Friday, December 30, 2016

Trump: Media & Politics (Reading List)

“Aftermath: Sixteen Writers on Trump’s America.” The New Yorker 21 Nov. 2016. Web.

Andrejevic, Mark. “The Jouissance of Trump.” Television & New Media 17.7 (2016). Web.

Bageant, Joe. “American Serfs: Inside the White Ghetto of the Working Poor.” Deer Hunting with Jesus. New York: Random House, 2007. Web.

Barbaro, Michael & Megan Twohey. “Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump Behaved with Women in Private.” The New York Times. 14 May 2016. Web.

Barthes, Roland. “The World of Wrestling.” Mythologies. New York: Hill & Wang, 1972. Print.

Brannon, Robert. “Donald Trump and the Sex Industry.” Dignity 1.1 (2016): 1-9. Web.

Caplan, Jane. “Trump and Fascism. A View from the Past.” History Workshop. 17 Nov. 2016. Web.

Coppins, McKay. “How the Haters and Losers Lost.” Buzzfeed. 17 Jul. 2016. Web.

Dean, Michelle. “Don’t Stop Believin.’” New Republic. 9 Nov. 2016. Web.

“The Editorial Board.” “Truth and Lies in the Age of Trump.” The New York Times. 10 Dec. 2016. Web.

Edwards, Stassa. “The Virility of Fascists.” Jezebel. 7 Dec. 2016. Web.

Flaherty, Colleen. “Don’t Smile, You’re on Camera.” Inside Higher Ed. 12 Dec. 2016. Web.

Foran, Clare. “Trump’s Victory Sends a Disturbing Message about Sexual Assault.” The Atlantic. 9 Nov. 2016. Web.

“Forsetti’s Justice.” “An Insider’s View: The Dark Rigidity of Fundamentalist Rural America.” Alternet. 22 Nov. 2016. Web.

Franko, Elizabeth. “Democracy at Work?: The Lessons of Donald Trump and the Apprentice.” How Real is Reality TV?: Essays on Representation and Truth. Ed. David S. Escoffery. Jefferson, NC: Macfarland & Company, 2006. Print.

Garber, Megan. “Why Presidents Are Also Celebrities.” The Atlantic. 18 Sep. 2014. Web.

Giroux, Henry. Arena Magazine 140 (2016): 31-32. Print.

Glasser, Susan B. “Covering Politics in a ‘Post-Truth’ America.” Brookings. 2 Dec. 2016. Web.

Gonzalez, Nancie Loudon. “Carnival or Campaign?: Locating Robin Hood and the Carnivalesque in the U.S. Presidential Race.” The Humanist. 19 Apr. 2016. Web.

Hall, Kira, Donald M. Goldstein, & Matthew Bruce Ingram. “The Hands of Donald Trump: Entertainment, Gesture, Spectacle.” Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 6.2 (2016): 71-100. Web.

Hartocollis, Anemona. “On Campus, Trump Fans Say They Need ‘Safe Spaces.” New York Times. 8 Dec. 2016. Web.

Hearn, Alison. “Trump’s ‘Reality’ Hustle.’ Television & New Media 17.7 (2016): 656-59. Web.    

Kellner, Douglas. American Nightmare: Donald Trump, Media Spectacle, and Authoritarian Populism. Boston: Sense Publishers, 2016. Print.

Kelly, Chris. “What Donald Trump Learned about Politics from Pro Wrestling.” The Washington Post. 11 Nov. 2016. Web.

Legum, Judd. “This French Philosopher is the Only One Who Can Explain the Donald Trump Phenomenon.” Think Progress. 14 Sep. 2015. Web.

Lockwood, Patricia. “Lost in Trumplandia.” New Republic 27 Mar. 2016. Web.

McAdams, Dan P. “The Mind of Donald Trump.” The Atlantic. Jun 2016. Web.

McConnell, Scott. “Rise of the Alt-Right.” The American Conservative. 31 Oct. 2016. Web.

Ouellette, Laurie. “The Trump Show.” Television & New Media 17.7 (2016): 647-50. Web.

