PinnedVlae KershnerHow the Double-Crossed Assassin Turned Into A Baby DriverOver nine decades and a half-dozen films, a brutal plot devised by Graham Greene got watered down.Oct 26, 2023Oct 26, 2023
PinnedVlae KershnerThe Limits of MemoryMost avid baseball fans know about the three great championship droughts, all broken in the 21st century. One of them, meaningful to my…Oct 3, 2019Oct 3, 2019
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Vlae Kershner‘I’m as white as you are’: Racial censorship in film noirDetective fiction had a lot to say about the state of American race relations in the 1930s. Anyone who has only watched the classic-era…Jul 3Jul 3
Vlae KershnerWhen Jackie Robinson Punished Frankie Albert’s MistakeOne game-changing interception. Two legendary athletes. And while movies have been made about both of them, the play figures only in the…Feb 14Feb 14
Vlae Kershner‘ A Boon To Many Poor Boys’: College Football Pay-For-Play, 1924–51Although some decry the move to pay college football players, the idea of student-athletes competing for nothing but the love of sport and…Feb 13Feb 13
Vlae KershnerA Nazi Movie Less Sexist Than ’40s HollywoodWith the manpower shortages brought on by World War II, the expanded role of women in the work force was reflected in movies, not just in…Sep 14, 2022Sep 14, 2022