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Parenting For Progress: Reflections On Matt Ross’S Captain Fantastic, Bryant W. Sculos Nov 2016

Parenting For Progress: Reflections On Matt Ross’S Captain Fantastic, Bryant W. Sculos

Class, Race and Corporate Power

Matt Ross's film Captain Fantastic explores the difficulties of raising one's kids to be critical of modern capitalistic society. This essay explores the parenting lessons that can be taken from the film in connection with contemporary politics and protest movements. As people who are concerned with social justice, this essay attempts to think through the question: how should we be raising our children in these tormented, unjust times?


Automatons, Robots, And Capitalism In A Very Wrong Twenty-First Century: A Review Essay On Neill Blomkamp’S Chappie, Bryant William Sculos May 2015

Automatons, Robots, And Capitalism In A Very Wrong Twenty-First Century: A Review Essay On Neill Blomkamp’S Chappie, Bryant William Sculos

Class, Race and Corporate Power

Contrary to prevailing opinions, Neill Blomkamp’s recent feature film Chappie is not a movie about robots or artificial intelligence. It is not Robocop. It is not Short Circuit. It is also not District 9 or Elysium. Chappie is a movie about humanity’s dialectically creative and destructive potential. It is a movie about how it is that humans come to behave how they do through their social and material circumstances, as well as the barbaric results when the two are mixed under the thoroughly undemocratic conditions of neoliberal capitalism.


Neglected Masterpieces Of Cinema, Louis Proyect May 2015

Neglected Masterpieces Of Cinema, Louis Proyect

Class, Race and Corporate Power

This article will acquaint you with ten of the more important leftwing films I have reviewed over the past sixteen years as a member of New York Film Critics Online. You will not see listed familiar works such as “The Battle of Algiers” but instead those that deserve wider attention, the proverbial neglected masterpieces. They originate from different countries and are available through Internet streaming, either freely from Youtube or through Netflix or Amazon rental. In several instances you will be referred to film club websites that like the films under discussion deserve wider attention since they are the counterparts …