Speculative fiction, from Afrofuturism to Star Wars, offers students tools and methods for analyzing social movements, power structures, and utopian thinking.

A sports historian explains the truth behind the battle scenes in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II.

Drawn from the margins of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, the cinematic Bride of Frankenstein is never just one thing, and she never goes away.

The Ferris wheel may not have been a new idea, but the revolving structure offered fun—from the fairgrounds to the classroom.

"Acting presidential" can mean fulfilling expectations that have been shaped by TV and the movies.

Ernest Hemingway didn’t care for it.

German expressionism--imported to Hollywood by Jewish exiles--brought a lasting tradition of shadows, duality, and mirroring to mainstream American cinema.

In England, Alfred Hitchcock cultivated a comedic sensibility that shines through in his Hollywood thrillers.