Summer Post 2: July 18, 2010

Old Tales/Modern Tellings: Early Medieval Revenants in Science Fiction and Fantasy

Article by Suanna H. Davis
Houston Baptist University
Listed in: Europe, Literature

Cultures of Plague: Medical Thinking at the End of the Renaissance

Review by Scott Hendrix
Carroll University, Wisconsin
Listed in: Europe, Literature

Dangerous Curves: Latina Bodies in the Media

Review by Natchee Blu Barnd
California College of the Arts
Listed in: Music, Latin America

Masculine Identity in the Fiction of the Arab East Since 1967

Review by Andrea Duranti
University of Cagliari, Italy
Listed in: Gender

The French Atlantic: Travels in Culture and History

Review by Kadji Amin
Columbia College, Chicago
Listed in: Europe

Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same: The Musical Moment in Film

Review by Albin Lohr-Jones
Independent Scholar
Listed in: Cinema, Music

Tap Dancing America: A Cultural History

Review by Douglas C. Macleod
State University of New York, Albany
Listed in: African American, Performing Arts

Musical ImagiNation: U.S.-Colombian Identity and the Latin Music Boom

Review by Sandra J. Fallon-Ludwig
Brandeis University
Listed in: Music, Latin America

Women and the Material Culture of Needlework and Textiles, 1750-1950

Review by Julia Hudson-Richards
Pennsylvania State University-Altoona College
Listed in: Material Culture, Gender

Summer Post 1: June 4, 2010

"Is that a footnote, or are you just happy to see me?": Examining Meta-narrative in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog

SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference Paper by Samira Nadkarni, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Listed in: Television, Music

Witnessing Suburbia: Conservatives and Christian Youth Culture

By Eileen Luhr
Reviewed by Donna J. Drucker, Colorado College
Listed in: Social Custom

The Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890

By Rani-Henrik Andersson
Review by John T. “Jack” Becker, Texas Tech University
Listed in: Native American, Immigrant American

The Battle for America, 2008: The Story of an Extraordinary Election

By Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson Reviewed by Amarnath Amarasingam, Wilfrid Laurier University, Toronto
Listed in: Social Custom

Supernatural Fiction in Early Modern Drama and Culture

By Ryan Curtis Friesen
Review by Suanna H. Davis, Houston Baptist University
Listed in: Literature, Europe

Designing the Modern Interior: From the Victorians to Today

Edited by Penny Sparke, Anne Massey, Trevor Keeble, and Brenda Martin
Review by Paul Ranogajec, City University of New York
Listed in: Material Culture, Europe

Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture

By Alice Echols
Review by Joseph E. Morgan, Brandeis University
Listed in: Music, Social Custom

Controversial Cinema: The Films that Outraged America

By Kendall R. Phillips Review by Robert G. Weiner, Texas Tech University Library
Listed in: Cinema

Spring Post 1: April 5, 2010

"Look Where Free Will Has Gotten You": Brave New World and Angel's Body Jasmine

SW/TX PCA/ACA Conference Paper by Mary Ellen Iatropoulos, SUNY New Paltz
Listed in: Literature, Television

The Tube Has Spoken: Reality TV and History

Edited by Julie Anne Taddeo and Ken Dvorak
Review by Katie Ellis, University of Western Australia
Listed in: Television, Social Custom

Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South

By Hannah Rosen.
Review by Robin Dasher-Alston, American Historical Association
Listed in: African American, Gender

Stories of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American Culture

Edited by Trystan T. Cotton and Kimberly Springer Review by Katie Ellis, University of Western Australia
Listed in: Television, Social Custom

Serious Play: Modern Clown Performance

By Louise Peacock.
Review by Christophe Collard, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Listed in: Performing Arts

Mainstreaming Sex: The Sexualization of Western Culture

By Feona Attwood Review by Maheswar Satpathy, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Listed in: Social Custom, Gender

A History of Visual Culture: Western Civilization from the 18th to the 21st Century

Edited by Jane Kromm and Susan Benforado Bakewell.
Review by Kevin M. Flanagan, University of Pittsburgh
Listed in: Visual Arts

History by Hollywood: The Use and Abuse of the American Past. 2nd edition

By Robert Brent Toplin
Review by Greta Methot, Rhode Island School of Design
Listed in: Cinema

He Was Some Kind of Man: Masculinities in the B Western

By Roderick McGillis.
Review by Laurence Raw, Baskent University, Ankara
Listed in: Gender, Cinema

Winter Post 1: December 19, 2009

African Culture and Melville’s Art: The Creative Process in Benito Cereno and Moby Dick

by Sterling Stuckey

review by Babacar M’Baye, Kent State University

listed in: Literature, African

Attack Politics: Negativity in Presidential Campaigns Since 1960

by Emmett H. Buell, Jr. and Lee Sigelman

review by Derek Charles Catsam, University of Texas of the Permian Basin

listed in: Social Custom

Bite Me: Food in Popular Culture

by Fabio Parasecoli

review by Rossella Ceccarini, Sophia University, Japan

listed in: Material Custom and Social Custom

Cruel and Unsual: The Culture of Punishment in America

by Anne-Marie Cusac

review by Henrike Lehnguth, University of Maryland

listed in: Social Custom

Cuttin’ Up: How Early Jazz Got America’s Ear

by Court Carney

review by Reba Wissner, Brandeis University

listed in: Music and Preforming Arts

Literature and Dance in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Jane Austen to the New Woman

by Cheryl A. Wilson

review by Luca Caddia, Independent Scholar

listed in: Literature and Gender

The Lottery Wars: Long Odds, Fast Money, and the Battle Over an American Institution

by Matthew Sweeney

review by Amanda Harmon Cooley, North Carolina A&T State University

listed in: Material Culture and Social Custom

Shakespeare’s Opposites: The Admiral’s Company 1594-1625

by Andrew Gurr

review by Suanna H. Davis, Houston Baptist University

listed in: Literature and Performing Arts

The Tactile Eye: Touch and the Cinematic Experience

by Jennifer M. Barker

review by Henrike Lehnguth, University of Maryland

listed in: Cinema

Fall Post 3: November 10, 2009

The Late Age of Print

By Ted Striphas
Review by Vicky Gilpin, Millikin University, Illinois
Listed in: Literature and Material Culture

