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In 2024, The Boston Globe launched an unprecedented investigation into Massachusetts public schools, uncovering haunting stories of special-needs students’ parents attempting to navigate the education...
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Boys Don’t Read: Male Reading Habits and the Educational Gender Gap
In 1976, a mere 50 years ago, men earned the majority of undergraduate degrees, the majority of master’s degrees, and over 75 percent of all doctoral degrees across the United States. By 1990, these n...
Beyond Parody: Why Satire will Not Cause the Revolution
“I’d like to be Pope,” said the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump. Days later, he posted an AI-generated image of himself scowling while clothed in full papal regalia and insigni...
Broadway Beneath The Surface: An Interview with Anna Zavelson
Anna Zavelson is an Asian American actress who starred as Young Allie in the Broadway musical The Notebook, and is currently acting in an off-Broadway production of Masquerade. She has been acting, si...
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Climate Change, Technology, and the Role of Media Activism: An Interview with Jeff Orlowski
Jeff Orlowski is the founder and president of Exposure Labs. Exposure Labs focuses on creating documentaries around areas that need change. He directed the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma and w...
BPR Interviews: Seal
Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel, best known by his mononym Seal, is a singer and songwriter. Born in the United Kingdom and of Nigerian and Afro-Brazilian descent, Seal was raised by a foste...
Beyond Rain Main: Diversifying Autism On Screen
hile there is still a long way to go in terms of positive representation of autism in entertainment media, a select few fictional autistic personalities have achieved an impressive degree of Hollywood...
Break a Leg: Russian Performance Artist Exchanges Profundity for Controversy
n 2006, Russian auteur Ilya Khrzhanovsky decided to produce a film titled “DAU” about Lev Landau, a prominent Soviet physicist and 1962 Nobel laureate. Khrzhanovsky obsessed for two years over how the...
Netflix meets Nollywood
igeria’s film industry, nicknamed Nollywood, is flourishing as both a source of economic prosperity and an outlet for cultural creative curiosity. As many Nollywood films have increased in quality and...
The Shifting Role of Film Censorship in China’s Political Dominance
ilm censorship has always played a crucial role in the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) political ascendance and maintenance of power. Since its inception in 1949, the CCP has long implemented regulati...
Captivated by Crisis: Iran’s Unexpected Art Boom
he mission statement of the Tehran Auction–one of Iran’s largest annual art events–proudly refers to a phenomenon that may appear inexplicable in light of current world politics: “the increasing inter...
Netflix’s New Direction
ver the last ten years, Netflix has made a dramatic transformation from a DVD mail-distribution service to an online streaming service. Netflix’s survival and success can be attributed to its “disrupt...
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“All the World’s a Stage”: Improving Theatrical Accessibility in the U.S.
n 1600, an English peasant could pay one penny to stand and watch the first staging of a Shakespearean masterpiece. This penny was the price of a loaf of bread or approximately 10% of a worker’s wages...
Banking on Banksy
n October 2018, Banksy’s Girl with Balloon painting shredded itself after it was sold to a collector at an auction for $1.4 million dollars. Banksy, an anonymous artist most famous for his satirical g...
Still Recording in Syria: The Future of Journalism under the Assad Regime
he documentary has always been the global community’s preferred medium of political exposé. Even devotees to the masterworks of journalistic critique — the written accounts of human suffering and stri...
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The [BLEEP] You Can’t Say on TV: A History of Swearing in Television
the last 50 years, swearing in front of large audience has shifted from an obscenity crime to the norm, and while this trend has been underway for decades, the Trump administration is accelerating thi...
Foxtrot: A Study in Self-Criticism
If any line could summarize the politics of Israeli-produced film Foxtrot, it is perhaps the one elaborating on the film’s own title. “Did you know the foxtrot is a dance?” asks Michael to his mournin...
The Tainted Grace of Jahseh Onfroy, Hidden Among Controversy and Violence
or those unfamiliar with one of America’s most controversial, contradictory social media personalities and artists, XXXTentacion is Florida’s 20-year-old Jahseh Onfroy, a multidimensional recording ar...
When the Stream Runs Dry: Labor Rights for the Netflix Generation
Considering the sheer size of “golden age” television’s critically acclaimed programs, it comes with irony that Hollywood barely avoided breaking out in strikes last April. The Writers Guild of Americ...
Milo’s Satanic Verses: The Not-So Banned Book of 2017
Of the many canons in global literary history, specific attention has always been paid to banned and censored books. The reason for this seems pretty simple: Any book censored by a political authority...
