Category: Guest Post

Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine

Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine

16 November 2021 Guest Post

Travel writing, as its name suggests, would seem to require travel in order to be effectively produced. After all, how can one write about your experience of visiting foreign lands if you’re unable to travel to them in the first place? Yet, that is precisely the situation that an entire...

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Techniques & Aesthetics in 3D Films of 1950s and their Impact on Later Productions by David A. Cook

Techniques & Aesthetics in 3D Films of 1950s and their Impact on Later Productions by David A. Cook

7 October 2021 Guest Post

Although I have written about 3D films before in A History of Narrative Film (HNF, W. W. Norton, 1981; 1990; 1996; 2004; 2016) – both polarized and digital – in Chapters 12 and 21 respectively, I wanted to understand stereoscopy in moving images better and thought an historical survey of...

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Classroom 15 by Julia Mueller and Zack Demars

Classroom 15 by Julia Mueller and Zack Demars

5 October 2021 Guest Post

Some of the most memorable educators are the ones willing to throw out the syllabus in pursuit of a higher lesson. When a fourth-grade teacher in Roseburg, Oregon, did just that during the height of the Cold War, he sent the US state department and J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI into...

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The Cruel Irony of Organ Transplantation’s Success By Edmund O. Lawler

The Cruel Irony of Organ Transplantation’s Success By Edmund O. Lawler

5 October 2021 Guest Post

Seventy-one years ago, Dr. Richard Lawler led a team of surgeons and nurses in performing the world’s first solid organ transplant by grafting a kidney from a just-deceased patient into the abdomen of a 44-year-old Chicago woman. She lived nearly five more years. In the decades that followed that groundbreaking...

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‘One Night in Birdland’ A Post (humorous) Review by Ron Westray

‘One Night in Birdland’ A Post (humorous) Review by Ron Westray

21 September 2021 Guest Post

Wahoo ‘Round Midnight This Time the Dream’s on Me Dizzy Atmosphere Night In Tunisia Move The Street Beat Out Of Nowhere Little Willie Leaps / 52nd Street Theme Ornithology I’ll Remember April / 52nd Street ThemeFats Navarro, trumpet; Charlie Parker, alto sax; Bud Powell, piano; Curly Russell, bass; Art Blakey,...

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Is History This Time Really Coming To An End?

Is History This Time Really Coming To An End?

11 September 2021 Guest Post

Much was heard lately about the emergence of a new Cold War between the United States and China. There is something both reassuring and disturbing about this confrontation: reassuring because we find in it something familiar and what we have overcome in the past in the case of the Soviet...

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Life in Reverse: Corollaries By Ron Westray

Life in Reverse: Corollaries By Ron Westray

7 September 2021 Guest Post

“It is possible that we exist in a predominantly narcissistic society – in which people want you to love them; and then they don’t want you anymore.” I occupy these worlds: jazz and academia. The jazz world is filled with pandering, patronage (real and false), banter and fastidious applause; meanwhile,...

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Brexit and the Future of the European Union

by Ewoud van Laer

Brexit and the Future of the European Union

by Ewoud van Laer

20 June 2021 Guest Post

On 5 May 2021 the UK government dispatched two Royal Navy patrol boats, HMS Severn and HMS Tamar, to the waters off the coast of Jersey in the English Channel. The ships were not there to commemorate the end of the Second World War in Europe but to scare off...

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Digital identity, rights and citizenship in Latin America and the Caribbean: who are we including and who is being left behind?

Digital identity, rights and citizenship in Latin America and the Caribbean: who are we including and who is being left behind?

7 June 2021 Guest Post

The guest author of this post is Eve Hayes de Kalaf. She is a Stipendiary Fellow at the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, and the author of the Anthem title ‘Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic’. Over the...

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Heavy Metal Women: How Gender Matters in Popular Culture

Heavy Metal Women: How Gender Matters in Popular Culture

7 June 2021 Guest Post

Anna S. Rogers and Mathieu Deflem What happens to women when they do something only men have traditionally been expected and accepted to do? What motivates these women to move beyond conventional mores and enter communities and subcultures that are not only dominated by men but shaped by their values...

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