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When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century—but they've never been as intense as they are today. In No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice (UNC Press, 2021), Dr. Karen L. Cox offers an eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments. Dr. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. She shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that anti-monument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Monument defenders responded with gerrymandering and "heritage" laws intended to block efforts to remove these statues, but hard as they worked to preserve the Lost Cause vision of southern history, civil rights activists, Black elected officials, and movements of ordinary people fought harder to take the story back. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the seemingly invincible stone sentinels that are just beginning to fall from their pedestals. Our guest is: Dr. Karen L. Cox, who is professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her other books include Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture and Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, who works as a developmental editor for scholars, and is the producer of the Academic Life podcast. Playlist for listeners: Campus Monuments Researching Racial Injustice A Conversation with Curators from the Smithsonian The Names of All the Flowers What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions Stolen Fragments Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! You can help support the show by downloading, assigning and sharing episodes. Join us again to learn from more experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Missed any of the 250+ Academic Life episodes? Find them here. And thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century—but they've never been as intense as they are today. In No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice (UNC Press, 2021), Dr. Karen L. Cox offers an eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments. Dr. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. She shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that anti-monument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Monument defenders responded with gerrymandering and "heritage" laws intended to block efforts to remove these statues, but hard as they worked to preserve the Lost Cause vision of southern history, civil rights activists, Black elected officials, and movements of ordinary people fought harder to take the story back. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the seemingly invincible stone sentinels that are just beginning to fall from their pedestals. Our guest is: Dr. Karen L. Cox, who is professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her other books include Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture and Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, who works as a developmental editor for scholars, and is the producer of the Academic Life podcast. Playlist for listeners: Campus Monuments Researching Racial Injustice A Conversation with Curators from the Smithsonian The Names of All the Flowers What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions Stolen Fragments Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! You can help support the show by downloading, assigning and sharing episodes. Join us again to learn from more experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Missed any of the 250+ Academic Life episodes? Find them here. And thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/military-history

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century—but they've never been as intense as they are today. In No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice (UNC Press, 2021), Dr. Karen L. Cox offers an eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments. Dr. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. She shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that anti-monument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Monument defenders responded with gerrymandering and "heritage" laws intended to block efforts to remove these statues, but hard as they worked to preserve the Lost Cause vision of southern history, civil rights activists, Black elected officials, and movements of ordinary people fought harder to take the story back. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the seemingly invincible stone sentinels that are just beginning to fall from their pedestals. Our guest is: Dr. Karen L. Cox, who is professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her other books include Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture and Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, who works as a developmental editor for scholars, and is the producer of the Academic Life podcast. Playlist for listeners: Campus Monuments Researching Racial Injustice A Conversation with Curators from the Smithsonian The Names of All the Flowers What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions Stolen Fragments Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! You can help support the show by downloading, assigning and sharing episodes. Join us again to learn from more experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Missed any of the 250+ Academic Life episodes? Find them here. And thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century—but they've never been as intense as they are today. In No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice (UNC Press, 2021), Dr. Karen L. Cox offers an eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments. Dr. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. She shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that anti-monument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Monument defenders responded with gerrymandering and "heritage" laws intended to block efforts to remove these statues, but hard as they worked to preserve the Lost Cause vision of southern history, civil rights activists, Black elected officials, and movements of ordinary people fought harder to take the story back. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the seemingly invincible stone sentinels that are just beginning to fall from their pedestals. Our guest is: Dr. Karen L. Cox, who is professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her other books include Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture and Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, who works as a developmental editor for scholars, and is the producer of the Academic Life podcast. Playlist for listeners: Campus Monuments Researching Racial Injustice A Conversation with Curators from the Smithsonian The Names of All the Flowers What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions Stolen Fragments Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! You can help support the show by downloading, assigning and sharing episodes. Join us again to learn from more experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Missed any of the 250+ Academic Life episodes? Find them here. And thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/politics-and-polemics

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century—but they've never been as intense as they are today. In No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice (UNC Press, 2021), Dr. Karen L. Cox offers an eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments. Dr. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. She shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that anti-monument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Monument defenders responded with gerrymandering and "heritage" laws intended to block efforts to remove these statues, but hard as they worked to preserve the Lost Cause vision of southern history, civil rights activists, Black elected officials, and movements of ordinary people fought harder to take the story back. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the seemingly invincible stone sentinels that are just beginning to fall from their pedestals. Our guest is: Dr. Karen L. Cox, who is professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her other books include Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture and Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, who works as a developmental editor for scholars, and is the producer of the Academic Life podcast. Playlist for listeners: Campus Monuments Researching Racial Injustice A Conversation with Curators from the Smithsonian The Names of All the Flowers What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions Stolen Fragments Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! You can help support the show by downloading, assigning and sharing episodes. Join us again to learn from more experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Missed any of the 250+ Academic Life episodes? Find them here. And thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century—but they've never been as intense as they are today. In No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice (UNC Press, 2021), Dr. Karen L. Cox offers an eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments. Dr. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. She shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that anti-monument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Monument defenders responded with gerrymandering and "heritage" laws intended to block efforts to remove these statues, but hard as they worked to preserve the Lost Cause vision of southern history, civil rights activists, Black elected officials, and movements of ordinary people fought harder to take the story back. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the seemingly invincible stone sentinels that are just beginning to fall from their pedestals. Our guest is: Dr. Karen L. Cox, who is professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her other books include Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture and Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, who works as a developmental editor for scholars, and is the producer of the Academic Life podcast. Playlist for listeners: Campus Monuments Researching Racial Injustice A Conversation with Curators from the Smithsonian The Names of All the Flowers What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions Stolen Fragments Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! You can help support the show by downloading, assigning and sharing episodes. Join us again to learn from more experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Missed any of the 250+ Academic Life episodes? Find them here. And thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century—but they've never been as intense as they are today. In No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice (UNC Press, 2021), Dr. Karen L. Cox offers an eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments. Dr. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. She shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that anti-monument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Monument defenders responded with gerrymandering and "heritage" laws intended to block efforts to remove these statues, but hard as they worked to preserve the Lost Cause vision of southern history, civil rights activists, Black elected officials, and movements of ordinary people fought harder to take the story back. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the seemingly invincible stone sentinels that are just beginning to fall from their pedestals. Our guest is: Dr. Karen L. Cox, who is professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her other books include Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture and Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, who works as a developmental editor for scholars, and is the producer of the Academic Life podcast. Playlist for listeners: Campus Monuments Researching Racial Injustice A Conversation with Curators from the Smithsonian The Names of All the Flowers What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions Stolen Fragments Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! You can help support the show by downloading, assigning and sharing episodes. Join us again to learn from more experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Missed any of the 250+ Academic Life episodes? Find them here. And thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/art

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century—but they've never been as intense as they are today. In No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice (UNC Press, 2021), Dr. Karen L. Cox offers an eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments. Dr. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. She shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that anti-monument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Monument defenders responded with gerrymandering and "heritage" laws intended to block efforts to remove these statues, but hard as they worked to preserve the Lost Cause vision of southern history, civil rights activists, Black elected officials, and movements of ordinary people fought harder to take the story back. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the seemingly invincible stone sentinels that are just beginning to fall from their pedestals. Our guest is: Dr. Karen L. Cox, who is professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her other books include Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture and Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, who works as a developmental editor for scholars, and is the producer of the Academic Life podcast. Playlist for listeners: Campus Monuments Researching Racial Injustice A Conversation with Curators from the Smithsonian The Names of All the Flowers What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions Stolen Fragments Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! You can help support the show by downloading, assigning and sharing episodes. Join us again to learn from more experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Missed any of the 250+ Academic Life episodes? Find them here. And thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/academic-life

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century—but they've never been as intense as they are today. In No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice (UNC Press, 2021), Dr. Karen L. Cox offers an eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments. Dr. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. She shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that anti-monument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Monument defenders responded with gerrymandering and "heritage" laws intended to block efforts to remove these statues, but hard as they worked to preserve the Lost Cause vision of southern history, civil rights activists, Black elected officials, and movements of ordinary people fought harder to take the story back. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the seemingly invincible stone sentinels that are just beginning to fall from their pedestals. Our guest is: Dr. Karen L. Cox, who is professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her other books include Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture and Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, who works as a developmental editor for scholars, and is the producer of the Academic Life podcast. Playlist for listeners: Campus Monuments Researching Racial Injustice A Conversation with Curators from the Smithsonian The Names of All the Flowers What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions Stolen Fragments Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! You can help support the show by downloading, assigning and sharing episodes. Join us again to learn from more experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Missed any of the 250+ Academic Life episodes? Find them here. And thank you for listening!

When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century—but they've never been as intense as they are today. In No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice (UNC Press, 2021), Dr. Karen L. Cox offers an eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments. Dr. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. She shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that anti-monument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Monument defenders responded with gerrymandering and "heritage" laws intended to block efforts to remove these statues, but hard as they worked to preserve the Lost Cause vision of southern history, civil rights activists, Black elected officials, and movements of ordinary people fought harder to take the story back. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the seemingly invincible stone sentinels that are just beginning to fall from their pedestals. Our guest is: Dr. Karen L. Cox, who is professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her other books include Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture and Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, who works as a developmental editor for scholars, and is the producer of the Academic Life podcast. Playlist for listeners: Campus Monuments Researching Racial Injustice A Conversation with Curators from the Smithsonian The Names of All the Flowers What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions Stolen Fragments Welcome to Academic Life, the podcast for your academic journey—and beyond! You can help support the show by downloading, assigning and sharing episodes. Join us again to learn from more experts inside and outside the academy, and around the world. Missed any of the 250+ Academic Life episodes? Find them here. And thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-south

