Author: Tony Rivas
Tony J Rivas is an award-winning director, writer, film scholar, actor, and musician. His films focus on the dialectical nature of the human experience, often with surreal and dark comedic undertones. He earned his MA in Film Studies from Chapman University's Dodge College and a BA in Screenwriting from Westminster College. When he is not engaged in filmmaking, he can be found spending time with his dog, writing, or working on music. His Instagram handle is @cynesthete.
Horror & Corporatized Feminism, part 3
Simply Men Bob Clark’s 1974 horror masterpiece Black Christmas has been remade twice: once in 2006 by Glen Morgan and again in 2019 as a…
Horror & Corporatized Feminism, Part 2
Between Two Strodes Based on John Carpenter’s seminally foreboding 1978 original, David Gordon Green’s Halloween (2018) is a largely reactionary endeavor. The original film is…
Horror & Corporatized Feminism, Part 1
There is a tendency in today’s feminism to sympathize with (and consequently amplify) corporate ideologies that are largely hostile to the feminist mission of equality.…
Are Mainstream Films Becoming More Conservative?
Those familiar with the history of filmmaking in the United States understand that the system is no stranger to censorship and oppression. During Hollywood’s golden…
How Julia Ducournau’s “Titane” Addresses the LGBTQ+ Community
One of the more controversial Palme d’Or winners in recent history, Julia Ducournau’s Titane (2021) is a polarizing film that has been difficult for modern…
Bad Miracles: Jordan Peele’s Nope and the Duality of Spectacle
Jordan Peele’s Nope (2022) is a film that is fundamentally concerned with how spectacle erases cultural agency. It takes Peele’s previous concerns with black identity,…