Theater and Film
A Discussion of To Kill a Mockingbird
Horton Foote: "I just felt it could have been set in my little town in Texas. We had a large black population. We had all the prejudices that the book exposes and, I think, a lot of the virtues which were Southern virtues that were this sense of place, this sense of really belonging to something and this essential conflict of being surrounded by a problem that we still haven't solved." more »
Hollywood's Gender Equality, Written in Invisible Ink; Where Are the Women in Film and TV?
"Across 400 top-grossing G, PG, PG-13 and R rated films released between 1990 and 2006, only 27 percent of over 15,000 speaking characters were female." more »
Oxford's Geometry of War and The Hurt Locker
"Instruments are illustrated in use where conflict is imminent or already begun, and the coolness of the practitioners who apply their geometry in the heat of battle can seem improbable." more »
Making Movies: Brutal killings are not to be presented in detail; revenge in modern times must not be justified
Making Movies: Brutal killings are not to be presented in detail and revenge in modern times must not be justified. more »
