“The Fifth Element”: Unconscious Christianity & Science Fiction
Luc Besson’s now cult classic The Fifth Element gave us a retro-futuristic take on the apocalypse and messianism which was suffused with Christian motifs and symbolism. In…
Luc Besson’s now cult classic The Fifth Element gave us a retro-futuristic take on the apocalypse and messianism which was suffused with Christian motifs and symbolism. In…
The 1940 MGM adaptation of Waterloo Bridge is one of my favorite films. It stars Vivien Leigh, in the wake of her Gone With the Wind fame,…
The distant shores of silence begin at the door. You cannot fly there like a bird. You must stop,look deeper, still deeper, until nothing deflects the soul…
Lexington Books’ Politics, Literature, and Film series is actively seeking proposals for academic works that fit the description below: This interdisciplinary series examines the intersection of politics…
Madhouse’s 2001 rendition of Tezuka Osamu’s Metropolis is a movie that only ever seems to get better with age. The world of this Metropolis is so kaleidoscopically…
This book grows out of scholarship by numerous authors that has raised awareness of the existential, socio-psychological, and socio-political problems produced by modern understandings of the human…
Age of Anxiety: Meaning, Identity, and Politics in 21st-Century Film and Literature. Anthony M. Wachs and Jon D. Schaff. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019. The worst…
Pop Culture and the Dark Side of the American Dream: Con Men, Gangsters, Drug Lords, and Zombies. Paul A. Cantor. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2019. …
"It’s a Wonderful Life is a truly subversive work." -William S. Pechter A Tale of Two Films It’s a Wonderful Life enjoys nearly sacrosanct status in…
Wonder and Cruelty: Ontological War in It’s a Wonderful Life. By Steven Johnston. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018. It’s a Wonderful Life is a movie about…
If there’s one English phrase that makes every Asian studies major and every China hand wince, it’s this: ‘May you live in interesting times’. Unfortunately, it belongs…
Dárejan Ómirbaev turns his sights on classical Russian literature in his 2012 film Stýdent [Student], a modernised adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment. The setting,…
The Kazakh film I’m reviewing today is the 1970 Kazakhfilm production Qyz-Jibek directed by Sultanahmet Qojyqov, the retelling of the epic tragic romance of the same name…
Rustam Mosafir – the director of 2015’s Begletsy – returned in 2018 with the big-budget action movie Skif (literally, The Scythian, but released in English under the…
Ваше благородие, госпожа Разлука, Все мы с ней не встретимся, вот какая штука. Письмецо в конверте погоди не рви, Не везет мне в смерти – повезет в…