Comic and Tragic Films

This issue includes a set of film studies on over-puffed comic and tragic television series, including Ballers, Barry, Silicon Valley, Succession, Veep, Game of Thrones and Sopranos, from the Editor, Anna Faktorovich. The essays section also features two articles by Jessica Van de Kemp on gender and art in Little Women and toxic masculinity in Thirteen Reasons Why. There are also several film reviews from Susie Gharib and several mixed color/black-and-white photographs from Fabrice Poussin. In the final piece, Carol Smallwood interviews Roland Barksdale-Hall, the first president of the Pittsburgh Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society. 79 vibrant color stills and photographs illustrate these pages.