Review – 24: Live Another Day | Jack Bauer’s Return
24 was always a combination politics, propaganda, and entertainment. Now that the series has returned following a four year absence, we examine what the first episodes in this new run bring to the pop culture table. Is the show still an ardent supporter of American foreign policy or have the politics ...
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The Silent Film Festival App for Android Tablets and Phones
The Silent Film Festival app brings four classic movies with new educational audio commentaries to your Android tablet or phone. The app is, as with everything on this site, open access (i.e. free) and presents the four episodes from The Artist in American History podcast films studies series from late 2013 and early ...
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Why Comic Books Matter: V for Vendetta and the Occupy Movement
The Comic Book Studies series currently running on The Artist in American History has a brand new episode. "Why Comic Books Matter", the fifth entry in the Comic Book Series, explores some of the reasons why comic books are deserving of academic study and attention. This episode takes a look at Alan Moore's V ...
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Why Red Face is Wrong – The Lone Ranger’s Oscar Nomination
Press Play to Listen to the Podcast Now I doubt that I need to explain to most people why red face, the practice of casting non-Native American actors to play Native American roles, is a deeply problematic one. At least I thought that was the case until the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ...
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Inside Charlie Chaplin’s The Immigrant
Download Video | Download from iTunes In the final part of the 2013-2014 film festival we explore Charlie Chaplin's seminal 1917 film, The Immigrant. When Chaplin was exiled from the United States in the 1950s for his leftist politics, this film was used as evidence against him. In truth, much of Chaplin's work ...
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The Birth of a Nation (1915)
It is almost impossible to talk about early American cinema without mentioning D.W. Griffith's 1915 Civil War-era epic, The Birth of a Nation. The film achieved so much in terms of its scope, production techniques, use of editing, and its special effects that it is difficult to ignore. Yet, its racist and white ...
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Superman Goes to War
In 1941 Fleischer Studios began work on a spectacular series of Superman cartoons. These short films were some of the most expensive produced to that date and, by 1942, the Fleischer brothers had been removed from the project. The second sequence of cinematic Superman cartoons (1942-1943) paid much more attention to the ...
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