Monday, July 25 2011
Frustrated Fantasies: Misperceptions of Fandom and ‘Gone With the Wind’
The value of fandom is often underestimated. Rather than the stereotyped burnt-out housewives or socially inept teenagers that obsessively and indiscriminately consume popular culture, fans are active agents.
Friday, December 11 2009
Precious and Lee Daniels: State of the Race
In adapting author Sapphire's difficult novel for the screen, director Lee Daniels is helping change the way spectators view African American women by deploying stereotypes and then exploding them.
Monday, November 16 2009
At 70, ‘Gone With the Wind’ remains great filmmaking but fictitious history
Monday, July 14 2008
Wild Mulberries by Iman Humaydan Younes
Every time the reader is drawn in deeper, Younes pulls away, retracting back into her unaffected prose.

































