The Sociologist's Dojo: Pop Culture is Soft Power
This blog focuses on the analysis of film and popular culture using the sociological perspective.
Thursday, September 3, 2026
Alan J. Pakula's 'Paranoid Trilogy': Klute
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The first film in my analysis of Alan J. Pakula’s “Paranoid Trilogy” is the 1970’s sinister surveillance thriller, Klute. Fueled...
Saturday, August 1, 2026
Alan J. Pakula's "Paranoid Trilogy": An Introduction
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Alan J. Pakula was a versatile writer, producer and director of cinema of the 1970’s through the 1990’s. Unfortunately, like h...
Monday, June 1, 2026
"If Villain Bad, Then Why Hot?" How Consuming Modern Villain Narratives and Redemption arcs Obfuscates and Sanitizes Real-World Villainy
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Cinema has always been a lens by which to explore the human condition. Often, movies are cited as a mirror with which to reflect human cho...
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