Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
Opening Cover of Southern Changes, Summer 1996. If International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Juan Antonio Samaranch's address to the closing ceremonies of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games is remembered at...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...Corporation, 1979. The 2001 DVD re-release cover of Norma Rae features Sally Field's title character in the film's most famous moment. In 1979, Hollywood told a fictionalized version of the...
Remnants of Flannery
...O'Connor's most famous short story "Good Country People"? What would O'Connor's take be on what I call "Flannery on Film," the numerous in-the-works film adaptations of her texts?2 O'Connor's first...
Birth Right
...bodies have been designed to do. About the Film Neeta Kirpalani and Emily Jackson became interested in the issue of midwifery in Alabama while pursuing an ethnographic filmmaking course at...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...far been unable to convince Congress to fund such programs directly.4Jane Mayer, "Betsy DeVos, Trump's Big-Donor Education Secretary," New Yorker, November 23, 2016, https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/betsy-devos-trumps-big-donor-education-secretary; Emma Brown, "DeVos Promises 'the Most...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...MP3 audio, 44:22, https://stownpodcast.org/chapter/2. If any movie adaptation were to try to elicit the same kind of feeling in its viewers, I can't imagine it would be any less exploitative....
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...film, along with two related Warhol films: Horse, Warhol's previous Western, and Nude Restaurant, which features stars from Lonesome Cowboys and which originally played at a countercultural movie theater in...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...Milt Grant Show, Baltimore's Buddy Deane Show, the inspiration for John Waters's Hairspray film and the later Broadway musical and Hollywood film, was officially segregated and only allowed black teens to enter...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...has worked as a documentary filmmaker for over ten years and, in 2010, was commissioned to produce a film about the photographer Oraien Catledge for the Mississippi Museum of Art....
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...in the city and the emergent rap scene were highly intertwined, as shown in the film Dirty South (1996). While female rappers did not represent any less of a minority...