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Today in Hollywood Sexism

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On May 21, 2015
It looks like Maggie Gyllenhaal has had her Last Fuckable Day at the ripe old age of 37:* Maggie Gyllenhaal, an Oscar nominee getting Emmy buzz for her work on the Sundance miniseries “The Honourable Woman,” reveals that she was recently turned down for a...

Power and the Land

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On April 5, 2015
Enjoy this 1940 Rural Electrification Administration documentary on the drudgery of rural work before electricity and how REA cooperatives and the New Deal transforms the lives of farmers. Good stuff. I love the films of the New Deal. There are also useful stories here. Robert...

Superfly

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On March 26, 2015

This week in my film class, I made the students watch Birth of a Nation out of class and Superfly in class to get at depictions of African-Americans in film.

Your Annual Reminder

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On February 22, 2015
On Oscar night, it's always worth a reminder that Crash is a disgusting, loathsome piece of garbage that is the worst Best Picture winner in Oscar history, despite what SEK says (and I grant him that under normal circumstances Titanic should have a good claim,...

Birth of a Nation

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On February 18, 2015

100 years ago today, D.W. Griffith showed his racist epic film "Birth of a Nation" at a private White House screening for President Woodrow Wilson. Wilson called it "history written.

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