“[T]he idea that movies and stars inspire people from the world’s pockets of desperate poverty to undertake treacherous […]
Category Archive: class
Hello there. You are now witnesses to a kind of confrontation between me and these three men. And […]
Revisiting a work of pop sociology is almost always a jarring experience. Frederick Lewis Allen’s early postmortem of […]
My family moved to North Carolina in the late 1980s, having left a stagnant and hopeless West Virginia […]
“Often like a ghost in the shadows, the mother haunts film noir,” observed Kelly Oliver and Benigno Trigo […]
Less than a decade after C. Vann Woodward’s epic tome, Origins of the New South (1951), had been published, […]
In a critical scene from the 1997 neo-noir “L.A. Confidential,” the ambitious and overzealous Detective Ed Exley (Guy […]
“I remember traveling to Lake Elsinore, which was a long way in those days,” reminisced Zeke Mejia in […]