Kavkazskyi Plennik: Bodrov at his Sublime Best
I first watched this film in 2009 when I was taking Russian language classes at Rhode Island College. It was, in fact, the second Sergei Bodrov film…
I first watched this film in 2009 when I was taking Russian language classes at Rhode Island College. It was, in fact, the second Sergei Bodrov film…
The next film on my docket of Kazakh movies was actually a joint venture between Estonian, Finnish, Belorussian, Russian and Kazakhstani studios: the 2014 drama Ya ne…
The first Sergei Bodrov film I ever saw was his delightfully-hammy and gloriously-terrible 2005 historical epic Kóshpendiler, a highly-fictionalized account of the early life and career of…
The Novel After Film: Modernism and the Decline of Autonomy. Jonathan Foltz. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. What is the novel after the invention of cinema?…
The Godfather, by Mario Puzo, was the best-selling book when it was first published and the film adaptation by Francis Ford Coppola is rightly considered a masterpiece.…
In 2006, the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum conducted a survey to measure Americans’ knowledge of their First Amendment constitutional freedoms (the freedoms of religion, speech, press, assembly,…
The United States Constitution in Film: Part of Our National Culture. Eric T. Kasper and Quentin D. Vieregge. Lanham, MD. Lexington Books, 2018. In his opinion…
The Politics of Depoliticization Motion pictures do more than just reflect our political life. If we take seriously the cultural construction of human identity—how social life forges…
As a popular genre, the western makes myths for politics in America and beyond. These symbolic stories of characters and communities help shape and explain our government,…
Cowboy Politics: Myths and Discourses in Popular Westerns form The Virginian to Unforgiven and Deadwood. John S. Nelson. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018. What do Westerns…
Why and How Political Films Matter[1] Do films serve purposes besides entertainment? Stephenson and Debrix point out that “Film brings us face to face with reality, or…
Politics, Hollywood Style: American Politics in Film from Mr. Smith to Selma. John Heyrman. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017. John Heyrman’s Politics, Hollywood Style: American Politics…
The Intersection of Film and Government It is hard to know why a particular film and its initial viewing makes such an impression on us and it…
Understanding Political Films In choosing movies to include in this book, we had to start by asking what makes a film political. This seemingly simple question has…
Some of my best friends are men, so no offense. But Wonder Woman has me asking, what’s the point? What good are they? In the blockbuster Wonder…