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Slum Plays, Salvation Stories, and Crook Pictures: The Gangster Regeneration Cycle and the Prehistory of the Gangster Genre (2017)
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Recent scholarship exhorts film historians to attend to production cycles in order to interrogate established conceptions of genres. This essay identifies and examines a neglected cycle of gangster regeneration films that flourished between 1910 and... Read More about Slum Plays, Salvation Stories, and Crook Pictures: The Gangster Regeneration Cycle and the Prehistory of the Gangster Genre.

“As Usual, I'll Have to Take an IOU”: W. E. B. Du Bois, the Gift of Black Music and the Cultural Politics of Obligation (2017)
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In The Souls of Black Folk (1903) W. E. B. Du Bois described African American music as a “gift” to America, contesting the tendency to regard white interest in black culture as appropriation or theft. Yet this metaphor invoked the complex circuits of... Read More about “As Usual, I'll Have to Take an IOU”: W. E. B. Du Bois, the Gift of Black Music and the Cultural Politics of Obligation.

Bush the transnationalist: a reappraisal of the unilateralist impulse in US foreign policy, 2001–2009 (2017)
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This article challenges the common characterisation of George W. Bush’s foreign policy as “unilateral.” It argues that the Bush administration developed a new post-9/11 understanding of terrorism as a transnational, networked phenomenon shaped by the... Read More about Bush the transnationalist: a reappraisal of the unilateralist impulse in US foreign policy, 2001–2009.

Pragmatism, religion, and John Foster Dulles’s embrace of Christian internationalism in the 1930s (2017)
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This article focuses on John Foster Dulles's engagement with religion and the role it played in his worldview. In doing so, it argues that his embrace of Christian internationalism should be seen as a part of an intellectual progression shaped by Pra... Read More about Pragmatism, religion, and John Foster Dulles’s embrace of Christian internationalism in the 1930s.

The sexuality of Malcolm X (2016)
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This article engages the controversy over whether Malcolm Little, who would become Malcolm X, had same-sexual encounters. A minute sifting of all evidence and claims, augmented by new findings, yields strong indication that Malcolm Little did take pa... Read More about The sexuality of Malcolm X.

John Foster Dulles, Illness, Masculinity and US Foreign Relations, 1953–1961 (2016)
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In the last two decades, scholars have increasingly looked to understand the way that socially constructed norms and values have influenced the course of international diplomacy. Yet while much work has been produced on areas such as gender, far less... Read More about John Foster Dulles, Illness, Masculinity and US Foreign Relations, 1953–1961.

“To Preserve My Features in Marble”: Post-Civil War Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, and Sketches of Frederick Douglass. An Illustrated Essay (2016)
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Recovering mestiza genealogies in contemporary New Mexican art: Delilah Montoya’s El sagrado corazón (1993) (2016)
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“Seeing in the dark”: the aesthetics of disappearance and remembrance in the work of Alberto Rey (2016)
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This article examines how contemporary Cuban American artists have experimented with visual languages of trauma to construct an intergenerational memory about the losses of exile and migration. It considers the work of artist Alberto Rey, and his lay... Read More about “Seeing in the dark”: the aesthetics of disappearance and remembrance in the work of Alberto Rey.

National stories and narrative voice in the fiction of Joshua Ferris (2016)
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In his début novel, Then We Came to the End (2007), Joshua Ferris narrates his story of a pre-9/11 Chicago advertising agency in the first-person plural. Such narrative experimentation recurs across his fiction and is often linked to national concern... Read More about National stories and narrative voice in the fiction of Joshua Ferris.

A rather tedious and unfortunate affair: the Rahi saga and the troubled origins of Indo–Soviet cinematic exchange (2016)
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This article breaks new ground by reframing the context in which the governments of India and the Soviet Union arrived at an understanding that determined the course of cinematic exchange between the two countries during the cold war. It suggests tha... Read More about A rather tedious and unfortunate affair: the Rahi saga and the troubled origins of Indo–Soviet cinematic exchange.

What A Difference A Death Makes: JFK, LBJ, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (2015)
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When the Kennedy assassination occurred in November 1963, it was not clear that his civil rights bill would pass without major modifications, and most Americans told pollsters that they were unsure of his policy. Fifty years later, the passage of the... Read More about What A Difference A Death Makes: JFK, LBJ, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The rise of the 'we' narrator in modern American fiction (2015)
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Historically, the first-person plural narrator has been rare in US fiction, and it is both enigmatic and technically demanding. Yet an increasing number of American novelists and short story writers have turned to this formal device over the past 20... Read More about The rise of the 'we' narrator in modern American fiction.

No parents, no church, no authorities in our films: exploitation movies, the youth audience, and Roger Corman's counterculture trilogy (2015)
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John Brown's spirit: the abolitionist aesthetic of emancipatory martyrdom in early antilynching protest literature (2015)
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Before his execution in 1859, the radical abolitionist John Brown wrote a series of prison letters that – along with his death itself – helped to cement the abolitionist aesthetic of emancipatory martyrdom. This article charts the adaptation of that... Read More about John Brown's spirit: the abolitionist aesthetic of emancipatory martyrdom in early antilynching protest literature.

The Anglo-American synecdoche?: Thomas Jefferson’s British legacy 1800-1865 (2015)
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This article is focused on one of the behemoths of American history, Thomas Jefferson. Unlike most studies, however, it removes the Virginian statesman from his familiar American context in order to illustrate his significance as a British icon. It c... Read More about The Anglo-American synecdoche?: Thomas Jefferson’s British legacy 1800-1865.

‘Do we still need the CIA?’ Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the Central Intelligence Agency and US foreign policy (2015)
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In May 1991, writing in the op-ed column of the New York Times, the US Senator for New York, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, called for the Central Intelligence Agency to be disbanded. Arguing that the CIA represented an historical anachronism that had outl... Read More about ‘Do we still need the CIA?’ Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the Central Intelligence Agency and US foreign policy.

‘The viceroys are disappearing from the roundabouts in Delhi’: British symbols of power in post-colonial India (2015)
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In the aftermath of the Second World War, as postcolonial regimes in Africa and Asia hauled down imperial iconography, to the surprise and approval of many Western observers, India evidenced little interest in sweeping away remnants of its colonial h... Read More about ‘The viceroys are disappearing from the roundabouts in Delhi’: British symbols of power in post-colonial India.

Happiness And The Liberal Imagination: How Superwoman Became Balanced (2014)
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Roundtable: Fredric Jameson, The Antinomies of Realism (London: Verso, 2013, £20.00). Pp. 432. ISBN: 978 1 7816 8133 6 (2014)
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