Kevin Fullam: Today on Under Surveillance: the mafia in pop culture. How has the portrayal of the mafia and organized crime in film and television evolved throughout the years? My guest is…
Automobiles have been a staple of popular culture over the last half century – there’s something uniquely American about road-trip films and car chases, and many have seen these movies…
From the acid craze of the Woodstock era to the “Just Say No” campaign of former First Lady Nancy Reagan, drugs have woven their way into American culture since the…
If there’s anything that’s immediately identifiable around the world as “uniquely American,” it’s baseball. Filmmakers have often tried to capture the cultural resonance of baseball throughout the years, through such…
In the 30 years between the original Bionic Woman TV series and its new remake, action heroines have come a long way, smashing evildoers in landmark films such as Aliens and Terminator 2 as well as…
Teenage hijinx never goes out of style. From the current hit Superbad to older movies such as American Pie, Clueless, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, youth-oriented comedies have been a Hollywood staple for decades. But…
Television and film has historically not been kind to fantasy tales. Before the current successful Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter film franchises, Hollywood struggled to offer quality sword & sorcery movies —…
With the release of next month’s Spider-Man 3, the decade-long revival of superhero fiction in cinema shows no signs of slowing — particularly with a slew of Marvel and DC-themed…