Ok, first a quick disclaimer: today is John Wayne’s birthday so, before actually diving into what our creative director calls “one of the most cancerous shit shows of all time”, understand that I’m actually a fan of […]
Jean Harlow, had she not died at the tragic age of 26, would have celebrated her 104th birthday today. I thought it would be fun to take a step back and observe the panorama of […]
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 […]
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