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The uninspiring side of Marvel Studio's Afro-futurist utopia.

Cambridge, MA, March 15 2014 -- Noh Hao, at 25 the social media's youngest -- and first female -- multibillionaire, explains her meteoric success in an exclusive interview with Martha Bayles. Part of the Shadow Play article series.

Martin Scorsese's The Departed is a blurry copy of the Hong Kong original. Part of the Shadow Play article series.

Cantor attempts to link four TV programs to the themes of globalization and the end of the nation state. A review of  Gilligan Unbound: Pop Culture in the Age of Globalization (2001).

Rounding out the politically correct narrative about blackface.

Five discomfiting aspects of the media spectacle that now accompanies every mass shooting.