Disney’s proclivity for ill-advisedly resurrecting its “glory days” is fully evident in Maleficent, the studio’s new re-imagining of the iconic villain from their 1959 animated fairy tale Sleeping Beauty. In taking a fresh look at the title […]
The following is a letter dated February 3, 1937, to producer Walter Wanger in Hollywood from Joseph I. Breen of the Motion Picture Production Code Administration: “We get the impression– but it is only an impression– from […]
For some reason, which I can’t, to this day, completely understand, I have an obsessive fascination and disgust over one of our darker periods in mid-twentieth century history; the work of the House Un-American Activities […]
In his book Hollywood Genres, film scholar Thomas Schatz mobilizes an evolutionary model to describe film genres. For simplicity sake, Schatz posits that a genre essentially moves from classical to baroque in its style and conventions […]
2014 marks the 75th anniversary of what many consider to be the greatest year in Hollywood history–1939. The most recognizable films to come out of this monumental year, Gone with the Wind and The Wizard […]
The Retro Set is proud to continue its relationship with Warner Archive Instant with a look at one of the archive’s most compelling–and controversial–wartime dramas, Destination Tokyo, directed by Delmer Daves. Disclaimer: This post discusses Japanese racial stereotypes […]
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