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- At Long Last:
America's First Female Best Director Oscar Nomination
- The Contradiction
of Comedy: Steve Martin, Queen Latifah, and Race in Bringing Down the House
- An Interview
with Comedy Director Garry Marshall
- The Making of a
Movie Trailer
- Kat and Bianca
Avenged: Or, Things to Love about 10 Things I Hate about
You
- A Declaration
of Independence ('night Mother)
- Towanda! (Fried
Green Tomatoes)
- Star Wars
Episode 1: The "Reagan" Menace?
- Looking
through Richard: Al Pacino and His Call to Shakespeare
- The Divine Secrets
of the American Box Office
- "You
Don't Sound Stupid to Me": The Proto-Feminism of Marilyn
Monroe
- Bound and Gagged
- Bound and Gagged
II
- Fathers, Sons,
and Symbolic Ethnicity: Considering Two Generations of The Jazz Singer
- Max Linder: The
Light That Burns Twice As Bright Lasts Half As Long
- Body Image and
the American Popular Culture Landscape: The Shifting Identity of Young Latinas in Real Women
Have Curves
- The Wrong Guy on Trial?: Historical Reality in The Caine Mutiny
- "Oh, You
Shouldn't Have!": Books-as-Gifts Turned Trysts
- Hearst and
Davies: A Titan Makes His Mark, Part 1 of 3
- Hearst and
Davies: The Gayest Social Scene, Or, Where we Had the Most
Fun, Part 2 of 3
- Hearst and
Davies: Doomsday, Part 3 of 3
- Life After The Movies:
Former Film Stars Transition into 1950s Television
- The Color
Line and the Silver Screen: Sidney Poitier, Liberal Hollywood,
and Racial Integration in Stanley Kramer's The Defiant
Ones and Norman Jewison's In the Heat of the
Night
- Who Won the War, Daddy? Garry Wills and Alexander Werth Ambush the John Wayne Myth of World War II
- Channeling the Culture: A Second Look at Elizabeth: The Golden Age
- The Making of a Box Office Smash: Or, Why the Christian Right Loved Juno
- Simone: Lost in Translation
- Achieving Grace: Allegory and The Dark Knight
- I'm Mad as Hell: Network in the New Millenium
- In Defense of Grey Gardens
- Hollywood North: Canada in the Age of the Film and Television Action Committee
- Man Out of Time: Reflections on Burt Reynolds
- A Class Act: Reflections on Warren Beatty
- Modest Intentionalism and the Replicant Debate
- The President and the Dragon: The Rise of Bruce Lee in the 1970s
- Astaire2
- From Trickster to Heroic Savior: Jake Sully's Journey in Avatar
Television Archive
Music Archive
- Rap Wars
- From a Roughened
Wooden Bench in Central Park
- Rap and Young,
White Males: Masculinity, Masking, and Denial
- Shooting Lou Rawls
- The Fender Strat
Turns 50
- “How
Deep Is the Ocean? How High Is the Sky?”: The Question
Song and the Jewish Lyricist in American Musical Theater
- Darkness on the Edge of Town: Bruce Springsteen's Representations
of Working-Class Distress
- Fables of the Reconstruction:
The Utopian Spirit in Tim Burton’s Big Fish
- How Do You Solve
a Problem like Petruchio?: Kiss Me, Kate as
a Product of Its Time and Place
- The Japanese Hip Hop Movement: Its Cultural and Economic Impact
- Analyze This: Modern Music and Popular Psychology
- Michael Stanley and Cleveland, Ohio: Conflicting Images and Mixed Results
- Man in the Mirror: Don Wilson on Michael Jackson
- Beyonce, Gwen, and Kathryn: Notes on the Current State of Women in the Arts
- John Mellencamp's America: Life, Death, Love, and Freedom
- Blackface and the Hollywood Musical
- Pop Music Iconography
- Watching the Wall's Dance: Charles Bukowski's Musical Landscape
Sports Archive
Politics Archive
Venues Archive
Style Archive
- Time-out
Is Killing Americans: On Discipline and Love American Style
- An American
in Sunglasses
- The Return of Turquoise
- Homo Redneckus:
Notes on Being White Trash in America
- Gucci Babies:
From the Madonna and Child to Madonna and Children
- "Diamonds
are a Girl's Best Friend": Performances of Femininity
and Sexuality in
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, "Material Girl," and
Moulin Rouge!
