Download PDF version In popular culture, the term ‘Orwellian’ has come to be known as that which describes instances of the dystopic milieu in George Orwell’s final novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. This seminal text, which presents a vision of a...
Download PDF version POE: A COMPLICATED LIFE Edgar Allan Poe was a prolific horror and mystery writer who exerted significant influence over the horror genre. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1809, and died under very mysterious circumstances...
Author: Edward Chamberlain University of Washington Tacoma Download PDF version In November 2015, the television sitcom Superstore debuted on the NBC network and quickly gained popularity, running for six seasons until March 2021. Showcasing the talented actress America Ferrera,...
Author: Thomas Britt George Mason University Download PDF version David Lynch and Mark Frost’s television series Twin Peaks (1990-1991) was a program that blended television genres and conventions in a way that no series had previously done. Twin Peaks is...
Download PDF version On 18 November 1978, just over 900 people were killed on the remote settlement of The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project—informally known as Jonestown. Located in Guyana, Jonestown was the latest and most radical manifestation of insular...
Author: Felicia Cosey Jackson State University Download PDF version Horror filmmakers capitalize on the inevitable fear and dread that darkness elicits, from Alien’s (Scott 1979) Ripley walking down dark spaceship corridors to evade the monster, to Us’ (Peele 2019) Adelaide/Red...
Download PDF version Nowadays Halloween Night is popular around the world. It is associated with America, pranks, costumes, spooky candies, witches, and ghosts. Cinematically, this night took center stage when John Carpenter’s Halloween was released on 25 October 1978....
Download PDF version On October 30th, 1938, families across America tuned into an episode’ of The Mercury Theatre on the Air, a radio drama anthology series that broadcasted over the Columbia Broadcasting System. A classic form of dinner entertainment,...
Author: Franco Laguna Correa University of Pittsburgh Download PDF version INTRODUCTION Set in the 1970s, Roma (2018) by Alfonso Cuarón is an ambitious cinematic attempt to portray an upper-class family, facing a crisis due to the abandonment of the main...
Download PDF version “In my beginning is my end.” — Eliot, “East Coker” Writing about someone who expressly forbid any biographical commemoration is not an easy task. Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) stated in 1925 that no biography about...
