Tag: pop culture
-
Last week marked the 45th anniversary of a show I was absolutely nuts about as a kid. I couldn’t let September 17th, 1978 go unmentioned. Oh, and apologies for borrowing… more ›
-
The pioneering video game designer throws a spotlight on treasures of 1950s and ’60s Japanese cinema, including Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Twilight and Nobuo Nakagawa’s Jigoku. https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/579-hideo-kojimas-closet-picks more ›
-
Desde que assistiu ao filme Orfeu Negro (1959), adaptado pelo cineasta francês Marcel Camus (1912-1982) a partir da peça Orfeu da Conceição, de Vinicius de Moraes (1913-1980), quando tinha 16… more ›
-
This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. https://longreads.com/2023/08/17/lorne-michaels-saturday-night-live/ more ›
-
There’s a ritual I do these days: In the evening, around 6 p.m., I walk downstairs and survey the line of young people who are single file around my block,… more ›
-
Guest host Alissa Wilkinson talks with Dorothy Fortenberry, a co-showrunner, executive producer, and writer on Extrapolations, the new star-studded anthology series on Apple TV+ that imagines the ravages of climate… more ›
-
On October 3, renowned South Korean illustrator Kim Jung Gi passed away unexpectedly at the age of 47. He was beloved for his innovative ink-and-brushwork style of manhwa, or Korean… more ›
-
Art has always existed in a complex, symbiotic and continually evolving relationship with the technological capabilities of a culture. Those capabilities constrain the art that is produced, and inform the… more ›
-
Most obviously, we’re discussing two very distinct and seemingly competing media environments. For creators, there’s the bottom-up, democratized access to tools, enabling massive amounts of content to be made and syndicated frictionlessly. In… more ›
-
YouTube’s coolhunters were tastemakers, and they were among the first at the company to actually reach out to the delightful weirdos populating its site. Michele Flannery, a former local-radio director… more ›