Kate Farina Event producer // Ideas person // Fan of fans
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Paranoia and Conformity in “Pod People” Films of the McCarthy Era
The following essay was written for a 200-level film course covering the McCarthy Era. Unfortunately, the witty title I came up with has been lost to the ages. The very mention of paranoid films like Invasion of the Body Snatchers often provokes laughter. Today’s scoffers look down on these films as ridiculous relics of 1950s [...]
“Fun With Some Stature Thrown In”: The Band Wagon’s Conception of Perfect Entertainment
This paper was written for an Art History seminar on film and modernity at Vassar College in 2003 “Fun With Some Stature Thrown In”: The Band Wagon’s Conception of Perfect Entertainment The dance that’s a dream of romance…That’s entertainment! -Jeffrey Cordova in The Band Wagon In The Band Wagon (Minnelli, 1953), a film that both [...]
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