technological advances, but Chicago s fair organizers used the very idea of progress to buoy national optimism during the Depression...... more

interrelated aspects of one momentous, nation-threatening issue: slavery. The contest between Lincoln and Douglas became a testing...... more

What is the work of film in the age of transnational production? To answer that question, Randall Halle focuses on the...... more

Alliance analyzes the intrinsic contradictions of a commercialized folk culture. Both Rounder Records and the North American...... more

The first major English-language study of Jarmusch At a time when gimmicky, action-driven blockbusters ruled Hollywood...... more