What’s Behind Country Music’s Powerful Enduring Appeal
When you consider that country music is derived from a people who were fiercely independent, clan-like, and distrustful of authority, you begin to understand the genre at its core.
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‘Wasteland’, or, How We Went From World War I to White Walkers
In Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror, historian W. Scott Poole exhumes our obsession with the living dead.
The Problem of the Presidency: Assessing Herbert Hoover
Perhaps, Kenneth Whyte suggests, Hoover was not the failure he is often made out to be, and consequently, FDR is not nearly the success he appears to have been.
‘Black Dog: the Dreams of Paul Nash’ Gives Chaotic Reality to the Dreamscapes of a War-haunted Painter
While no imitator, Dave McKean shares kindred tastes with Nash and creates a fictionalized memoir and dream journal of Nash's WWI experiences.
‘A Month in the Country’ Has a Pleasing Emotional Ambience
This is a thoughtfully scripted film that surreptitiously draws the viewer in before granting them an intensely emotional payoff.
Moving Pixels Podcast: Revisiting the Great War
While presented visually in the form of a cartoon, the game Valiant Hearts takes a serious look at the events and consequences of World War I
The Tangled, Trailing Tale of Michael Haneke’s WWI Mystery, ‘The White Ribbon’
The mystery conceit in Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon acts as a hook and alludes to the larger mystery of wartime conformity and dangerous obedience, which it partly seeks to address.