Being on TV Can Be Scary: Satire, Bassem Youssef and Jon Stewart on ‘Tickling Giants’
Daily Show producer Sara Taksler submits that comedy is a good way to reach supporters. But viewers can also be divided by fear.
Cynthia Fuchs
Cynthia Fuchs is director of Film & Media Studies and Associate Professor of English, Film & Video Studies, African and African American Studies, Sport & American Culture, and Women and Gender Studies at George Mason University. She has published numerous articles on pop culture and politics, most recently, "'A few brief moments': Truth and Image in Sports Documentaries," in Gender and Genre: Critical Essays on Sports Documentaries. She edited Spike Lee: Interviews (University of Mississippi Press 2002), and co-edited both Iraq War Cultures (Peter Lang 2011) and Between the Sheets, In the Streets: Queer, Lesbian, and Gay Documentary (University of Minnesota 1997).
Violence Is the Vehicle, Not the Point, in ‘Headshot’
Headshot puts a few well-known action movies through something of a blender to come up with a strangely brilliant concoction.
On Truth and Dark Turns in ‘Tickled’
The tickling wormhole seems to be getting deeper...
There’s No Cure for Fakeness in ‘A Cure for Wellness’
Fox's unfortunate campaign for this film -- even the idea of it -- is exponentially more interesting than the film it meant to promote.
‘O.J. – Made in America’: Race, TV, and New Normals
As we work to understand the current climate of post-truths and "alternative facts", we might all do well to think again about particular historical moments.
One of Them Is Not One of Us in M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Split’
The movie's version of Dissociative Identity Disorder is not science, but metaphor, and horror movie metaphor at that.
’20th Century Women’ Holds Particular Relevance for 21st Century Women
As much as it considers the past, 20th Century Women's profound confidence in women's strength and ingenuity proposes a way to look forward.
The Lack of Imagination in ‘The Bye Bye Man’ Is Vexing
The Bye Bye Man's illogic is typical of horror movies.
‘Hidden Figures’: Looking Beyond the Numbers
Hidden Figures assumes you'll share its vision, making correct judgments regarding differences between perception and blindness, bigotry and justice, right and wrong.
‘Assassin’s Creed’ Is Full of Elaborate Illogic
As the movie spirals into the elaborate illogic of the videogame on which it's based, the hero Cal is resurrected and tormented, again and again.
‘Patriots Day’ Is Heavy With Exasperating Fiction
Patriot’s Day embodies a troubling fiction, the one where one man can “fix it”. Sometimes, that fiction is inspiring. Sometimes, it’s exasperating.