Petersen, Anne Helen. “The Key to Trump is Reading Him like a Celebrity.” Buzzfeed. 12 Dec. 2016. Web.

Post, Charlie. “The Republicans Have Been Trumped.” The Brooklyn Rail. 4 Oct. 2016. Web.

Potts, Graham. “Adorno on ‘The Donald’: Reality Television as Culture Industry.” Problematique 11 (2007): 1-10. Web.

Pozner, Jennifer L. “Think Reality TV is Sexist? Blame Donald Trump.” Politico. 15 Aug. 2015. Web.

Robinson, Andrew. “Bakhtin: Carnival Against Capital, Carnival Against Power.” Ceasefire. 9 Sep. 2011. Web.

Schoenwald, Jonathan. “Introduction.” A Time for Choosing: The Rise of Modern American Conservatism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Print.

Shechet, Ellie. “When Reality TV Becomes Reality, What’s Our Next Move?” Jezebel. 22 Dec. 2016. Web.

Sheffield, Matthew. “How the Alt-Right Became Racist, Part 1: A Short History of Hate.” Salon. 8 Dec. 2016. Web.

Sheffield, Matthew. “How the Alt-Right Became Racist, Part 2: Long Before Trump, White Nationalists Flocked to Ron Paul.” 9 Dec. 2016. Web.

Sheffield, Matthew. “Rise of the Alt-Right: How Mainstream Conservatives’ Obsession with Purity Fueled a New Right-Wing Radicalism.” 14 Dec. 2016. Web.

Sullivan, Margaret. “The Post-Truth World of the Trump Administration is Scarier Than You Think.” The Washington Post. 4 Dec. 2016. Web.

Taub, Amanda. “The Rise of American Authoritarianism.” Vox. 1 Mar. 2016. Web.

Timpf, Katherine. “Classes Being Cancelled Because Trump Won is Why Trump Won.” National Review. 10 Nov. 2016. Web.

Whitehouse, John. “Misinformer of the Year: The Ecosystem of Fake News and the “Alt-Right.” Media Matters. 27 Dec. 2016. Web.


Žižek, Slavoj. “Slavoj Žižek on Clinton, Trump, and the Left’s Dilemma.” In These Times. 6 Nov. 2016. Web.

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

November Media Journal

Watt, Mike. ‘Ring Spiel’ Tour ’95. Columbia Records, 2016.
[Various Artists]. Wonder Boys: Music From the Motion Picture. Columbia Records, 2000.
Buckwheat Zydeco. Five Card Stud. Island Records, 1994.
[Various Artists]. 200 Cigarettes: Music From the Motion Picture. Mercury Records, 1999.
Mellencamp, John. Freedom’s Road. Universal Music, 2007.
Hansard, Glen. It Was Triumph We Once Proposed…Songs of Jason Molina. Overcoat Records, 2015.
The Magnolia Electric Co. Hard to Love a Man. Secretly Canadian, 2005.
10,000 Maniacs. Love Among the Ruins. Geffen Records, 1997.
[Various Artists]. Farewell Transmission: The Music of Jason Molina. Rock the Cause, 2014.
Songs: Ohia. Songs: Ohia. Secretly Canadian, 1999.
Chang: Jeff. Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation. New York: Picador, 2005.
Perlstein, Rick. The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Red Oaks [Season 2]. Creators Joe Gangemi & Gregory Jacobs. Amazon Studios, 2016.
Rectify [Season 4]. Creator Ray McKinnon. Gran Via Productions, 2016.
Moonlight. Dir. Barry Jenkins. A24 Pictures, 2016.
GTFO: Get the Fuck Out. Dir. Shannon Sun-Higginson. Collective Eye Films, 2015.
Pink Floyd. Cre/ation: The Early Years 1967-1972. Columbia Records, 2016.
The Affair [Season 3]. Creators Hagai Levi & Sarah Treem. Film 50, 2016.
Lang, James A. Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Teaching. New York: Jossey-Bass Education, 2016.

Citizenfour. Dir. Laura Poitras. Praxis Films, 2014.