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Prisoners of the Cold War

Film Review: The Harder They Fall, Directed by Jeymes Samuel

Film Review: La Llorona, Directed by Jayro Bustamante

Film Review – Jojo Rabbit (Dir: Taika Waititi, 2019)

Eisenstein’s “Ivan the Terrible” in Stalin’s Russia

The Man Who Loved Dogs, by Leonardo Padura (2013)

The Enemy Within: Cold War History in FX’s The Americans

Screening Vietnam: First Blood and Jaws

Magical Realism on Drugs: Colombian History in Netflix’s Narcos

Historical Perspectives on Agnieszka Holland’s In Darkness (2011)

Historical Perspectives on Isao Takahata’s Grave of Fireflies

Historical Perspectives on Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises (2013)

“12 Years a Slave” and the Difficulty of Dramatizing the “Peculiar Institution”

I am Cuba, for Sale (1964)

42 (2013)

The Sapphires (2012)

Pinching and Swiping, or How I Won the Digital War

Why is Anne Hathaway So Sad? The History Behind “Les Misérables” (2012)

Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (2012)

What’s Missing from ‘Argo’ (2012)

The Yacoubian Building by Alaa al-Aswany (2006)

For Greater Glory (2012)

Film Review – A Separation (2011)

Footnote (2011)

Movie poster of the movie Camila: Love Against All Odds

Camila (1984)

Undergraduate Essay Contest Winner: Homage to Catalonia (1938)

Movie poster of the movie J. Edgar

J. Edgar (2011)

Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth (1993)

In The Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and the American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson (2011)

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859)

A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul (1979)

Book cover of True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey

True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (2001)*

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster (1924)

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (1931)

Movie poster of the movie Amigo

Film Review – Amigo (2011)

Movie poster of the movie Sankofa, A Haile Gerima Film

Sankofa (1993)

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The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Sarah’s Key (2011)

Life and Nothing But (1989)

The Help

Day of Wrath (1943)

Book cover of Midnight's Children with a New Introduction by the Author by Salman Rushdie

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (1980)

Hollywood’s Brazil: Rio (2011)

Movie poster of the movie Vatel

Death and Decadence: Vatel (2000)

Everyday Crimes: The Shop on Main Street (1965)

Movie poster of the movie Johnny Tremain: He Answered Freedom's Call

Rebel With a Cause: Johnny Tremain (1957)

I am Twenty (1961, released 1964)

Cynical Realism: Miller’s Crossing by Joel and Ethan Coen (1990)

Book cover of Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco (1988)

The Old Man and the New Man in Revolutionary Cuba

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