Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...released through the boutique DVD label. Linklater's fascination with the passing of time and its relationship with physical movement emerges in his first full-length movie, Slacker (1991), which consists of...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...this edited interview with Southern Spaces, Thompson discusses his farming experiences and education, why he made these documentaries, their reception, migrant work in Florida and North Carolina, and the prospects...
"Aint that Something?"
...depictions of Appalachia that shatter these stereotypes will take a more prominent place in the national imagination. In particular, Appalachian literature is vast, and encompasses a wide range of voices...
Mississippi Delta
...in the eastern floodplain of the lower Mississippi River. It is sixty miles at its widest point from the Yazoo to the Mississippi, in what poet William Alexander Percy called "a badly...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...Hood. The elder Hood played bass with the renowned studio band at Muscle Shoals’ Fame Studios. Over the course of his career, he backed up Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, the...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...vitally important. Most students begin with strong preconceived notions about environmentalism (Birkenstocks, tofu) that prove tough to dislodge. This field-of-movements framework does raise a broader question within environmentalist writing and...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...a sure foot, dat's certain" (34). After reflecting that he cannot fail the attempt "without losing prestige in the old man's eyes," Rusling is rewarded with a view of "wild...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...sad withering of imagination and bigger, national and global things are so enmeshed they flatten out into landscape, one with horizon at center, and vegetation at the fore, and ghosts...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...with slasher films or low-budget thrillers like Paranormal Activity, which are practically minting money at the box office. Instead, it combines gothic terror tropes with classic Hollywood narrative and aesthetic...
Congregation
...table and chairs etched with rust, the dresser laced with mold. Four years gone she's still rebuilding the shed out back and sorting through boxes in the kitchen- a lifetime...