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Mimesis | The Barbie Cinematic Universe: On Upbringing and Orchards

Mimesis | The Barbie Cinematic Universe: On Upbringing and Orchards

By Chloe Woodruff, Staff Writer February 1, 2024

Sylvia Plath famously wrote in “The Bell Jar” that the narrator, Esther, saw all her possible futures as fruits on a fig tree. She envisioned herself as an academic, a career woman and a mother. Unable...

Host Jo Koy during the 81st Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Sunday, Jan. 7.

Editorial | Jo Koy did not watch the Barbie movie

By The Pitt News Editorial Board January 12, 2024
There is much we can discuss, such as Pedro Pascal’s loss to Kiernan Culkin for Best Actor in a TV Drama or dissecting what exactly Selena Gomez was gossiping about with Taylor Swift and Keleigh Teller. But there was one common belief of the night we’d like to touch on here, and that is the fact that Jo Koy did not do a great job as host
Showtimes for the films "Oppenheimer" and "Barbie" are pictured behind the box office window at the Los Feliz Theatre on Friday, July 28 in Los Angeles.

‘Cinema is back’: Pitt students talk ‘Barbenheimer’

By Tanya Babbar, Staff Writer September 7, 2023

Physics, fedoras and brooding. Hot pink, pop songs and dance numbers. These two radically different worlds collided in cinema and pop culture this past summer.  Most Pitt students have likely heard...

Barbie poster at the entrance of an exhibit.

Editorial | Which Barbie are the different majors?

By The Pitt News Editorial Board April 6, 2023
Which Barbie from the new Barbie movie each major at Pitt is.
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