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04.26.09 | by Sarah Yahm
Throughout the past four seasons "Battlestar Galactice" consistently raised rigorous questions about the nature of humanity, the role of government, the importance of community, the definition of family, and the correct relationship between humans and technology. But the finale only provide pat, conservative answers.
06.19.08 | by Steve Schwartz
History presented on television does not have to rely on the documentary format -- third person narration, supplemented with interviews with historians, actors reading contemporary letters and journals, and half-hearted re-enactments -- to maintain an aura of historical accuracy or legitimacy. The "John Adams" miniseries augments David McCullough's ability to bring his characters to life by bringing their world to life through a fantastic screenplay, acting, and cinematography.
03.18.08 | by Laura Fokkena
In January of 2004, just as dawn was breaking, Chicago-based filmmaker Usama Alshaibi bribed the guards on Iraq's Jordanian border and drove back into the country he hadn't seen in 24 years. He brought along his American-born wife, Kristie, and a video camera. "Nice Bombs: My Journey Back to Iraq," an award-winning documentary, is the result of his journey.
09.07.07 | by Allen McDuffee
Last year's July War between Israel and the Lebanese Shia militia group, Hezbollah, ended on the ground after a little more than a month. For Hezbollah, the war continues with the Aug. 16 release of the video game "Special Force 2: Tale of the Truthful Pledge."
10.01.06 | by Hemal Jhaveri
It all started with Sunnydale and Capeside. In 1998, a few years into its existence, the WB network introduced "Dawson's Creek," a teen drama set in a fictional small coastal town in Massachusetts, to its Tuesday night line up.
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10.18.07 | by Sam J. Miller
While I want to welcome Fall Out Boy with open arms, something about FOB Culture feels too calculated and commercial. Who are these boys, and what do they want from us?
07.20.07 | by David Masciotra
When John Mellencamp and Dan Rather sat down to film an interview, they could probably already hear the derogatory denunciations from the Fox News cult: "Two crazy, anti-American left-wing liars in conversation? I'd rather attend a lecture on evolutionary biology."
07.13.03 | by Bret McCabe
Radiohead and Steely Dan reach the limits of their experimentation
04.10.03 | by William MacDougall
How pro-war songs help sell Country
01.31.03 | by Cynthia Fuchs
Avril Lavigne tells Newsweek, ''I hate sex-object music.'' So do her fans, all dressing up like her to fight the system
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05.11.08 | by Richard C. Crepeau
The Heroes Have Gone: Personal Essays on Sport, Popular Culture and the American West
by Jim W. Corder
Edited and with an afterword by James S. Baumlin and Keith D. Miller
Moon City Press (February, 2008)
185 pp. $15
Those who heard the voice of the late Jim Corder, professor of English at Texas Christian University, will hear it [...]
10.18.07 | by Richard C. Crepeau
Poetry is not generally thought of as a vehicle for posing the eternal question, "Ginger or Maryann?" or to contemplate the centrality of "Hawaii Five-O" within the cultural milieu of our postmodern existence. For David McGimpsey, however, these are just the sort of subjects that are most suitable.
11.27.02 | by Paul McLeary
After the success of The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen probably could have published a cookbook and it would have been guaranteed an audience. Fortunately, he had previously published essays to draw from instead
11.01.02 | by David McGrath
With his short story in The Atlantic, Updike assumes the comforting role of a parent tending to a child shaken by a nightmare: While neither the evil nor its memory goes away, the narrative restores reality and lets us sleep through the night
09.05.02 | by Mark Engler
What is the connection between political radicalism and sideshow arts? Two recent books, Sideshow, U.S.A. and Jay's Journal of Anomalies, help to provide answers about the genre's appeal and its politics
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