The Company That Keeps Us
Neither the creation nor the reception of a work of art takes place in a social
vacuum. We read, write, listen to, and watch creative products in the company of
other people. Even
Film & Television
On Bullying & Female Adolescent Fears in “Carrie”
Twenty-first century horror cinema has been dispiritingly timid (and even
retrograde) when it comes to matters of gender. A few welcome and eccentric
features have tackled feminist concerns head-on, among them Ginger Snaps,
In Plain Sight
It is strange that we come at it so sideways, so often. Brutal asides
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxmn8Hflhhs] in Family Guy, the brushed steel
gallows humor of stand-up [http://www.
The Curator + Ruminate Short Film Competition
This summer, The Curator and Ruminate Magazine
[http://www.ruminatemagazine.com/]co-hosted a competition for contemporary
artists who create work with moving images. Submissions were placed in two
categories: short film and video/
Return to Mogadishu
As the Battle of Mogadishu, commonly referred to as Black Hawk Down, escalated
around him, U.S. Army Ranger, Jeff Struecker reconciled with death. Surrounded
by brutal violence and death, that moment of