Writing in 1981, Ron Silliman could not have been more astute in characterizing networks and scenes as the two governing modes of social organization in postwar American poetry.1 According to…
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Issue 7: Post45 x Journal of Cultural Analytics, Peer Reviewed Articles
Issue 7: Post45 x Journal of Cultural Analytics, Peer Reviewed Articles
The Asian American Literature We’ve Constructed
Asian American literature has grown dramatically in recent decades, reflecting a broader acceleration in contemporary cultural production.1 While no comprehensive bibliography of Asian American literary publications exists, we can look…
Issue 7: Post45 x Journal of Cultural Analytics, Peer Reviewed Articles
Against Conglomeration: Nonprofit Publishing and American Literature After 1980
1: Port Townsend From Port Townsend, Washington, you can watch the Puget Sound meet the Salish Sea: the small water turns west toward the open ocean. In 1982, James Laughlin…
Issue 7: Post45 x Journal of Cultural Analytics, Peer Reviewed Articles
Feminist Bestsellers: A Digital History of 1970s Feminism
Academics have long recognized 1970 as a signal moment in feminism’s history. In the US, it has been labeled “Feminism’s Pivotal Year” when a “wave of press attention” moved women’s…
Contemporaries Essays, New Filmic Geographies
Bandwidth Imperialism and Small-File Media
We understand the provocation of “new filmic geographies” in two ways: as media geopolitics, explored in the first part by Laura, and as media geopoetics, explored in the second part…
Contemporaries Essays, New Filmic Geographies
The World Imagined
To see the world in a grain of sand William Blake During Oscars season 2020, the internet was abuzz with a meme of Bong Joon Ho reflecting on the widespread…
Contemporaries Essays, New Filmic Geographies
Netflix and the Transnationalization of Nollywood
In 2020, middle-class Nigerians basked in the experience of watching the latest Nollywood films on their release dates, previously exclusive to cinema- or festival-going audiences. Meanwhile, viewers in France and…
Contemporaries Essays, New Filmic Geographies
Lebanon’s Shifting Cinematic Landscape
When Lebanese filmmaker Ziad Doueiry’s feature film The Insult (2017) was nominated for an Academy Award in 2018, the Lebanese media scene was abuzz. Doueiry, whose first film, West Beyrouth…
Contemporaries Essays, New Filmic Geographies
Seven Social Landscapes
1 At the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, director Alejandro González Iñárritu led critics away from the Palais to an airplane hangar to experience his virtual reality installation Carne y Arena….
Contemporaries Essays, New Filmic Geographies
Late Transnational Cinema: James Baldwin at the Movies
James Baldwin is everywhere in the twenty-first century: circulating on Twitter and Instagram; ventriloquized by public intellectuals such as Ta-Nehisi Coates, Eddie Glaude, and Jesmyn Ward; and adapted in cinema….