Classic Movie Nostalgia

For years film was an avenue for people to tell stories and give insight to a culture, society or set of ideas. As with most media today, movies have become more superficial and traded substance for marketability. Now, instead of character and plot development, most movies are simply two-hour-long special effects marathons.
Evidence of this trend [...]

The Western Genre and Its Shining Star

By the 1940s, the American film industry had internalized a crucial part of our nation’s history – the settlement of the Wild West – turned it into a familiar movie genre. The tropes of westerns are familiar to us all by now. There were shootouts at the OK Corral, duels in the midday sun and [...]