All Outputs (45)

Household Gods: The Religious Lives of the Adams Family: by Sara Georgini, New York: Oxford University Press, 2019, Pp. 284, $34.95 (hbk), $21.59 (e-book), ISBN 9780190882587, ISBN 9780190882594 (2020)
Journal Article
Williams, R. (2020). Household Gods: The Religious Lives of the Adams Family: by Sara Georgini, New York: Oxford University Press, 2019, Pp. 284, $34.95 (hbk), $21.59 (e-book), ISBN 9780190882587, ISBN 9780190882594. American Nineteenth Century History, 21(2), 188-190. https://doi.org/10.1080/14664658.2020.1789345

Documenting an ‘Age-Long Struggle’: Paul Strand's Time in the American Southwest (2020)
Journal Article
Haran, B. (2020). Documenting an ‘Age-Long Struggle’: Paul Strand's Time in the American Southwest. Art History, 43(1), 120-153. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8365.12472

This article examines the photographs that Paul Strand made in the American Southwest between 1930-32, marking his crystallization as a photographer of interconnected people, objects, and places. Using Group Theatre director Harold Clurman’s appellat... Read More about Documenting an ‘Age-Long Struggle’: Paul Strand's Time in the American Southwest.

‘Don’t be a Zombie’: Deep Ecology and Zombie Misanthropy (2019)
Journal Article
Corstorphine, K. (2019). ‘Don’t be a Zombie’: Deep Ecology and Zombie Misanthropy. Gothic nature journal, 54-77

This article examines the waysin which the Gothic imagination has been used to convey the message of environmentalism, looking specifically at attempts to curb population growth, such as the video ‘Zombie Overpopulation’, produced by Population Matte... Read More about ‘Don’t be a Zombie’: Deep Ecology and Zombie Misanthropy.

‘We Cover New York’: protest, neighborhood, and street photography in the (Workers Film and) Photo League (2019)
Journal Article
Haran, B. (2019). ‘We Cover New York’: protest, neighborhood, and street photography in the (Workers Film and) Photo League. Arts, 8(2), 61. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts8020061

This article considers photographs of New York by two American radical groups, the revolutionary Workers Film and Photo League (WFPL) (1931–1936) and the ensuing Photo League (PL) (1936–1951), a less explicitly political concern, in relation to the a... Read More about ‘We Cover New York’: protest, neighborhood, and street photography in the (Workers Film and) Photo League.

The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature (2018)
Book
Corstorphine, K., & Kremmel, L. (Eds.). (2018). The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97406-4

This handbook examines the use of horror in storytelling, from oral traditions through folklore and fairy tales to contemporary horror fiction. Divided into sections that explore the origins and evolution of horror fiction, the recurrent themes that... Read More about The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature.

Shaping the mass mind: Frederick Kiesler and the psychology of selling (2017)
Book Chapter
Haran, B. (2017). Shaping the mass mind: Frederick Kiesler and the psychology of selling. In A. J. Clarke, & E. Shapira (Eds.), Émigré Cultures in Design and Architecture (63-76). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474275637.ch-004

This paper concerns theories around the ‘psychology of selling’ advanced in New York at the end of the 1920s by two figures with strong Viennese connections. Kiesler was an avant-garde polymath—an ‘International Constructivist’ De Stijl member who br... Read More about Shaping the mass mind: Frederick Kiesler and the psychology of selling.

Response to Deborah Willis, the Black Civil War Soldier: Conflict and Citizenship (2017)
Journal Article
Williams, R. (2017). Response to Deborah Willis, the Black Civil War Soldier: Conflict and Citizenship. Journal of American Studies, 51(2), 339-347. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875817000494

Cartoons vs. manga movies : a brief history of anime in the UK (2017)
Journal Article
Hernández-Pérez, M., Corstorphine, K., & Stephens, D. (2017). Cartoons vs. manga movies : a brief history of anime in the UK. Mutual Images, 2(Winter), 5-43. https://doi.org/10.32926/2017.2.HER.carto

This paper has as main objective to explore, adopting a historical and critical perspective, the release of film and anime TV in UK. This would be a first step towards the studio of the peculiar implementation of manganime Culture in Britain. Compare... Read More about Cartoons vs. manga movies : a brief history of anime in the UK.

'We're Only Kids Now, But Someday...': Hollywood Musicals and the Great Depression Youth Crisis' (2016)
Book Chapter
Eldridge, D. (2016). 'We're Only Kids Now, But Someday...': Hollywood Musicals and the Great Depression Youth Crisis'. In I. Morgan, & P. John Davies (Eds.), Hollywood and the Great Depression: American Film, Politics and Society in the 1930s (216-238). Edinburgh University Press

Bennett, Breen, and the Birdman of Alcatraz: A case study of collaborative censorship between the production code administration and the federal bureau of prisons (2016)
Journal Article
Eldridge, D. (2016). Bennett, Breen, and the Birdman of Alcatraz: A case study of collaborative censorship between the production code administration and the federal bureau of prisons. Film History, 28(2), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.2979/filmhistory.28.2.02

In bringing to the screen the life of murderer Robert Stroud in Birdman of Alcatraz (United Artists, 1962), filmmakers encountered official obstruction from the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, James V. Bennett. Campaigning for the release... Read More about Bennett, Breen, and the Birdman of Alcatraz: A case study of collaborative censorship between the production code administration and the federal bureau of prisons.

