a recurrent manifestation of patriarchal fears
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956): The age of conspiracy and conformity
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Analysis
Invasion of the Body Snatchers: An America Commentary
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Deep Focus Review
The Contemptuous and Racist Dirty Harry
Dead Right: How Dirty Harry Captured the 70s Culture Wars
The Dirty Harry Series Provoked, Peeved and Transformed Cop Movies
Almost Everything About Dr. Strangelove was True
Kiarostami’s Taste of Cherry and the Peculiar Alliance of Film and Life
Last Interview with Abbas Kiarostami
The All Seeing Eye: on Abbas Kiarostami
Four Video Essays Explain the Mastery of Filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami
Sceptical Oscillations: Abbas Kiarostami and Film-Philosophy,
Feminism and the City: Cleo from 5 – 7
Apocalypse, and How: Viggo Mortensen’s “Road” winds on
The Being of Replicants: The Existential Anxieties of Bladerunner
Days of Future Past In Bladerunner 2049
Beautiful Light, Vibrant Things, Speaking Minds: Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder
Terrence Malick and the Tao of the Sojourning Soul, Part 1: Spiritual Voices
Transcending Heidegger: The Cinema of Terrence Malick
The Being of Replicants: the existential anxieties of bladerunner
The Perspective of Terrance Malick
Let There Be Light: The Thin Red Line
The Great Divide: I Am Not Your Negro
Why Racial Representation in Film Goes Way Beyond Casting
“Days of Future Past”: history and “Bladerunner 2049”