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Higher Learning

Higher Learning: Renoir’s India

By Priya Jaikumar
December 3, 2019
Out of place: a reverse ethnography of Jean Renoir’s The River

Higher Learning: Chromatic Modernity

By Sarah Street and Joshua Yumibe
August 2, 2019
Technicolor dreams: our modern sense of color as a standardized commodity is intertwined with the history of cinema

Higher Learning: Anne Charlotte Robertson’s Five Year Diary

By Becca Voelcker
June 20, 2019
“We go to the garden, we grow in the garden”: Robertson’s autobiography includes a network of interactions with plants, animals, and weather

Higher Learning: Hero Worship

By Christina Svendsen
May 9, 2019
The long shadow: reading the superhero film through Siegfried Kracauer‘s classic text

Higher Learning: The Point of View Shot

By Patrick Keating
April 26, 2019
Show, don't tell: As in the silent period, the idea that the camera might move like a person took different forms in the 1930s

Higher Learning: Labeling Black Unbankable

By Maryann Erigha
March 28, 2019
Split ticket: how Hollywood insiders socially construct audiences by strategically targeting specific racial demographics

Higher Learning: The Unwatchable

By W.J.T. Mitchell
February 26, 2019
See no evil: what does it mean to proclaim something “unwatchable,” whether disturbing, revolting, poor quality, tedious, or literally inaccessible?

Higher Learning: A Greater Los Angeles

By Laura Isabel Serna and Colin Gunckel
January 14, 2019
New Hollywood: Mexican-born critic and playwright Gabriel Navarro brought together a rich world of uniquely Mexican-American culture in the first decades of the 20th century