1997 was the 20th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death. It was also the year after Elvis After Elvis was published. And so I found myself talking about Elvis a lot that year. In August, I gave one version of the talk below in Memphis, at the third (and also, I …
Freshly online at Jump Cut, a reprint — with additional images — of an essay by Heather Ashley Hayes and myself on Django Unchained. PDF of the original essay can be found here.
It’s been a long, Long, LONG time coming. How long? This is a book that Jayne Fargnoli first approached me about writing in 2001. At the time, I was still teaching at the University of South Florida, Blackwell was five years away from being acquired by John Wiley, and the …
Last week, my friend Ted Striphas (so cool that he has two blogs) stumbled across an Amazon link for my really-really-long-time-coming-but-finally-almost-here book, Why Cultural Studies? and posted some nice words of congratulations about it to Facebook. My friend Kembrew McLeod called it “the cultural studies equivalent of waiting for GnR’s …
My old blog still exists, but I haven’t touched it in a long while, and I’m gradually trying to migrate my major online presence over here. So I can envision a day, somewhere down the line, where “Revolution on a Stick” goes away. In the meantime, though, Sundays feel like …