- About Face: The
Emergence, Evolution, and Demise of the Decorative Compact
- From Frijoles to
French Fries: Gringolandia and Traditional Laredo Border
Culture
- Politics, Marketing, and the Metrosexual: The Eloquence of a Marketing Tool
- Period Men, Manly Periodicals: True - The Man's Magazine, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Issue
- "The Fox in the Chicken Coop": Elvis Presley and 1950s Small-Town America in Tennessee Williams's Orpheus Descending
- African-American Men's Self Expression in Fashion: A Cultural Commentary, a Political Statement, or Both?
- "Dem a Bleach" : Shades of Blackness and Beauty
- Leaving MGM: Notes on Garbo and Adrian
- Steve Jobs on Style
- Michael Kors Maternity Line? Or, How I Negotiated a Fashionable Pregnancy
- Mika, Running
Bestsellers Archive
- “Appreciate
the Mushrooms Completely”: Hemingway’s Missed
Message
- Maidens
and Machines
- The First
Wives Club Phenomenon
- "What
Do I Need Feet for When I Have Wings?" (Ana Castillo)
- From
Springer to Shakespeare (Romance Novels)
- Desiring
Desirability: The Disfiguring Power of a Dominant Ideology
(The Bluest Eye)
- Sower of Seeds
(Octavia Butler)
- In Love
with Louis L'Amour
- A Breeding Place
of Evil (Anne Rice)
- A Bad Dream (Sylvia
Plath)
- Silence (Maxine
Hong Kingston)
- Female
Justice
- Rand the Winner
Is: Thoughts on the Continuing Value of Objectivism
- The Ducks in
Central Park, or Why You Can't Teach The Catcher in
the Rye
- Fragments from
Africa
- Harry Potter
and the Standardized Test: Some Thoughts for Teachers on
Magic, Rhetoric and Composition
- The
End of Delillo's Plot: Death, Fear, and Religion in
White Noise
- The Lovers
and Other Stories: Female Empowerment in the Short Fiction of Pearl S. Buck
- The Postmodern
Proctor: Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism in Arthur
Miller’s The Crucible
- Running on
Empty: Suicide, Rape, and Murder in the Modern Suburban
Novel
- Color
Symbolism and Mythology in Margaret Mitchell’s
Novel Gone with the Wind
- The Horrors
of Housekeeping: A Comparative Analysis of the Grimm
Fairy Tale and
Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- Kurt Vonnegut as Billy Pilgrim's Case Worker: Slaughterhouse Five Reread for the Era of PTSD
- Little House in Limbo: Rediscovering Almanzo Wilder
- Lunching with Tobias
- Reading Oprah Reading Franzen
- Romancing the Villain: Nabokov, Capote, and the Grotesque
- "Every Girl's Dream," Or Is It?: A Feminist Critique of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight
- Faith and the Hollywood Box Office: Notes on The Blind Side and The Book of Eli (With an Additional Word to Screenwriters)
- Rediscovering Leaves of Grass
- Uncomfortable Fictions: Why Zombie Lit Should Be on the President's Reading List - And Yours
- The Stuff of Legend: The Graphic Novel's Re-Imagination of Children's Literature
- Representing the Street: Space and Place in Street Literature
- White Collar Fantasies: Imaginative Identities in Revolutionary Road
- The Responsibility of Remembering: Traumatic Memory and War in The Hunger Games
The Emerging Popular Culture Corner Archive
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