For cinema studies majors seeking a thesis, “The Use of Music in the Films of Cameron Crowe” would be a worthy subject. Even in his non-music-centered films, each selection is chosen with layered precision, as revealing as it is iconic. When Jerry Maguire hits the open road after signing his first client, and Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin’” soars on his car radio, it’s a moment … [Read more...]
Act of the money God: ‘Deepwater Horizon’ hymns greed’s victims
It was only six years ago that the BP-contracted Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. But it feels like a lifetime of news cycles has pushed the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history into the depths of our collective memory bank. Try and conjure the images associated with the spring and summer of 2010: The pelican soaked in mud. The oil gushing … [Read more...]