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Articles in Arts in Society tagged with Film

How it rose, fell, and may rise again.

Peter E. Gordon

Bertrand Tavernier’s daring documentary about the Algerian revolution sought to break the silence in France.

Jonathan Kirshner

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

Paul Hockenos

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

Judith Levine

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

Junot Díaz

Thelonious Monk lost (and found) in Paris.

Robin D. G. Kelley

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

Nojang Khatami

Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.

Stuart Schrader
A “woke” remake that peddles in symbolic representation is not the film Puerto Ricans deserve.
Éric Morales-Franceschini
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.
John Crowley
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