Recent Culture Features

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Wednesday, March 18 2009

Does Video Game Criticism Need a Pauline Kael?

By L.B. Jeffries

Kael, much like video game critics today, was faced with a massive philosophical shift in her chosen artistic medium that large quantities of critics were against.

Tuesday, March 10 2009

The Devout and the Dirrty: Consumer Choices in Bewildered Times

By Heather Kennedy

Throughout the centuries philosophers and religious thinkers have encouraged women to feel grateful for their subordination. It’s only against the red light of ‘Dirrtiness’ that the chastity movement could ever have struck us as fresh.

Friday, February 27 2009

Beautiful Agony: The New Naked

By Justin Dimos

Erotica website Beautiful Agony continues to revolutionize how both men and women approach sex and intimacy by revealing individual facial expressions of real, vulnerable human beings orgasming.

Friday, February 13 2009

State of the Slasher Address 2: We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby

By Stephen Graham Jones

Stephen Graham Jones revisits the slasher film genre in the wake of My Bloody Valentine 3D to show how we may just be on the verge of another slasher renaissance.

Thursday, February 5 2009

Stuff White People Like: A Theory of the Liberal Leisure Class

By Kelly Roberts

"Look at our generation … Stuff is all we have … It's not a display of wealth. It's about a display of authenticity and taste."

Friday, January 30 2009

Killing for Coal: An Interview with Thomas G. Andrews

By Emily F. Popek

Andrews' book distinguishes itself from conventional labor histories by going beyond sociological factors to look at the total physical environment and the role it played in the lives of both labor and management, and how it would lead to the Ludlow Massacre of 1914.

Monday, December 15 2008

Bettie Page, Dead Since 1957

By G. Christopher Williams

What might be remembered of the life of a woman who was long ago replaced by her own representation?

Thursday, December 11 2008

Hong Kong Graffiti: Not for Lack of Inspiration

By Philip Leung

Subversive commentary should be thriving in Hong Kong. All the ingredients to spark graffiti are there -- the divides in social class, the thriving materialistic culture, and political antagonism with Mainland China.

Tuesday, December 9 2008

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge

By PopMatters Staff

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge warns PopMatters 20 Questions readers, "Pleasure is a cultural weapon. Use it wisely."

Tuesday, November 25 2008

The ‘Murderous’ Art of George Baselitz

By Chadwick Jenkins

For Baselitz, the true artist is the eternal outsider. While he leads a good bourgeois family life, at his art he becomes a murderer, a man on the fringes of good society, a destroyer.

Monday, November 17 2008

Hamburg: Germany’s Port of Rock ‘n’ Roll

By Karen Zarker and Sarah Zupko

PopMatters shoulders its backpacks and treks to Hamburg to check out Germany's pop music capital, to partake of four days of Kunst und Kultur, historical wanderings, and indulge in a bit of Gemütlichkeit.

Thursday, September 18 2008

Makes You Paranoid

By Terence Hand

Things have taken yet another sinister turn in this overcrowded train car: I have now been assigned the role of the carriage madman -- the obligatory Northern Line loonie.

Wednesday, August 20 2008

Brighton Wok: The Legend of Ganja Boxing

By George Tiller

Brighton Wok is England’s first marijuana Kung-Fu movie. You get the bong, I’ll get the nachos.

Thursday, July 24 2008

Give ‘Em Helvetica

By Karen Shimizu

The famed font aspires to eerie emptiness of meaning. Now, has it persuaded us to do the same?

Wednesday, July 23 2008

Pop Culture: Finding Meaning and Purpose in the Neighborhood

By Rev. Doug Gebhard

Whether intentionally spiritual or not, popular culture and its products serve many of the same drives of religion: making meaning and forging the bonds of community.

Monday, July 21 2008

Pathways to Creation: Exploring Sacred Music in Fes, Morocco

By Derek Beres

PopMatters goes to Morocco for the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music to honor and share the world’s great spiritual music traditions. At this 14th annual festival, Derek Beres would hear the indigenous sounds of Vietnam, Tunisia, Norway, Pakistan, Belgium, America, and much more.

Friday, June 13 2008

Flying Alone: Edward Hopper and America’s Night Side

By David Masciotra

Isolation is more than being alone. That is why the greatest and most discomforting presentation of isolation can be found in Hopper's paintings that include more than one person.

Monday, February 25 2008

I Am Obama: The American Imagination and the New Black Hero

By Derik Smith

If Americans are willing to believe that the former Fresh Prince of West Philly can save the world all by himself, then there is a possibility that a black man may be the next president of the United States.

Friday, February 22 2008

Move Over Alpha Geeks, Here Come the Fangrrls

By Elizabeth Todd Doyle

Thousands of women gather for a sci-fi convention, and they have a pretty great life, thanks very much.

Monday, February 18 2008

America’s Most Policed Art Form: Subway Graffiti, NYC’s Visual Criminal

By T.M. Wolf

The policing of the art form has been so thorough and enduring that it’s become possible to see hip-hop as just that: an agent, or better, a target, that has a life over and above the individuals that practice it.

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