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Kyle Turner

Kyle Turner (@TyleKurner) is a freelance writer based in Brooklyn, New York. His work has been featured in Paste Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, The Village Voice, Slate, and Little White Lies. He is relieved to know that he is not a golem.

Posted inFilm

The New West Side Story Brings the Show’s Father Issues to the Fore

by Kyle Turner December 19, 2021December 17, 2021

Director Steven Spielberg, long fixated on absent dads, interrogates this theme and other issues of patriarchy and gender roles in his cinematic take on the classic show.

Posted inFilm

Candyman Skewers the Art World’s Exploitation of Black Pain

by Kyle Turner August 25, 2021August 25, 2021

Writer/director Nia DaCosta and producer/co-writer Jordan Peele update the horror film franchise with a critical look at the commodification of Black trauma.

Posted inFilm

The Idiosyncratic Archetypes of The Real Housewives

by Kyle Turner March 10, 2021March 29, 2021

The cast members in the various iterations of the mega-popular franchise demonstrate the increasing self-awareness of performance in reality television.

Posted inFilm

In 1970, the Original Cast of Company Went Through Hell to Record Their Album

by Kyle Turner August 27, 2019December 16, 2021

Despite being out of circulation, the 1970 behind-the-scenes Broadway documentary Original Cast Album: Company remains revered by both film and theater fans.

Posted inArt

10 Queer Camp Films That Have Left an Impact on Film History

by Kyle Turner June 27, 2019June 27, 2019

Memorable, mostly underseen gems that explore the tensions of queerness and camp on screen.

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Is Camp Still Camp if the Met Gala Makes It a Theme?

by Kyle Turner May 6, 2019November 4, 2019

This year’s Met Gala is named Notes on Fashion, in tribute to a Susan Sontag essay. But Sontag also wrote that “To talk about Camp is to betray it.”

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Who’s Afraid of White Fragility? Edward Albee

by Kyle Turner May 25, 2017

The late playwright’s estate recently rescinded rights to his most famous play from a director who wanted to cast a black actor in his production.

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