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Looking at two of Disney’s most famous female characters, Anna and Elsa, with a critical eye with CU lecturer Shannon Leone.
In a recently published paper, ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï PhD student Cooper Casale interrogates Jim Halpert’s direct-to-camera gaze in The Office and its similarities to what he calls the ‘fascist look.'
In advance of Tuesday’s Major League Baseball All-Star game, ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï history professor Martin Babicz offers thoughts on why some fans remain loyal to baseball’s perennial losers.
ºÚÁϳԹÏ’s chair of Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts shares insights on Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece ‘doomsday sex comedy’ and why the film is more relevant than ever.
ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï theatre professor Bud Coleman reflects on Arthur Miller’s Pulitzer-winning play and why it’s a story that still has meaning.
Upon the 65th anniversary of the record label, ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï prof says that from Taylor Swift to K-pop, ‘It’s all Motown; they are not creating anything new.’
Sixty years after The Beatles’ first appearance on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show,’ ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï historian Martin Babicz reflects on their impact on U.S. culture and politics.
In honor of what would have been Al Capone’s 125th birthday, ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï cinema researcher Tiel Lundy explains the enduring popularity of gangsters in film and the American imagination.
The film, which turns 50 this December, continues to leave a mark on Christians and the larger American public as both a horror film and a story about the battle between good and evil.
ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï Victorian literature scholars discuss why Charles Dickens’ classic is still retold and probably will be retold in Christmases yet to come.