1950s

‘The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet’ and the Nerve-Wracking Nature of Nothingness in 1950s White America

‘The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet’ and the Nerve-Wracking Nature of Nothingness in 1950s White America

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet impresses me not for its alleged blandness but for its ingenious minimalism, its meta-structure, and its nerve-wracking nature of nothingness.

Why We Still Love Lucy After All These Years

Why We Still Love Lucy After All These Years

The I Love Lucy cast insisted that the show didn’t intend to take on world-changing progressive issues, but it was far more subversive than they let on.

Identity, Geography, and an Overload of Nostalgia in My Mother’s Son

Identity, Geography, and an Overload of Nostalgia in My Mother’s Son

My Mother's Son could have been an unforgettable and evocative portrait of a lost era.

Waves of Grain: How World War II Created Our World

International Beats: The Desire for the Foreign in Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’

‘Lord of the Flies’ Still Reigns

Deriding Desire: Dorothy Dandridge and the Raced and Gendered ’50s

The Pipettes: Earth Vs. the Pipettes

Fats Domino: Greatest Hits: Walking to New Orleans