An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...exhibiting them. They said they weren’t going to be able to sell them, but they would exhibit them. So we did. And only two or three sold. I was eventually...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...world, we have to simultaneously unmake our fossil-fuelled lifestyles and build infrastructures that equitably distribute renewable energy. We have to dismantle the most powerful industry on earth incredibly fast, or...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...early seventeenth century, people across the Atlantic world instead called this chili malagueta after an unrelated but equally prized West African spice. Culturally and etymologically, Sant’Anna’s use of “Jiquitaia” harkens less to...
1108 Dynamite Hill
...1960s movement protest, the hilly residential street where Drew grew up and still resides was a battleground in the fight against segregation. In the 1940s, Center Street was the dividing...
Bodies and Souls
...I studied his films Hospital, Welfare, and Public Housing, each of which consists entirely of observational footage without narration or interviews. While certainly not unmediated, I was drawn to this...
Religion and the US South
...of Christ, a theologically conservative and morally strict group that grew out of the Presbyterians, are often one of the numerically largest and culturally powerful religious groups from middle Tennessee,...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...film footage of roots music before the advent of television is scarce, many recent documentaries incorporate reenactments. The 2005 PBS documentary The Carter Family, for instance, reenacts early recording sessions....
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...into this nostalgia. Theaters tout G- and PG-rated films and highlight their "family-friendly" atmosphere. A theater under construction in Moneta, Virginia, near the resort community of Smith Mountain Lake, explicitly...
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...
Battle of Atlanta Project Discussion and Exhibit Set for July 17 at Emory's Woodruff Library
...and ECDS Andrew W. Mellon graduate fellow Chris Sawula curated the exhibit, which will remain on view through October 19, 2014. Dolly Lunt Burge, whose diary is in the exhibit,...