Unlike traditional nuclear rivalries where both sides possess declared arsenals – like India and Pakistan, which despite ...

While I don’t believe the movie plays as well in 2025 as it did at the close of the 20th century, much of Smith’s dialogue is ...

From the original Star Wars films to ‘80s classics like “Die Hard” and “Terminator” to the current box-office success of Marvel superhero movies, spectacles of violence and adventure are a ...

The Toei-produced, female-driven, action/exploitation films known as “Pinky Violence” reached their crescendo in the late 1970s – and are almost single-handedly responsible for the first wave of ...

Filmmaker Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu once said: “Cinema is a mirror by which we often see ourselves.” The precious images and storylines that are cleverly woven together to present a feast for the ...

The inhabitants of Rjukan in southern Norway have a complex relationship with the sun. “More than other places I’ve lived, they like to talk about the sun: when it’s coming back, if it’s a long time ...

Our culture is obsessed with the idea of originality. We want things, people, and ideas to be fresh, new and authentic. We prize individuality and like people pushing into unseen territories, at least ...

(Autochrome of a fisherman and his wife in Volendam, the Netherlands, 1919--Source.) By the time of Albert Kahn’s death in 1940, the French banker and philanthropist had amassed a collection of more ...

This article: “Postures of Transport” was originally published in The Public Domain Review under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish to ...

In the 1936 screwball comedy mystery The Ex-Mrs. Bradford, Dr. Lawrence Bradford (William Powell) asks his ex-wife, the rich mystery writer Paula (Jean Arthur), “What is a cocktail dress?” She replies ...

Images have long provided a means of protesting political regimes bent on censoring language. In the 1830s a band of French caricaturists, led by Charles Philipon, weaponized the innocent image of a ...

This article by David Robson was originally published in Mosaic Science. It’s republished here with permission under a Creative Commons license. General anesthesia is supposed to make surgery painless ...