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How ‘Psycho’ transformed both the film industry and the horror genre

(06/05/19 4:02am)

Imagine the date is June 16, 1960 — the premiere of Alfred Hitchcock’s newest  film, “Psycho.” You are sitting in a crowded theater, filled with bated breath and tense muscles. A shadow approaches Marion Crane’s shower curtain, a barely visible human form with an arm slightly raised. The music builds. The shower curtain is suddenly ripped to the side. The audience hears Crane’s screams as a knife swings down from the ominous figure. And Crane is brutally murdered, the water from the shower still rushing down the drain with her blood. 

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2019/06/how-psycho-transformed-both-the-film-industry-and-the-horror-genre

The National shines on new album 'I Am Easy To Find'

(06/03/19 4:02am)

Is The National’s music boring? This question has dogged the band since its debut album, largely due to a combination of frontman Matt Berninger’s baritone and sometimes monotonous voice, subdued instrumentation and probing, gloomy, occasionally ambiguous lyrics. The band’s discography is critically acclaimed but much of it remains inaccessible to the average listener, who needs more than Berninger’s soulful mumbling about suburbia, love and the drags of life.  

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2019/06/the-national-shines-on-new-album-i-am-easy-to-find

'Booksmart' is a heartfelt teen comedy for a generation of dreamers

(06/02/19 4:02am)

The “teen movie” is the Baby Boomer of film genres, harkening back to the James Dean classic “Rebel Without a Cause” and the concurrent cultural emergence of the “young adult” designation. It’s a genre that is perennially reborn, continually updated to fit the zeitgeist. Films like “The Breakfast Club,” “10 Things I Hate About You” and “Mean Girls” each defined their own generation, and “Booksmart,” the feature directorial debut of actress Olivia Wilde, has already been deemed Gen Z’s coming-of-age classic. It’s a generous yet deserving title for the all-female-helmed film, which successfully renovates the genre while staying true to its historical foundations, even as those roots are increasingly being called into question. 

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2019/06/booksmart-is-a-heartfelt-teen-comedy-for-a-generation-of-dreamers

New green space between the Nasher and the Ruby 'will bring art outdoors'

(05/31/19 4:03am)

When the Nasher Museum of Art opened in 2005, its founders envisioned an outdoor space to accompany the art within its walls. In a $1.5 million project scheduled to inaugurate next fall, this vision will finally come to fruition, with an outdoor space and sculpture garden connecting the Nasher and the Rubenstein Arts Center.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2019/05/new-green-space-between-the-nasher-and-the-ruby-will-bring-art-outdoors

Story+ program uses archival research to rethink storytelling

(06/01/19 4:02am)

On May 16, Duke students in the Story+ program began their two-day bootcamp to train in various humanities research methods. Unlike the typical image of a researcher in a lab, hovering over an experiment, the six-week Story+ program focuses on methods such as archival research, visual and audio content analysis and oral histories, along with an output that tells a story to connect to a wider audience.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2019/06/story-plus-program-uses-archival-research-to-rethink-storytelling

For each Republican faculty member in Pratt and Trinity, there are nearly 13 Democrats. Is this a 'crisis'?

(05/27/19 4:47am)

Nearly half of all faculty members in the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and the Pratt School of Engineering are registered under the Democratic Party in North Carolina. But not even 4% of the faculty members are registered under the Republican and Libertarian Parties.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2019/05/duke-university-for-each-republican-professor-in-pratt-and-trinity-there-are-nearly-13-democrats

Memories of the 1969 Allen Building Takeover: Adding to the historical record

(05/28/19 4:00am)

I have now read all four parts of the Chronicle's oral history on the takeover of Allen Building. I was there all afternoon on February 13, 1969 and was involved in the confrontation with the police after the black students left the building.  I'm concerned that the oral history doesn’t accurately capture what happened that afternoon from the perspective of many Duke students who were there at the time.

https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2019/05/duke-university-protest-memories-of-the-1969-allen-building-takeover-adding-to-the-historical-record