April 15, 2024
In 1904, prospectors discovered oil in the rural parishes of North Louisiana just outside Shreveport. As rural cotton fields gave way to dense, industrial centers of energy extraction, migrants from… READ MORE
March 29, 2024
Though much has been written about early Hollywood and the studio system, few studies have focused on the distribution practices that directly preceded that system. Told not as a “golden… READ MORE
March 19, 2024
Next week is International Transgender Day of Visibility, an opportunity to raise awareness about trans identities, and to celebrate the lives and contributions of trans people while also drawing attention… READ MORE
March 14, 2024
Only one performance style has dominated the lexicon of the casual moviegoer: “Method acting.” The first reception-based analysis of film acting, Imagining the Method investigates how popular understandings of the so-called Method—what… READ MORE
February 26, 2024
Among the richest culinary traditions in Mexico are those of the “eight regions” of the state of Oaxaca. Mesquite Pods to Mezcal: 10,000 Years of Oaxacan Cuisines brings together some… READ MORE
January 22, 2024
Paid to Care provides insight into the struggles of paid domestic workers in Latin America through an exploration of films, texts, and digital media produced since the 1980s in collaboration… READ MORE
January 8, 2024
The “shrimp ladies,” locally known as changueras in southern Sinaloa, Mexico, sell seafood in open-air markets, forming an extralegal but key part of the economy built around this “pink gold.”… READ MORE
January 1, 2024
Camelids—a category which includes llamas, alpacas, and vicuñas—are vital to the cultures and economies of the Andes. The animals have also been at the heart of ecological and social catastrophe:… READ MORE
December 18, 2023
As the first and only Bob Dylan “biopic,” I’m Not There (dir. Todd Haynes) caused a stir. The film, which offers a surreal retelling of Dylan’s life and career, is… READ MORE
November 22, 2023
From the closing years of the nineteenth century, women received subtle—and not so subtle—messages that they shouldn’t be in public. Or, if they were, that they were not safe. Georgina… READ MORE
