Since the beginning of the film, I was struck with a strong sense of community and resistance of the Indian people fighting against the tyranny of the British prior to Hindi nationalism. With these tw...Read More
Many critics often detest Spike Lee’s work, noting that it is an unnecessary call to violence and a grotesque depiction of racial relations. I completely disagree with this stance. I believe the...Read More
For Halloweekend, one night a friend and I binge-watched a series of spooky movies, during our week about spectacle. Thus, this movie marathon left me thinking. In correspondence to the related film, ...Read More
In the wake of the Haitian revolution, the approaching Black or “slave” lead state burned their oppressors’, the French, land in attempts to make their domain uninhabitable, to even bare...Read More
In Peele’s film, he conveys a sense of human confusion toward “non-behaving” non-human entities, like the Chimp, Gordy, the alien ship-shaped threat, and even O.J.’s horse, Lucky. ...Read More
This short forty-minute film briefly tackles themes of strategic social masking, as we follow a white passing-Black woman who climbs the latter in Hollywood to hold an executive position at National S...Read More
As the narrator states, “It was a comfortable system that we had in place and we thought it would last forever” (2020) I chose this video to direct our attention to because, similarly to t...Read More
Prior to 1920, films gained criticism on whether it was appropriately categorized as cinematography for it to put so much reliance on editing. After this period film theorists began to realize how exp...Read More
Céline Sciamma wonderfully portrays the beauty and predestined constraints of Queer love mirrored by the Greek story of Orpheus and Eurydice. Primely signified through color dynamics and long shots t...Read More
Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” wonderfully showcases the overwhelming perception and infliction of The Male Gaze. In the introductory shot of Lisa, as we’ve reviewed, she was seen a...Read More