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Silent Reflections: Essays on Early Film
A book project that will collect essays on films of the 1910s and 1920s. Subjects include: the films of Cecil B. DeMille and Jeanie MacPherson; early westerns and historical epics; and cinematic portrayals of Jewish life and culture.
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Imagining a New Eden in the Nuclear West
Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History
Spring 2020
“In the case of the atomic bucolic, we also see a sleight-of-hand that embeds an unfamiliar industrial technology in a more familiar romanticized agricultural portrait.”
Image: Seagram Company Ltd. “Deserts Will Bloom through Atomic Power.” LIFE Magazine, 12 May 1947.
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Queer Encounters in the Garden
NOTCHES: (re)marks on sexuality
May 7, 2019
“Holy desire and divine intimacy are able to destabilize our understandings of God and Christian alike.”
Image: Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov. Christ’s Appearance to Mary Magdalene after the Resurrection. 1835. State Russian Museum. Google Art Project.
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Malcontents of Modernity
U.S. Intellectual History Blog
April 2, 2017
Note: My post failed to acknowledge the impact of Puritan settler colonialism on American indigenous populations.
Image: Jonathan Edwards. "Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God, A Sermon Preached at Enfield, July 8, 1741.” Printed by S. Kneeland and T. Green, Boston. 1741. Library of Congress and New York Public Library. Wikimedia Commons.
Smithsonian National Museum
of American History
Collegium Institute
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Science, Magic, and the Atom in Tomorrowland
Genealogies of Modernity
May 21, 2020
“Anthropomorphizing the atom transfers moral responsibility for atomic energy from the American nuclear state to a seemingly sentient infinitesimal particle.”
Image: Ed Westcott. Atoms for Peace Traveling Exhibit in Oak Ridge. 1957. 57-1239 DOE. Wikimedia Commons.
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Ten Thousand Angels and Comic-Book Theodicy
Genealogies of Modernity
June 9, 2020
“Benevolent beings of extraordinary power seem to do little more than maintain an unsatisfactory status quo.”
Image: Stefan Lochner. Last Judgement. c. 1425. Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne. Wikimedia Commons.
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Haunted Modernity
Genealogies of Modernity
April 17, 2020
“One pedagogical strategy is to play with scientific metaphors such as Bacon’s ship, offering our own subversive reading.”
Image: Title page of Novum organum scientiarum, 1645. Printed at Leiden shop of Wyngaerden and Moiardum. EC.B1328.620ib, Houghton Library, Harvard University. Wikimedia Commons.
University of South Carolina Libraries
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What Do Film Archivists Do All Day?
Moving Image Research Collections Blog
March 21, 2016
Image: William Shatner dressed as Captain Kirk in Columbia (SC) Christmas Parade. 1968. Moving Image Research Collections, University of South Carolina.
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Whiskey and Watermelons
A Capitol Blog
October 31, 2013
Image: Abbie Rowe. Sen. Olin Johnston of South Carolina presenting President Truman with a turkey from Wilton E. Hall of Anderson, South Carolina, as Colonel Lewis Jackson looks on. 25 September 1946. NARA 199536. National Archives and Records Administration.
