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Thom Delapa
Thom is a film & media studies educator, film critic, film programmer, and part-time playwright based in Ann Arbor, MI, USA, where he has taught at the University of Michigan and the College for Creative Studies (Detroit). He holds an MA in Cinema Studies from New York University-Tisch School of the Arts and an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago. He has developed and taught film & media studies courses at other leading U.S. higher-ed institutions, including the University of Colorado-Boulder and the University of Denver. He has regularly written on film for Cineaste magazine, the Chicago Tribune, AlterNet.org, and the Conversation.com, et al. He awaits the end of the Internet (as we know it) with optimism.
Education:New York University-Tisch School of the Arts, 1990MA Cinema StudiesUniversity of ChicagoMA Social SciencesUniversity of Colorado, 1986BA Liberal ArtsExpertise:Articles by Thom Delapa
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a new generation of filmmakers rescued the Hollywood studios from a financial fade-out. What was this New Hollywood?
Dante’s Inferno is hailed as a medieval masterpiece and a precursor to the Renaissance, with T.S. Eliot having ranked it alongside Shakespeare.
Few diaries are as treasured as the one written by Anne Frank, a precocious, gabby girl living in Holland during World War II.
How did Voltaire take the 18th-century Enlightenment’s rose-colored outlook and paint it into a black comedy titled Candide?
Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex (aka Oedipus the King) … Is it the mother of all Western drama? The father? Or both?
F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote that “the rich are different from you and me.” In The Great Gatsby, he set down exactly how different.
Here are 9 things that made the Hollywood classic called The Wizard of Oz a legendary work of art.
Chantal Akerman’s movie Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is an important feminist movie that was voted the greatest film of all time.