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Shut In (2022) Movie Ending Explained – What do the Apples Symbolize?

January 6th, 2023

Share this Article D.J. Caruso’s latest film, "Shut In (2022)" is a survival thriller that stars Rainey Qualley, Jake Horowitz, and Vincent Gallo. While it does not do anything different compared to other films of this genre, its inventive handling of dread and anxiety makes it perfectly watchable.The film is about a single mother locked inside her house’s pantry by her meth head ex-boyfriend and his friend. Now what she does here on, while being locked inside the room with her young kid...

Exploring David Lynch obsession with crashing cars in his movies

January 6th, 2023

Since his feature film debut Eraserhead was released in 1977, David Lynch has cemented himself as one of cinema’s most innovative minds. Master of the surreal, his movies often confuse viewers with their use of unconventional cinematic devices, such as nonlinearity and reversed dialogue. However, all of Lynch’s films have one primary concern – the destruction of the American Dream – and recognising this theme makes his work easier to detangle.  Lynch’s distinctive visual aesthetic direc...

DHQ - Digital Humanities Quarterly - Materiality Comics

January 6th, 2023

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Small Screen Supers: Essays on Superhero Television

January 6th, 2023

updated:  Wednesday, January 4, 2023 - 10:52am full name / name of organization:  academic anthology edited by Anna F. Peppard & Dru Jeffries contact email:  SuperheroTVBook@gmail.com categories (up to 5):  american fan studies and fandom film and television journals and collections of essays ...

Identification of a Woman

January 6th, 2023

The Criterion Collection Home Search Cart Account Menu Michelangelo Antonioni Identification of a Woman Michelangelo Antonioni’s Identification of a Woman is a body- and soul-baring voyage into one man’s artistic and erotic consciousness. After his wife leaves him, a film director finds himself drawn into affairs with two enigmatic women: at the same time, he searches for the right subject and actress for his next film. This spellbinding antirom...

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Interacting with Print

January 3rd, 2023

Book Title: Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading in the Era of Print SaturationAbout this ebook A thorough rethinking of a field deserves to take a shape that is in itself new. Interacting with Printdelivers on this premise, reworking the history of print through a unique effort in authorial collaboration. The book itself is not a typical monograph—rather, it is a "multigraph," the collective work of twenty-two scholars who together have assembled an alphabetically arranged tour of ...

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Senua’s Journey: The Portrayal of Mental Illness in Video Games

January 1st, 2023

Playing video games can be many things: entertaining, collaborative, emotional, or even a learning experience. Using video games for education is nothing new, but in recent years developers have seen how interactive media can help create an understanding of those around us. According to Professor Paul Fletcher at the University of Cambridge, "Video games can be powerful tools because they are absorbing and immersive. They require active participation, and they allow players to explore new and...

Biggest Turkey in Game Show History

January 1st, 2023

By Adam Nedeff, Researcher for the National Archives of Game Show History You bring the stuffing, the cranberry sauce, and the pumpkin pie. For Thanksgiving, we’ll bring you the biggest turkey in the history of game shows: You’re in the Picture By 1961, Jackie Gleason was already a bona fide show business legend. His Cavalcade of Stars had made him one of the first superstars in the young medium of television. The classic 39-episode season of The Honeymooners had been icing on the cake....

Margot Comstock, Publishing Pioneer

January 1st, 2023

This week we’re celebrating our annual Women in Games event that spotlights women who have shaped the video game industry, and so it seems fitting to post a blog honoring Margot Comstock, a publishing visionary who helped people become familiar and fall in love with computers and computer games. Sadly, Margot passed away on October 22, 2022. Margot Comstock on Password Plus. When Margot Comstock began her work in the 1970s, personal computing was just tak...

The Importance of Coloring and Authentic Self-Expression

January 1st, 2023

Crayola Crayons Color Drawing Set, about 1960. The Strong, Rochester, New York. In 1900, Binney & Smith ventured into the school supply business. The company created handy multicolored non-toxic wax sticks in black, brown, orange, violet, blue, green, red, and yellow. Alice Binney combined the French words for "chalk" and "oily" (craie and olea) to make "Crayola." The crayons hit the market in 1903 and kids snapped them up. Over the years, appealing new colors tracked fashi...

Basketball Movies

December 30th, 2022

Basketball Movies High School Hero (1927)… Nick Stuart, Sally Phipps, William Bailey, John Darrow, Wade Boteler. Pete Greer and Bill Merrill try to win the affections of Eleanor Barrett through the high school play and in the big game. Campus Confessions (1938)… William Henry, Betty Grable, Thurston Hall, Fritz Feld, John Arledge, Lane Chandler, Roy Gordon, Matty Kemp. Silly Hollywood college film noted for the appearance of Hank Luisetti, generally credited as the inventor of the one-h...

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Snippets in StoneHere are two unusual stone fragments. The...

