Cinema and TV
With Too Much TV, Our Children’s Hearts are at Risk for Hypertension
Fabrizio Piciarelli
Experts recommend that children be kept from watching too much television. So many hours spent in front of a screen […]
Television, Family, and Childhood: TV is Not a Babysitter
A review of Juan Camilo Díaz Bohórquez’s book : Televisión, familia e infancia, Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia, 2014. The […]
Film and Fiction to the Test of Bioethics
In the new millennium, film and television fiction have seen an increased interest in bioethical issues. This phenomenon, as seen […]
The Figure of the Father in TV fiction series
TV Miniseries show a vast array of genres to captivate audiences: charming and exuberant families, courageous priests in peripheries, crime […]
Sexual or Existential Orientation? Two documentaries about homosexuals’ search for true love
The key to answering the question in the title -Sexual or existential orientation?- is at the bottom of the stories […]
Maleficent: The Story of Motherhood that Redeems
They meet, fall in love, make big plans, and promise each other eternal faithfulness. Everything seems to be getting better […]
An Unending Spiral: The Price Bitter of Divorce An Analysis of the Documentary “Divorce Corp” by Stephen Sorge
It is an almost desperate cry, a warning perhaps the last call before a definitive catastrophe. It is a terrible […]
Are Disney cartoons still educational for kids?
Despite most parents’ appraisal of Disney animation films who show them to their kids for entertainment and occasionally for educational […]
Hatred, vengeance, reparation and forgiveness in the film The Painted Veil
Directed by John Curran and based on the book by the same name by W. Somerset Maugham Lift not the […]
The Eskimo Family: Nanook Revisited
One of my top movies is Robert J. Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922). I consider it a masterpiece but […]