Decoding Barbie’s Radical Pose | The New Yorker

[ad_1] In Barbieland, as envisioned in “Barbie,” the writer-director Greta Gerwig presents a world where positions of power are held by female dolls such as a Black President Barbie and a Filipina American Supreme Court Justice Barbie. Indeed, in the pink landscape of “Barbie,” all the jobs are held by women, and the Dreamhouses are… Continue reading Decoding Barbie’s Radical Pose | The New Yorker

What to Stream: The Radical Insolence of Charlie Chaplin

[ad_1] Charlie Chaplin had a big problem with law as it was enforced, order as it was imposed, and the norms of propriety and morality as they were applied—namely, against the downtrodden, the afflicted, and the outcast. “City Lights” (1931), perhaps his most acclaimed film (currently streaming on the Criterion Channel, Prime Video, and other… Continue reading What to Stream: The Radical Insolence of Charlie Chaplin