December 29th, 2022

Snippets in Stone Here are two unusual stone fragments. The object at the top is an "ostrakon", a piece of stone or pottery filled with text, in this case from Byzantine Egypt, dating from c. 600. While the fragment seems to be part of something that was initially much bigger (a sizable pot filled with a long biblical text, perhaps), it was actually always meant to be like this: a snippet with only a few words. The object was filled with text after it had become a fragment, as can be seen f...

Walking on the Edge. 5 of the most interesting films about gambling and casinos

December 29th, 2022

Walking on the Edge. 5 of the most interesting films about gambling and casinos Posted by Sandra Fisher on Dec 27, 2022 in drama, Film, thriller | Comments Off on Walking on the Edge. 5 of the most interesting films about gambling and casinos We talk about the most outstanding films in which casinos and gambling played a key role. Gambling is often the centerpiece of both outstanding literary works and screenplays for brilliant films. From gambl...

Paul T. Goldman Is a Meta Journey That’s More Cruel Than Dazzling

December 28th, 2022

In the spirit of the work of Nathan Fielder comes "Paul T. Goldman," a hybrid docuseries about a genuine weirdo. Jason Woliner, a director of multiple episodes of Fielder’s "Nathan for You" as well as of the 2020 "Borat" sequel, encountered his subject after Goldman tweeted at Woliner indicating that he had a story that badly needed dramatization. Taking inspiration from Goldman’s book, which makes outsized characterizations of his ex-wife’s motives and behavior, Woliner begins shooting a fic...

Sara Rauch

December 27th, 2022

Sara Rauch’s debut short story collection, What Shines from It, won the Electric Book Award.  XO, her second book, an autobiographical essay investigating mythologies of romantic love, connections to the divine, and the death/rebirth cycle, was published in spring 2022 by Autofocus. XO was the title of a short piece she published in Split Lip about the end of an affair. While in a long-term, committed relationship with another woman, she entered an affair with a married man who lived states a...

Metaphor and intertextuality in Philo

December 26th, 2022

Pieter B. Hartog, ‘ The Ship of State: Metaphor and intertextuality in Philo of Alexandria,’ Journal for the Study of Pseudepigrapha 32.2 (2022) 187-204. Author’s Abstract: "This article discusses Philo’s use of the well-known state is ship metaphor. After offering a definition of topos and intertextuality, I discuss passages from the Philonic corpus in which this image features. I will argue that Philo’s use of the state is ship metaphor in most of his writings must be attributed to P...

Twentieth Century British Supernatural Novel - 1958

December 25th, 2022

New on Archive.org to borrow, The Twentieth Century British Supernatural Novel (1958). Includes an early positive appreciation of Tolkien as a supernatural writer. And by someone who had actually read The Lord of the Rings (most critics of the time didn’t, something which is obvious from their reviews and comments). The text also has some discussion of Lovecraft.

Shiva - Mahabharatas God of Vengeance

December 25th, 2022

Shiva statue (1300 CE)Shiva makes several appearances in the Mahabharata in the form of the fiery God who grants vengeance. The characters who are burning with the desire to annihilate their enemies invoke Shiva for strength, weapons, and warriors. The Mahabharata is a Vashnavaite text, devoted to extolling the deeds and philosophy of Krishna, the eighth avatar of Vishnu. Shiva stands on Krishna’s side—the characters he empowers are Krishna’s acolytes.  The first charac...

Post-War Novel and the Death of the Author - The

December 25th, 2022

Arya Aryan's The Post-War Novel and the Death of the Author (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) not only discloses and examines different functions and concepts of authorship in fiction and theory from the 1950s and 1960s to the present but it also reveals, at least implicitly, a trajectory of some of the modes and functions of the novel as a genre in the last few decades. It argues that the explicit terms of much of the theoretical and philosophical debate surrounding the concept of authorship in the...

Voyager

December 25th, 2022

Carl Sagan’s CosmoMars RoverStar Trek: The Motion Picture DeltanPromoBeavis USAPhiVoyager DeltaUniverseUpdate: HammerThis post came about due to one of the strangest patterns I’ve ever come across.Did you know they once made a Macintosh with the code name of "Carl Sagan"?After Carl Sagan read this code name in MacWeek he threatened to sue them, they then changed the code name of the upcoming Macintosh to "Butt-Head Astronomer"Why is that strange?12/20/1996 Carl Sagan Death (Code named Butt-He...

Bachelor Mother (1939)

December 24th, 2022

Bachelor Mother (1939) just only happens to be a Christmas movie on the side, and with screwball Depression-era panache, it swaps humor, farcical truths, and stretched credulity for sentiment.  It parodies sentiment, and with wry Little Orphan Annie-style toughness, dares ya to disbelieve. This post is part of the countdown to Christmas coinciding with the launch of my newest book, Christmas in Classic Films. Ginger Rogers is in one of our apparently most-hallowed Chris...