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The Tragedy of The Wizard of the OZ

December 5, 2024 Sophia Villa

As the new movie Wicked is premiering over Thanksgiving weekend, it is bringing back attention to the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. The Wizard of Oz is an American musical fantasy film that was an adaptation of the 1900 children’s fantasy novel. The story is about an imaginative teen

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Jesusexification: The Hubris of Jens Jørgen Thorsen

October 26, 2024 Zoe Yahrling

Pornography was legalized in Denmark on July 1st, 1969. One of the first countries to allow the film genre to proliferate legally. A triumph in the world of nymphomaniacs and sexual deviants everywhere (well, at least in Denmark). It was time to celebrate this “sex”-cellent news. Jens Jørgen Thorsen had

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Framing the Narrative: Media Influence in the Central Park 5 Case

October 22, 2024 Margo Lundeen

On April 19th, 1989, Trisha Meili was brutally raped and almost killed. Meili was going on a casual run late that evening around Central Park in New York City. This night would go down in history as one of the worst criminal cases of inequality in the legal system. That

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The Artistic Crime of the Century

October 17, 2024October 16, 2024 Eddie Castaneda

On August 7, 1984, a French man named Philippe Petit stood 1,350 feet above ground-level on the top of one of the Twin Towers. Petit successfully walked 131 feet on a high-wire between the Twin Towers with no net. The grand performance executed by this artist was unauthorized, which was

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This is Not A Film: The Persistence of Art and Crime

October 7, 2024 Ryan Olenyn

The 2011 film, This is Not a Film, is a documentary created by and centered around Iranian filmmaker, Jafar Panahi, as he goes about day-to-day life under house arrest and censorship forced on him by the Iranian government. Throughout the film, Panahi is shown attempting to appeal his sentencing of

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The Moralization of Killing other Killers

October 5, 2024October 4, 2024 Eddie Castaneda

On March 6, 1981, Marianne Bachmeier pulled out a .22-caliber pistol in the courtroom and shot her daughter’s murderer in cold blood, 6 shots hit him and ended his life almost instantly. Bachmeier was sentenced to spend 6 years in prison, she was released in 3 years on probation. Considering

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The Normalization of Stalking: A Case Study of Ron Galella

October 3, 2024 Zoe Yahrling

“Once you’re a celebrity, always a celebrity. You have to face it. You’re a celebrity, you’re fair game in public areas.” – Ron Galella Celebrities are perfect. At least, this is the intent of various PR teams and studios. A celebrity must maintain an unattainable level of beauty and perfection,

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Dancing with a Con Artist

October 2, 2024October 16, 2024 Mackenzie Jatta

In 2014, a German heiress by the name Anna Delvey moved from Germany to New York City and quickly worked her way into the exclusive circle of the Big Apple’s upper class elites. She quickly established herself as an up-and-coming New York socialite, and even created the Anna Delvey Foundation

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Taboo Topics In Anime: Child Bait and ‘Overprotective’ Siblings

April 18, 2023April 22, 2023 Mint Bunhey

Within anime, there is the stereotype that many shows depict either pedophilic undertones or even incestuous implications. And while the vast majority of anime do not depict these themes, it is the ones that do that garner attraction. Though pedophilia is often not explicitly depicted, there is a trope of

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Funny Girl’s Revival? More like a revival of Funny Girl!

March 18, 2023March 16, 2023 Crystal

Many criticisms were pushed toward Broadway’s revival of Funny Girl, with its main target being actress Beanie Feldstein and her “lacking vocals.” The New York Times dubbed her voice “not well suited to the music,” and Vulture called her performance “simply not a sound you expect to hear on Broadway.”

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