New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...a hard time beginning in a plural voice. Also, his voice has previously appeared on the Southern Spaces blog. go film as part of my fieldwork. I propped myself up...
Opening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
...experiences are the center’s exhibitions, books, awards, radio programming, multimedia production, fieldwork projects, and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. In addition to his work at CDS, Tom Rankin is...
"Aint that Something?"
...behind the family's home place. Her grandmother is the most stable, and heroic, member of the family. An illustration of Jennifer Lawrence as Ree Dolly in Debra Granik's film adaptation...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...Campaign and the Struggle to Organize the South, 1963–80 (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2005). In a film based on the Stevens campaign, Norma Rae (Sally Fields) holds up a...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...his pictures emphasize the chaotic nature of the post-Katrina Gulf Coast landscape, along with the difficulties of restoring human-made order. He prefers to photograph using black-and-white film; for him, color...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...A short film by Mary Battle, 2008. Almost all of Sibley's later mysteries speak to land development in northern Georgia. In those mysteries, the villains turn out to be greedy...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...depots to make all food supplies immediately available to those in the Homeless Junction camp. In addition, the FSA, at Roosevelt's urging, announced it would deliver tents to the camp....
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
Introduction The Lower Chattahoochee River Valley region has a rich tradition of blues music, but if it weren't for the efforts of field researcher George Mitchell from 1969 until the...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...about them. That intricate weaving is something a writer I admire, the late Douglas Crimp, does wonderfully.4Douglas Crimp, Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics (Cambridge, MA: MIT...
Roadside Architecture
...I set myself the task of finding out what this new place looked like and recording some of those impressions on film. More important than seeing and recording what different...