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Thanks to Aaron Ducksworth, a 2023 Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. November 10, 2023 Many movies of various genres have been made about the relationship between humans and anthropomorphic technology and the complicated relationship between them – think The Terminator franchise (1984-2019), I, Robot (2004), Virtuosity (1995), and The Matrix franchise (1999-2021). M3GAN is …
Thanks to Eden Tesfaslassie, a 2022 Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. May 20, 2022 The main themes the audience sees explored in Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 film Rashōmon are death, truth, and losing faith in humanity. The story conveys this message with the frame of a murder trial, but even by the end of the …
March 11, 2022 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Last week marked the end of HMU’s Winter Film Series. I cannot express how much I love this series. If you were unable to join us, never fear, we will host another film series next winter. In the meantime, the following thoughts resulted …
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February 18, 2022 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. In Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 film Rashomon few facts can be established. As with most murder mysteries, the viewer sees a tangled web of evidence unfold before them. Unlike most murder mysteries, the audience begins to assume the role of judge and jury. Though …
February 11, 2022 Thanks to Gabriel E. Etienne, a 2021 Fellow in Ideas recipient, for today’s post. The movie Moonlight is a coming-of-age story that details the complexity of the journey of boyhood to manhood of the character Little/Black/Chiron through the issues of authentic Blackness and hegemonic masculinity (Johnson 2003). This review uses the concepts …
January 21, 2022 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. I have written about George Orwell’s novel 1984 in the past on this blog (see the links at the end of this post), but never the film. Today’s post focuses on the film adaptation, Nineteen Eighty-Four. The film stars John Hurt playing Winston …
October 15, 2021 Thanks to Jaya Upadhyay, a 2021 Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post. To the Bone (2017), a Netflix film, opens with two potent sequences. The first is a scene in which two stick-like figures emerge from the backdrop and approach the screen. These are women engaged in an eating disorder treatment program …
July 31, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. For an introduction to the film, listen to Johnny Flynn’s “Queen Bee” from the movie Emma. I think that something about the practiced manner of public behavior attracts us yet today. Emma is the picture of etiquette in almost all instances. When she …
March 17, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. The second half of Shakespeare’s Henry IV is difficult to stage, to say the least. It is an incredibly long play as well as staging scenes in thirteen different locations. It’s ambitious goal was to develop characters. Shakespeare is one of the first …
November 18, 2016 Thanks to Peter Ponzio, Doctor of Arts, Harrison Middleton University, for the following film review of the 2008 BBC production of Little Dorrit. Charles Dickens was a prolific author, penning some fifteen novels, hundreds of articles, editing two periodicals (Household Words and All the Year Round) as well as editing two newspapers, …
