Month: March 2024
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Glimpse of Eternity
Amenhotep discovered his tomb had a vein through it that contrasted his belief in a perfect afterlife. Ambrose Rose discusses how human flaws were rationalized within beliefs of divine perfections.
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Andromeda and the Erasure of Black Beauty
Popular depictions of Andromeda persist in portraying her as a white woman. Ariana North Castell returns to the classical sources to undo this whitewashing, poignantly arguing for a centering of black beauty.
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Céline Sciamma is Ovid for the Modern-Day Feminist: Mythology and Misogyny in ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’
Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a visually striking and metaphorically rich artifact of contemporary French cinema. Mariela Brown thoughtfully reviews the film, tracing its common themes of love and patriarchal oppression.
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“We foreigners don’t smoke opium”: Exposing Western Opium Consumption, 1840-1930
The narcotic opium is the subject of an explicitly racialised history. Kat Jivkova traces Western opium consumption in an attempt to remedy perceptions of the drug as inherently Chinese.
Retrospect Journal 