The spectacle of anonymity: how the mask became a way for celebrities to control their image

Jan 05, 2023 04:57 am UTC| Entertainment

Celebrity has always existed in one form or another. Across history, the likeness of kings, queens and nobility, deities, popes, and saints have been the subject of countless works of art. Painted portraits, carvings in...

All the cinema (and sequels) we have to look forward to in 2023

Dec 30, 2022 10:21 am UTC| Entertainment

Well, this might be because it is at least when it comes to the American cinematic media ecology, with the majority of the most-hyped Hollywood films for 2023 being sequels and reboots. One would be forgiven for giving...

Disenchanted: Disney attempts to break stereotypes of motherhood only to reinforce them

Nov 23, 2022 05:09 am UTC| Entertainment

Mothers in fairy tales have a way of being absent, typically through untimely deaths (think Cinderella, Snow White or Beauty and the Beast) or thanks to storylines that position them as background characters. Disneys...

Banksy in Ukraine: how his defiant new works offer hope

Nov 23, 2022 05:06 am UTC| Entertainment

Art, in all its forms, has always been a powerful means of representing, resisting and remembering war. And the Russo-Ukrainian War is no different, with artists responding powerfully to Russian aggression through an...

Hallyu! The Korean Wave at the V&A is an unflinching look at the country's creative rise

Oct 31, 2022 08:42 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment

The Hallyu! exhibition at Londons Victoria and Albert Museum offers an insight into everything the Korean Wave has offered up over the past 25 years, fulfilling its promise to showcase Korean creativity at its...

'The Witcher' season 4: Netflix renews series without Henry Cavill, as Liam Hemsworth takes on main protagonist role

Oct 31, 2022 07:08 am UTC| Technology Entertainment

News related to the The Witcher franchise has been quite abundant in the past few days. Netflix confirmed that its live-action adaptation has been renewed for a fourth season with a major casting change. Henry Cavill,...

HBO's 'House of the Dragon' was inspired by a real medieval dynastic struggle over a female ruler

Oct 21, 2022 06:20 am UTC| Entertainment

In three decades of teaching medieval European history, Ive noticed my students are especially curious about the intersection of the stories told in class and the depictions of the Middle Ages they see in movies and...