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Materially speaking, the state of Ozu’s work improves as one moves, chronologically, toward his late period.

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Norwegian classical guitarist Kristina Vårlid performs Balada para Martín Fierro by Argentine composer Ariel Ramírez (1921-2010) via Siccas Guitars.

Perry Zurn is Provost Associate Professor of Philosophy at American University. In his new book, Cisgender: Disorienting a Category, Zurn traces the story of how cis entered contemporary …

Muriel’s Wedding (1994) dir. P. J. Hogan Haven’t watched the marvelous Muriel’s Wedding in too many years—I think I recalled the cringe-melancholy more than the wonder-vitality, and that perhaps promp...

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University of Idaho professor Erin James examines how stories shape human thinking and drive action on environmental challenges.

Experiencing War Memorials gathers essays from scholars in a variety of disciplines — war studies, affect studies, public memory studies, and the environme...

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The Marriage of Maria Braun (Die Ehe der Maria Braun, 1979) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder [note: a hint of a plot spoiler or two occurs further below] In writing about the term “culture” and how we mi...

The Night Porter (Il portiere di notte, 1974) dir. Liliana Cavani Nearly 30 years ago, Judith Butler analyzed theories of subjection in her monograph The Psychic Life of Power (1997): “As a form of power, subjection is paradoxical. To be dominated by a power external to oneself is a familiar and agonizing form power takes. To find, however, that what ‘one’ is, one’s very formation as a subject, is in some sense dependent upon that very power is quite another. . . . But if, following Foucault, we understand power as forming the subject as well, as providing the very

Moscow residents react to CNN’s documentary on Doug Wilson and Christian nationalism, raising concerns about religion, gender roles and community impact.