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Alex Garcia Topete

The Spectator and the Muses

Tag: film criticism

The Story Justifies the Means: the Ethics of Manipulation in ‘Stories We Tell’

Posted on September 6, 2019 by Alex Garcia Topete

How to understand the ethical value of a documentary such as Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell (2012), which focuses more… Read more The Story Justifies the Means: the Ethics of Manipulation in ‘Stories We Tell’

Discourse and Identity: Difference as Disability

Posted on November 5, 2018October 29, 2018 by Alex Garcia Topete

One of the 2017-2018 “Awards Season” movies that recently had moderate critical acclaim and box office success was the musical… Read more Discourse and Identity: Difference as Disability

Anti-Heroism: Sinners & Not-So-Saints

Posted on October 9, 2017October 9, 2017 by Alex Garcia Topete

We live in a “transitional state, where the masses no longer trust the elites and are confused about their values.”[1]… Read more Anti-Heroism: Sinners & Not-So-Saints

The Three Hitchcocks

Posted on August 14, 2012July 28, 2013 by Alex Garcia Topete

            Every time I have to face the question “do I like Alfred Hitchcock?” I find… Read more The Three Hitchcocks

Barney’s Business

Posted on January 30, 2012July 18, 2016 by Alex Garcia Topete

All fans and followers of the hit TV sitcom How I Met Your Mother (HIMYM) could and should agree that there’s… Read more Barney’s Business

Hank Without a Home: The Unethical Behavior of Californication’s Hank Moody

Posted on August 28, 2011July 18, 2016 by Alex Garcia Topete

Hank Moody, the protagonist of Californication, represents a very unusual type of anti-hero to root for: he’s neither a stylish-yet-troubled… Read more Hank Without a Home: The Unethical Behavior of Californication’s Hank Moody

The Superreality of Cinema and Television

Posted on August 28, 2011July 18, 2016 by Alex Garcia Topete

  How to understand that most of the best pieces of cinema and television (and for that matter, the best… Read more The Superreality of Cinema and Television

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