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A Record of Streetwear & Urban Art — 2006–2014

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Introducing

FM–2007–02341 February 25, 2007
CAT: INTRODUCING

Gangster Films

For more than thirty years, quoting characters from gangster pictures has become the norm in the United States. Even though crime films starring actors like Humphrey…

Gangster Films
FM–2007–02190 February 11, 2007
CAT: INTRODUCING

Top 10 Influential Video Games

Video games have come along away since their conception. They’ve gone from niche to cliché, cliché to niche and now are bubbling harder than ever. The…

Top 10 Influential Video Games
FM–2007–01864 January 14, 2007
CAT: INTRODUCING

Kung-Fu Movies

While Hollywood has latched onto recent films like Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Jet Li’s Hero—trying to profit off of Hong Kong’s unique style…

Kung-Fu Movies
FM–2006–01433 December 24, 2006
CAT: INTRODUCING

Top Five Black Comedies

Comedy has always been part of the black community and with the revolution of the 60s, blacks were finally given a chance to shine in the…

Top Five Black Comedies
FM–2006–01193 December 10, 2006
CAT: INTRODUCING

Blaxploitation Films

Almost everyone knows that “the man that would risk his neck for his brother man” is John Shaft, the title character of one of the most…

Blaxploitation Films
FM–2006–00378 October 29, 2006
CAT: INTRODUCING

Horror Movies and Gothic Fiction

The horror film has had a major presence in the world of film almost since the inception of the cinematic form. While it has been through…

Horror Movies and Gothic Fiction
FM–2006–00269 October 15, 2006
CAT: INTRODUCING

Takashi Miike

Never before have our delicate sensibilities been so rattled and questioned by the radical vision of a filmmaker—one whose films we can’t seem to stop admiring…

Takashi Miike