Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...people have drawn on a limited number of tropes. Whether Bayard Wootten's photographic illustrations for Cabins in the Laurel,1Muriel Earley Sheppard, Cabins in the Laurel (Chapel Hill: University of North...
Besieged Terrain
...The technique destroys forests, introduces heavy metals into drinking water, vastly increases erosion and flooding, and reduces the number of many species of birds, especially wood warblers, and other rare...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...as during the lauded six-minute-long take at the end of episode four.10Cary Joji Fukunaga, "Who Goes There," True Detective (HBO, January 12, 2014), Episode 4. To set this scene, Rust...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...of suffering under Epps. What follows are some of the most stunning and horrifying few minutes in mainstream film. Sarah Paulson as Mistress Epps and Lupita Nyong'o as Patsey, 2013....
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...Anglophone Caribbean's plantation zone. The founding of a settlement that became Charleston, South Carolina, by a group of planters from Barbados in the 1670s functions as the analytical core of...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...car in the Quarter. Cell phones came out, some calling 911, others telling what happened. Word of mouth was that Joe the bar owner had shot the man for selling...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...one of its recommended automobile tours and not feel so much as three minutes behind the times. Antique Shops, Royal Street, from the WPA Guide to New Orleans. Nationwide the...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...RIGHT QUADRANT — Personal hazards. BOTTOM QUADRANT — Number of live and dead victims still inside the structure. ["0" = no victims] National Urban Search and Rescue (US&R) Response System,...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...minute 29:33. Several major research projects have come to the fore around the Georgetown history. First, the Georgetown Slavery Archive (slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu, herein abbreviated GSA) is a repository of archival materials...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...information—not a diary or journal or letter, not even a mention of them in anything but official records like deeds, probate files, and court minutes. Many of the gravestones they...