The Rider (2017), is directed by Chloe Zhao and based on a true story. The first film sequence represents a brown horse in chiaroscuro followed by a man, the rider Brady Blackburn, who wakes up from a dream, probably a nightmare. Indeed, the dream aesthetic is present throughout the movie with the omnipresence of nocturne landscapes.…
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Signs Preceding the End of the World (2015) is the second novel written by Yuri Herrera part of his « Border Trilogy », that also includes The Transmigration of Bodies (2013) and Kingdom Cons (2017). It is also his first novel translated in English. Makina, the main protagonist, is a young woman who is asked by her…
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Columbus Day Celebrations: A Controversy (excerpt) On my way back from an amazing photoshoot with friends I looked up at an eye-catching poster from the German airline company Lufthansa on the sidewalk: Wieviel Columbus steckt in dir? (How much Columbus is in you? i.e. how adventurous are you?) This campaign slogan was aimed at attracting the viewers…
Lire plusSummary’s excerpt: According to bell hooks in her first chapter of Ain’t I a Woman, it is necessary to analyze the intersectionality between racism and gender during the 19th century for an understanding of the Black Female slave experience. Sexism was a European construction and ideology brought to the US. At first, colonizers prioritized black…
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