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All posts by Christina Newland
Boxing, Femininity, and Hysteria: On “The Fits”
Christina M. Newland writes on the themes and feminism of the new film "The Fits."
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Financial Meltdown: Portraying Wall Street Onscreen
Christina Newland on the recent trend of Wall Street-centric movies that valorize its characters.
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On The Bold Melodramas of Nicholas Ray
Nicholas Ray has been called many things in his ongoing lionization—“a poet of nightfall,” “a glorious failure,” and even “cinema itself.” His visual landscape was often one of brash Technicolor and densely layered Cinemascope, and he possessed a fascination w...
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Musical Martyrdom and Asif Kapadia’s “Amy”
It’s not easy for a filmmaker to take on a documentary subject as delicate and complex as a dead musical icon, particularly when they’ve reached mythic proportions in the popular imagination. With tragic figures as well-loved as Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, t...
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Junkies on Film: A 1990s Revival
Last year, the New York Times reported that a new heroin epidemic was raging in New York City. Evidence indicated a dramatic surge in sales and seizures around the five boroughs, and the numbers were higher than they had been in over 20 years. As the Big Apple...
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