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