Author: Rebekah Brammer Sarina Russo Institute Download PDF version One of the most striking artistic features of both The Handmaid’s Tale[1] adaptations, the film directed by Volker Schlöndorff (1990) and the Hulu ongoing television series (2017–present), is the use of...
Author: Kevin Farrell Radford University Download PDF version This study begins with Rhiannon Giddens’ 2018 show at the Harvester Performance Center in Rocky Mount, Virginia. A small venue—maximum capacity 460—specializing in Americana acts, nostalgia tours, and cover bands, the Harvester...
Author: Elizabeth Laughlin Indiana University of Pennsylvania Download PDF version Taylor Swift’s Red (Taylor’s Version) feels like revisiting an old memory. Those who appreciated the 2012 version of Red will especially love this one, which is revised and features...
I’m tired of fighting it out here, I don’t have much idea of what it is to be Arab, but that’s what the family is always saying we are. I want to know what part of me is Arab. I...
Count Leo Nikolayevitch Tolstoy lied. I did not know if all happy families resemble each other as I do not know any content families. In Lebanon during the war, however, all unhappy families were not unhappy in their own way....
Call for peer-reviewed articles for the academic blog of the PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies (popmec.hypotheses.org ISSN 2660-8839). Our research work delves into how the US—their history, society, and diverse cultures—have been represented in popular media and cultural creations. The...
Download PDF version of the call We aim at recommending books that we find relevant in the realm of the representation of the US, as well as in the related cultural studies. We’d like to share books that we found...
Author: Lina Gharbi Universidad de Valladolid Stunned by war, and, shockingly, no longer young, or married, or with my daughter, Laila. (15) Our book recommendation of the month is Anthony Shadid’s House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a...
Download PDF version “A short story succeeds, if it does, as a series or play of echoes. Its marvelously rigorous discipline does not allow for explanation, whether authorial or disguised through a protagonist.” – Nadine Gordimer Ernest Hemingway’s...
Our Book recommendation for this month is James McBride’s Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul, a book that anyone with an interest in the United States should read, James Brown devotees and all. As...
