The recent controversy over country singer Luke Combs’s surprise hit cover obscures the deeper history of Chapman and her cultural movement in powerful ways.
Category Archive: 1980s
Baumbach’s ambitious adaptation of a book by a difficult-to-adapt author comes up short.
Nixon long portrayed himself as a victim of the press. However, from the 1952 Checkers speech to his post-presidency PR offensives, Nixon proved himself an able manipulator of the media.
The history of television, Jeff Bridges, and Amazon’s propaganda machine.
Once derided as cesspools of Reagan-era consumerist excess, the shopping mall somehow became an unlikely sort-of, quasi-public space that is now disappearing.
Before beanie babies and Pogs, small rectangles of cardboard were the errant investments of a stratifying American society.
No film genre in Hollywood’s golden age was more urban to its core than noir. The word conjures […]
Boomer nostalgia is currently defining our reality. Trump is in office largely because a lot of aged white […]