J. Hoberman

Rambunctious and often offensive, R. Crumb draws freely on pre-existing racial and gender stereotypes.

From slum clearance to beatnik protests, how Greenwich Village became a battleground over race, art, and redevelopment.

"Henry Fonda for President" more than makes the case for Fonda’s centrality in the American imaginary.

At once famous and obscure, marginal and central, Harry Smith anticipated and even invented several important elements of Sixties counterculture.

During World War II, proto–music videos called “soundies” blared pop patriotism from visual jukeboxes across American bars.

In the late Sixties, countercultural media was distributed by the Underground Press Syndicate and bankrolled by marijuana.

A show at the Jewish Museum surveys three eventful years of art, film, and performance in New York City—and the political upheavals that defined them.

Since their initial popularity during World War II, comic books have always been a medium for American counterculture and for nativism and empire. 

In their time, “Jaws” and “Nashville” were regarded as Watergate films, and both were in production as the Watergate disaster played its final act.

Did the movies ever matter? They did to Ronald Reagan.

In so many ways, George Romero's lo-budget horror film defined the year 1968.

The many lives of ferocious cartoonist and illustrator Arthur Szyk at a jewel of a show at the New-York Historical Society.

Hollywood kept distributing films in Nazi Germany, facing pressure from both the regime and US censors. Some studios resisted, others complied.

A book traces how the 1915 film reshaped cinema, fueled white supremacy, and sparked protests, censorship battles, and lasting cultural debate.

The CIA secretly funded the 1954 Animal Farm film, reshaping Orwell’s ending to push anti-Soviet messaging during early Cold War politics.

Anti-Hollywood rhetoric often echoed anti-Jewish stereotypes. Carr shows how fears of Jewish “control” shaped debates over movies, culture, and politics.

On the pioneering and problematic career of Oscar Micheaux.