Octavia E. Butler’s novel Fledgling presents the story of Shori, a vampire. Just from this information, it is easy to assume that this is an another vampire novel about romance and fantasy. Yet, the c...
It’s June and it means happy LGBTQ+ Pride Month everyone! In 2021, we continue to celebrate and work for the improvement of LGBTQ+ rights all around the world. Most recently European Union decla...
Everybody knows the Western genre, or do they? The Great Train Robbery 1903 may be the first Western movie to be filmed. While the technology and the visual quality were improving over the years, the ...
T.S. Eliot shows how World War I affected Americans by the symbolism in his poems, “The Hollow Men” and “The Waste Land”. World War I or The Great War in historical terms that lasted 4 years between 1...
It was a big issue of African -American identity and being proud of this heritage of Africa started within the 1920s with the Harlem Renaissance but continued and more fueled during the 50s and 60s wi...
On the Waterfront serves as Elia Kazan’s personal response to his friends after the HUAC hearings. Stories. Stories are not always fictional or on screen for that matter. On the Waterfront and ...
Maus is not only a graphic novel, a biography, or an autobiography, it is a survival story. The graphic novel genre is one of the aspects of Postmodernism. Maus by Art Spiegelman, in particular, shows...
Directed by Alain Resnais, Hiroshima Mon Amour(1959) was one of the most powerful and controversial films of the post-WW2 era. The film itself was the grand topic of the Cannes Film Festival in 1959. ...
Worst protests and riots have erupted in Belfast since the Good Friday Agreement. More than 90 police officers have been hurt and even children aged 13 involved in the riots against NI protocol. Prote...
The Twilight Zone (1959)’s “The Masks” aired in 1964 as the 25th episode of season 5. This particular show was a huge phenomenon for American families in the 60s. While the show main...
There is more than Guinness and whiskey in Irish Culture, like Irish Writers. Nowadays Ireland is associated with Guinness, potato memes on the internet, Irish whiskey, and lately with Brexit. Since ...
Citizen Kane(1941), in many aspects, is a movie that can be analyzed and deconstructed as a totalitarian allegory. The movie is showing that an obsessive figure who has a very powerful tool that is me...
Netflix’s Drive to Survive Season 3 might be the worst season ever! After watching season 3, I think I was harsh on season 2. For the fans, DTS is a way to look at the behind the scene conversat...
The Wizard of Oz (1939): A children musical or a cultural symbolism of the 1930s United States? The Wizard Of Oz is one of the rare works that in every era can reflect the situation and the time that ...
It is Women’s History Month and this year’s theme is #Choosetochallenge. But how did this celebration start and where is it come from? Women’s History Month is a month-long celebrat...