Category: JMC-309

‘Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind’ is a film by Hayao Miyazaki made in 1985. The film takes place 1,000 years after the fall of the industrialized revolution and centers around Nausicaä, the princess of the Valley of the Wind. With the fall of the industrialized revolution the jungle became toxic, continuously spreading year…

In preparation for this post I went through and watched the entire Avatar franchise, which took about nine hours to start to finish. The first movie made in 2009 introduces us to Jake Sully, the protagonist, an ex-marine who agrees to take the place of his identical twin brother in the Avatar Program on the…

“Reservation Dogs” is, at least for now, a one of a kind show equipped with an entirely indigenous writers room and heavy reliance on native directors, actors, musicians, and production designers. The show, simply put, is a complete antithesis to what colonialism attempted to do. Incidentally, Tribal Critical Race Theory (TribalCrit) begins on the basis…

It’s an interesting time to dive into a formal, academically speaking, study of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in part due to the fact that there is an attempt to ban CRT in schools. This widespread ban frames this as a preventative measure aimed to “protect” K-12 students from “indoctrination”. It’s a rather ironic ban considering…

Living in today’s world we are surrounded by a constant stream of media that influences us both consciously and unconsciously. While I consider myself a cultural critic I would definitely not say I am an expert. The more I learn about cultural criticism the more my perception of how much I know and understand shrinks.…