Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...

There are plenty of "Top 10" lists on the web, and I typically find the objectivity of subjective arts to be pointless at times. So, instead of attempting to explain why a certain ten movies are ...

Anja Djuricic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1992. Her first interest in film started very early, as she learned to speak English by watching Disney animated movies (and many, many reruns). Anja ...

Billy Wilder’s cynical streak is a mile wide in this story of muckraker journalist Chuck Tatum, who plots an amoral scheme to take advantage of a collapsed mine incident in the deserts of New Mexico.

The 1951 film A Streetcar Named Desire — based on Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer-Prize winning play of the same name — follows Blanche DuBois as she leaves her small town in Mississippi to move in with ...

Bette Davis once said that there were never more than two or three outstanding films in a single year. Yet in 1950, movies gave us Joseph Mankiewicz’s “All About Eve” (Davis’ greatest triumph), Billy ...

The Great Depression was done, and World War II had been over since 1945, so the transitional period from the late to 1940s to the early 1950s was a much smoother one than the previous two decades. As ...

If you wait long enough, everything comes back into fashion. After two decades of deriding 1950s popular culture for being conformist, overly traditional, and suspicious of anything that could be ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract As women's education became an indisputable part of the liberal modernist agenda of nationalism, in 20th century Bengal, nationalist ...