Our film narrative of ongoing conflict
Amid the uproar around American Sniper and its racially-minded approach to portraying Middle...
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Alison Lanier
Alison Lanier is a Boston-based writer and editor currently working in communications at MIT. A graduate of Wellesley College, she is part of the editorial team at Mortar Magazine and AGNI as well as at Atticus Review. Her fiction, poetry, reviews, articles, and essays have appeared in Ms. Magazine Online, Bust, The Establishment, and elsewhere.
Alison Lanier is a Boston-based writer and editor currently working in communications at MIT. A graduate of Wellesley College, she is part of the editorial team at Mortar Magazine and AGNI as well as at Atticus Review. Her fiction, poetry, reviews, articles, and essays have appeared in Ms. Magazine Online, Bust, The Establishment, and elsewhere.
Posts by Alison Lanier
We’ve Seen the Worst of It: Disaster Movies and Disaster Coverage
I spent the last week of January speeding through the deserts of the southwestern United States....
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Purebred Narratives: The Resilient Mechanics of 2015’s Biopic Trend
There’s something charming and thrilling about biographical film: the voyeuristic peek into a...
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Trumbo: Broad Strokes and All-American Villains
For Jay Roach’s Trumbo, a fascinating saga falls flat, tripped up by storytelling that both relies...
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Tumbledown Media
My generation has an unprecedented ability to transform the media we consume. We even go so far as...
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