Articles

A Man, a Blade, an Empty Road: Postwar Samurai Film to 1970: An overview of classic Japanese samurai film.

Bits Bite Back: An exploration of why digital piracy is a predictable and unavoidable consequence of marketing.

More Human Than Human: Robots, Cyborgs, and A.I. in the Movies: Cinema has long explored the idea of intelligent machines. Are they here as servants and companions, or will they eventually replace us — perhaps even kill us?

The Smell of Fear: New Wave Horror: A brief history of the Horror New Wave, a bloody, realistic subgenre that came of age in the 1970s and hugely influenced succeeding films and filmmakers.