Rudolph Valentino’s sudden death in 1926 drew crowds as tabloid fabrications and newsreel cameras transformed private grief...
Cinema and Theater
Follow cinema from early experiments in moving images to today’s global screen culture. These histories examine filmmakers and audiences while revealing how motion pictures reflected social change and transformed the ways people remember their world.
From Shakespeare’s The Tempest to English ventures in Virginia, music, dance, and ritual shaped colonial encounters—often masking...
Wordsworth Donisthorpe nearly secured a place among cinema’s pioneers, but his Kinesigraph, textile feuds, and attempted blackmail...
In the 1930s and 1940s, public health films used faith, morality, science, and modern media to persuade...
American vaudeville transformed comedy, celebrity, censorship, touring, film, and radio into the foundations of modern mass entertainment....
From Greek choruses to Broadway scores, music has carried theater’s emotion, rhythm, spectacle, and storytelling power across...
Medieval farces and soties used fools, tricksters, courts, households, and public laughter to expose the fragile performance...
From Old Comedy to viral protest, street theater has used satire, spectacle, and interruption to make power...
Historical studies of filmic dogs can help us to understand the changing perception of dogs in Western...
They had room to explore the many different ways women might be depicted on film. By Claire...
The darling of the silent-film industry led the way on many cinematic innovations of the era. By...
Challenging authority with laughter. By Lorraine BoissoneaultWriter, Producer, and Journalist Anti-Roman sentiment may have run rampant through...
“Woe to the land that’s govern’d by a child.” By Dr. David Sterling BrownAssociate Professor of EnglishTrinity...
Just a reminder of humanity. By Dr. Ray RastAssociate Professor of HistoryGonzaga University Introduction Irving Berlin was a...
It fomented a cultural panic about demons in our midst. By Dr. Regina HansenMaster Lecturer of RhetoricBoston...
Today, the notion of the gaze is widely used in visual culture. Abstract In this theoretical context...
World War II also invigorated and shaped a variety of technological approaches to public health. By Dr....
Many people watch high-quality movies and TV shows using a cable TV service. However, before the introduction...
How a story nobody wanted to tell became a Christmas classic. Perhaps the most beloved Christmas film...
Everyone loves a great movie set in a stunning British country estate, be it a period piece...
If you imagine a movie based on the classic Tetris video game, you might expect a bright,...
During the war the American propaganda organization conducted widespread operations abroad and in this country. Introduction To...
Some television moments can only exist once. They capture unique stories, perspectives, settings, and characters, making them...
It wasn’t until King Charles’s declaration in 1662 that women’s parts could be played by women. Introduction...
The fall of the Roman republic has prompted many historical reflections across the ages. Abstract This article...
In recent years, people have been increasingly moving because of numerous reasons. This is the reason why...
Exploring what made Parisiens laugh in a moment of crisis through the prism of a vaudeville play....
Doomsday, 1433. In York, after dark. By James Williford A red curtain. Painted stars. Actors in hoses,...
The theater covered such diverse themes as history, romance, revenge, murder, comedy, and tragedy. Introduction Elizabethan theatre,...
What if we understand the play as a story about the disabled body as it was configured...