Orpheus Unending, or Beyond and Behind The Fugitive Kind
For a variety of reasons, then, despite its high-gloss finish, the film did not achieve any real commercial success. This is not to say it was an artistic letdown, as[…]
Author: Chris McDonough
Chris McDonough holds the Alderson-Tillinghast Chair of Humanities at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, USA. He is currently finishing a book for Edinburgh University Press called Pontius Pilate On-Screen: Sinner, Soldier, Superstar.
Historical & Epic · Religion & Spirituality
“Tribune, Do You Really Believe All This?” The Somewhat Dispassionate Passion of Sony Affirm’s Risen (2016)
Risen is the product of a sub-industry whose primary source of success is in providing pious pablum for a complacent and undiscriminating Christian market (although, to be fair, this market[…]
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Animation · Animators · Experimental & Underground · Religion & Spirituality
Making Fun: The Satiric Impulse in Nina Paley’s Sita Sings the Blues and Seder-Masochism
In her two longest works of animation – Sita Sings the Blues (2008) and Seder Masochism (2018, currently on the festival circuit) – Nina Paley turns her sharp wit and[…]
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