Coming of Age Growing Up into A Giant 1 May 20221 May 2022 Dear Dad, Do you remember us racing every Sunday to get to the Blockbuster? You used to say that whoever got there first could choose the movies we were watching…
Coming of Age The Clovehitch Killer: Recognizing and rejecting a birthright 1 May 202230 Apr 2022 As a boy growing up in a sexist environment, my experience with patriarchal violence was often abstracted, rationalized, and ultimately hidden. There were so many ways in which I, and…
Coming of Age It Takes a Village To Raise a Child 1 May 202230 Apr 2022 From San’s ecofeminist rage in Princess Mononoke (1997) to Chihiro’s unlikely but triumphant heroism in Spirited Away (2001), Hayao Miyazaki has a special gift for writing compelling female characters that…
Coming of Age Come and See: The Trouble Starts with Kids 1 May 202230 Apr 2022 When you grow up in Russia, the Second World War, or how it is referred to there – A Great Patriotic War, is the most popular subject in the media.…
Coming of Age Kajillionaire: A Delayed Coming of Age 1 May 202230 Apr 2022 My first viewing of Kajillionaire (Miranda July, 2020) left me with a lot more questions than answers. How was the film’s protagonist going to integrate herself into society after living…
Outtakes Paddington’s Plight: Contended Homes 24 Mar 2022 I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages.…
Honour Death Through Resurrection: The Tale of Canadian Cinema 1 Mar 20221 Mar 2022 “What you’re seeing isn’t really there. When you’re seeing a projection, it’s an image of something that once was. Whether it was just five minutes ago, or a hundred years…
Honour Hard to be a God: Anton vs Don Rumata 1 Mar 20221 Mar 2022 During his career, Soviet and Russian director Aleksei German often focused on politics and criticized the Soviet government through elaborate metaphors. Another significant feature of German’s style is found in…
Honour What Is Earned, and What Is Owed: Berserk 1 Mar 20221 Mar 2022 The Chosen One narrative is a structure that is commonly relied on in fantasy fiction. It describes a character of humble origins who is chosen to become a hero through…
Honour To Die for Love: A Parallel Study of Honour in the Western 1 Mar 20221 Mar 2022 I am an avid Western film consumer, or at least I was at some point in my life. For me, the Western has always been about honour. Honour is a…
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