Download PDF version Today we celebrate the life and work of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Born on June 14th, 1811, in Litchfield, Connecticut, Stowe’s legacy as an author, abolitionist, and leader in the women’s rights movement continues to pervade the American...
Download PDF version The Social Dilemma is a Netflix docudrama directed by Jeff Orlowski and released in September 2020. The film aims to convey the dangers of careless use of technology, the tech industry’s current issues with privacy regulations, and...
Author: John Rodzvilla Emerson College Download PDF version The book, which, for the purposes of this essay, will be considered a linear composition with sequential pages, has escaped its foretold death several times over the past hundred years. It continues...
Download PDF version Walt Whitman was a Long-Island born poet who is most notably known for Leaves of Grass (1855), a work that was inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson’s call for great poets to render the genuine American experience. In...
Download PDF version “I ought to go upright and vital and speak the rude truth in all ways.” – Emerson, Self-Reliance It was two days ago, May 25th, that we celebrated Ralph Waldo Emerson’s birth. Born in 1803...
Download PDF version Alien by Ridley Scott was released on 25 May 1979, changing the paradigm of science fiction and horror. Based on a simple premise, Scott and his screenwriter, Dan O’Bannon, presented an alien which threatened the crew’s survival...
Author: Mairi Power University of Glasgow Download PDF version Jennifer Egan’s Twitter fiction “Black Box” was released over the course of 10 days, from May 24th to June 2nd 2012. The text was published in short bursts via The New...
Author: Alejandro Rivero-Vadillo Universidad de Alcalá Download PDF version Is cyberspace the future of humanity? The acknowledgment of an era in which the print of human activity starts to affect the planet’s geological levels, the Anthropocene, is characterized by humanity’s...
Author: Max Tretter Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg Download PDF version INTRODUCTION: HIP HOP ON THE INTERNET The internet influences hip hop in various ways. First and foremost, the internet is a medium that opens up a new space and stage in...
This monthly column provides an overview of the film landscape for all things American at the movies, including US characters, stories, settings, directors, stars and so on… Here I round up the upcoming theatrical releases, the forthcoming streaming highlights and...
