Dancing in the Moonlight
The Uncanny Longevity of The One-Hit Wonder. Tracing “Dancing in the Moonlight’s” 48 year journey from Buffalongo to Orleans to […]
Author: Jesse
Hip-Hop’s History of Social Criticism
In Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop Jeff Chang declared, “fevered dreams of progress had brought fires to the Bronx and Kingston. […]
“Primal Fear”: A “Queer Theory” behind Edward Norton’s first Academy Award
House ridden for what felt like years, cabin fever began to set in. As the monotonous Michigan winter meandered by, […]
Exploring the “Beasts of the Southern Wild”
The critically acclaimed film, Beasts of the Southern Wild, is a story of enlightenment on a metaphysical level, chronicling the […]
Punk-Rock: Yesterday’s Counter-Culture, Today’s Geo-Political Barometer
John Rockwell’s 1977 New York Times article, “Report From New York’s Rock Underground,” (Rockwell’s NYT Article) offers an interesting account […]
Unmasking the Unreliable Narrator; a study of Vladimir Nabokov and Ralph Ellison
Vladimir Nabokov and Ralph Ellison’s, Lolita and Invisible Man, subvert our traditional understanding of genre, through their retrospective, first person […]
Satirical Truth Behind Gary Shteyngart’s “Super Sad True Love Story”
In Super Sad True Love Story, Shteyngart subverts our traditional understanding of the “love story,” through his manipulation of social […]