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

The merciless comic keeps hitting below the Borscht Belt. Part of the Shadow Play article series.

An inside look at Dan Brown's new novel. Part of the Shadow Play article series.

The films of Krzysztof Kieslowski. Part of the Shadow Play article series.

The Queen and Marie Antoinette ask whether the modern world can understand monarchy anymore. Part of the Shadow Play article series.

HBO gets "Rome" right. 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).

"Is there such thing as an evil sound?"

Why today's storytellers are so bad at imagining the future.

This article appeared in: Volume XVIII, Number 2, Spring 2018

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