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21. ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ and the Red Scare
by Lauren Walker Frank Capra’s 1946 film, It’s a Wonderful Life, is an established Christmas favourite. However, upon release, it received mixed reviews and came $525,000 short of breaking even at the box office. It was only after entering public domain in 1974 that it became the immensely popular and acclaimed classic it is today.…
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22. A Hand-Coloured Fashion Print
By Marlo Avidon (@MarloAvidon) In the nearly two centuries between the decline of the sixteenth-century costume book and the rise of the late eighteenth and nineteenth-century fashion plate, the late seventeenth century experienced a brief resurgence in printing images of contemporary dress. Created almost exclusively in France and either depicting ambiguous, unnamed mannequins known only…
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24. Birthday Candles for Good Luck – A Look at Georges de la Tour’s Chiaroscuro
by Tiffany Laloy At the height of Counter-Reformation France in the XVIIth century, Baroque art was in part used as a tool to promote the Catholic faith and to inspire and impress the masses.[1] And whilst the extravagance and opulence of some of these religious paintings did indeed arouse emotion and religious fervor, Georges de…
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Auschwitz and a Rose Garden: The Zone of Interest is a Brave, but Flawed Film
by Beatrice Leeming There exists an established filmic tradition that has dealt with the ethics of representation and subscribed to the pedagogical power of cinema. The Holocaust has been documented and dramatized with progressive intensity since its occurrence. The perpetrators have been satirised, the victims heroized, and the narrative memorialised in both powerful and problematic…
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Epistolary Empire: Letter-writing and the British Empire at Home in the Nineteenth Century
By Molly Groarke, @Molly_Groarke Agnes Acland was nineteen years old in 1870, when her brothers left Britain to travel overseas. Her eldest brother Charlie, heir to the family fortune and baronetcy, departed on a world tour, travelling as far as Australia and New Zealand. Gib, the brother she was closest to, had a successful military…
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