David Banash

David Banash is a Professor of English at Western Illinois University, where he teaches courses in contemporary literature, film, and popular culture. He is the author of Collage Culture: Readymades, Meaning, and the Age of Consumption (Rodopi) and co-editor of Contemporary Collecting: Objects, Practices, and the Fate of Things (Scarecrow).
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Every Era Gets the Monster It Needs, and Ours Is the Era of the Zombie

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 / 5 September 2013
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Join the Underground: Loren Glass’ History of the Famous / Infamous Grove Press

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 / 28 April 2013
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Untimely Cinema: ‘“Our Kind of Movie” The Films of Andy Warhol’

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 / 24 June 2012
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‘Low Budget Hell’: From John Waters’ ‘Female Trouble’ to ‘Cry Baby’

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 / 22 March 2012
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If at First You Don’t Succeed, Failure May Be Your Style: ‘The Queer Art of Failure’

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 / 12 January 2012
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‘Shock Value’: What Men (and Boys) Really Fear

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 / 4 August 2011
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In Search of the Endless Summer: Surf Films

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 / 14 June 2011
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Future Shock, Postmodern Nostalgia, and Uncanny Technologies

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 / 28 July 2010
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Ferus by Roberta Bernstein & Kirk Varnedoe

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 / 16 August 2009
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It’s All Too Beautiful

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 / 29 July 2009
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The Grid Book by Hannah G. Higgins

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 / 16 April 2009
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Ryan Seacrest Is Famous by Dave Housley

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 / 15 February 2009