Professor of English Patricia O'Neill wrote an article for Cineaction Magazine (Issue 64, 2004). The article, "Where Globalization and Localization Meet," discusses Spike Lee's post 9/11 film The 25th Hour. O'Neill writes: "The coda to the film resists both amnesia for what has happened and nostalgia for a time that never was and never will be. Instead The 25th Hour embraces the difficulties of the present in order that the victims of 9/11 will not be forgotten nor have died in vain. The circle of globalization has closed; there is no open frontier."
O'Neill teaches literature and a course on "The Art of the Cinema."
