Spittin' Change

This is a fun listen. It offers a brief history of vampire stories in the English language in order to contextualize the current popularity of vampires, and assess some of the differences between today’s vampires and previous ones.  Though this story doesn’t talk about it, it seems that vampire stories today offer a fascinating entry [...]

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While I recover from the semester and, indeed, the year, and gather my own thoughts about a film I found to be provocative and disturbing, Precious, allow me to direct your attention to the debate on Mark Anthony Neal’s blog about the film:
You’ll find it here.

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The Pan African Film Festival is going on in LA this week. It looks like an exciting line-up!

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