Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...of movie film. As the viewer moves closer, the details that change from print to print become clear. At an intimate distance, the multiple Coleman’s Cafés suggest a child’s annual...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...to the forty-five mph speed limit, but also my breathing slowing to match the surroundings. The Parkway encourages, insists, that motorists adopt slow time, change their pace, and step back;...
J-Mill on Regulating
...be incorporated with the records' [sic] original lyrics which often changes the whole concept of the song." "The concept of mic checkin' has been and still is widely used by...
Birdhouses
...change. Inspired, I walked across the yard and photographed a periscope-looking house emerging from an apparent wilderness, then back toward the unfamiliar new pond. As many times as I had...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...lynchings occurred, it was undergoing a process of change into a "New South" city. In the late nineteenth century, the population had grown alongside new factories, mills, and other industrial...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...region’s shift away from cash crop monoculture in the eighteenth century actually consisted of and what that change’s consequences were for slaves in New Orleans. He then chronicles the reemergence...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...the exchange of ideas, and the creation of memories with moving through particular spaces. If we float over Austin in Slacker, we are grounded in the European streets of Before,...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...the end of conservatism itself. The movement has spawned think tanks, media outlets and other institutions that have become permanent fixtures on the political landscape. This election won't change any...
Remembering Documentary Filmmaker George Stoney
Documentary filmmaker George Stoney, 96, died this week. His films include The Uprising of '34 (1995), about a large and violent strike in the southern textile industry in 1934, and...
The Bulletin—January 29, 2013
...to have changes to their voting laws "precleared" by the federal government to protect voting access of racial and language minorities. A similar case declaring Section 5 unconstitutional was filed...