Power, Profit, and the Big Screen: How Hollywood owns everything
James Curran and Jean Seaton's political economy of media — applied to Spielberg's CinemaCon warning, the death of antitrust in Hollywood, and the streaming preservation crisis.
Film Preservation
The effort to prevent the loss of moving images. With 70% of silent films already gone, it is one of the most urgent problems in cultural heritage.
Who Controls the Past: How Streaming Platforms Are Quietly Rewriting Cinema
Fight Club's ending was rewritten for China, Disney removed a slur from The French Connection, and streaming platforms can alter films silently. Why physical media remains the only immutable record of what directors actually made.
Warner Bros Deleted $3.5 Billion in Content: Why Streaming Platforms Are Creating a Film Preservation Crisis
When Warner Bros Discovery deleted Batgirl and removed Looney Tunes from HBO Max for tax write-offs, much became permanently inaccessible. Why streaming has ended accidental film preservation and what happens when platforms decide content isn't worth keeping.
How a Legal Blunder Birthed the Modern Horror Genre
How a missing copyright notice transformed Night of the Living Dead into public domain and made horror accessible to everyone whilst nearly destroying the film itself.