Like Humbert, we replace Lolita’s inaccessible parts with stories; stories about what kind of girl she is, her boldness, and her frankness, until there are enough words to satisfy the empty spaces.

Nation-building, colonialism, and conceptions of home

Sex is commerce; the commerce part is what makes it hot

Kubrick’s appreciation for fashion and design transform his genius masterwork into far more than a futuristic drama.

Created by German director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, The Lives of Others melds an in-depth examination of governmental surveillance with Jung’s theory of the persona

Beyond noir tendencies to position her character within Hollywood notions of death and desire, Lana’s shifting portrayal of “hyper” femininity throughout The Postman Always Rings Twice reveals a hidden psychology that is nothing if not multidimensional

In Burton’s fantasy, static objects animate, the shadow world and the “real” world collide, and the limits between life and death blur

Set in 14th-Century Japan during a period of civil war, “Onibaba” draws as much from the tradition of Noh Theater as it does from its immediate political context, the aftermath of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

In his groundbreaking horror film, The Shining, Kubrick wields a limited yet suggestive color palette to parody the very foundations of American patriotism

A testament to the potentially destructive power of narrative and the dark outcomes that can occur when truth and myth intermingle