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"I hope 'One Battle After Another' wins a million awards": A Q&A with Peter Coviello

For me, Anderson is a filmmaker who read a book about state terror and counterfascist mobilization and metabolized Pynchon’s "Vineland" into the unlikeliest of things: a movie, a mass-cultural product that wants to think clearly and hard about the here-and-now-ness of an American fascism.
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Recovering Women’s Film History in the Archive

How author Aurore Spiers recovered women's hidden labor in the film history archives and their contributions to French cinema.
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How Hollywood Dramatized the Berlin Airlift: A Q&A with Joseph Pearson

Both propaganda and entertainment, George Seaton’s film, "The Big Lift," released in 1950, starring Montgomery Clift, saw Hollywood dramatize the struggles of post-war Berlin and the Berlin Airlift.
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Music Streaming around the World

by David Hesmondhalgh (Author)
Oct 2025
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Global Movie Magazine Networks

by Eric Hoyt (Editor), Kelley Conway (Editor)
Jan 2025
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Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture

by Andrew deWaard (Author)
Sep 2024
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