David LeedsBed-Stuy, Do or Die: Representations of Oppression in Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing”At the 1990 Academy Awards ceremony, actress Kim Basinger caused a stir when she used her brief moment on camera to criticize the Academy…Aug 18, 2017Aug 18, 2017
David Leeds“The Twilight Zone” — A Politically Aware, Subversive, and Thoughtful Take on Postwar American…It is impossible to measure the impact that Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone has had on television and on American popular culture in…Aug 18, 2017Aug 18, 2017
David Leeds“Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” Demonstrated True Patriotism in a Time of FascismOne of director Frank Capra’s best-remembered films, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, debuted at Constitution Hall in Washington, DC on the…Aug 18, 2017Aug 18, 2017
David LeedsHow to Film Horror — Two Approaches: “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” and “Psycho”Among film scholars, there is still a lack of consensus on the question of what, exactly, distinguishes horror from other genres. The most…Aug 18, 2017Aug 18, 2017
David LeedsAlone in the Crowd: Routines and Urban Isolation in “Chungking Express”Six minutes into Wong Kar-wai’s 1994 romantic drama Chungking Express, the camera lingers on a rotating display of compact discs affixed to…Aug 18, 20171Aug 18, 20171
David LeedsBeauty at a Distance: Cinematic Techniques of “The Grand Budapest Hotel”Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, inspired by the writings of Stefan Zweig, is an intensely stylized film, celebrated for its…Aug 18, 2017Aug 18, 2017
David LeedsLuke Cage, Defender of Harlem[Originally published in Harvard Political Review]Aug 18, 2017Aug 18, 2017
David LeedsOliver Stone’s “Snowden” and the Cinema of Surveillance[Originally published in Harvard Political Review]Aug 18, 2017Aug 18, 2017