Bodies and Souls
...it had a practical foundation. And when I returned to filmmaking, it was with an appreciation for the intersection of policy and social change. For my thesis film in graduate...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...a new musician performing an old song, a venerable, dying musician — Johnny Cash — performed a relatively new song: Trent Reznor's "Hurt." During the last ten years of his...
Religion and the US South
...and moral values, and operating schools. A distinctive group of French Protestants in South Carolina, the Hueguenots, mostly joined the Anglican church there. Anglicanism left its stamp on the later...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...epithets—"Queer!" "Lezzy!" "Fag!" In the final act, a panel of experts interrogated a straight couple on the Slick Cavett Show: "How long have you been this way?" Atlanta's first Pride...
1108 Dynamite Hill
Video https://player.vimeo.com/video/652096254?h=527be50265& Essay Jeff Drew, born in 1951, is a lifelong resident of Birmingham, Alabama's North Smithfield neighborhood. In 2013, following the fiftieth anniversary commemoration of the Birmingham campaign of...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
A Sleight of History: Film and Essay Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium. A short film by Sarah Melton and Marshall Houston, 2009. My fellow filmmaker Marshall Houston...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...shifted. California, with its rapidly expanding suburbs, lost seventeen theaters — nearly half its 1998 total — in the subsequent ten years. Tennessee, Texas, and Alabama added theaters as part...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...of frames. Bransford: And you still are shooting everything on film, right? Dimmitt: Yes, the entire project was shot on film. Any images that are square were shot with a...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...planning must be based on the commune, the vital level of democracy."5Jean-Luc Mélenchon, L'avenir en commun (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 2021), 45, author's translation. At the difference of proposals, like...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...for the area’s Tupi population, the primary Indigenous group of Brazil’s Atlantic coast. Though, in 1817, Jiquitaia was home to a newly-constructed Portuguese military fort —one that still utilized the beach’s...