The Heroine’s Journey: Richard’s Pan’s Labyrinth Paper Finally Gets Published
Richard here. After six years of developing and submitting (and re-submitting, and re-submitting) a paper on the menstrual themes in Pan’s Labyrinth, I…
Right Fight, Wrong Dystopia: Two Cheers for the Hunger Games
Richard here. In the spirit of going ahead and writing about things even though they’ve been out for weeks, I have some thoughts…
Bully
Richard here. Bully is a raw and disturbing documentary about harassment in schools–a long overdue call to change school culture to defend kids…
The Ten Commandments of 1923: The Exodus, Take One
Richard here. Adding some more wisdom culled from the notes of my dissertation, here’s the account of Cecil B. DeMille’s first foray into…
The First Great Ben-Hur
Richard here. PopTheology.com benefits from the fruits of my dissertation labor. Not everything could have fit into the final draft. So here’s some…
GCB = Great Camp Burlesque
Richard here with my first post-dissertation post. GCB is the warped new soap/comedy on ABC, following Desperate Housewives on Sunday nights, and it’s…
The Greatest Superstar
A recent online poll by The Huffington Post found Jesus Christ Superstar to be the most popular Jesus film of all time.…
Helping “The Help”
Richard Lindsay with a few thoughts on The Help‘s Oscar campaign and the work of its two stars, Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer,…
The Monstrous Passion
The following is an excerpt from my upcoming dissertation on the uses of gay camp in biblical films. This section discusses horror movie…