Around campfires North and South, many of the tunes played and sung during the Civil War were the work of a 35-year-old Pennsylvanian who was America's first full-time professional songwriter.By the time the war started, Stephen Collins Foster — who as a youth taught himself to play the clarinet, guitar, flute and the piano — had published more than 200 songs.His best ones — “Oh Susannah,” “Camptown Races,” “Old Folks at Home (Swanee River),” “My Old Kentucky Home,” “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair,” “Hard Times Comes Again No More” — already were widely known throughout the country to amateur and professional musicians alike.About “Angelina Baker”This song, though, was not one of the famous ones. Foster wrote “Angelina Baker,” sometimes performed as “Angeline the Baker,” in 1850 for use by the theater world's Christy Minstrels troupe.Today folks know it primarily as an instrumental dance tunes performed by old-time and bluegrass bands, almost always with a lively fiddle leading the way. An early version was recorded for Victor in 1928 by Uncle Eck Dunford of Galax, Va. Meanwhile, West Virginia fiddler Franklin George called it "Angeline" and played it with Scottish overtones.Foster's original, though, was a bit slower and had lyrics that lamented the loss of a woman slave, sent away by her owner.Huntington-born music historian Ken Emerson — who in 1997 wrote a definitive biography called Doo-Dah!: Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture — said that “Angelina Baker” entered the American consciousness during a period of great controversy between free and slave states. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was among the hotly debated topics at the time of the song's composition, and, Emerson noted, Foster's lyrics obliquely acknowledge these controversies. (Angelina likes th' boys as far as she can see ‘em / She used to run old Massa round to ask him for to free ‘em…. Angelina Baker, Angelina Baker's gone / She left me here to weep a tear and beat on de old jawbone… )Our Take on the TuneThe Flood has always celebrated diversity. The guys often follow a folk blues with a swing tune or chase a 1950s jazz standard with some 1920s jug band stuff. And deep in The Flood's DNA are the fiddle tunes learned from Joe Dobbs and Doug Chaffin. This Civil War-era tune the band learned from fiddlin' Jack Nuckols, their newest band mate.From the Archives: How We Met AngelinaAs reported earlier, Dave Peyton and Charlie Bowen started 50 years ago trying to draw Nuckols into the band. On an April evening back in 1974, Peyton and Bowen trekked over to Jack and Susie's place in South Point, Ohio, for a jam session. It was during that session that they first heard “Angelina Baker.” Here from the fathomless Flood files is that specific archival moment. Click the button below to travel back 51 years and hear Jack on fiddle, Dave on Autoharp and Charlie on guitar:More Instrumentals?Finally, if all this has you wanting some more wordlessness in your Friday Floodery, tune in the Instrumentals channel in the free Radio Floodango music streaming service. There you'll have a randomized playlist of everything from folksy fiddle tunes to sultry jazz numbers without a lyric or vocal in sight! Click here to give a try. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexual urges were rapidly reintegrated into civilian life, told to put the war behind them with cheer and confidence. Many veterans struggled, openly or privately, with this transition. Others in society wondered what the war had wrought in them. As Erin Lee Mock shows in this insightful book, the “explosive” potential of men became a central concern of postwar American culture. This wariness of veterans settled into a generalised anxiety over men's “inherent” violence and hypersexuality, which increasingly came to define masculinity. Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II (University of Virginia Press, 2024) by Dr. Erin Lee Mock engages with studies of film, media, literature, and gender and sexuality to advance a new perspective on the artistic and cultural output of and about the “Greatest Generation,” arguing that depictions of men's violent and erotic potential emerged differently in different forms and genres but nonetheless permeated American culture in these years. Viewing this homecoming through the lenses of war and trauma, classical Hollywood, pulp fiction, periodical culture, and early television, Dr. Mock shows this history in a provocative new light. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexual urges were rapidly reintegrated into civilian life, told to put the war behind them with cheer and confidence. Many veterans struggled, openly or privately, with this transition. Others in society wondered what the war had wrought in them. As Erin Lee Mock shows in this insightful book, the “explosive” potential of men became a central concern of postwar American culture. This wariness of veterans settled into a generalised anxiety over men's “inherent” violence and hypersexuality, which increasingly came to define masculinity. Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II (University of Virginia Press, 2024) by Dr. Erin Lee Mock engages with studies of film, media, literature, and gender and sexuality to advance a new perspective on the artistic and cultural output of and about the “Greatest Generation,” arguing that depictions of men's violent and erotic potential emerged differently in different forms and genres but nonetheless permeated American culture in these years. Viewing this homecoming through the lenses of war and trauma, classical Hollywood, pulp fiction, periodical culture, and early television, Dr. Mock shows this history in a provocative new light. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexual urges were rapidly reintegrated into civilian life, told to put the war behind them with cheer and confidence. Many veterans struggled, openly or privately, with this transition. Others in society wondered what the war had wrought in them. As Erin Lee Mock shows in this insightful book, the “explosive” potential of men became a central concern of postwar American culture. This wariness of veterans settled into a generalised anxiety over men's “inherent” violence and hypersexuality, which increasingly came to define masculinity. Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II (University of Virginia Press, 2024) by Dr. Erin Lee Mock engages with studies of film, media, literature, and gender and sexuality to advance a new perspective on the artistic and cultural output of and about the “Greatest Generation,” arguing that depictions of men's violent and erotic potential emerged differently in different forms and genres but nonetheless permeated American culture in these years. Viewing this homecoming through the lenses of war and trauma, classical Hollywood, pulp fiction, periodical culture, and early television, Dr. Mock shows this history in a provocative new light. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/military-history

Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexual urges were rapidly reintegrated into civilian life, told to put the war behind them with cheer and confidence. Many veterans struggled, openly or privately, with this transition. Others in society wondered what the war had wrought in them. As Erin Lee Mock shows in this insightful book, the “explosive” potential of men became a central concern of postwar American culture. This wariness of veterans settled into a generalised anxiety over men's “inherent” violence and hypersexuality, which increasingly came to define masculinity. Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II (University of Virginia Press, 2024) by Dr. Erin Lee Mock engages with studies of film, media, literature, and gender and sexuality to advance a new perspective on the artistic and cultural output of and about the “Greatest Generation,” arguing that depictions of men's violent and erotic potential emerged differently in different forms and genres but nonetheless permeated American culture in these years. Viewing this homecoming through the lenses of war and trauma, classical Hollywood, pulp fiction, periodical culture, and early television, Dr. Mock shows this history in a provocative new light. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/film

Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexual urges were rapidly reintegrated into civilian life, told to put the war behind them with cheer and confidence. Many veterans struggled, openly or privately, with this transition. Others in society wondered what the war had wrought in them. As Erin Lee Mock shows in this insightful book, the “explosive” potential of men became a central concern of postwar American culture. This wariness of veterans settled into a generalised anxiety over men's “inherent” violence and hypersexuality, which increasingly came to define masculinity. Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II (University of Virginia Press, 2024) by Dr. Erin Lee Mock engages with studies of film, media, literature, and gender and sexuality to advance a new perspective on the artistic and cultural output of and about the “Greatest Generation,” arguing that depictions of men's violent and erotic potential emerged differently in different forms and genres but nonetheless permeated American culture in these years. Viewing this homecoming through the lenses of war and trauma, classical Hollywood, pulp fiction, periodical culture, and early television, Dr. Mock shows this history in a provocative new light. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexual urges were rapidly reintegrated into civilian life, told to put the war behind them with cheer and confidence. Many veterans struggled, openly or privately, with this transition. Others in society wondered what the war had wrought in them. As Erin Lee Mock shows in this insightful book, the “explosive” potential of men became a central concern of postwar American culture. This wariness of veterans settled into a generalised anxiety over men's “inherent” violence and hypersexuality, which increasingly came to define masculinity. Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II (University of Virginia Press, 2024) by Dr. Erin Lee Mock engages with studies of film, media, literature, and gender and sexuality to advance a new perspective on the artistic and cultural output of and about the “Greatest Generation,” arguing that depictions of men's violent and erotic potential emerged differently in different forms and genres but nonetheless permeated American culture in these years. Viewing this homecoming through the lenses of war and trauma, classical Hollywood, pulp fiction, periodical culture, and early television, Dr. Mock shows this history in a provocative new light. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexual urges were rapidly reintegrated into civilian life, told to put the war behind them with cheer and confidence. Many veterans struggled, openly or privately, with this transition. Others in society wondered what the war had wrought in them. As Erin Lee Mock shows in this insightful book, the “explosive” potential of men became a central concern of postwar American culture. This wariness of veterans settled into a generalised anxiety over men's “inherent” violence and hypersexuality, which increasingly came to define masculinity. Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II (University of Virginia Press, 2024) by Dr. Erin Lee Mock engages with studies of film, media, literature, and gender and sexuality to advance a new perspective on the artistic and cultural output of and about the “Greatest Generation,” arguing that depictions of men's violent and erotic potential emerged differently in different forms and genres but nonetheless permeated American culture in these years. Viewing this homecoming through the lenses of war and trauma, classical Hollywood, pulp fiction, periodical culture, and early television, Dr. Mock shows this history in a provocative new light. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/communications

Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexual urges were rapidly reintegrated into civilian life, told to put the war behind them with cheer and confidence. Many veterans struggled, openly or privately, with this transition. Others in society wondered what the war had wrought in them. As Erin Lee Mock shows in this insightful book, the “explosive” potential of men became a central concern of postwar American culture. This wariness of veterans settled into a generalised anxiety over men's “inherent” violence and hypersexuality, which increasingly came to define masculinity. Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II (University of Virginia Press, 2024) by Dr. Erin Lee Mock engages with studies of film, media, literature, and gender and sexuality to advance a new perspective on the artistic and cultural output of and about the “Greatest Generation,” arguing that depictions of men's violent and erotic potential emerged differently in different forms and genres but nonetheless permeated American culture in these years. Viewing this homecoming through the lenses of war and trauma, classical Hollywood, pulp fiction, periodical culture, and early television, Dr. Mock shows this history in a provocative new light. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexual urges were rapidly reintegrated into civilian life, told to put the war behind them with cheer and confidence. Many veterans struggled, openly or privately, with this transition. Others in society wondered what the war had wrought in them. As Erin Lee Mock shows in this insightful book, the “explosive” potential of men became a central concern of postwar American culture. This wariness of veterans settled into a generalised anxiety over men's “inherent” violence and hypersexuality, which increasingly came to define masculinity. Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II (University of Virginia Press, 2024) by Dr. Erin Lee Mock engages with studies of film, media, literature, and gender and sexuality to advance a new perspective on the artistic and cultural output of and about the “Greatest Generation,” arguing that depictions of men's violent and erotic potential emerged differently in different forms and genres but nonetheless permeated American culture in these years. Viewing this homecoming through the lenses of war and trauma, classical Hollywood, pulp fiction, periodical culture, and early television, Dr. Mock shows this history in a provocative new light. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/popular-culture

Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexual urges were rapidly reintegrated into civilian life, told to put the war behind them with cheer and confidence. Many veterans struggled, openly or privately, with this transition. Others in society wondered what the war had wrought in them. As Erin Lee Mock shows in this insightful book, the “explosive” potential of men became a central concern of postwar American culture. This wariness of veterans settled into a generalised anxiety over men's “inherent” violence and hypersexuality, which increasingly came to define masculinity. Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II (University of Virginia Press, 2024) by Dr. Erin Lee Mock engages with studies of film, media, literature, and gender and sexuality to advance a new perspective on the artistic and cultural output of and about the “Greatest Generation,” arguing that depictions of men's violent and erotic potential emerged differently in different forms and genres but nonetheless permeated American culture in these years. Viewing this homecoming through the lenses of war and trauma, classical Hollywood, pulp fiction, periodical culture, and early television, Dr. Mock shows this history in a provocative new light. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose new book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/book-of-the-day

Jennifer Keishin Armstrong discusses her career as a chronicler of American Popular Culture. Then a visit with book publicist Lissa Warren.

