Author: Jayna Brown

Authored by Jayna Brown

Beasts of the Southern Wild – The Romance of Precarity II

Jayna Brown

This film should have been a choice text for me; I love post-apocalyptic stories that end badly. But the heaps of critical praise the film has garnered don’t even seem to notice it as a dystopia. “This movie is a … Continue reading “Beasts of the Southern Wild – The Romance of Precarity II”

September 27, 2013 | Features

Painfully Beautiful

Jayna Brown

I saw Miral, the new film by Julian Schnabel last week. It was opening in New York and Los Angeles, to great controversy, as it was advertised as giving us a Palestinian point of view. My ears perked up when I … Continue reading “Painfully Beautiful”

March 29, 2011 | Features: Reviews

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