Monthly Archive: February 2020
On February 7, 2020 Netflix launched the series Locke&Key, an adaptation of author Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez’s comic book series. Composed by six miniseries of six issues each, Locke&Key was published between 2008 and 2013 by IDW Publishing;...
We’re glad to share the call for papers for the The Iberian Peninsula as seen from North America (1850-1950), on Travel Literature and Transatlantic Encounters, which will take place at the University of Alicante on June 4-5, 2020. This conference...
Transnational trends have generated, in recent decades, a thriving interest in exploring the interactions among contemporary cinematic productions. In the case of Hollywood and Spanish cinema, this cross-cultural connection has become more obvious in the last years, where mutual influences...
Download PDF version As I already claimed in my latest post in this blog regarding “race,” these are times of relativism by which any strategically essentialist claim dignifying an oppressed group is deemed discriminatory by a supposedly neutral alt-right (Fernández...
Download PDF version We’re glad to share our review on the latest Iperstoria Fall/ Winter issue, which its editors kindly sent our way. Iperstoria is a multilingual, international, blind peer-reviewed biannual journal with a focus on English and American Studies...
Our book recommendation of the month is Daniel J. Boorstin’s The Image, a critical analysis of cultural attitudes toward reality and its reproduction, and how the American public tends to find more enjoyable unrealistic, fabricated spectacles than facts. Published in...
Download PDF version Both the Vietnam War disaster (1955-1975) and the Watergate scandal (1972-1974) had a negative impact in the self-perception of US citizens. As many other cultural manifestations, American films portrayed a sense of defeat in the Cold War...
On January 31st Netflix released Taylor Swift’s brand new documentary: Miss Americana. The title refers to one of the songs included in the singer’s last album, Lover, hinting at some of the themes covered in the movie. While the Reputation...
Download PDF version I first became aware of the debate provoked by the launch of Jeanine Cummins’ American Dirt—and the editorial marketing machine behind it—thanks to social media. In spite of my academic research revolving around the representation of the...
We’re glad to share the call for papers for our very own 1st PopMeC Conference which will take place at the Instituto Franklin–UAH (Alcalá de Henares) on May 27–28, 2020. PopMeC aims at providing a collaborative, engaging, and fair environment for...