Author: Marica Orrù

Book of the Month: Brit Bennet’s The Vanishing Half

Our book recommendation for this month is Brit Bennet’s The Vanishing Half. Through the pages of the book, we travel to Mallard (Louisiana), a small village impossible to find on the maps, with an extremely peculiar trait. In fact, Mallard’s...

Hollywood—The Power of Representation

Download PDF version For whoever is familiar with Ryan Murphy’s work since Glee (2009)—which made him famous to the big public—his new work’s references to themes like discrimination and minorities’ representation in the media won’t be anything new. Anyway, Hollywood—landed...

Dare Me—Cheerleaders and homicides

Download PDF version Dare Me, the recently released Netflix original series, is a little, dark compound of reinvented symbols and stereotypes of the American popular culture.The show is based on the eponymous thriller novel by Megan Abbott (2004), dealing with...

Hunters: the hidden past of America

Al Pacino and Logan Lerman hunting Nazis: that should be enough to convince you to watch Hunters, but there is more to it than catchy, star-studded advertisement promises. Set in the America of the 70’s, the brand-new Amazon Prime Video’s...

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