Tag: Charlton Heston

• Podcast Episode #5: Planet of the Apes

  

  In the fifth episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson and I discuss one of my all time favorite pop culture texts: Planet of the Apes. I fell in love with this movie, this franchise — as dorky as it got in the 1970s — because of how many layers of meaning I […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  February 16, 2015

  Film Studies, Text Analysis

  Andy Serkis, animal rights, anti-violence, anti-war, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Bright Eyes, Caesar, Charlton Heston, chimpanzees, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Cornelius, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Dr. Zaius, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Feminism, gorillas, James Franco, Kim Hunter, Lawgiver, masculinity, Maurice Evans, mo-cap, nuclear war, orangutans, Planet of the Apes, racism, religion, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Roddy McDowall, science, women’s rights, Zira

• The Humanity in the Planet of the Apes

  

  I remember coming to the Planet of the Apes not through the original movies but through other cultural products. There was the musical rendition on The Simpsons. There was the end of the neighborhood in Spaceballs. And I am sure there were others. I was, after all, not born when the series started, and given […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  July 17, 2014

  Fandom, Film Studies

  Andy Serkis, anti-war, apes, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Bright Eyes, Caesar, Charlton Heston, chimpanzees, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Cornelius, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Dr. Zaius, Escape from the Planet of the Apes, gorillas, humanity, James Franco, Kim Hunter, Koba, orangutans, Planet of the Apes, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Roddy McDowall, Taylor, war, Zira