Popular Culture

Television existed for a long time before it became commonplace in American homes. Even as cars, jazz, film, and radio heralded the modern age, tel...

Royal women wield a unique, quiet kind of power. They use their clothing choices and their styling preferences to create a visual brand that is at ...

An up-close look at how porn permeates our culture Pictures of half-naked girls and women can seem to litter almost every screen, billboard, and a...

For 20 years, Nerd Nite has delivered to live audiences the most interesting, fun, and informative presentations about science, history, the arts, ...

The 2016 election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency was a devastating blow to marginalised people around the country - immigrants, Muslims, th...

Refractive Realisms positions the township as a lens to engage the South African canon, endeavouring a reorientation towards a black creative archi...

Refractive Realisms positions the township as a lens to engage the South African canon, endeavouring a reorientation towards a black creative archi...

In Dining with Madmen: Fat, Food, and the Environment in 1980s Horror, author Thomas Fahy explores America's preoccupation with body weight, proces...

New Orleans is a kind of Mecca for jazz pilgrims, as Whitney Balliett once wrote. This memoir tells the story of one aspiring pilgrim, Clive Wilson...

First with his magisterial fantasy Bone to his mind-bending, time-warping sci-fi noir RASL, Paleolithic-Set fantasy Tüki: Save the Humans, arthouse...

Although nearly every other television form or genre has undergone a massive critical and popular reassessment or resurgence in the past twenty yea...

When America began to emerge as a world power at the end of the nineteenth century, Italy was a young nation, recently unified. The technological a...

On January 13, 1968, Johnny Cash (19322003) took the stage at Folsom Prison in California. The concert and the live album, At Folsom Prison, propel...

Through American history, often in times of crisis, there have been periodic outbreaks of obsession with the paranormal. Between 2004 and 2019, ove...

Ed Brubaker (b. 1966) has emerged as one of the most popular, significant figures in art comics since the 1990s. Most famous as the man who killed ...

Animated by a singularly subversive spirit, the fiendishly intelligent works of Stuart Gordon (19472020) are distinguished by their arrant boldness...

From the late 1920s through the thirties, Greta Garbo (19051990) was the biggest star in Hollywood. She stopped making films in 1941, at only thirt...

Isiah Lavender III's Dis-Orienting Planets amplifies critical issues surrounding the racial and ethnic dimensions of science fiction. This edited v...

Media narratives in popular culture often assign interchangeable characteristics to childhood and old age, presuming a resemblance between children...

How did the average American learn about art in the mid-nineteenth century? With public art museums still in their infancy, and few cities and town...