This week Karen L. Cox swings by to talk about the South, the 70s, and why Burt Reynolds was so damn cool. This is probably the first time you've heard Smokey and the Bandit on a history podcast, but that's what we are here for. This one is fun. About our guest:Karen L. Cox is an award-winning historian and a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.  She is the author of four books, the editor or co-editor of two volumes on southern history and has written numerous essays and articles, including an essay for the New York Times best seller Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past. Her books include Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture, Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture, Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South, and most recently, No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice, which was published in April 2021 and won the Michael V.R. Thomason book prize from the Gulf South Historical Association.

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Karen Cox, Professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is the author of multiple books, including "Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture" and "Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture." Her current book project explores the Rhythm Club fire, which took the lives of more than 200 African Americans in Natchez, Mississippi, in 1940. Dr. Cox's work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, TIME magazine, Publishers Weekly, Smithsonian Magazine, and the Huffington Post. We speak with her about the United Daughters of the Confederacy, monuments, and her latest project on the Rhythm Club fire.

Calling all Louisa May Alcott fans! In this episode, Grace chats with Americanist scholar LuElla D'Amico about children's literature and the work of Louisa May Alcott in particular... including hard-hitting questions like "Should Laurie have ended up with Jo?!" (there is disagreement on the answer).  Dr. LuElla D'Amico is an Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of the Women's and Gender Studies program at the University of the Incarnate Word. Her primary research interests lie in girlhood, girl culture, and religion in early and nineteenth-century American literature, and she has published numerous articles in this vein for academic and popular venues. She also has edited a volume about the history of girls' series books in the U.S. titled Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture and is co-editor of Reading Transatlantic Girlhood in the Long Nineteenth Century. Her current book project is titled, Wondrous Reading: Encountering the Catholic Faith in Children's Literature. She lives on the outskirts of San Antonio, Texas with her husband, two children, and rambunctious chihuahua, Leroy.   

Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches (University of Wales Press, 2022) by Miranda Corcoran is a study in teenage witches in twentieth-century American popular culture. The teenage witch emerged in American fiction in the late twentieth century, quickly becoming a cultural touchstone. Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture reveals how novels, films, television, and comics about witchy women register shifting attitudes toward adolescent femininity. Drawing on Deleuzian, Foucauldian, and new materialist theories, Miranda Corcoran charts a new feminist history from 1940s bobbysoxer to today, untangling strands of embodiments, agency, and violence. Rebekah Buchanan is a Professor of English and Director of English Education at Western Illinois University. Her research focuses on feminism, activism, and literacy practices in youth culture, specifically through zines and music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches (University of Wales Press, 2022) by Miranda Corcoran is a study in teenage witches in twentieth-century American popular culture. The teenage witch emerged in American fiction in the late twentieth century, quickly becoming a cultural touchstone. Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture reveals how novels, films, television, and comics about witchy women register shifting attitudes toward adolescent femininity. Drawing on Deleuzian, Foucauldian, and new materialist theories, Miranda Corcoran charts a new feminist history from 1940s bobbysoxer to today, untangling strands of embodiments, agency, and violence. Rebekah Buchanan is a Professor of English and Director of English Education at Western Illinois University. Her research focuses on feminism, activism, and literacy practices in youth culture, specifically through zines and music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies

Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches (University of Wales Press, 2022) by Miranda Corcoran is a study in teenage witches in twentieth-century American popular culture. The teenage witch emerged in American fiction in the late twentieth century, quickly becoming a cultural touchstone. Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture reveals how novels, films, television, and comics about witchy women register shifting attitudes toward adolescent femininity. Drawing on Deleuzian, Foucauldian, and new materialist theories, Miranda Corcoran charts a new feminist history from 1940s bobbysoxer to today, untangling strands of embodiments, agency, and violence. Rebekah Buchanan is a Professor of English and Director of English Education at Western Illinois University. Her research focuses on feminism, activism, and literacy practices in youth culture, specifically through zines and music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches (University of Wales Press, 2022) by Miranda Corcoran is a study in teenage witches in twentieth-century American popular culture. The teenage witch emerged in American fiction in the late twentieth century, quickly becoming a cultural touchstone. Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture reveals how novels, films, television, and comics about witchy women register shifting attitudes toward adolescent femininity. Drawing on Deleuzian, Foucauldian, and new materialist theories, Miranda Corcoran charts a new feminist history from 1940s bobbysoxer to today, untangling strands of embodiments, agency, and violence. Rebekah Buchanan is a Professor of English and Director of English Education at Western Illinois University. Her research focuses on feminism, activism, and literacy practices in youth culture, specifically through zines and music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches (University of Wales Press, 2022) by Miranda Corcoran is a study in teenage witches in twentieth-century American popular culture. The teenage witch emerged in American fiction in the late twentieth century, quickly becoming a cultural touchstone. Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture reveals how novels, films, television, and comics about witchy women register shifting attitudes toward adolescent femininity. Drawing on Deleuzian, Foucauldian, and new materialist theories, Miranda Corcoran charts a new feminist history from 1940s bobbysoxer to today, untangling strands of embodiments, agency, and violence. Rebekah Buchanan is a Professor of English and Director of English Education at Western Illinois University. Her research focuses on feminism, activism, and literacy practices in youth culture, specifically through zines and music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches (University of Wales Press, 2022) by Miranda Corcoran is a study in teenage witches in twentieth-century American popular culture. The teenage witch emerged in American fiction in the late twentieth century, quickly becoming a cultural touchstone. Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture reveals how novels, films, television, and comics about witchy women register shifting attitudes toward adolescent femininity. Drawing on Deleuzian, Foucauldian, and new materialist theories, Miranda Corcoran charts a new feminist history from 1940s bobbysoxer to today, untangling strands of embodiments, agency, and violence. Rebekah Buchanan is a Professor of English and Director of English Education at Western Illinois University. Her research focuses on feminism, activism, and literacy practices in youth culture, specifically through zines and music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion

Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches (University of Wales Press, 2022) by Miranda Corcoran is a study in teenage witches in twentieth-century American popular culture. The teenage witch emerged in American fiction in the late twentieth century, quickly becoming a cultural touchstone. Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture reveals how novels, films, television, and comics about witchy women register shifting attitudes toward adolescent femininity. Drawing on Deleuzian, Foucauldian, and new materialist theories, Miranda Corcoran charts a new feminist history from 1940s bobbysoxer to today, untangling strands of embodiments, agency, and violence. Rebekah Buchanan is a Professor of English and Director of English Education at Western Illinois University. Her research focuses on feminism, activism, and literacy practices in youth culture, specifically through zines and music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/communications

Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches (University of Wales Press, 2022) by Miranda Corcoran is a study in teenage witches in twentieth-century American popular culture. The teenage witch emerged in American fiction in the late twentieth century, quickly becoming a cultural touchstone. Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture reveals how novels, films, television, and comics about witchy women register shifting attitudes toward adolescent femininity. Drawing on Deleuzian, Foucauldian, and new materialist theories, Miranda Corcoran charts a new feminist history from 1940s bobbysoxer to today, untangling strands of embodiments, agency, and violence. Rebekah Buchanan is a Professor of English and Director of English Education at Western Illinois University. Her research focuses on feminism, activism, and literacy practices in youth culture, specifically through zines and music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/popular-culture

Dr. Karen L. Cox discusses her book, "Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture" and how we understand the intersection of memorializing history and the normalization of extremism. You can purchase a copy of Dixie's Daughters from Amazon or Bookshop.  During our conversation we touched on Professor Cox's other two books "Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture" (Amazon || Bookshop) and "No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice." (Amazon || Bookshop) You can also find Professor Cox's website here.

Join your hosts Dr. Sean Travers and Chris D as they recap every episode of Twin Peaks.☆Original art by @cj_wheelwright☆Dr. Travers' book Trauma in American Popular Culture and Cult Texts, 1980-2020 is available on AmazonDownload and use Newsly today at www.newsly.me.Use the promo code CULTF1LM for a month of their premium service FREE!Visit all the fine creators at www.blindknowledge.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join your hosts Dr. Sean Travers and Chris D as they recap every episode of Twin Peaks.☆Original art by @cj_wheelwright☆Dr. Travers' book Trauma in American Popular Culture and Cult Texts, 1980-2020 is available on AmazonDownload and use Newsly today at www.newsly.me.Use the promo code CULTF1LM for a month of their premium service FREE!Visit all the fine creators at www.blindknowledge.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join your hosts Dr. Sean Travers and Chris D as they recap every episode of Twin Peaks.Follow Dr. Travers on Twitter & Instagram@seanjetraversHer book Trauma in American Popular Culture and Cult Texts, 1980-2020 is now available!Original art by @cj_wheelwright◇ Download Newsly today and use our promo code CULTF1LM for a FREE month of their premium service!www.newsly.me◇ Visit all the fine creators at www.blindknowledge.com today Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join your hosts Dr. Sean Travers and Chris D as they recap every episode of Twin Peaks.Follow Dr. Travers on Twitter & Instagram@seanjetraversHer book Trauma in American Popular Culture and Cult Texts, 1980-2020 is now available!Original art by @cj_wheelwright◇ Download Newsly today and use our promo code CULTF1LM for a FREE month of their premium service!www.newsly.me◇ Visit all the fine creators at www.blindknowledge.com today Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How do we find the right kind of fear? In this episode, we talk about horror stories and what we are scared of with Bernice Murphy. We discuss the effect fear has on the brain with Ian Robertson, and we examine the relationship between the media and fear with Bruce Shapiro.Bernice Murphy is Associate Professor in Popular Literature at Trinity College Dublin. She has published extensively on topics related to American Gothic and horror fiction and film, including The California Gothic in Fiction and Film (2022); The Suburban Gothic in American Popular Culture (2009); and The Highway Horror Film (2014). She was also academic consultant to The Letters of Shirley Jackson (edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman, 2021). Ian Robertson is Co-Director of the Global Brain Health Institute and Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Trinity College Dublin, where he previously founded the Institute of Neuroscience. He is the author of several best-selling books, including How Confidence Works, which brings science-based strategies to non-specialists.Bruce Shapiro is Executive Director of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University. He is an award-winning reporter on human rights, criminal justice and politics. His books include Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America and Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America's Future. Clips from the show Franklin D. Roosevelt  Inaugural Address (1933)https://youtu.be/rIKMbma6_dcPeeping Tom (1960) https://youtu.be/B3kGTJDGTnwThis Is Marshall McLuhan - The Medium Is The Massage (1967)https://youtu.be/cFwVCHkL-JUThe History of the Future podcast is co-created and co-hosted by Mark Little and Ellie Payne and produced by Patrick Haughey of AudioBrand. The Schuler Democracy Forum is an initiative of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute, Trinity College Dublin. The Forum is generously supported by Dr Beate Schuler. For more information, see:https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/Schuler-Democracy-Forum.php

