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Winner of two Golden Globes, "The Secret Agent" has been nominated for four Academy Awards. The film's critical success underscores the special moment Brazilian cinema is currently enjoying.

A Q&A with "Film Quarterly" contributor Anthony Michael D’Agostino

For me, Anderson is a filmmaker who read a book about state terror and counterfascist mobilization and metabolized Pynchon’s "Vineland" into the unlikeliest of things: a movie, a mass-cultural product that wants to think clearly and hard about the here-and-now-ness of an American fascism.

"Journal of the American Musicological Society" editor Jake Johnson conducts video interviews with the contributors to the journal's Summer 2025 issue.

Author Sérgio B. Martins explains what the trajectory of Antonio Diaz's life and artwork reveals about the history of avant-gardism.

Mark Anderson talks about his ecocritical analysis of Mexican writer Juan Rulfo.

Author Mechele Dickerson explains why everyone should care about the health of the middle class, and what we can do to save it.

Both propaganda and entertainment, George Seaton’s film, "The Big Lift," released in 1950, starring Montgomery Clift, saw Hollywood dramatize the struggles of post-war Berlin and the Berlin Airlift.

Author and first-gen scholar Samuel Shearer discusses his book, "Kigali," an ethnography exploring the politics of urban design, displacement, and the dual crises of capitalism and ecology in Kigali, Rwanda.

Learn more about Michael Snodgrass's research into the bracero guest worker program.