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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The Problem with Race- and Ethnicity- Based Genres
The ethnically—and, often, racially—divided genres we know today were essentially constructed to divide literature and art into white and non-white categories, often done in a misguided attempt to celebrate these works. However, these genres built upon ethnicity hurt the creators of these works.
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How Uncanny: Chilling Gothics to Disturb the Ordinary
This spooky season, we asked our website staff members to come up with their own Gothic styles! Like Southern Gothic before us, each staff member took a place or experience that seems harmless—that is, until you look a little closer.
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Forever Young: Let’s Foster Diversity through Young Adult Literature
Written by Alyssa Jingling In college, I have found that if a book isn’t by a dead white man or hasn’t been critiqued by James Wood, it’s typically not read. Young adult novels on the class syllabus? No way.
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Erin Hunter’s Bluestar: The Modern Tragic Victorian Heroine
We might be inclined to separate these tragic Victorian heroines from the protagonists of our modern literature, but a closer look at one novel suggests that this social suffocation has simply shifted into a new form — a feline form.
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Why Gladys Schmitt, Pittsburgh’s Pioneering Novelist and Professor, Deserves a Closer Look
Not many readers have heard of Gladys Schmitt outside of Pittsburgh. For that matter, not many readers have heard of Gladys Schmitt inside Pittsburgh.
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You Pick. No, Really: Interactive Media Allows Power Like You’ve Never Known
Think 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…
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