Cultural Studies

With finals coming and PhD applications looming for many of us, it is no wonder WIRED’s retrospective “The Creatures that Ate Hollywood” delighted me.

King Kong Vs. Godzilla, 1962  Read More »

Watching CNN yesterday morning I got very sad and angry thinking about the affectless, bureaucratic nightmare that physically and psychologically injured or disabled living American vets frequently have to endure, in return for having put their lives on the line; or that surviving dependent families of veterans who have to endure on top of having lost their loved one. While there is a decent amount of visibility about the challenges of the return and transition home for the visibly or invisibly injured veterans, the inadequacy in care is glaring.  Read More »

I don’t have an academic background in theory. My undergraduate degree was in international business at a practice-oriented university where the only primary texts I was ever required to read were annual reports. Learning how to manipulate theory was and remains one of the reasons I chose CCT. But the application of theory, as any other tool, is continually evolving which makes mastering it that much more difficult.
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Margarita, in her contribution to this series, likened her blogging history with telenovela. Since this is my first blog, my relationship with blogging is more like a first date.  I’m excited and eager to make a good impression, nervous but trying to sound as relaxed as I can in my perpetual state of over-caffeination.  I’m sure at some point well meaning friends offered the same advice to prepare me for both activities – just be yourself.   Read More »

There's been some chatter about the lack of protests at the Democratic Convention (though, as I write this Biden is going on and on about an "open convention").  While there may not be a tremendous number of people waving signs, there is a lot of street art in Denver right now focused on the DNC and Obama.  A lot, but not all, of this art seems like an off shoot of the Manifest Hope show.  Read More »