The Semiotics of Utopianism National Lampoon's European Vacation(1985),though almost certainly produced as "pure entertainment" in Richard Dyer's sense of the term, presents to the careful reader much more than simply ninety-five minutes of farce. Underlying nearly every scene and every...

The Black Death: It's Effect on European Civilization The Black Death: It's Effect on European Civilization "The Black Death" known as the Bubonic Plague was one of the world's worst natural disasters in history and as a fatal epidemic disease it radically altered all...