Historians seem more than a little befuddled by the film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. A recent piece in the New York Times by Harvard historian Jill Lepore mused about why "the literary bloodbath" of vampire tales has continued for decades. In the same piece, historian David W. Blight...
(76) Comments | Posted October 17, 2011 | 3:01 PM
Director Guillermo del Toro's Oscar-winning Pan's Labyrinth gave us fantastical creatures and horrifying visions back in 2007. Its rich mythic texture also won it some surprising fans. Indeed, despite its critical rendering of the Catholic's Church's support of Franco's fascist regime, even the US Conference of Catholic Bishops celebrated it...
(6) Comments | Posted June 20, 2012 | 11:07 AM