Join your hosts Dr. Sean Travers and Chris D as they recap every episode of Twin Peaks.Follow Dr. Travers on Twitter & Instagram@seanjetraversHer book Trauma in American Popular Culture and Cult Texts, 1980-2020 is now available!Original art by @cj_wheelwright◇ Download Newsly today and use our promo code CULTF1LM for a FREE month of their premium service!www.newsly.me◇ Visit all the fine creators at www.blindknowledge.com today Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join your hosts Dr. Sean Travers and Chris D as they recap every episode of Twin Peaks.Follow Dr. Travers on Twitter & Instagram@seanjetraversHer book Trauma in American Popular Culture and Cult Texts, 1980-2020 is now available!Original art by @cj_wheelwright◇ Download Newsly today and use our promo code CULTF1LM for a FREE month of their premium service!www.newsly.me◇ Visit all the fine creators at www.blindknowledge.com today Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join your hosts Dr. Sean Travers and Chris D as they recap every episode of Twin Peaks.Follow Dr. Travers on Twitter & Instagram@seanjetraversHer book Trauma in American Popular Culture and Cult Texts, 1980-2020 is now available!Original art by @cj_wheelwright◇ Download Newsly today and use our promo code CULTF1LM for a FREE month of their premium service!www.newsly.me◇ Visit all the fine creators at www.blindknowledge.com today Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join your hosts Dr. Sean Travers and Chris D as they recap every episode of Twin Peaks.Follow Dr. Travers on Twitter & Instagram@seanjetraversHer book Trauma in American Popular Culture and Cult Texts, 1980-2020 is now available!Original art by @cj_wheelwright◇ Download Newsly today and use our promo code CULTF1LM for a FREE month of their premium service!www.newsly.me◇ Visit all the fine creators at www.blindknowledge.com today Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join your hosts Dr. Sean Travers and Chris D as they recap every episode of Twin Peaks.Follow Dr. Travers on Twitter & Instagram @seanjetraversHer book Trauma in American Popular Culture and Cult Texts, 1980-2020 is now available!Original art by @cj_wheelwright◇ Download Newsly today and use our promo code CULTF1LM for a FREE month of their premium service!www.newsly.me◇ Visit all the fine creators at www.blindknowledge.com today Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join your hosts Dr. Sean Travers and Chris D as they recap every episode of Twin Peaks.Follow Dr. Travers on Twitter & Instagram @seanjetraversHer book Trauma in American Popular Culture and Cult Texts, 1980-2020 is now available!Original art by @cj_wheelwright◇ Download Newsly today and use our promo code CULTF1LM for a FREE month of their premium service!www.newsly.me◇ Visit all the fine creators at www.blindknowledge.com today Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Home is where the horror is and in this chapter of Deadly Doses podcast we are joined by author of Trauma in American Popular Culture and Cult Texts, 1980-2020 Dr Sean Travers who specialises in horror, postmodernism and the manner in which trauma is represented in the modern horror film. Films discussed include-MIDSOMMER (Dir. Ari Aster, 2019)HEREDITARY (Dir. Ari Aster, 2018)

Hosts Amber and Dr. Joy are joined by https://karencoxhistorian.com/ (Dr. Karen Cox), historian and author of https://uncpress.org/book/9781469609867/dreaming-of-dixie/ (Dreaming of Dixie: How the South was Created in American Popular Culture) and https://uncpress.org/book/9781469662671/no-common-ground/ (No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice) on the history of plantation tourism— the whys of how we as a community understand the history, projections, myths, around plantations, slavery, and what we see when we visit them today. - Looking to visit Whitney Plantation? Check out our website for information on tours, programs, and events. Remember to follow us on all social media platforms! Help us continue creating programming that informs through https://www.whitneyplantation.org/donate/ (a donation to Whitney Plantation). We need feedback! Please take https://form.jotform.com/221926261329052 (this survey) to help us better know our listeners.

Kelly Carlin, executive producer of HBO's new documentary "George Carlin's American Dream," directed by Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio which chronicles the life and work of Kelly's father and legendary comedian; After addressing the NRA on Friday, Senator Ted Cruz  tried to eat sushi with his family when he was confronted by our guest Gun Control Activist Benjamin Hernandez.    (2:03)  David Does the News: Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul crashes his car while driving drunk; How to end gun violence; Joe Biden; Ted Cruz;  The NRA  (57:49) "USA of Distraction" written and performed by Professor Mike Steinel (1:03:27)  Benjamin Hernandez (Founder of Human Age Digital & Co-Founder of Vote Simple) Benjamin Hernandez is a Board Member at Indivisible Houston, a grassroots organization that holds politicians accountable, the CEO of Human Age Digital, a digital marketing firm providing progressive campaigns modern tools for digital outreach, and a Co-Founder of VoteSimple, a Texas based nonprofit dedicated to registering people of color and L-G-B-T-Q-plus individuals to vote.  (1:28:29)  The Rev. Barry W. Lynn (Americans United for Separation of Church and State) w/ Monica Miller (Consulting Attorney at Nonhuman Rights Project, Executive Director of the Humanist Legal Society) The Rev. Barry W. Lynn talks with Monica Miller from the Nonhuman Rights Project, where she's helped file a habeas  petition on behalf of a chimpanzee and argued a habeas  on behalf of an elephant in the NY Court of Appeals. She's also featured in the HBO documentary "Unlocking the Cage." (1:59:11)  Howie Klein (founder and treasurer of The Blue America PAC and author of Down With Tyranny) The Midterms: Howie tells us what happened  last Tuesday in Georgia and Texas, then he tells us what to expect on June 7 in California, New Jersey, Montana and Iowa. (2:30:59)  Kelly Carlin (Writer, Talker, Executive Producer of "George Carlin's American Dream") Kelly Carlin is a writer, author, speaker, producer, and performer. She's the host of “The Kelly Carlin Show” on Sirius XM and the podcast “Waking Up from the American Dream”,  author of “A Carlin Home Companion: Growing up with George,” and executive producer of the new HBO doc "George Carlin's American Dream". It's about her father, George. It's directed by Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio. 2:59:47 Dr. Harriet Fraad (host of "Capitalism Hits Home") Mass murder in America. (3:30:29)  Professor Adnan Husain ("Guerrilla History" and "The Majlis" podcasts) w/ Professor David Schmid (author of "Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture", co-editor of "Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction") What do the recent mass shootings demonstrate about the role that violence plays in American culture? Will things ever change? How do we maintain hope in the face of so much despair? David Schmid is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University at Buffalo, where he teaches courses in British and American fiction, cultural studies, and popular culture. He has published on a variety of subjects, including the nonfiction novel, celebrity, film adaptation, “Dracula”, and crime fiction, but much of his work focuses on violence and popular culture. He is the author of “Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture”, the co-author of “Zombie Talk: Culture, History, Politics”, the editor of “Violence in American Popular Culture”, and the co-editor of “Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction: A World of Crime”. He has also recorded a series of video lectures for The Learning Company entitled “The Secrets of Great Mystery and Suspense Fiction”. He is currently working on a book about crime narratives in the Black Lives Matter era. (4:21:00)  Ethan Herschenfeld (his new comedy special "Thug, Thug Jew" is streaming on YouTube) Ethan's new book is "Today is Now!"  BUY ETHAN'S BOOK RIGHT NOW: https://www.amazon.com/Today-Now-Samuel-Benjamin-ebook/dp/B0B2F7BK4C  (4:45:32)  Professor Mary Anne Cummings (physicist and parks commissioner Aurora, Illinois) (5:10:18)  Jason Myles (co-host of "This is Revolution" podcast) Jason Myles is co-host, with Pascal Robert (“row-BEAR”) of "This is Revolution" podcast. San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler stands during national anthem on Memorial Day. Well that took courage. We livestream here on YouTube every Monday and Thursday starting at 5:00 PM Eastern and go until 11:00 PM. Please join us!  Take us wherever you go by subscribing to this show as a podcast! Here's how: https://davidfeldmanshow.com/how-to-listen/ And Subscribe to this channel. SUPPORT INDEPENDENT MEDIA: https://www.paypal.com/biz/fund?id=PDTFTUJCCV3EW More David @ http://www.DavidFeldmanShow.com Get Social With David: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/davidfeldmancomedy?ref=hl Twitter: https://twitter.com/David_Feldman_ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/david-feldman-show/id321997239

Zoe & Claire speak to Dr Miranda Corcoran - author of Teen Witches Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture - about the use of the witch icon in popular culture, the rise in modern day witches, we talk about witches of our youth Tabitha, Sabrina, Endora and Buffy - we ask why do young women need witch role models?

Navigate the history of the Lost Cause myth, the raising and removal of its most visible symbols, and the pathway toward solidarity and racial justice with a panel of authors steeped in the struggle.Panelists:Howard Hunter is a native of New Orleans and a history teacher 38 years. He has published articles on New Orleans and the Civil War for both academic and general audiences. He is past president of the Louisiana Historical Society. Tearing Down the Lost Cause with co-author James Gill is his first book.Karen L. Cox is an award-winning historian, Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians, and professor of history at the Universityof North Carolina at Charlotte. A successful public intellectual, she has written op- eds for the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, TIME, and more. Dr. Cox regularly gives media interviews on the subject of southern history and culture and is the author of four books, including No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice (April 2021), Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture, and Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South.Moderator:Mitch Landrieu is an American Politician, Lawyer, author, speaker, nonprofit leader and CNN political commentator. He served as the 61st Mayor of New Orleans (2010-2018). Landrieu gained national prominence for his powerful decision to take down four Confederate monuments in New Orleans, which also earned him the prestigious John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. In his best-selling book, In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History, Landrieu recounts his personal journey confronting the issue of race and institutional racism that still plagues America. He recently launched E Pluribus Unum, an initiative in the South created to fulfill America's promise of justice and opportunity for all by breaking down the barriers that divide us by race and class. Prior to serving as Mayor, Landrieu served two terms as lieutenant governor and 16 years in the state legislature. He also served as President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Friday, 17 September 2021, 12 – 1pm What can we learn about a writer from reading their letters? This online roundtable, organised by the Trinity Long Room Hub as part of Culture Night 2021, invites a panel of experts to reflect on the letters of three major writers, American author Shirley Jackson, American poet John Berryman, and Irish novelist John McGahern. The roundtable will feature Bernice Murphy (TCD), Philip Coleman (TCD), and Frank Shovlin (University of Liverpool), and will be chaired by Eve Patten, Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub. About the speakers Philip Coleman is Professor in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin. His is an expert on American poetry and short fiction, and is the author/editor of several books, including John Berryman's Public Vision (2014), David Foster Wallace: Critical Insights (2015), and George Saunders: Critical Essays (2017). His most recent book is the Selected Letters of John Berryman (Harvard University Press, 2020), which he co-edited with Calista McRae (New Jersey Institute of Technology). Bernice M. Murphy is an Associate Professor and Lecturer in Popular Literature in the School of English, Trinity College, Dublin. Her books include the edited collection Shirley Jackson: Essays on the Literary Legacy (2005), The Suburban Gothic in American Popular Culture (2009), The Rural Gothic: Backwoods Horror and Terror in the Wilderness (2013), and The California Gothic in Fiction and Film (forthcoming). Bernice was an expert consultant on The Letters of Shirley Jackson, edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman (Random House, 2021). Frank Shovlin is Professor of Irish Literature in English at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool. His several publications include Journey Westward: Joyce, Dubliners and the Literary Revival (2012), and Touchstones: John McGahern's Classical Style (2016). Frank is editor of the newly-published Letters of John McGahern (Faber, 2021).

