[A Recap of the
month that was in AmericanStudying.]
June
1: MassMediaStudying: CNN and Cable News: On the network’s 40th anniversary,
a mass media series kicks off with the best and worst of what cable news can
offer.
June
2: MassMediaStudying: William Leggett and Early Republic Journalism: The
series continues with four NYC periodicals that illustrate an evolving Early Republic
medium.
June
3: MassMediaStudying: Frederic Remington and Wartime Journalism: What happens
when the pen and the sword work together, as the series writes on.
June
4: MassMediaStudying: The March of Time and Newsreels: An iconic newsreel
series that helps us remember an under-appreciated early 20C genre.
June
5: MassMediaStudying: The Internet: The series concludes with the
variations, limitations, and possibilities of journalism online.
June
6-7: MassMediaStudying: Joseph Adelman’s Revolutionary Networks: A special post
highlighting a great recent scholarly book and the online event that featured
it.
June
8: Portsmouth Posts: The Sheafe Warehouse: A series inspired by the
Portsmouth (NH) waterfront kicks off with three generations of Sampson Sheafes
in New England history.
June
9: Portsmouth Posts: The Navy Yard: The series continues with two famous products
of the historic construction facility and one darker history also present
there.
June
10: Portsmouth Posts: Thomas P. Moses: Two stages to and the broader
meanings of a 19C Renaissance life, as the series rolls on.
June
11: Portsmouth Posts: Remembering the Marine Railway: The importance of
remembering material culture histories, and why we need to go beyond them.
June
12: Portsmouth Posts: The Black Heritage Trail: The series concludes with
three of the many educational stops along a historic path.
June
13-14: New England Historic Daytrips: A special weekend list of prior posts
on many other New England historic and cultural sites.
June
15: American Horror Stories: The Scream Series and Meta-Storytelling: For Psycho’s 60th, a horror
series kicks off with the benefits and drawbacks of meta-fiction.
June
16: American Horror Stories: Psycho, The Birds, and Defamiliarization: The
series continues with horror, defamiliarization, and prejudice.
June
17: American Horror Stories: The Saw Series and Morality: Different visions
of morality in/and horror films, as the series screams on.
June
18: American Horror Stories: Found Footage Films and Realism: The
longstanding appeal, and the limits, of faux-realism.
June
19: American Horror Stories: Hostel, Taken, and Xenophobia: The series concludes
with the horrifying xenophobia at the heart of two of the 21st century’s
biggest hits.
June
20-21: Crowd-sourced American Horror Stories: One of my favorite
crowd-sourced posts yet, featuring so many responses and nominations from
fellow HorrorStudiers—add yours in comments!
June
22: BoschStudying: Harry: A series on characters from the Amazon original
cop show kicks off with how the protagonist’s dark histories complicate his
anti-hero status.
June
23: BoschStudying: Jerry Edgar: The series continues with the benefits of
giving a supporting character more of an identity and stories of his own.
June
24: BoschStudying: Grace Billetts: A character comparison that can help us
extend beyond the “grumpy commanding officer” type, as the series detects on.
June
25: BoschStudying: Irvin Irving: The most typecast of the show’s leads, and
how fatherhood has helped him beyond that type.
June
26: BoschStudying: Maddie: The series concludes with my favorite character
on the show, and one of the best kid-of-the-protagonist characters of all time.
Next series
starts Monday,
Ben
PS. Topics you’d
like to see covered in this space? Guest Posts you’d like to contribute? Lemme know!
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