Afterthoughts on Martin Luther (1953) and Christian American Cinema
Dan Chyutin / University of Pittsburgh
Dan Chyutin ruminates on recent scholarly publications on Christian cinema.
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Afterthoughts on Martin Luther (1953) and Christian American Cinema
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Brad Gyori / Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy
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Kristen Hatch / University of California Irvine
A consideration of the comfort that comes from watching television shows that dramatize the world’s end.
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Erica Robles-Anderson / New York University
A discussion of the ongoing media project of Protestantism and the centrality of religion to the project of social theory.
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Gerald Butters/ Aurora University
Disjunctures between representations of gay couples and age.
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Camille Debose / DePaul University
A consideration of post-racial America through the lens of The Hunger Games.
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Carrie Andersen / FLOW Marketing Editor
An exploration of the surprisingly conservative vision of Louis C.K.
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Looking at Rock Stars
Thomas Swiss / University of Minnesota
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Hacked: Nadia El Fani’s “Bedwin Hacker”
Dale Hudson / NYU Abu Dhabi
Considering Bedwin Hacker’s take on immigration as a degenerative form of cultural invasion, and hacking as a destructive form of vandalism against intellectual property or terrorism against the state.
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