Sadina & Jennifer read and discuss backwoods horror as featured in “The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture.” Media Discussed: “The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture: Backwoods Horror & Terror in the Wilderness” by Bernice M. Murphy (2013)

In this freewheeling bonus episode, Kylie and Dan assess Jarett Kobek's claim in I Hate the Internet that "the good novel, as an idea, was created by the Central Intelligence Agency." Kylie summarizes her dissertation research on the relationship between the American intelligence community and American fiction, Dan comes up with some wild metaphors, and they both weigh in on whether the CIA's influence on literary production prevented authors from developing new forms or ideas. Plus, a spontaneous NewlyReads Game and Dan's infamous T.S. Eliot impression!An incomplete bibliography of great books on this topic that Kylie references in the episode: For more information on the Congress of Cultural Freedom, see Frances Stonor Saunders's The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters. For more on the general relationship between American intelligence, literature, and university humanities programs, see Timothy Melley's The Covert Sphere: Secrecy, Fiction, and the National Security State and Robin Winks's Cloak and Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961.For a more focused examination of how Faulkner was promoted as an American asset in the Cold War cultural battle, see Lawrence H. Schwartz's Creating Faulkner's Reputation: The Politics of Modern Literary Criticism. And finally, for more information on the FBI's policing of black writers and thinkers in the twentieth century, see F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature , Barbara Foley's Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, and Richard Gid Powers's G-Men: Hoover's FBI in American Popular Culture. 

We are joined today by Janelle Olivia Levy, who along with myself, are contributing authors to a wonderful forthcoming special issue entitled “The Enduring Dangers of Essentializing Labor and Laborers” in Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies co-edited by my dear and brilliant colleagues and amistades Dr. Abigail Rosas and Dr. Ana Rosas. Along with Dr. Damien Sojoyner, Janelle Olivia Levy co-authored the essay “The Cost of Freedom: The Violent Exploitation of Black Labor as Essential to Nation Building in Jamaica and the United States of America.” A doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, Levy remind us in the essay that “a true commitment to Black life most hold an emancipatory politic divorced from canonizing labor exploitation.” We are also honored to welcome Dr. George Lipsitz. When Danny and I were doctoral students in American Studies, Dr. Lipsitz work and wisdom was foundational in our grounding of the field and how to be in the world. Dr. Lipsitz's work which includes brilliant and beautiful work such as Footsteps in the Dark: The Hidden Histories of Popular Music, Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture, and the urgent The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics to name a few stands as a testament to collectively remember amidst devastation, to make connections when we are demanded to be individuated and to work through difference globally in the beauty of our ancestral practices. We also invite you to join us on Tuesday, April 13th from 9am-3:30pm for a virtual event that will feature more extensive dialogues about our essays for the special issue and further discuss the under-examined and dangerous erasures and rigors of essentializing laborers and labor across a diversity of contexts, locations, and relationships. It will feature a keynote presentation by our guest today Dr. George Lipsitz and be moderated by Dr. Rosas, associate professor, Chicano/Latino studies and history. We are so grateful for Dr. Abigail Rosas, Dr. Ana Rosas and Dr. George Lipsitz for your collaboration in making today's episode possible, a testament to the abundant energies of working relationally and comparatively. https://uci.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_U5EvdmWjR4iCOjgquQHWWA

In Part 2, Christian discusses the influential Discordian trilogy of books called "Illuminatus!" and we make a little sidestep into discussion about how 'Bill and Ted' may or may not fit into the picture as we move throughout the 80s and 90s. We also talk about Discordianism's links to science fiction and fanzines, and Christian starts interviewing me at a certain point due to the topic of Furries that comes up in our conversation. We then discuss how Discordianism became a type of cyberculture and how hacking relates to it. Christian shares his ideas about the scholarly side of researching this group, and why 'being in conversation in a spirit of generosity' is important for researchers. PROGRAM NOTESAcademia.edu website Christian Greer: (99+) J. Christian Greer | Harvard Divinity School - Academia.edu(99+) (PDF) Discordianism | J. Christian Greer - Academia.edu(99+) (PDF) Church of the SubGenius | J. Christian Greer - Academia.edu(99+) (PDF) "Discordians Stick Apart" : The Institutional Turn within Contemporary Discordianism | J. Christian Greer - Academia.edu(99+) (PDF) Religion Can't be a Joke, Right? | J. Christian Greer - Academia.edu(99+) (PDF) [book review] Carole M. Cusack. Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith. | J. Christian Greer - Academia.eduCarole Cusack, Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith: Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith: Cusack, Carole M: Amazon.nlErik Davis, High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies: High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies (The MIT Press): Davis, Erik: 9781907222870: Amazon.com: BooksMichael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America: A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America (Volume 15) (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society): Barkun, Michael: 9780520276826: Amazon.com: BooksDavid Chidester, Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture: Amazon.com: Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture (9780520242807): Chidester, David: BooksJohan Huizinga, Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture: Huizinga, Johan: 9781621389996: Amazon.com: BooksMikhail Baktin, Rabelais and His World : Rabelais and His World: Bakhtin, Mikhail: Amazon.nlAldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception: The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell: Huxley, Aldous: Amazon.com: BooksAdam Gorightly, Historia Discordia: Historia Discordia: the origins of the discordian society: Gorightly, Adam: Amazon.nlHistoria Disordia website: Historia Discordia – Documenting the Origins, History, and Chaos of the Discordian SocietyPrincipia Discordia (online source): Principia Discordia | the book of Chaos, Discord and Confusion | Fnord!Gnosis Magazine (online): Gnosis MagazineRobert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminatus Trilogy: The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan: Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson: 9780440539810: Amazon.com: BooksTom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test: The Electric Kool - Aid Acid Test: Tom Wolfe: 9780552993661: Amazon.com: BooksAdam Curtis article: Adam Curtis Explains It All | The New YorkerAdam Curtis, "Can't Get You Out of My Head" - YouTube: Can't Get You Out of My Head (2021) - YouTubeDr. Christian Greer's Instagram Page: JCG (@angelheadedhipstersarchive) • Instagram-foto's en -video's'Visions of the Occult' Summer School Online Course Information: Summer course: Visions of the Occult - Introduction to Western Esotericism - History of Hermetic Philosophy (amsterdamhermetica.nl)Podcast Theme: Daniel P. SheaOther Music: Stephanie Shea

In Part 1, Christian will go into the history of the concept of laughter found in American religion/spirituality, as well as talking about the term 'psychedelicism' and the ways that psychedelics were viewed with regard to spiritual growth. We then get into the Discordians, their history, their ideas about chaos and hoaxes, and how Lee Harvey Oswald fits into the picture.PROGRAM NOTESAcademia.edu website Christian Greer: (99+) J. Christian Greer | Harvard Divinity School - Academia.edu(99+) (PDF) Discordianism | J. Christian Greer - Academia.edu(99+) (PDF) Church of the SubGenius | J. Christian Greer - Academia.edu(99+) (PDF) "Discordians Stick Apart" : The Institutional Turn within Contemporary Discordianism | J. Christian Greer - Academia.edu(99+) (PDF) Religion Can't be a Joke, Right? | J. Christian Greer - Academia.edu(99+) (PDF) [book review] Carole M. Cusack. Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith. | J. Christian Greer - Academia.eduCarole Cusack, Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith: Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith: Cusack, Carole M: Amazon.nlErik Davis, High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies: High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies (The MIT Press): Davis, Erik: 9781907222870: Amazon.com: BooksMichael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America: A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America (Volume 15) (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society): Barkun, Michael: 9780520276826: Amazon.com: BooksDavid Chidester, Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture: Amazon.com: Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture (9780520242807): Chidester, David: BooksJohan Huizinga, Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture: Huizinga, Johan: 9781621389996: Amazon.com: BooksMikhail Baktin, Rabelais and His World : Rabelais and His World: Bakhtin, Mikhail: Amazon.nlAldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception: The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell: Huxley, Aldous: Amazon.com: BooksAdam Gorightly, Historia Discordia: Historia Discordia: the origins of the discordian society: Gorightly, Adam: Amazon.nlHistoria Disordia website: Historia Discordia – Documenting the Origins, History, and Chaos of the Discordian SocietyPrincipia Discordia (online source): Principia Discordia | the book of Chaos, Discord and Confusion | Fnord!Gnosis Magazine (online): Gnosis MagazineRobert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminatus Trilogy: The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan: Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson: 9780440539810: Amazon.com: BooksTom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test: The Electric Kool - Aid Acid Test: Tom Wolfe: 9780552993661: Amazon.com: BooksAdam Curtis article: Adam Curtis Explains It All | The New YorkerAdam Curtis, "Can't Get You Out of My Head" - YouTube: Can't Get You Out of My Head (2021) - YouTubeDr. Christian Greer's Instagram Page: JCG (@angelheadedhipstersarchive) • Instagram-foto's en -video's'Visions of the Occult' Summer School Online Course Information: Summer course: Visions of the Occult - Introduction to Western Esotericism - History of Hermetic Philosophy (amsterdamhermetica.nl)Podcast Theme: Daniel P. SheaOther Music: Stephanie Shea

