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Tag: Miscelana in English
Selected Miscelana articles available in English. Here you’ll find cultural analysis, reviews, and essays on cinema, television, literature, and pop culture, translated from the original Portuguese to reach a wider international audience
Half Man and masculinity in ruins: the psychoanalytic reading of Richard Gadd’s series
Repressed desire, the death drive and violence shape the destructive relationship between Ruben and Niall
Hacks, Season 5, Episode 9 (Recap): Legacy Doesn’t Mean Control
The penultimate episode dismantles Deborah Vance’s Madison Square Garden dream and forces her to confront the one thing fame and money can’t control.
Emily in Paris, Netflix, and the New Streaming War
The possible end of Emily in Paris reveals a much larger battle between Netflix, Paramount, and the future of licensed television
Allan “Whitey” Snyder: The Man Behind Marilyn Monroe’s Face
The makeup artist who helped turn Marilyn Monroe into Hollywood’s most recognizable face, and whose influence still shapes beauty techniques today
Maldives Tragedy: How The Divers May Have Lost Their Way
Understand the disorientation theory that could explain the deaths of the Italian divers that may have entered a dead-end tunnel
House of the Dragon: what the season 3 posters really reveal
HBO’s new campaign turns every character into a prophecy for the Dance of the Dragons, hinting at betrayals, loss, ambition and emotional collapse.
Betty Boop at 95: between censorship, desire, and pop culture, why she never stopped being complicated
Created in the 1930s as a symbol of jazz, sensuality and female modernity, Betty Boop has crossed generations surrounded by accusations of cultural appropriation, moral censorship and mass consumption
Quinta Brunson and Betty Boop: the unexpected return of an icon
A new adaptation turns Betty Boop into a reflection on femininity, pop culture and authorship as Quinta Brunson expands her rise after the success of Abbott Elementary
Abbott Elementary and the Rare Comfort of an Intelligent Sitcom
Even with signs of creative fatigue in season 5, the series remains one of the warmest, funniest, and most underrated comedies on television
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