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Articles in Arts in Society tagged with Film

Paul Hockenos

Polish director Agnieszka Holland's new film exposes the violent contradictions at the heart of EU border policy.

Judith Levine

A long line of films tracks the solidarities that arise when prohibition makes friendship too perilous.

Junot Díaz

The novel Kindred reminds us—emphatically, gruesomely—that white supremacy is us too.

Robin D. G. Kelley

Thelonious Monk lost (and found) in Paris.

Nojang Khatami

From street demonstrations to song, dance, film, and poetry, women are advancing a long legacy of struggle against authoritarianism in Iran.

Stuart Schrader

Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.

Éric Morales-Franceschini
A “woke” remake that peddles in symbolic representation is not the film Puerto Ricans deserve.
John Crowley
Amazon’s Tales from the Loop has introduced a new audience to the speculative worlds of the Swedish artist, whose books depict worlds in which humanity has, in one way or another, run afoul of technology.
Francey Russell
The release of a restored Basic Instinct alongside director Paul Verhoeven’s newest erotic epic, Benedetta, offers an occasion to think not only about the ethics and politics of watching bodies on screen, but about the uncanny relationship between film and reality.
Sophie Lewis

Recent works depict the agonies and rage of being a low-wage housekeeper or nanny. But all fail to identify capitalism itself as the culprit.

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