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‘Dead Pigs’: Where do they come from and where do they go?

August 11, 2021 By Michael Berkowitz

“The Sixth Generation” of Chinese filmmakers continue to shed light on the social maladies that have accompanied their nation’s shift toward a self-described “socialist market economy.”

Streaming platforms vs. Media sovereignty: Netflix and others challenge national broadcasters

August 10, 2021 By Dennis Broe

The power of the American streamers is forcing national films and television series to dilute their content in order to also reach a global audience.

Black women laundry workers finally get their due as organizers and leaders

August 9, 2021 By Beatrice Lumpkin

As a history of laundry workers and their 108-year struggle for justice from 1912 to 2020, Jenny Carson's book comes at an important time.

Bezos in space: When the world isn’t enough, exploit the whole galaxy

August 4, 2021 By Ken Pierce

The year is 2075. The location is the Amazon Mars Fulfillment Center.

Wilder’s classic Our Town gets 21st century treatment—Race, class, and all

August 3, 2021 By Ed Rampell

In 'The Last, Best Small Town', playwright John Guerra has adapted Thornton Wilder’s 1938 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, resetting the turn-of-the-last-century Grover’s Corner, New Hampshire at turn-of-the-21st-century Fillmore, California.