From Mediaspace, Ken Feil (Emerson): Sex, Comedy and Controversy: Kiss Me, Stupid, What’s New, Pussycat?, New Hollywood, and Metropolitan Taste; Kenneth Chan (UNC): The Shaw-Tarantino Connection: Rolling Thunder Pictures and the Exploitation Aesthetics of Cool; and scholars on the subject of Genre in contemporary Cinema and Media Studies. A review of Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy by Raghuram Rajan (and more and more). A look at how Exile on Main St. killed the Rolling Stones. Why can't I feel what I see: What is the happiness that has eluded our generation? The genius of Jackie Chan: He's a cinematic artist on par with Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. A review of 20th Century Travel: 100 Years of Globe-Trotting Ads. From History Now, a special issue on the Great Depression. An interview with Morris Dickstein, author of Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression (and more at Bookforum). Christopher "moot" Poole on the case for anonymity online. Successor states to an empire in free fall: Theories with wonderful names are emerging to describe our post-postmodern culture and society — Alan Kirby is fascinated by the "cultural dominant's" shadow. A review of A Brief History of Nakedness by Philip Carr-Gomm. All the dead are vampires: Michael Sims on a natural-historical look at our love-hate relationship with dead people. Rich people things: Chris Lehmann on Los Angeles compound fever. Beyond Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol: Sarah Breger on the true story of Jews and Freemasons. Why misogynists make great informants: How gender violence on the Left enables state violence in radical movements. A review of Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America by Jack Rakove (and more and more).