Tabloid Valley: Supermarket News and American Culture

By Paula E. Morton
Review by Amarnath Amarasingam, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario
Listed in: Material Culture

Station Identification: A Cultural History of Yiddish Radio in the United States

By Ari Kelman
Review by Elizabeth Whittenburg Ozment, University of Georgia
Listed in: Immigrant American and Preforming Arts

Dancing from the Heart: Movement, Gender, and Cook Islands Globalization

By Kalissa Alexeyeff
Review by Matthew J. Forss, Goddard College, Vermont
Listed in: Preforming Arts and Social Custom

For the Freedom of Her Race: Black Women and Electoral Politics in Illinois

By Lisa Masterson
Review by Jason Hostutler, Mount Mary College, Wisconsin
Listed in: African American, Gender

Disporas of Australian Cinema

Edited by Catherine Simpson, Renata Murawska, and Anthony Lambert
Review by Sarah Pinto, Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash University
Listed in: Cinema

Beyond the Box: Television and the Internet

By Sharon Marie Ross
Review by Novotny Lawrence, Southern Illinois University
Listed in: Television

Composing the Citizen: Music as Public Utility in Third Republic France

By Jann Pasler
Review by Reba Wissner, Brandeis University
Listed in: Music and Europe

9/11 Culture

By Jeffrey Melnick
Review by Waleed Mahdi, University of Minnesota
Listed In: Material Culture, Social Custom

Fall Post 2: October 5, 2009

Sounds of the Modern Nation:  Music, Culture, and Ideas in Post-Revolutionary Mexico

By Alejandro L. Madrid
Review by Russell Cobb, University of Alberta
Listed In: Music and Latin America

Near Black: White-to-Black Passing in American Culture

By Baz Dreisinger
Review by Jacke R. Booker, Winston-Salem State University
Listed In: African American, Social Custom

Music in German Immigrant Theater: New York City, 1840 - 1940.

By John Koegel
Review By Reba Wissner, Brandeis University
Listed In:  Music, Immigrant America

The Devil You Dance With: Film Culture in the New South Africa

Edited by Audrey Thomas McCluskey
Reveiw by Roberta Di Carmine, Western Illinois University
Listed In:  Cinema, Africa

Performing Worlds into Being: Native American Women's Theater

Edited by Anne Elizabeth Armstrong, Kelli Lyon Johnson, and William A. Wortman.
Review by Megan Burnett, Alice Lloyd College, Kentucky
Listed In: Performing Arts, Native American

Investigation Firefly and Serenity: Science Fiction on the Frontier

Edited by Rhonda V. Wilcox and Tanya R. Cochran
Review by Madeline Muntersbjorn, University of Toledo
Listed In: Television, Cinema

Gender, Professions and Discourse: Early Twentieth-Century Women's Autobiography

By Christine Etherington-Wright
Review by Suanna H. Davis, Lone Star College, Texas
Listed In: Gender, (Auto)Biography

Cold War Confrontations: US Exhibitions and Their Rone in the Cultural Cold War

By Jack Masey and Conway Lloyd Morgan.
Review by Antonio Thompson, Austin Peay State University
Listed In: Visual Arts, Material Culture

Fall Post 1: August 30, 2009

Popular Culture Values and the Arts: Essays on Elitism versus Democratization.

Edited by Ray B. Browne and Lawrence A. Kreiser Jr.
Review by Stephen Gennaro, York University, Toronto
Listed in: Social Custom, Material Culture

 Texas Blues: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound.

By Alan Govenar.
Review by Jonathan Hill, National University of Singapore
Listed In: Music, Souhwest USA

Orson Welles and the Unfinished RKO Projects: A Postmodern Perspective.

By Marguerite H. Rippy.
Review by Chris Pallant, Bangor University, United Kingdom
Listed In: Cinema, Material Culture

Fabricating the Absolute Fake: America in Contemporary Pop Culture.

By Jaap Kooijman.
Review by Laurence Raw, Baskent University, Ankara
Listed In: Material Culture, Social Custom

A History of the Future

By Donna Goodman
Review by Yves Laberge, Laval University, Quebec
Listed In:  Science, Material Culture

 Screening Nostalgia: Populuxe Props and Technicolor Aesthetics in Contemporary American Film.

By Christine Sprengler.
Review by Greta Methot, Rhode Island School of Design
Listed In: Cinema, Material Culture

The Medieval Cook.

By Bridget Ann Henisch.
Review by Stephanie Plummer, Bowling Green State University
Listed In: Europe, Material Culture

Hollywood’s Ancient Worlds.

By Jeffrey Richards.
Review by Laurence Raw, Baskent University, Ankara
Listed In:  Cinema