Author: Andrés Demetrio Gutiérrez Flores The Drug War in Mexico The violence stemming from the War on Drugs stands today is the most pressing issue confronting Mexican society. Initiated during the sexennial administration of Felipe Calderón, the period between 2007...
Category: Political Perspectives on Film
Barbie: A Critical Commentary
Baishali Chatterjee and Amita Pitre are two feminists, deeply engaged in the social sector, working on gender equality. They recently hosted a two-part podcast on ‘Gender and the City’ which has been well received. The authors declare no conflict of interest and have...
Barbie: International Law, War, and Feminist ‘Utopias’
Zeenat Sabur Between the seriousness and the reality presented by Oppenheimer and the imaginative elegance of Barbie, there is also a space to think about our own reality: who shapes it, and why do we accept it the way it is portrayed to us? As the Barbie movie shows,...
To throw the kitchen sink: How the work of Shelagh Delaney challenges the legacies of post-war social realism
Jennifer Jasmine White Shelagh Delaney is remembered almost exclusively for her ‘gritty’ debut. Why do critics still neglect all the fun she had elsewhere? Delaney’s screenwriting credits allow us to consider what else she might have had to offer the post-war cultural...
Recent Comments