Contemporary art is a very different kind of art from anything that has ever been practiced in the past. It is an art that takes place after the age of metaphysics, when all the imaginary significatio
In this new book by cultural critic John David Ebert, George Lucas’s 1977 classic film Star Wars is analyzed in a scene-by-scene breakdown. Ebert takes the reader on a semiotic tour through each of th
"Disasters, both natural and man-made, are on the rise. Indeed, a catastrophe of one sort or another seems always to be unfolding somewhere on this planet. This book analyzes the efforts of Westerners
"This study explores how Internet entities like Amazon, YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia, and Google, and gadgets such as digital cameras, cell phones, video games, robots, drones, and all things MacIntos
This in-depth series of literary portraits studies celebrities who died in famous and tragic ways--ways that still resonate as archetypal death scenarios in present day.