This month we talk to Ross Benes, a native son of Brainerd, Nebraska who has written a book about his hometown and his journey away from it and its conservative values. And then Dan tells us all about his new book, The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and American Popular Culture. And in One Last Thing, Dan has been visiting Northern Ireland and Tim has been visiting eastern Tennessee. Some of the things we talked about on this show: Mr. Benes mentioned What's the Matter with Kansas? and Dinesh D'Souza's What's So Great About Christianity. That film trilogy Dan mentioned is The Qatsi Trilogy by Godfrey Reggio. Dan's One Last Thing was Derry Girls. Tim's One Last Thing was The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young. (But also: go watch In and Of Itself.) 0:00-2:04: Introduction 2:08-20:44: Benes interview 20:49-33:22: Clanton interview 33:26-35:52: Dan's OLT 35:52-38:55: Tim's OLT 38:55-39:55: Credits 39:58-40:12: Outtake

The subject of countless songs, films, novels and works of art, 'the American Dream' has been a defining theme of the modern American ethos. As US election day approaches in the midst of a global pandemic, climate catastrophe and escalating racial tensions, we want to ask if this dream -- with its emphasis on equality, opportunity and freedom -- has become a nightmare. With the US now ranking as one of the most unequal G7 countries in the world, our panel of experts will explore this topic from a range of social and cultural perspectives, and in anticipation of a crucial and complicated American election day. Speakers: Bernice Murphy is Associate Professor at the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, where she lectures in popular literature and specialises in the study of place and space in American horror and gothic narratives. Her books include The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture (2013). Larycia Hawkins is a scholar, professor of political science, and activist. Professor Hawkins teaches and researches at the University of Virginia (UVA), where she is jointly appointed in the departments of Politics and Religious Studies. She is part of the UVA Democracy Initiative's Religion, Race & Democracy Lab. Her publications include Jesus and Justice: The Moral Framing of the Black Agenda (2015). Nicholas Johnson is an Associate Professor in Drama in Trinity's School of Creative Arts. He is a founding co-director of the Beckett Summer School at TCD and a co-founder of the new Trinity Centre for Beckett Studies. He publishes across several fields and has been a regular media commentator on the US election landscape. Ed Pavlić is Distinguished Research Professor of English and African American Studies and affiliated faculty in Creative Writing at the University of Georgia, Athens (GA). He is the author of 'Who Can Afford to Improvise?': James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listeners (2015). The Trinity Long Room Hub Behind the Headlines series is supported by the John Pollard Foundation.

We are joined by 3 Sacred Heart University guest podcasters to get their perspectives as we look at Media in American Popular Culture.

A ton of pop culture goodies for everyone out there to start off your weekend! Gamescom kicks off the festivities with some intriguing announcements and trailers involving Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War, Star Wars Squadrons, Medal of Honor coming to VR, Fall Guys getting a season two, Twelve Minutes gets a AAA cast, and more! Plus the guys speculate about the future for San Diego Comic-Con coming off the DC Fandome and if this will be the wave of the future, how big is Madden to the gaming industry now that Madden NFL 21 is here, and it's the first box office battle in months as Bill and Ted Face the Music faces off against New Mutants. Will you stay home with Bill and Ted, or check out the long-delayed Marvel film in theaters? And where does Tenet fit in? All this and Josh's RumorVille returns with some Justice League rumors and Gerald reviews Dollhouse: The Eradication of Female Subjectivity from American Popular Culture on our latest PCC Multiverse! Don't forget to Subscribe to our shows and leave us that 5-Star Review with your questions on Apple Podcasts or e-mail us at popculturecosmos@yahoo.com! Presented by Pop Culture Cosmos, Zero Cool Films, the novel Congratulations, You Suck (available for purchase HERE), and Retro City Games!

A ton of pop culture goodies for everyone out there to start off your weekend! Gamescom kicks off the festivities with some intriguing announcements and trailers involving Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War, Star Wars Squadrons, Medal of Honor coming to VR, Fall Guys getting a season two, Twelve Minutes gets a AAA cast, and more! Plus the guys speculate about the future for San Diego Comic-Con coming off the DC Fandome and if this will be the wave of the future, how big is Madden to the gaming industry now that Madden NFL 21 is here, and it's the first box office battle in months as Bill and Ted Face the Music faces off against New Mutants. Will you stay home with Bill and Ted, or check out the long-delayed Marvel film in theaters? And where does Tenet fit in? All this and Josh's RumorVille returns with some Justice League rumors and Gerald reviews Dollhouse: The Eradication of Female Subjectivity from American Popular Culture on our latest PCC Multiverse! Don't forget to Subscribe to our shows and leave us that 5-Star Review with your questions on Apple Podcasts or e-mail us at popculturecosmos@yahoo.com! Presented by Pop Culture Cosmos, Zero Cool Films, the novel Congratulations, You Suck (available for purchase HERE), and Retro City Games! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pop-culture-cosmos-one-ho/support

Van Lathan is an established host and media personality from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He can be heard weekly on “The Red Pill” podcast, which garners over 50,000 listeners per episode, as well as on the podcast Higher Learning with Rachel Lindsay. Van’s passion for sports, entertainment, and news comes across in his reporting and insightful […]

In this special Halloween episode, hosts Katherine Troyer and Anthony Tresca discuss the 1978 film Halloween. (Of course!)Episode Highlights: Katherine talks about the Suburban Gothic as a critical framework, Anthony questions why the film seems to hate partially naked women, and we get into a lively debate about whether or not the film's conservative perspective undermines the larger value of the film.A Dose of Scholarship: For more on the Suburban Gothic, we encourage you to check out Bernice M. Murphy's The Suburban Gothic in American Popular Culture. Murphy beautifully and thoroughly discusses this sub-genre through a variety of texts--from zombie films to Desperate Housewives--all the while leaving you to ponder whether you actually want that home in the suburbs after all. Twitter/Instagram: @NightmarePod1; Email: suchanightmare.pod@gmail.com

Dr. Katherine Karlin of Kansas State University gives us a look into her research on Etta Moten's radio show 'I Remember When', on WAMQ Chicago. Etta Moten was an American actress and contralto vocalist who created new roles for African-American women on stage and screen. After her performing career, Moten was active in Chicago as a major philanthropist and civic activist, raising funds for and supporting cultural, social and church institutions.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=21685169)

Dr R. Tyson Smith PhD is the author of Fighting for Recognition. Released through Duke University Press, the book was a result of a long-term ethnographic study that examined the “indy” wrestling scene in New York. That was, in the mid-2000. Tyson sat down with the Remotely Interested podcast to discuss his past work in this extended discussion of the Michael Cuellari episode. RI Podcast 24: Michael “Q.T. Marshall” Cuellari – Lessons Learned from Professional Wrestling https://soundcloud.com/remotelyinterested/ri-podcast-24-michael-qt-marshall-cuellari-lessons-learned-from-professional-wrestling Professional Wrestling and Sociology Barthes, Roland. [1957] 1972. Mythologies. New York: Hill and Wang Publishers (last accessed August 12th 2019): http://www.english.unt.edu/~simpkins/Barthes%20Myths.pdf Smith, R. T. 2008. ‘‘Passion Work: The Joint Production of Emotional Labor in Professional Wrestling.’’ Social Psychology Quarterly 71:157–76. (2019 Thompson Reuter Impact Factor 1.54) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/019027250807100205 Smith, R.T. 2014. Fighting for Recognition: Identity, Masculinity, and the Act of Violence in Professional Wrestling, London: Duke University Press. History of Professional Wrestling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_professional_wrestling Ball, M. R. 1990. Professional Wrestling as Ritual Drama in American Popular Culture. Lewiston: Edwin Mellon Press. Beckman, S. M. 2006. Ringside: A History of Professional Wrestling in America. Westport, CT: Praeger (last accessed August 12th 2019): https://archive.org/details/ringsidehistoryo00beek Morton, G.W. and O’Brien, G. M. 1985. Wrestling to Rasslin’: Ancient Sport to American Spectacle. Bowling Green, MI: Bowling Green State University Popular Press. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-in_professional_wrestling One Fall Power Factory- 1FW Training Facility https://1fpowerfactory.com/ https://youtu.be/hn2qNPclOZc https://twitter.com/realmmarshall1 The Wrestler – A Q.T. Marshall Story https://www.bigfpictures.com/ From Wrestler to Coach https://youtu.be/kuLVy7PjCmw Q.T. Marshall vs Bryan Danielson (Danial Bryan WWE) https://youtu.be/XtEpiGhCRIE AEW - The Road to Fight for the Fallen - Episode 01 (3 minutes to 3 minutes 54) https://youtu.be/YD8FcXeWKLE Wigan Snake Pit http://eyeonwrestling.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-incredible-legacy-of-billy-riley.html https://youtu.be/-LjrjnPLV1o https://youtu.be/wqq_LWudBek https://youtu.be/SitAgR3-tZ8 Beyond The Mat https://youtu.be/kU5GIF0sdYI Rick Rubin and Smoky Mountain Wrestling https://youtu.be/jerneer2TVA Billy Corgan and the National Wrestling Alliance https://youtu.be/iae2t4y7P-c Why the News Media is stealing from the Pro Wrestling playbook | Eric Bischoff | TEDxNaperville https://youtu.be/n2RCT6Li4UQ All Elite Wrestling https://www.allelitewrestling.com/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianmazique/2019/01/04/10-things-you-should-know-about-aew-all-elite-wrestling/#1bca8292514c https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/aew-tnt-premiere-date-1203277974/ Matt and Nick Massie explaining the formation of All Elite Wrestling https://youtu.be/XrtXy1foNc4 Being The Elite (9 minutes 30 seconds to around 16 minutes 30 seconds – fan interaction segment) https://youtu.be/qddNdQ_-2wI ProWrestlingTees https://www.prowrestlingtees.com/ The Major Wrestling Figure Podcast Two wrestlers that are primarily known for their work with World Wrestling Entertainment turn their love of collectables into a brand and internet-based series https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWeU0ZFXVsPs7fagjnQchMQ/featured Full Sail University and its ties to professional wrestling / sports entertainment https://www.fullsail.edu/about/full-sail-stories/full-sail-university-and-wwe World Wrestling Entertainment as a publicly traded company https://corporate.wwe.com/investors/investor-overview

This episode of the Kimcast I have on filmmaker, Nicole Brending, the brilliant mind behind the film, Dollhouse: The Eradication of Female Subjectivity from American Popular Culture, a hilarious satire of popular culture and gender politics. If you loved Team America, this is right up your alley, unless you hate chicks. Nicole has faced backlash from critics cis and trans alike, being labeled a threat and threatened herself, all because they were triggered by a funny puppet movie. We have a great talk about comedy and the censorship of the left through Nicole's experience with her film. Check out the trailer- https://vimeo.com/296329968 Please subscribe- Apple- https://apple.co/2CMR4IA Stitcher- http://bit.ly/2uBCwXT YouTube- http://bit.ly/2FPk44h Follow me! Instagram- http://bit.ly/2Ud9InN Twitter- http://bit.ly/2JUGEg1

