ong presents his audience with an important question through his juxtaposition-heavy filmmaking style in Parasite: which class needs the other more?
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ong presents his audience with an important question through his juxtaposition-heavy filmmaking style in Parasite: which class needs the other more?
Read MoreThink the only relevant piece of choose your own adventure literature is Netflix’s Black Mirror: Bandersnatch? Think again. And this time, think about it by playing staff writer Christie Basson’s choose your own adventure game…about choose your own adventure games. – Kylie Warkentin, Website Editor Play Here Relevant Links: What kind of content has…
Read MoreI sign my name in the guestbook of the Harry Ransom Center when I visit the Terrence McNally exhibit for the second time. Alongside the academics and the Northerners and the enthusiasts, “UT Student” is a nondescript designation. If a stack of brochures had been available, I might’ve picked one up, slipped it into my notebook, and kept it in the same way I keep playbills. This little waiting room—his little waiting room, he might correct with mock seriousness—has a theatre’s pre-show silence, as well as the headshot of the balding playwright who has written the show. He is eighty years old, the display tells me. I give the old man an impressed nod, and I turn the corner into the larger exhibit. There are no curtains hanging here, but somehow I expect to hear their heavy fabric drawing back. Maybe there are pulleys squeaking as they reveal the unlit stage.
Read MoreIt’s time to start considering video games as legitimate mediums for effective storytelling.
Read MoreFrom the characters, to the sets, to the body language and movement, and even to the actors’ individual expressions—the entire story that was once confined to a page unfolds in a multi-sensory experience from the seats of a theatre.
Read MoreWritten by Sara Leonard Popular Victorian books have the honor of being reborn through new editions almost every year. While some can be stunning, others are a little problematic. Listed are some of the most sexist covers of popular Victorian books, in order from least to most repulsive.
Read MoreWritten by Luis De La Cruz “Love and life / interested me so / that I dared to knock / at the Door of the Cosmos…” –“Door of the Cosmos,” Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Myth Science Solar Arkestra The relationship between jazz and poetry is incontrovertible. Major figures in the American poetic tradition have engaged…
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