Culture Warrior: 7 Movie Characters That Have Been Used For Shameless Advertising
Last week, we explored the concept of shoving products into movies, but there’s an equal and opposite marketing method where… Read More
November 1, 2011
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Culture Warrior: A Word About Product Placement in Movies (Brought to You By Doritos)
Buried deep within this sentence (Doritos are delicious) is an advertisement. Did you catch it? You probably didn’t because it… Read More
October 25, 2011
Culture Warrior: The Vegetarian Movie Lover’s Dilemma
Warning: Some of the links included in this article depict disturbing real-life violence against animals.When we talk about movies, we often… Read More
October 18, 2011
Culture Warrior: Steve Jobs and the Cinema of Invention
Amongst the many reactions to Steve Jobs’s death last week, I found one comparison that people drew to be quite… Read More
October 11, 2011
Culture Warrior: Enduring the Clarity and Questions Raised By ‘Shoah’
Of all the things associated with its reputation, probably the most immediately apparent aspect of Claude Lanzmann’s incredible Holocaust documentary… Read More
October 4, 2011
Culture Warrior: September to Remember
The month of September is typically regarded as one of the least exciting and least eventful in the calendar year.… Read More
September 27, 2011
Culture Warrior: The Manly Men of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Films
Masculinity has always been the major topic of concern in the work of Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn. Just look… Read More
September 20, 2011
Culture Warrior: ‘Contagion’ as 21st Century Global Cinema
For the past few weeks, cinephiles, journalists, and critics have been grappling with the notion of what ‘post-9/11 cinema’ is,… Read More
September 13, 2011
Culture Warrior: ‘Apollo 18’ and the Future of NASA in the Movies
From the second half of the twentieth century onward, our view of NASA and its associated lore in movies have… Read More
September 6, 2011