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By the Book: I'd Fight the World: A Political History of Old-Time, Hillbilly, and Country Music
I'd Fight the World explores the connection between country music and electoral politics, giving us a glimpse into how politicians used celebrity long before the rise of the "movie-actor president" and the "Twitter president".
13 Sep 2019
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A Troubled Sound Rings on in Danny Goldberg's 'In Search of the Lost Chord'
Danny Goldberg's In Search of The Lost Chord: 1967 and The Hippie Idea resonates with today's activist readers.
01 Feb 2019
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Sight and Sound and Fury: Paul Fonoroff's Powerful 'Chinese Movie Magazines'
In Chinese Movie Magazines, Paul Fonoroff highlights the capacity for humans to embed their desires and history in the most innocuous-seeming of creative efforts.
30 Jan 2019
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'Iconic Magazine Covers' Positions Magazine Covers As Cultural Artifacts and Historical Touchstones
Ian Birch's engaging Iconic Magazine Covers shows how magazines and their covers not only reflect social change -- they can also help bring about social change.
28 Jan 2019
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'Confidential Confidential' Analyzes Scandal, Libel, and '50s-era Celebrity Culture
Samantha Barbas' Confidential Confidential brings to mind Fox News, Donald Trump, and the current American cultural-political climate of lies and hysteria.
07 Nov 2018
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'Trump and the Media': Work-in-Progress Dispatches from a Sinking Ship
The warning signs of a failing media system have always been there. This MIT Press collection of media scholars and activists casts light on recent media history and where it's taking us.
29 Oct 2018
Film
Why Does Anyone Turn to a Michael Moore Film?
From Bowling for Columbine to the recent Fahrenheit 11/9, one wonders, what is being validated in Michael Moore films?
27 Sep 2018
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Video-idiocy? No, 'Videocracy' Celebrates the Bright Side of YouTube Indulgence
Against the constant distaste for and dismay about social media, Videocracy gives readers a series of anecdotes that connect YouTube to the goodness of being human.
17 Jul 2018
Music
Here to Stay? The Neil Young Archives
Combining his punk ethos and tech savvy in this new online archive, Neil Young has to choose what archival releases add new understanding, new angles on the story, new points of emphasis in his own history -- and which do not.
02 Jul 2018
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Informed or Inflamed? Author Steve Almond Talks About How We Consume Trump
With the recent release of Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country, Steve Almond talks in-depth about the US president whom most parents wouldn't even let on the playground -- and about his beef with the American left.
06 Apr 2018
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How Has Taking Offense Become a Political Tool?
Hate Spin examines how politicians use the fundamentals of democracy to spread hate for personal gain.
19 Mar 2018
Film
It Only Looks Like Truth If You Believe It 'Control Room' Reminds Us
As we encounter so many broken promises, dangerous corruptions, and increasing assaults on journalism, Control Room's arguments about and insights into war and media only seem more acute, and tragically, lasting.
13 Feb 2018
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Is Journalism's Fear of Bias Worse Than Bias Itself?
Linda Greenhouse, one of America's top journalists takes aim at some of the field's worst and most outdated habits in Just a Journalist.
09 Jan 2018
Television
It's All True!: Weston Magazines and Wrestling's "Creative Journalism"
Stanley Weston's small pre-WWF line of wrestling magazines featured writing staffs that made up pull-quotes and headlines on the spot. Just what fans were clamoring for.
08 Jun 2017
Media
When Kendrick Lamar Hits NPR, We All Win
When everyone feels they can be an expert, how do you reassert your ownership over a topic? By waiting for its crossover moment.
16 Dec 2014
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The Essays in 'Sex Scene' Are as Vivid and Provocative as One Would Hope
Sex Scene offers a new angle for examining the "longest revolution", and demonstrates the profound ability of the media to influence how we think, and what we think about.
26 Mar 2014
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First They Came for the Books and I Did Not Speak Out
American journalist Max Lerner claimed "to reject the word is to reject the human search." Under the Third Reich, the book industry faced its own destruction, leaving the people with empty words bursting with Nazi propaganda.
04 Dec 2013
Media
In Defense of Newspapers
It seems that with each passing fiscal quarter, media-watchers love to pound another nail into print journalism's coffin.
05 Feb 2013
Comics
A Dearth of Contrition in 'Fishtown'
Kevin Colden's Fishtown tells the story of a real-life Philadelphia murder and a jarring scarcity of contrition.
13 Aug 2012
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Gripping Reportage in 'Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt'
Eisner Award winner Joe Sacco joins reporter Chris Hedges to survey U.S. poverty and economic despair in Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt.
26 Jun 2012
Culture
The Gay Ole Countryside
As challenging as it can be to grow up gay or lesbian in an area where the next closest homosexual is 50 miles away, it's often not the sad existence that an urban dweller might assume it to be.
31 Jan 2012
Film
Truth is Fiction: The Work of Haskell Wexler, Part 2, 'Medium Cool'
Medium Cool is the ultimate amalgamation of reality and illusion. Fictional characters live in real situations; real characters exist in fictional situations.
13 Dec 2011
Film
Hollywood's Steep Hills: Gender Inequality and 'Miss Representation'
Gender inequality in Hollywood reigns supreme, but as Miss Representation shows, the male/female binary is so insidious that it even makes its way into productions that aim to counter it.
11 Dec 2011
Comics
Show and Tell: On Words and Images in Comics
While there are prose books that use pictures for illustrative purposes, only in comics are stories actively told through both written words and drawn pictures.
05 Sep 2011
Books
Ernest Hemingway, Reporter
The years spent as a reporter painting the scene in Parisian cafes and on tuna fishing boats in Spain sharpened Ernest Hemingway's ability to carefully, confidently build a story.
30 Aug 2011
Internet
What’s More Dangerous on the Web -- Hackers or Hacks?
Content producers have the power to be whomever they want, but if they let themselves be dictated too much by factors like Google, page views, and ad revenue, they end up simply joining a droning, mundane chorus of mediocrity.
15 Nov 2009
Books
Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility by Mary L. Gray
Instead of long-suffering iconoclasts who want to leave the family farm, Gray introduces teenagers that are keenly aware of their environs and the means at hand to navigate a life that is both queer and rural.
23 Sep 2009
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Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (FOX Attacks Special Edition)
This is America these days: you’re either with something, or you’re against it, and never the twain shall meet. Just try democracy under those conditions.
10 Sep 2008
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Delicious Searching
The bookmarking site de.licio.us as a search tool.
04 Feb 2008
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The Clippings File. Flotsam and Jetsam
High tales of low life in New York City.
01 Feb 2008
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The Clippings File. Creature Features
Animal stories from the urban jungle.
24 Jan 2008
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New Media Old Values
Berkeley Center for New Media Announces Endowment
19 Jan 2008
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