Chris Yogerst

'The Hunt' May Be a Victim of America's Misdirected Outrage

See the original post in The Hollywood Reporter When Universal called off the Sept. 27 release of The Hunt amid criticism (including from...

Wave of Anti-Semitism Today Resembles Prewar Attitudes Towards Jewish-Led Hollywood

History has a way of repeating itself. The shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, coupled with the latest increase in anti...

A forgotten filmmaker who influenced Alfred Hitchcock and Billy Wilder gets his due

It’s hard to comprehend how Ernst Lubitsch — one of the wittiest, most subversive filmmakers of Hollywood’s Golden Age — could be so over...

When Hollywood caved to the House Un-American Activities Committee

“This is the beginning of an American concentration camp.” Those words shook the Washington courtroom as Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Tr...

The Man Who Saved Movies From Thomas Edison’s Monopoly

The Hollywood studios that cultivated the golden age of movies almost never got off the ground. Blame Thomas Edison. The great inventor f...

Hollywood, Los Angeles Spies, and the Underground Battle Against Hitler

THE GERMANS TRIED to destabilize the United States government in the 1930s, and founded groups like Friends of New Germany (FNG) and the ...

The Real and the Imagined in Douglas Rushkoff’s “Aleister & Adolf”

YOU ARE BEING CONTROLLED by images, though you may not know it yet. After reading Douglas Rushkoff’s Aleister & Adolf, which influential ...

Where the Truth Lies: Navigating Bad Information on Social Media

Recent essays in the Chronicle of Higher Education have taken on the current state of fake news and misinformation. Phrases like “Post-Tr...

“Many Opinions, But Little Tolerance”: What Warner Bros. Co-Founder Harry Warner Can Teach Today’s P

When looking at the current state of politics in the United States today, one is likely to fall into a state of anxiety. With national le...

Programmed for Outrage: How Digital Media Helped Usher in an Era of Anger

Over the weekend a top trending hashtag was #MilwaukeeUnrest as sections of the Sherman Park neighborhood were set aflame. Twitter users ...

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