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What Does ‘Network’ Have To Tell Us About Outrage, 50 Years On

July 24, 2026July 20, 2026 Matt Hanson 0 Comments 1976 films, Arthur Jensen, Beatrice Straight, broadcast journalism, capitalism, classic cinema, corporate media, Criterion Collection, Diana Christensen, Faye Dunaway, film criticism, globalization, Howard Beale, Jamelle Bouie, JD Vance, Journalism, Max Schumacher, media criticism, Ned Beatty, neoliberalism, Network, news media, Oscar winners, Paddy Chayefsky, PBS NewsHour, Peter Finch, ratings, Richard Nixon, Robert Duvall, sensationalism, Sidney Lumet, Television, The Guardian, UBS, Watergate, William Holden

We’re still ‘mad as hell’ but now everyone is yelling into the ether

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The Pixel Curtain Descends on Broadway

July 18, 2025May 13, 2026 Rebecca Kurson 1 Comment Billy Wilder, George Clooney, Marshall McLuhan, Maybe Happy Ending, Network, Norma Desmond, Paddy Chayefsky, Sarah Snook, Sidney Lumet, Sunset Blvd., the Picture of Dorian Gray

What does it mean that so many theatrical shows feature screens on stage?

‘Judas and the Black Messiah’

February 12, 2021February 18, 2021 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Boots Riley, Daniel Kaluuya, Jesse Plemons, Jordan Peele, Judas and the Black Messiah, Lakeith Stanfield, Martin Sheen, Shaka King, Sidney Lumet

A solid, straight-laced, Oscar-friendly film about a Black revolutionary movement

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Is Maggie O’Farrell’s New Novel ‘Land’ Just Grief Porn?

July 19, 2026July 24, 2026 Katie Smith 0

The ‘Hamnet’ author’s charts Ireland’s history

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‘The Invite’ Prompt Was — Bergman, But Make It Funny!

July 11, 2026July 14, 2026 Laura Pruden 2

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Traumatized Young Woman?

July 10, 2026July 14, 2026 Neal Pollack 1

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‘Reading Lolita in Tehran’ With the Revolutionary Guard

July 8, 2026July 10, 2026 William Schwartz 0

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