Arts & Humanities How Saving Private Ryan Shaped Our Memory Of World War Two At the end of the most destructive century in the history of mankind, Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan sought to restore America’s faith in its political community.
Arts & Humanities Slavery and the Black Presence in Spanish Golden-Age Literature So far, scholars have had surprisingly little to say about Zaide, a black character that appears in the famous novel Lazarillo de Tormes. So how does the figure of a black slave fit into a canonical work of Spanish Golden-Age letters?
Arts & Humanities “Tatort” And the Politics of Migration on German Prime Time TV The public broadcaster NDR recently announced the casting of Florence Kasumba as the first Black female investigator in the popular crime series Tatort. Is media scholars’ ongoing criticism of the lack of diversity on German TV screens finally becoming obsolete?
Arts & Humanities How digital media is changing the way we talk A new linguistic study analyzes how technology transforms our communication. The current change is unique in its speed—and may have far-reaching cultural and educational consequences in the long run.