Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
Introduction Popular American films and literature often depict tornadoes as distinctly midwestern phenomena: a girl in Kansas is whisked away by an afternoon cyclone, a pack of storm chasers follow...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...Steve Bransford filmed and edited the three forestry pieces featuring Chuck Leavell over the course of four years; filmed and edited Peacock's Portable Saw Mill; edited the 1960s era footage;...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...The Martins, a collection of performances over the preceding nineteen years. Between highlights, Bill Gaither interviews Joyce, Judy, and Jonathan,54The interviews are actually excerpts taken from long conversations filmed in...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...a jazz banjo player from New Orleans named Don Vappie as an ultimate, socially adaptable, yet culturally grounded American—was a PBS film called American Creole.26American Creole: New Orleans Reunion, DVD,...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...annual award shows; the music of secular stars like Beyoncé, D'Angelo, Missy Elliot, Snoop Dogg, Chance the Rapper, and Kanye; the cinematic offerings of such avant-garde filmmakers as Arthur Jafa,...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
..."Vanishing" Texan and the retrenchment of Texas masculinity. In "You a Real Cowboy?: Texas Chic in the Late Seventies," he reviews the iconic films The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas...
When the Border Crossed Me
...of Cultural Anthropology and Documentary Studies at Duke University. An author and filmmaker, Thompson's latest works are Border Odyssey: Travels along the U.S./Mexico Divide (University of Texas Press, 2015), the films...
Work
...throwing thread. Clack-thump. Clack-thump. Hammering sirens sing fiber into endless reams of cloth. Clack-thump. Whir. Whir. Whir. Fibrous colors drape the architecture of my sleep. Clacking and whirring lift louder...
In Memory Hill Cemetery
...with weather? Light floods the film I don't pull through the rollers. I don't want the image to develop yet. I carry it past the governors and statesmen in their...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...laterally via competitive forces" (146). This American success myth, described by film scholar Julie Levinson as incorporating "the dream of rags-to-riches, the image of the can-do American, the credo of...