Vaughn Scribner on Dr. Alexander Hamilton, transatlantic voyages past and present, and finding connection in far-flung places.
Trips into history. Journeys to the future. Encounters in the present with visitors from the future or past. There are no limits with time travel stories. Some of the first telly I fell in love with as a kid was…
Alyssa DeBlasio The Russian novel has long been synonymous with philosophical literature. These are the unwieldy and existentially thick novels that we have come to associate with Russian writing—those “large, loose, baggy monsters,” as Henry James wrote of Dostoevsky and…
The Stillness of Solitude: Romanticism and Contemporary American Independent Film is available now in the Traditions in American Cinema series. Find out more on the Edinburgh University Press website Tell us a bit about your book. My book explores the…
By Kim Wilkins This year marks the twentieth anniversary of Spike Jonze’s first feature film, Being John Malkovich. Until Being John Malkovich’s release in 1999, the name “Spike Jonze” was predominantly associated with music videos and skateboarding videography. Some of these…
Barton Palmer, co-series editor of Traditions in World Cinema and Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University, interviews Charlie Michael about the latest book to publish in the series: ‘French Blockbusters: Cultural Politics of a Transnational Cinema’. Palmer: Tell…
By James Fleury, Bryan Hikari Hartzheim and Stephen Mamber This year marks a significant turning point for a number of recognizable media franchises: Avengers: Endgame brings several character arcs to a close within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the series finale…
By Calum Waddell Last year’s superior possession shocker Hereditary (from director Ari Aster) and the recent release of Jordan Peele’s Us has resulted in a new term, ‘elevated horror’, being introduced into the critical lexicon, much to the chagrin of…
In 1998, the celebrated lesbian film scholar B. Ruby Rich wrote: ‘I don’t want to make the mistake of falling into that comfortable old victim box, complaining of absence in the midst of presence. We’re not invisible anymore’ (58). In…
Twenty years ago the Dardenne brothers’ film Rosetta (1999) thrust Belgian cinema into the international spotlight by winning the top award at Cannes film festival for the first time. Belgian film culture is still widely celebrated, since, at the time…