The Intersection Between Dance and Art

This third issue of the Cinematic Codes Review includes an interview with Barbi Leifert, who has managed to build three fantastic careers in dance, painting and reporting. She has exhibited across the country including at The Museum of Contemporary Art in London, and she is the Art Chairperson for the Tacoma Dome District. In the essays section, Richard Baker, Professor of English at Adams State University, compares Casablanca (1942) and Jean-Paul Sartre's resistance play The Flies (1943). Christopher Boon, researcher at the University of Queensland, discusses the reception of the latest 2016 Ghostbusters film and its use of an all-female cast in place of an all-male leading cast in the original. In her now regular film review section, Samantha Lauer closely examines a number of popular and artistic films including, The Purge: Election Year, X-Men: Apocalypse, The Little Prince, Rhymes for Young Ghouls and several others. In contrast, Arvi Sepp's two reviews of the complex, German experiments, Group Portrait with Lady and Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty use a more scholarly approach.