Michael Cuellari made his debut as a professional wrestler in 2004. In-ring career includes Ring of Honor, World Wrestling Entertainment and Impact Wrestling. Michael is currently Head Couch at 1 Fall Power Factory and Associate Producer for All Elite Wrestling. Cuellari is more widely known by the ring name Q.T. Marshall. He was also the subject of a documentary released in 2017. The Wrestler – A Q.T. Marshall Story. It won the Best Documentary at the San Diego Comic-Con Film Festival that same year. Adam and the Remotely Interested podcast visited Michael at his training facility – 1 Fall Power Factory. They sat down and discussed his life in wrestling: as a fan, performer and teacher. The interview also explores new media and connecting with a fan or supporter base. One Fall Power Factory- 1FW Training Facility https://1fpowerfactory.com/ https://youtu.be/hn2qNPclOZc https://twitter.com/realmmarshall1 The Wrestler – A Q.T. Marshall Story https://www.bigfpictures.com/ From Wrestler to Coach https://youtu.be/kuLVy7PjCmw Q.T. Marshall vs Bryan Danielson (Danial Bryan WWE) https://youtu.be/XtEpiGhCRIE AEW - The Road to Fight for the Fallen - Episode 01 (3 minutes to 3 minutes 54) https://youtu.be/YD8FcXeWKLE Professional Wrestling and Sociology Barthes, Roland. [1957] 1972. Mythologies. New York: Hill and Wang Publishers (last accessed August 12th 2019): http://www.english.unt.edu/~simpkins/Barthes%20Myths.pdf Smith, R. T. 2008. ‘‘Passion Work: The Joint Production of Emotional Labor in Professional Wrestling.’’ Social Psychology Quarterly 71:157–76. (2019 Thompson Reuter Impact Factor 1.54) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/019027250807100205 Smith, R.T. 2014. Fighting for Recognition: Identity, Masculinity, and the Act of Violence in Professional Wrestling, London: Duke University Press. History of Professional Wrestling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_professional_wrestling Ball, M. R. 1990. Professional Wrestling as Ritual Drama in American Popular Culture. Lewiston: Edwin Mellon Press. Beckman, S. M. 2006. Ringside: A History of Professional Wrestling in America. Westport, CT: Praeger (last accessed August 12th 2019): https://archive.org/details/ringsidehistoryo00beek Morton, G.W. and O’Brien, G. M. 1985. Wrestling to Rasslin’: Ancient Sport to American Spectacle. Bowling Green, MI: Bowling Green State University Popular Press. Wigan Snake Pit http://eyeonwrestling.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-incredible-legacy-of-billy-riley.html https://youtu.be/-LjrjnPLV1o https://youtu.be/wqq_LWudBek https://youtu.be/SitAgR3-tZ8 Beyond The Mat https://youtu.be/kU5GIF0sdYI Rick Rubin and Smoky Mountain Wrestling https://youtu.be/jerneer2TVA Billy Corgan and the National Wrestling Alliance https://youtu.be/iae2t4y7P-c Why the News Media is stealing from the Pro Wrestling playbook | Eric Bischoff | TEDxNaperville https://youtu.be/n2RCT6Li4UQ All Elite Wrestling https://www.allelitewrestling.com/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianmazique/2019/01/04/10-things-you-should-know-about-aew-all-elite-wrestling/#1bca8292514c https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/aew-tnt-premiere-date-1203277974/ Matt and Nick Massie explaining the formation of All Elite Wrestling https://youtu.be/XrtXy1foNc4 Being The Elite (9 minutes 30 seconds to around 16 minutes 30 seconds – fan interaction segment) https://youtu.be/qddNdQ_-2wI ProWrestlingTees https://www.prowrestlingtees.com/ The Major Wrestling Figure Podcast Two wrestlers that are primarily known for their work with World Wrestling Entertainment turn their love of collectables into a brand and internet-based series https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWeU0ZFXVsPs7fagjnQchMQ/featured Full Sail University and its ties to professional wrestling / sports entertainment https://www.fullsail.edu/about/full-sail-stories/full-sail-university-and-wwe World Wrestling Entertainment as a publicly traded company https://corporate.wwe.com/investors/investor-overview

Steve Carper is a Future Historian, researching how the dazzling future that dominated the Golden Age of science fiction was created—starting with the technological frenzy of the late 19th century. Steve writes a bi-weekly robot column at BlackGate.com and his latest book, published in June 2019, is Robots in American Popular Culture. This book examines society’s reactions to robots and androids such as Robby, Rosie, Elektro, Sparko, Data, WALL-E, C-3PO and the Terminator in popular culture. Steve and I discussed his new book, covering some of the most famous robots of fiction and then all aspects of robot technology in our culture: robots as servants, enemies, lovers, children, successors and doubles. Where will the evolution of robots take our society next? Klaatu barada nikto.

Happy Louisa MAY Alcott everyone! This time around, we’re talking about Louisa, money, fame and George Eliot makes a surprise appearance. Big thanks to our special guest Marlowe Daly for joining us! Marlowe teaches American literature, writing, and interdisciplinary humanities classes at Lewis-Clark State College. Her Alcott-related work has been published in Reconstruction, Arizona Quarterly, Women’s Studies, Girls’ Series Fiction and American Popular Culture, and Critical Insights: Little Women.

Inside: Whigs as Zombie Federalists. The Eminem of the "Jump Jim Crow" dance. Inheritence as control by the dead. 19th century amusements: soap bubbles still hot. Trains will make homes obsolete and the telegraph was the internet. feat. @Alecks_Guns and @MattLech Sources: Cook, Jonathan A. "“The Most Satisfactory Villain That Ever Was”: Charles W. Upham and The House of the Seven Gables." The New England Quarterly 88, no. 2 (2015): 252-285. David Grant. "The Death of Anti-Whiggery in The House of the Seven Gables." ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture 63, no. 1 (2017): 79-117. https://muse.jhu.edu/ Ashby, LeRoy. With Amusement for All: A History of American Popular Culture since 1830. University Press of Kentucky, 2006. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2jcqsr. Utopian Socialists by Youtuber 'robert King' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRrHBScLhQA

This year is the 40th Anniversary of John Carpenter's Halloween! In honor of that, we'll be discussing some behind the scenes trivia, Laurie Strode as the original badass screen queen, the fears of domesticity, innocence lost, and stabbing the patriarchy in the eye with a wire hanger! Thanks to Lily LeBlanc for our theme song: www.lilythecomposer.com Thanks to our sponsors at Recess Coffee! Buy some coffee here: www.recesscoffee.com Resources: Lukic, Marko, Pandzic, Maja, Americana: Dreading the White Picket Fences: Domesticity and the Suburban Horror Film. The Journal of American Popular Culture, 1900 to Present; Hollywood Rasmussen, Randy. Psycho, The Birds, and Halloween: The Intimacy of Terror in Three Classic Films. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2014. 220 pp. Softcover. ISBN: 978-0-7864-7883-5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_(1978_film) https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/10/the-making-of-john-carpenters-halloween/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10394340/John-Carpenter-Halloweens-a-very-simple-film.html https://cup.columbia.edu/book/halloween/9781906733797 https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/halloween-1979 http://screenprism.com/insights/article/what-tropes-and-themes-did-halloween-help-introduce-to-the-horror-genre http://screenprism.com/insights/article/halloween-tropes-explained-final-girl-death-by-sex http://mentalfloss.com/article/59788/15-terrifying-facts-about-john-carpenters-halloween

John Podhoretz is the editor of "Commentary" and film critic of "The Weekly Standard." Podhoretz shares his perspective on movies as an American art form, pivotal eras in filmmaking (the 1930s and the 1970s), Hollywood today, and the broader cultural significance of movies and TV. Kristol and Podhoretz also consider innovations in television during the last decades and whether TV has surpassed film in cultural importance. Finally, Podhoretz argues that we have to much to learn and enjoy from watching the greatest movies of earlier decades.

John Podhoretz is the editor of "Commentary" and film critic of "The Weekly Standard." Podhoretz shares his perspective on movies as an American art form, pivotal eras in filmmaking (the 1930s and the 1970s), Hollywood today, and the broader cultural significance of movies and TV. Kristol and Podhoretz also consider innovations in television during the last decades and whether TV has surpassed film in cultural importance. Finally, Podhoretz argues that we have to much to learn and enjoy from watching the greatest movies of earlier decades.

John Podhoretz is the editor of "Commentary" and film critic of "The Weekly Standard." Podhoretz shares his perspective on movies as an American art form, pivotal eras in filmmaking (the 1930s and the 1970s), Hollywood today, and the broader cultural significance of movies and TV. Kristol and Podhoretz also consider innovations in television during the last decades and whether TV has surpassed film in cultural importance. Finally, Podhoretz argues that we have to much to learn and enjoy from watching the greatest movies of earlier decades.

We like to think of this as “American Graffiti: The Dark Side.” But seriously folks...As crass and silly as Animal House is, it KNOWS that it is crass and silly and therefore is able to get away with outrageous gags both plausible and implausible. This film is also responsible for some of our most deeply rooted icons in American Popular Culture. Two Examples: 1. “Double Secret Probation” 2. “To-ga! To-ga! To-ga!” Need we say more?

