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On Film Narrative and Terror
Our household just got back from a long weekend in 1999. We listened to Fiona Apple’s second album and prepared our computers for Y2K. We also watched Fight Club and The Matrix. Having only seen them...
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On the Harlem Shake and Authenticity
Prior to watching Melissa Harris-Perry’s breakdown of the “Harlem Shake,” I hadn’t seen any of the virals. But I am struck by Harris-Perry’s account of cultural appropriation and racial/geographical...
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Fugazi, Repeater
“There are no more races to be run, there are not numbers left to be won. Everybody’s down, we pulled each other down. There never was a truth to be found. We are all bigots, so full of hatred, we...
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“Can You Get to That”
If anybody needs cheering up this morning, tomorrow, or anytime this lifetime, I sincerely recommend you check out one of the greatest songs of the twentieth century performed by one of the greatest...
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Evaluating Value
I was thinking about cultural value this morning, as I have all week (all month, really…actually, for the past year, I guess). I’m interested in the overlap between the hard economic value of cultural...
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The Value of Pop (slight return)
Yesterday, I tried to make sense of the relationship between various forms of “value” and popular culture. I should have known not to bring up the internet and, especially, not to have tried too hard...
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More on the Southern Fantastic
I’ve been thinking about Keith’s most recent post on the “Southern Fantastic”—the common and consistent mythification of the American South in film. Keith offers lots of good cinematic examples, and I...
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On Empathy
There is a great profile in this week’s Times Magazine on the author Colum McCann, his new book TransAtlantic, and his recent trip to Newtown, CT, where he discussed his last book – Let the Great World...
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