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Patiño’s Lores and Myths in Film: The Wicker Man (1973)
Can we all agree that religion is weird? https://imdb.to/3k07O2L Welcome, dear reader! It’s time again to look into the dark and see what stares back. For this go-round, we’ll be exploring the world...
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Ashna’s Celluloid Scenes: Women in Pop Culture- Introduction
https://bit.ly/3dO2SLS Unless you died before consumable media or you live under a rock, pop culture is a phenomenon that everyone, regardless of their age, gender, ethnicity, or sexual orientation,...
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Musings of a Future Librarian: Above All, A Family Man
Above All, A Family Man is a short story by American-Cuban writer, Achy Obejas, that explores the contrasting norms in latino and gay culture. The plot of the piece is fairly simple in that the...
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Adaptation Analysis: Rear Window and “It Had to Be Murder”
https://bit.ly/2HHem82 Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, an adaptation of Cornell Woolrich’s “It Had to Be Murder,” is an intermediate adaptation that transfers Woolrich’s short story into a film that...
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Patiño’s Lores and Myths in Film: Trick ‘r Treat (2007)
Image by Ria from FLICKR ‘Tis the season, dear reader! Welcome to Trick ‘r Treat, the Mike Dougherty feature that’s all about the best day of the year. Go stuff yourself, Christmas. Halloween is where...
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Spangler’s From Sentence to Screen: Interview With the Vampire
Picture Link Interview with the Vampire is a 1994 American gothic horror film directed by Neil Jordan and stars Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise and, Kirsten Dunst. The movie is based on the 1976 novel of the...
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Adaptation Analysis: Graham Greene’s and Neil Jordan’s The End of the Affair
https://bit.ly/35o3XaB My film adaptation series continues on my Cinematic Syntax with an examination of Graham Greene’s The End of The Affair and Neil Jordan’s adaptation. Surprisingly, this is the...
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Ashna’s Celluloid Scenes: Women in Pop Culture-The Devil Wears Prada
https://imdb.to/2UnjO2Q Working hard to succeed in a given career is not a concept new to people, yet why are women villainized for doing so? In a cutthroat, money-generating field such as fashion,...
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Spangler’s From Sentence to Screen: Rebecca
https://bit.ly/3nmVHxF Rebecca is a 2020 British romantic thriller film directed by Ben Wheatley and stars Lily James, Armie Hammer, Kristin Scott Thomas. The film is based on the 1938 novel of the...
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Musings of a Future Librarian: The Agüero Sisters
https://amzn.to/3noBNmg Christina García’s novel, The Agüero Sisters follows the lives of sisters Constancia and Reina Agüero, two cubian women who sit on different ends of the spectrum. Reina is a...
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Meet the Bloggers: Ashna Sran
For our one and only “Meet the Bloggers” post for the semester, we are excited to show off the work of Ashna Sran. For Jet Fuel Review, Sran writes as a film blogger with a primary focus on women in...
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Adaptation Analysis: Raisin in the Sun
https://bit.ly/3l7cLX5 The 1961 adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry’s play, Raisin in the Sun, is a close adaptation in terms with a disproportionate ratio favoring kept to dropped or altered. Much of...
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Spangler’s From Sentence to Screen: The BFG
https://bit.ly/3o1cmHG The BFG is a 2016 American fantasy adventure film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg, and stars Mark Rylance and Ruby Barnhill. It is based on...
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Musings of a Future Librarian: Peluda
“Peluda” is a collection of poetry by Melissa Lozada-Oliva that discusses the author’s journey regarding her identity through an overarching theme of hair. Oliva presents her difficult position as a...
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Patiño’s Lores and Myths in Film: The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
Wikipedia Hello, dear reader! Apologies for being away for so long! As I forewarned off the bat, a college student’s prayer. And given time and scheduling, I’ve elected to skip over my post-Halloween...
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Adaptation Analysis: Minority Report
https://imdb.to/39BivGA Philip K Dick’s short story, “Minority Report,” focuses on the paranoia of the protagonist, John A. Anderton. As Dick describes, Anderton is “Bald and fat and old (119)” and is...
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Adaptation Analysis: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
https://bit.ly/36YZBYl For Adamson’s adaptation of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, he chose to expand on scenes that would particularly fit the cinematic medium. For many moments in the film,...
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Spangler’s From Sentence to Screen: The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
https://bit.ly/37TcUIZ The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is a 2013 urban fantasy film directed by Harald Zwart, starring Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower, Robert Sheehan, Kevin Zegers, and...
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Adaptation Analysis: Lord of the Rings- The Fellowship of the Ring
https://bit.ly/2WCh6Yl For the adaptation of The Fellowship of the Ring, Peter Jackson and his team claim to have remained exceptionally faithful to J.R.R Tolkien’s original novel. However, when...
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Patiño’s Lores and Myths in Film: Krampus (2015)
Wikipedia Hello there, dear reader! It’s that time of the year. The time for community and closeness, love and gratitude, to shower those whom you care for most with affection and merriment when jolly...
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