Amanda-Rae Prescott has been writing, blogging, and podcasting about expanding diversity onscreen and inside the period drama fandom for the past 8 years. There’s no denying there’s a demand for more ...

Is escapism the enemy of smart science fiction? Are stories that let us escape reality always inconsequential fluff? That’s what people argue — but the reverse is true. Escapism is a literary impulse, ...

It was always an odd notion, when you think about it. Ordinary people should not want to escape. Man is a social being; the agora, the coffee house and the department store are his chosen, crowded ...

There's an interesting article by a Chicago writer about how escapist movies become more appealing in a bad economy. It all started in the 1970s when during the economic downturn then. Since that time ...

The Retro Museum, tucked away on the second floor of a shopping mall in the Black Sea city of Varna, is a testament to the material culture of everyday Bulgarian life between 1944 and 1989. From the ...