Bruce Springsteen’s debut album, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., was released in 1973. 18 records and 25 years later, the American icon signed a deal with Netflix to record his experiment with a new format. Springsteen on Broadway (2018), recorded at...
As in the next months we’re bound to see if we manage to postpone to Fall/Winter our conference for the safety of all participants, we launch a call for articles and pop reviews to keep things moving! True to the...
We’re glad to share the call for papers for the 26th Annual SERCIA Conference Cosmopolitan aspirations in English-speaking cinema and television, which will take place at the Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain, on September 2-4, 2020. The event will explore the...
Download PDF version Cuando en 2017 estrenaron la película Tres Anuncios a las Afueras (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, dirigida por Martin McDonagh, 2017) hubo varios asuntos que alentaron mi interés y curiosidad por ella: los rumores de Oscar, la...
For our third ‘book of the month’ recommendation, I decided to choose one that summarizes the evolution of American rock and roll and the music industry since the 80’s till our days. Margaret Olson’s Bon Jovi: America’s Ultimate Band (2013)...
Al Pacino and Logan Lerman hunting Nazis: that should be enough to convince you to watch Hunters, but there is more to it than catchy, star-studded advertisement promises. Set in the America of the 70’s, the brand-new Amazon Prime Video’s...
Download PDF version La interpretación antropológica de la zona fronteriza entre México y Estados Unidos necesariamente implica un enfrentamiento con su dimensión sórdida y estereotipada (Blancarte 2010), en la cual confluyen tres prejuicios diferentes: uno procedente del poderoso vecino del...
Download PDF version We’re glad to share our review on the second issue of the journal JAmIt!. The name of the publication stands for Journal of American Studies in Italy, being a multilingual, international, peer-reviewed annual journal with a focus...
We’re glad to share the call for papers for the Visual Depictions of the American West Conference, which will take place at the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies – Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, November 21-22, 2020. The...
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