Ever since switching over to Wordpress I’ve wanted to find a new template. First, we really needed a facelift as the old template was “worn” and “dated.” But I also wanted to avoid the fate of Madeline Ashton (Meryl Streep) and Helen Sharp (Goldie Hawn).
Wordpress keeps getting more powerful and most of the newer templates [...]
My paper for the EAAS conference in Oslo last week dealt with icons and icon work, continuing a line of research I began about 5 years ago when I participated in a conference in Austria with the theme of US Icons. The convener of both the AAAS event in 2003 and of the Oslo workshop [...]
Also tagged Journals and Publications, Photography, Popular Culture, The 70sAfter last week’s ABC Democratic primary debate, the Bag posted a great series of TV frames as a visual recap to the debate. In my earlier post I wrote;
This is by far the most succinct summary of last night’s debacle of a debate TV show hosted produced by ABC News Disney Entertainment. This captures the [...]
It seems ethnicity and commercials is a hot topic these days. Waves are still high over LeBron James allegedly being cast as ‘King Kong’ in Annie Leibovitz’ April 2008 Vogue cover (see my recent post on this), and now the wires report that Woody Allen has decided to sue American Apparel over their allegedly unauthorized [...]
Also tagged Photography, Race and Ethnicity, The 70sA strange and unexpected development means that an addendum to my recent post on Annie Leibovitz over at my personal blog seems due. It appears that Vogue (and therefore indirectly Leibovitz, who shot the offending image) is taking some flak over the cover image of the April 2008 issue which is themed to pitch superstars [...]
Also tagged Photography, Race and EthnicityA while back Stuart and I agreed that celebrating Women’s History Month needn’t be a purely American thing, nor a thing reserved purely for historians, so I thought I would post a bit about some recent work I’ve been doing on American, transnational poet, Meena Alexander:
My interest in her work is quite recent, so I [...]
The final instalment in my Beat Generation Revisited course dealt with Beat aftermaths, in the sense of what cultural legacies of the Beat Generation texts and ideals might still be present in the 21st century – whether specifically in the US, or in a Danish/Scandinavian context – or at large in a globalized space/time compressed [...]
Also tagged Film, Literature, Music, Popular Culture, The Arts and Culture“America I’m putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.”
H/T the Literary Outpost.
This is Ginsberg reciting his poem but I don’t know why the word order is changed from the original. I’m sure Bent could help us with this.
I think this re-mix is fantastic. I’ve emailed the creator of the video to ask her/him about the [...]
Something I’ve been thinking about but just never got around to writing about is the use of visual media in these presidential campaigns. Much has already been written about the explosion of internet based communications this cycle, from blogging to user created video. One of things I had looked at early on were the candidates’ [...]
Also tagged 2008 Race, Politics, SemioticsFor those of you who can read Danish, I have a long review of Todd Haynes’ ‘Dylan’-film I’m Not There at Kulturkapellet. Check it out, if you like Dylan, or postmodern meta-film, or both…
For those of you who don’t read Danish, here is a clip from the film, depicting the hilarious first meeting between Cate [...]