Cary Joji Fukunaga 's Jane Eyre reinvigorates the period piece for a modern audience, grounding its gothic romance in stark ...

Watch the trailer for 'Natchez,' the Oscar-contending documentary about the historic Mississippi town where Old South mythology is kept alive.

(THE CONVERSATION) Imagine a city street at dusk, silent save for the rising sound of a collective guttural moan. Suddenly, a horde of ragged, bloodied creatures appear, their feet shuffling along the ...

Classic cinema holds a special place in cultural memory through the magic of Golden Age Hollywood, family viewing traditions, ...

Controversy in art and cinema reveals society's boundaries, exposing the pressure points where cultural comfort meets ...

He grew up in rural Surry County as the youngest of 12 children to a father who paid the bills with a 34-year career ...

Claims that federal officials ordered the removal of a the infamous 1863 image sparked concern over the Trump administration’s efforts to eradicate what it calls “corrosive ideology,” despite the US ...

An up-and-coming young actor in the 1960s, a sex symbol in the 1970s, a movie star (and Oscar-winning director) in the 1980s, an elder statesman in the 1990s and an éminence grise in the 21st century ...

As co-founders of the Descendants Project, Joy and Jo Banner have achieved success in large part by their mastery of attracting media attention. Stepping outside their homes in the small Louisiana ...

British workhouses were intimately bound up with slavery and imperialism throughout the early modern period, new research from Cardiff University finds. Published in the journal Antipode, the article ...

The impacts of the transatlantic slave trade can be found on African people and global cultures and society five centuries after its start. The most enduring consequences of the migration for the ...

Calls to attenuate the brutality of slavery in museum depictions is absurd when our institutions already downplay one of its most horrific features. Broadside advertising a slave auction outside of ...