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Archival analysis and cold war Pan Americanism
Courtyard of the Pan American Union, Washington, DC, 1943. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection (LC-USW36-734). Ph ...
What do university presses do?
One widely circulated infographic impression of how a book is born. By designer Mariah Bear . BY JASON WEIDEMANN Senior acquisitions editor at ...
Remembering the Hollywood blacklist and those artists who were silenced more than sixty years ago.
Cited for contempt of Congress, nine Hollywood men give themselves up to U.S. Marshal on December 10, 1947, after refusing to answer questions about t ...
Most things written about the Jonestown saga end on Nov. 18, 1978, the day more than 900 Americans died. "Stories from Jonestown" begins on that day.
Q&A with Leigh Fondakowski Emmy-nominated coscreenwriter for the adaptation of The Laramie Project for HBO Leigh Fondakowski spent three years travel ...
Will 2012 be remembered in cinematic history as the year Peter Jackson introduced us to new technology with The Hobbit?
As movie awards season is upon us, we thought we'd take the opportunity to discuss a significant development in film in 2012. BY ALICE MAURICE Associ ...
Integrity, survival, excellence: On the double life of George Cukor, one of the Golden Age's great Hollywood directors.
Portrait of George Cukor in 1973 at home in Los Angeles. Q&A WITH BIOGRAPHER PATRICK MCGILLIGAN What is the first thing we need to know about G ...
Animals, artists, and the question of ethics: A dialogue with Steve Baker.
"There seems to be a lingering expectation that art should provide consolation – the consolation that terrible things are only happening far away, o ...
Visual culture and the Nazi perpetrator
The New York Times features a slideshow in its piece Wartime Architects: Creating Amid Chaos , on the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal's ...
Selena, Jenni Rivera, Eva Garza—meditations on an author's soundtrack.
Sometimes the act of not listening can chart new territories for Chicano borderlands music. BY DEBORAH VARGAS Associate professor of ethnic studies ...
More guns in schools? An ethnographer's perspective.
Author Kathleen Nolan has studied what really happens when police patrol school hallways. Images from Creative Commons. BY KATHLEEN NOLAN Princet ...