Self-proclaimed materialist theologian Ian Nutting performs an exegesis on what he considers the greatest film of all time.
Ethnomusicologist Lei X Ouyang considers how informed and intentional care for Asian America(ns) within and beyond institutions can create space for communities to survive and thrive.
In her analysis of “Wesley’s Theory” from Kendrick Lamar’s album "To Pimp a Butterfly," Tori Tyler explores the expression of Black masculinity in Hip-hop and Rap and argues for the validity of these genres in academic study.
In “Understanding modern American politics through Hollywood, pt. 3,” filmmaker Vijay M. Rajan explores how megacorporations use narrative techniques to gaslight the American people into voluntarily capitulating their individual agency. Part 3 of 3.
In "Understanding modern American politics through Hollywood, pt. 2," filmmaker Vijay M. Rajan focuses on how performative risk by musical institutions hampers plausible progress toward equity. Part 2 of 3.
Filmmaker Vijay M. Rajan explores how Hollywood storytelling tropes and techniques have contributed to the dire state of contemporary American politics. Part 1 of 3.
Historian Andrew Schumacher Bethke examines colonial hybridity in David Lowery's The Green Knight (2021).
