The Comedy Deficit: Assessing Netflix’s ‘72 Hours’ and the Struggle of the Modern Raunchy Ensemble
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Introduction: The Search for the Next Great Comedy In an era where high-concept blockbusters and prestige dramas dominate the streaming landscape, the "great American comedy" has become an increasingly rare commodity. The mid-to-late 2000s,…
The Literary Lens: Assessing the Cinematic Adaptation of ‘Reading Lolita in Tehran’
The impulse to categorize a film centered on the systemic oppression of women in 20th-century Iran as a "feel-good" story is, perhaps, a symptom of a modern media landscape saturated with reductive analysis. Yet, as one sits through Eran…
