“Boardwalk Empire” reveals how political power, violence, and surveillance intertwine in early 20th-century America, echoing New Historicist concerns about how history, ideology, and state control are deeply entangled.
Tag: Historical Drama
Immersed in the Greenwich Village ambiance, Inside Llewyn Davis is not solely about folk music or the political context of the 1960s.
Barry Lyndon, derived from the book authored by William Makepeace Thackeray, depicts characters with questionable moral values.
The delicious violence of the unusual exploitation war picture Sisu is profoundly nationalistic and is set in the 1944 ruins that dot the Finnish landscape during World War II.
Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk reshapes the war genre with a raw, dialogue-free focus on survival and the haunting tension of WWII’s Dunkirk evacuation.