Watching the red dawn: the American avant-garde and the Soviet Union (2016)
Book
Haran, B. (2016). Watching the red dawn: the American avant-garde and the Soviet Union. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719097225.001.0001

© Barnaby Haran 2016. All rights reserved. This book offers the first sustained examination of the cultural relations of the American and Soviet avant-gardes in a period of major transformation. From the formation of the USSR in 1922 until its recogn... Read More about Watching the red dawn: the American avant-garde and the Soviet Union.

Stoker, Poe, and American Gothic in ‘The Squaw’ (2016)
Book Chapter
Corstorphine, K. (2016). Stoker, Poe, and American Gothic in ‘The Squaw’. In C. Wynne (Ed.), Bram Stoker and the Gothic - Formations to Transformations. Palgrave Macmillan

Tractor factory facts: Margaret Bourke-White's Eyes on Russia and the romance of industry in the Five-Year Plan (2015)
Journal Article
Haran, B. (2015). Tractor factory facts: Margaret Bourke-White's Eyes on Russia and the romance of industry in the Five-Year Plan. Oxford Art Journal, 38(1), 73-93. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/kcu032

This article examines the particular form of documentary that the photographer Margaret Bourke-White employed in her images of sovietisation during the first Five-Year Plan in Russia. By her own admission she was more interested in machines than poli... Read More about Tractor factory facts: Margaret Bourke-White's Eyes on Russia and the romance of industry in the Five-Year Plan.

Rapper, writer, pop-cultural player : Ice-T and the politics of black cultural production (2014)
Book
Metcalf, J., & Turner, W. (Eds.). (2014). Rapper, writer, pop-cultural player : Ice-T and the politics of black cultural production. Farnham: Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315603612

© Josephine Metcalf and Will Turner and the contributors 2014. This collection of essays critically engages with factors relating to black urban life and cultural representation in the post-civil rights era, using Ice-T and his myriad roles as musici... Read More about Rapper, writer, pop-cultural player : Ice-T and the politics of black cultural production.

Civil War Relief Agencies, the Union Soldier, and Healing the Union (2014)
Book Chapter
Williams, R. (2014). Civil War Relief Agencies, the Union Soldier, and Healing the Union. In M. Tanrisal, & T. E. Tunç (Eds.), The Health of the Nation (39-52). Universitätsverlag Winter

Red Hashar: Louis Lozowick’s Representations of the Sovietization of Central Asia (2013)
Book Chapter
Haran, B. (2013). Red Hashar: Louis Lozowick’s Representations of the Sovietization of Central Asia. In W. Carter, B. Haran, & F. J. Schwartz (Eds.), Re-New Marxist Art History (260-282). Art/Books Publishing

In 1931 the Russian-American artist Louis Lozowick travelled with members of the International Union of Revolutionary Writers to Tajikistan, one of the new Central Asian republics of the USSR. In Tajikistan, Lozowick chronicled the ‘sovietization’ of... Read More about Red Hashar: Louis Lozowick’s Representations of the Sovietization of Central Asia.

Magic windows: Friedrich Kiesler and department store constructivism (2013)
Book Chapter
Haran, B. (2013). Magic windows: Friedrich Kiesler and department store constructivism. In J. C. Welchman (Ed.), Sculpture and the Vitrine (69-94). Routledge

This paper concerns the use of Constructivist aesthetics by Friedrich Kiesler in window displays for Saks Fifth Avenue department store in New York in 1928. This event arguably concluded the dissipation of the revolutionary potential of Russian Const... Read More about Magic windows: Friedrich Kiesler and department store constructivism.

Machine, montage, and myth: Experimental cinema and politics of American modernism during the Great Depression (2011)
Journal Article
Haran, B. (2011). Machine, montage, and myth: Experimental cinema and politics of American modernism during the Great Depression. Textual Practice, 25(3), 563-584. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2011.569177

This article looks at the film journal Experimental Cinema in relation to the radical Workers Film and Photo League

Homeless houses: Classifying Walker Evans's photographs of Victorian architecture (2010)
Journal Article
Haran, B. (2010). Homeless houses: Classifying Walker Evans's photographs of Victorian architecture. Oxford Art Journal, 33(2), 189-210. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/kcq015

This article examines images of Victorian houses by Walker Evans in relation to the theory of the archive

American culture in the 1930s (2008)
Book
Eldridge, D. (2008). American culture in the 1930s. Edinburgh University Press

A clear overview of the major cultural forms of 1930s America: literature and drama, music and radio, film and photography, art and design, and case studies of influential texts and practitioners of the decade.