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In this 1 hour and 25 minute episode of our podcast/never-ending quest to become better library staff we talk about Weird and New Weird Fiction! We have a few audio problems this time out (blame Matthew), but we don’t let that stop us discussing the difference between Weird and New Weird, how to make everything about ghost stories, whether you need elements of the fantastic to be considered “Weird”, and existential dread. Plus: Our special guest Jon (who’s getting his PhD in Weird Fiction) drops big words like Oneiric and talks about things like the paradox of aversion, so be ready for that. You can download the podcast on Libsyn, or get it through iTunes or your favourite podcast delivery system.   In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jessi Recommended Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer 3 Strange Tales by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Uzumaki, vol. 1 by Junji Ito (graphic novel) A Fair Maiden by Joyce Carol Oates Age of Blight: Stories by Kristine Ong Muslim My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror by Thomas Ligotti Year's Best Weird Fiction, Volume One edited by Laird Barron Sensuous Science Fiction from the Weird and Spicy Pulps edited by Sheldon Jaffery (only recommended if you have very dubious taste like Matthew does…) Enigma at Amigara Fault by Junji Ito (illegal scan of the comic) Did Not Finish The Big Book of Ghost Stories edited by Otto Penzler The Small Hand and Dolly by Susan Hill The Summer of the Ubume by Natsuhiko Kyogoku The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (Recommended) Cogwheel and Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Get in Trouble by Kelly Link The Scar by China Miéville (Recommended) Searchers After Horror: New Tales of the Weird and Fantastic edited by S.T. Joshi Other books mentioned At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft Planetary/The Authority: Ruling the World by Warren Ellis and Phil Jimenez (the super racist bit Matthew mentioned) The Horror at Red Hook by H.P. Lovecraft The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake (Recommended) Perdido Street Station by China Miéville City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham (graphic novel) Superman: Red Son (graphic novel) The Last Days of New Paris by China Miéville (Recommended) Solaris by Stanisław Lem The Rural Gothic in American Popular Culture by Bernice M. Murphy Gyo by Junji Ito (graphic novel) The Rook by Daniel O'Malley (Recommended) Links and Other Things Weird Fiction (Wikipedia) New Weird  (Wikipedia) Lord Dunsany (Wikipedia) H.P. Lovecraft (Wikipedia) Arthur Machen (Wikipedia) Call of Cthulhu RPG (Wikipedia) Speculative fiction (Wikipedia) Slipstream (Wikipedia) Cyberpunk (Wikipedia) Cyberpunk derivatives (Wikipedia) Fourteen Notable Women Writers of the Weird from Weird Fiction Review China Miéville's top 10 weird fiction books from The Guardian Matthew’s list of Batman books and comics for every genre we cover (he can’t find a Historical Romance one, any suggestions?) DC Elseworlds comics (Wikipedia) Akutagawa Prize the prize named after the early 20th century Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (Wikipedia) The Dungeon Dimensions from the Discworld books (Wikipedia) From Annihilation to Acceptance: A Writer’s Surreal Journey article from The Atlantic that talks about the dental surgery origins of Jeff VanderMeer’s novel Annihilation SCP Foundation: Secure, Contain, Protect We Need To Talk About Fifty-Five - The first of the SCP stories that caused Matthew to have crazy dreams SCP-087 - The one about the staircase SCP-093 - The one about the mirror SCP-914 - The one about the Rough/Coarse/Fine machine Brotherhood of Dada (Wikipedia) Solaris (1972 film) directed by Andrei Tarkovsky (Wikipedia) Spicy Library Stories - Matthew’s ridiculous zine Gormenghast TV show (Wikipedia) Neverwhere TV show (Wikipedia) (and its rather terrible “Beast of London”) Alien Isolation video game (Wikipedia) Goosebumps series of books (Wikipedia) Rick and Morty TV show (Wikipedia) It Follows movie (Wikipedia) Arkham Horror the board game The weird map thing with rotating rooms Matthew made for an Achtung! Cthulhu game Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman (link to the actual story) (also a board game!) Welcome to Night Vale the humourous weird fiction podcast we completely failed to mention This blog post about Masochistic Reading features our second mention on Book Riot! Also, check out Jon’s blog where he writes up some of the Weird D&D adventures that he runs! And thanks to Sam and Aly from the SS Librarianship podcast for letting us use their recording space and equipment! Questions What is your definition of weird fiction? Can you have weird non-fiction? Can you recommend some outer space weird fiction? Check out our Pinterest board and Tumblr posts for all the books about Weird Fiction people in the club read (or tried to read), follow us on Twitter, and join our Facebook Group! Join us again on Tuesday, January 3rd, for our Best of 2016 episode! Then come back on Tuesday, January 17th, when we discuss Coming-of-Age books!  

“THE GILLIGAN MANIFESTO” WILL DEBUT AT 12TH ANNUAL LA FEMME INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, SATURDAY OCT. 22 Writer-Director Cevin Soling’s highly anticipated documentary, The Gilligan Manifesto, will be the Saturday night presentation at the La Femme International Film Festival on Oct. 22 at 6 pm at Laemmle’s Music Hall Theater Venue 2 in Beverly Hills. If you missed Cevin Soling on today's show, listen here! Just one year after the Cuban Missile Crisis, radio and television writer Sherwood Schwartz began filming his comedy classic Gilligan's Island, which depicts seven Americans shipwrecked on a deserted island. Soling’s film reveals that this seemingly innocuous sitcom was actually an analogue for a post-apocalyptic world where survivors had to rebuild civilization as this was a major concern during the Cold War where many families had fallout shelters in their homes. What is even more shocking is that the society the castaways create is founded on Marxist Communism. Soling’s revelation was published in the prestigious academic journal, Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture. To convert his article into a feature documentary, Soling interviewed creator Sherwood Schwartz. He also spoke with Russell Johnson and Dawn Wells, who played the Professor and Mary Ann, and several professors from Harvard. “Sherwood Schwartz often noted that he conceived Gilligan’s Island as a social microcosm where people from all walks of life would have to figure out how to get along,” Soling said, “but he confessed to me, in his last interview, that the show was deliberately designed as lowbrow humor in order to conceal its political message. For this reason, American audiences never realized that the show celebrates Marxism and lampoons Western capitalism and democratic governance.” “The most transgressive message conveyed by Gilligan’s Island is that it shows how much better off people are in under true communism – not the dictatorship government the Soviets and McCarthyites called communism. The characters that represent the pinnacle of success in capitalist society – the millionaire and the movie star, become whole people and establish social bonds that they never could have otherwise. On the island, their lives cease to be empty.” La Femme board member Deborah Gilels served as associate producer on the documentary which was edited by Joe Davenport and narrated by Rennie Davis, who, along with Abbie Hoffman was a member of the Chicago Seven. David Jackson’s Showcase Entertainment is selling the worldwide rights. Cevin Soling produced and directed the first theatrically released documentary on education, The War on Kids, which was honored as the best educational documentary at the New York Independent Film and Video Festival and has been broadcast on The Documentary Channel and The Sundance Channel. Soling wrote, produced, and directed Ikland, which documented his efforts to rediscover the lost Ik tribe of northern Uganda, who were famously disparaged in the early 1970s as the worst people in the world. The film won Best Documentary Content at the Boston International Film Festival and was heralded by the NY Times and other major media outlets. Last year, he completed Mr. Cevin & the Cargo Cult, a documentary about a tribe in Vanuatu who worship America, and is currently working on The Summer of Hate, a documentary on the Beatles’ controversial observations on religion and racism during their tour of America in 1966. ABOUT THE FILM At the height of the Cold War, Gilligan's Island depicted seven Americans living in an analogue of a post-apocalyptic world where the survivors have to rebuild civilization. Remarkably, the society they create is pure communist. Interviews with the show's creator and some of the surviving actors, as well from professors from Harvard, reveal that Gilligan's Island was deliberately designed to be dismissed as low brow comedy in order to celebrate Marxism and lampoon Western democratic constructs. Laemmle’s Music Hall theater is located at 9036 Wilshire Blvd. in Beverly Hills. Tickets can be purchased in advance at www.lafemme.org/festival or at the box office prior to the screening. For a special discount coupon, please visit: http://www.lafemme.org/tickets/individual-film-screening-discount/ password : special (all lower case)

In the 1920s Bata Kindai Amgoza ibn LoBagola toured the United States and Europe to share the culture of his African homeland with fascinated audiences. The reality was actually much more mundane: His name was Joseph Lee and he was from Baltimore. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll tell the curious story of this self-described "savage" and trace the unraveling of his imaginative career. We'll also dump a bucket of sarcasm on Duluth, Minnesota, and puzzle over why an acclaimed actor loses a role. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- on our Patreon page you can pledge any amount per episode, and all contributions are greatly appreciated. You can change or cancel your pledge at any time, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation via the Donate button in the sidebar of the Futility Closet website. Sources for our feature on Bata LoBagola: Bata Kindai Amgoza ibn LoBagola, LoBagola: An African Savage's Own Story, 1930. David Killingray and Willie Henderson, "Bata Kindai Amgoza ibn LoBagola and the Making of An African Savage's Own Story," in Bernth Lindfors, Africans on Stage: Studies in Ethnological Show Business, 1999. Alex Pezzati, "The Scholar and the Impostor," Expedition 47:2 (Summer 2005), 6. James Olney, Tell Me Africa: An Approach to African Literature, 2015. Louis Chude-Sokei, The Last "Darky": Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora, 2005. John Strausbaugh, Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture, 2007. Bata Kindai Amgoza Ibn LoBagola papers, New York Public Library Archives & Manuscripts. Jim Christy, "Scalawags: Bata Kindai Amgoza ibn LoBagola," Nuvo, Summer 2013. Kentucky representative James Proctor Knott's derisive panegyric on Duluth, Minnesota, was delivered in the U.S. House of Representatives on Jan. 27, 1871. This week's lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listener Ben Snitkoff, who sent this corroborating link (warning -- this spoils the puzzle). You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on iTunes or via the RSS feed at http://feedpress.me/futilitycloset. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. Enter promo code CLOSET at Harry's and get $5 off your first order of high-quality razors. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!

Priyanka Chopra has officially invaded the American Popular Culture psyche with her lead role on the new hit show Quantico. Join us this week as we discuss Ms Chopra herself, what she and Quantico mean for Indian Americans today, and much more.

We take a first look at the United States after the war. We look at how labor and capital came to an agreement after a wave of strikes, and we consider President Eisenhower’s warnings about the growing power of a "military-industrial complex."

In the spring, I attended a workshop at UW-Stout on how teachers are portrayed in film. Mary Dalton, the workshop leader and author of The Hollywood Curriculum: Teachers in the Movies, challenged attendees to think about how we could use these representations to talk about teaching and learning with our students, who are so familiar with these stories.  This use of popular culture as a way to nudge our students toward thinking more deeply and critically about their college experience reminded me immediately of the work a handful of our colleagues (Greg Ahrenhoerster, Timothy Dunn, Dick Flannery, Dean Kowalski, Craig Hurst, Margaret Hankenson, and Nathan Zook) have been doing in a series of books edited or co-edited by Dr. Joseph Foy, then Associate Professor of Political Science at UW-Waukesha and now assistant professor at UW-Parkside.  The authors in Homer Simpson Goes to Washington: American Politics through Popular Culture (University Press of Kentucky, 2008), Homer Simpson Marches on Washington: Dissent through American Popular Culture (University Press of Kentucky, 2010), andSpongeBob SquarePants and Philosophy: Soaking-Up Knowledge Under the Sea (Open Court, 2011) demonstrate the academic relevance and even significance of using pop culture across the curriculum.  I wanted to hear more, so I sat down for a conversation with Joe. --Nancy Chick, 2011 VTLC Director