Posts by Hazel Cills
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For the Ages: Madonna, Carly Rae Jepsen, and the Different Ways to Sound Young
When you’re a female performer, age is a sliding scale, a constant moving around of imagery, lyrics, and writer-producers who help form your work.
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Listen, Does This Sound Familiar? On the Use of Music in ‘Wild’
The soundtracking of ‘Wild’ feels exactly how humans experience music.
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Mother Dearest: How ‘The Babadook’ Inverts the Horror-Movie Mom
The most unsettling moments of ‘The Babadook’ are subversions of what viewers understand Amelia to be, particularly what a mother should be.
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Why We Need ‘Black Mirror’ Now More Than Ever
The series’ appearance on Netflix feels like a pop culture ghost coming back to wag a finger at our present. It’s also a warning about our future.
