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¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder lecturer Marla Schulz examines the Broadway-musical-turned-film Wicked and how the movie musical endures.
Looking at two of Disney’s most famous female characters, Anna and Elsa, with a critical eye with ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä lecturer Shannon Leone.
In a recently published paper, ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder PhD student Cooper Casale interrogates Jim Halpert’s direct-to-camera gaze in The Office and its similarities to what he calls the ‘fascist look.'
In advance of Tuesday’s Major League Baseball All-Star game, ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder history professor Martin Babicz offers thoughts on why some fans remain loyal to baseball’s perennial losers.
¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder’s chair of Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts shares insights on Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece ‘doomsday sex comedy’ and why the film is more relevant than ever.
¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder theatre professor Bud Coleman reflects on Arthur Miller’s Pulitzer-winning play and why it’s a story that still has meaning.
Upon the 65th anniversary of the record label, ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder prof says that from Taylor Swift to K-pop, ‘It’s all Motown; they are not creating anything new.’
Sixty years after The Beatles’ first appearance on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show,’ ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder historian Martin Babicz reflects on their impact on U.S. culture and politics.
In honor of what would have been Al Capone’s 125th birthday, ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder cinema researcher Tiel Lundy explains the enduring popularity of gangsters in film and the American imagination.
The film, which turns 50 this December, continues to leave a mark on Christians and the larger American public as both a horror film and a story about the battle between good and evil.