Congratulations to Kathryn Bigelow for being the first woman ever to win an Oscar for Best Director and to The Hurt Locker, which won eight other awards, including Best Picture. Bravo.
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Fantasy and Domesticity in The Hurt Locker
September 2, 2009 – 9:00 am
The tensest moment of Kathryn Bigelow’s solid The Hurt Locker takes place far from the battlefield, in one of the few scenes that takes place outside of Iraq. It is when Staff Sergeant William James is in a supermarket somewhere in the States picking out what cereal to buy for his family. In Iraq James [...]


