June Media Journal

Halt and Catch Fire [Season 2]. Creators Christopher Cantwell & Christopher C. Rogers. AMC Studios, 2015.

Lauper, Cyndi. A Letter to Remember. Epic Records, 1989.

The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt [Season 1]. Creators Robert Carlock & Tina Fey. 3 Arts Entertainment, 2015.

Slade, Alison F., Amber J. Narro, and Burton P. Buchanan, eds. Reality Television: Oddities of Culture. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014.

Dylan, Bob. Shadows in the Night. Columbia Records, 2015.

Dawes. All Your Favorite Bands. Hub Records, 2015.

Thompson, Hunter S. Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail, ’72. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 1973.

Alabama Shakes. Sound & Color. ATO Records, 2015.

Mumford & Sons. Babel. Glassnotes Records, 2012.

[Various Artists]. I’m Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen. Atlantic Records, 1991.

Echols, Alice. Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.

Hofstadter, Richard. The Paranoid Style in American Politics. New York: Vintage Books, 2008/1965.

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. Dir. Alex Gibney. HBO Documentary Films, 2015.

Thompson, Hunter S. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. New York: Vintage Books, 1971.

Sim, Stuart. Irony and Crisis: A Critical History of Postmodern Culture. Landham, MD: Totem Books, 2002.

Magill, Jr. R. Jay. Chic Ironic Bitterness. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007.

Catastrophe [Season 1]. Creators Rob Delaney & Meredith Blake. Avalon Television. 2015.

Love & Mercy. Dir. Bill Pohlad. River Road Entertainment, 2014.

Purdy, Jedediah. For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today. New York: Vintage Books, 1999.

Best Coast. California Nights. Harvest Records, 2015.

The Coathangers. Larceny & Old Lace. Suicide Squeeze Records, 2011.

May Media Journal

Happyish [Season 1]. Creator Shalom Auslander. Cooper’s Town Productions, 2015.

Silicon Valley [Season 2]. Creators Mike Judge, John Alschuler, Dave Krinsky. 3 Arts Entertainment, 2015.

Maron [Season 3]. Creator Marc Maron. Boomer Lives Productions!, 2015.

Jackson, Andrew Grant. 1965: The Most Revolutionary Year in Music. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2015.

Crary, Jonathan. 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep. New York: Verso Books, 2013.

Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble. Texas Flood. Epic Records, 1999/1983.

Halt and Catch Fire [Season 1]. Creators Christopher Cantwell & Christopher C. Rogers. AMC Studios, 2014.

April Media Journal

Vile, Kurt. Wakin on a Pretty Daze. Matador Records, 2013.

Mad Men [Season 7]. Creator Matthew Weiner. Lionsgate Television, 2014.

Rose, Caroline. America Religious. Parkhill Studio, 2013.

The Lone Bellow. Then Came the Morning. Descendent Records, 2015.

Modest Mouse. Strangers to Ourselves. Epic Records, 2015.

Nussbaum, Martha C. The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2013.

Poindexter, Buster. Buster Poindexter. RCA Records, 1987.

Derek & the Slammers. Slam ‘Em If They Can’t Take a Joke. Derek & the Slammers, 1990.

Roxette, Look Sharp! EMI Records, 1988.

Veep [Season 4]. Dundee Productions, 2015.

Louie [Season 5]. 3 Arts Entertainment, 2015.

Ryan Adams & the Cardinals. Follow The Light [EP]. Lost Highway Records, 2007.

Nine Inch Nails. March of the Pigs [Part 2.] [EP]. Island Records, 1994.

Machines of Loving Grace. Machines of Loving Grace. Mammoth Records, 1991.

Inside Amy Schumer [Season 3]. Jax Media, 2015.

Marcus, Greil. Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997.

Metric. Synthetica. Metric Music International, 2012.

The Bright Light Social Hour. The Bright Light Social Hour. Bright Light Social Hour, 2012.

March Media Journal

Bon Iver. Bon Iver. Jagjaguwar Records, 2011.

Semisonic. All About Chemistry MCA Records, 2001.

Clinic. Walking With Thee. Domino Recording, 2002.

Firestein, Stuart. Ignorance: How it Drives Science. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Dawkins, Richard. River out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life. New York: Basic Books, 1996.

The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst. Dir. Andrew Jarecki. Blumhouse Productions, 2015.

House of Cards [Season 3]. Creator Beau Willimon. Media Rights Capital, 2015.

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Will The Circle Be Unbroken, vol. 2. MCA Records, 1989.

Roddy, Ted. Full Circle Hightone Records, 1995.

The Farm. Love See No Colour. Sire Records, 1992.

Niemeyer, Katharina. Media and Nostalgia: Yearning for the Past, Present and Future. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2014.

Exley, Frederick. A Fan’s Notes. New York: Vintage Books, 1988.

Elkins, Suzy. Glass Slippers (Just Hurt My Feet). Vertical Records, 2003.

The War on Drugs. Wagonwheel Blues. Secretly Canadian, 2008.

Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior: Memories of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. New York: Vintage, 1989/1975.

Jauja. Dir. Lisandro Alonso. 4L, 2014.

Rose, Caitlin. Own Side Now. ATO Records, 2011.

Bon Iver. For Emma, Forever Ago. Jagjaguwar Records, 2008.

February Media Journal

Aqualung. Strange and Beautiful. Red Ink Records, 2005.

Northrup, Solomon. 12 Years a Slave. New York: Graymalkin Media, 2014/1853.

Hyper Civilizado. Arto Lindsay Remixes. Gramavision, 1996.

The Killing. Dir. Stanley Kubrick. Harris-Kubrick Productions, 1956.

The Decemberists. What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World. Capitol Records, 2015.

Two Gallants. We Are Undone. Ato Records, 2015.

Weisel, Elie. Night. Trans. Marion Wiesel. New York: Hill and Ward, 2006/1958.

Sleater Kinney. No Cities to Love. Sub Pop Records, 2015.

The War on Drugs. Slave Ambient. Strictly Canadian, 2011.

The Americans [Season 3]. Creator Joseph Weisberg. Dreamworks Television, 2015.

Wilson, Jeff. Mindful America: The Mutual Transformation of Buddhist Meditation and American Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Better Call Saul [Season 1]. Creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould. High Bridge Productions, 2015.

[Various Artists]. Dead Man’s Town: A Tribute to Born in the U.S.A. Lightning Rod Records, 2014.

Rose, Caitlin. The Stand-In. ATO Records, 2013.

Rose, Caitlin. Own Side [EP]. Names Records, 2011.

January Media Journal

Palahniuk, Chuck. Damned. New York: Doubleday Press, 2011.

True Detective [Season 1]. Creator Nic Pizzolatto. Anonymous Content, 2014.

Smith, Patti. Dream of Life. Arista Records, 1988.

Beck, Jeff. Who Else!. Epic Records, 1999.

Ant, Adam. Manners & Physique. MCA Records, 1989.

Adams, Bryan. Waking Up the Neighbours.  A&M Records, 1991.

Arrested Development [Season 4]. Creator Mitchell Hurwitz. Imagine Entertainment, 2013.

The Americans [Season 1]. Creator Joseph Weisberg. Dreamworks Television, 2013.

The Wolf of Wall Street. Dir. Martin Scorsese. Paramount Pictures, 2013.

Girls [Season 4]. Creator Lena Dunham. Apatow Productions, 2015.

Togetherness [Season 1]. Creators Jay Duplass & Mark Duplass. Duplass Brothers Productions, 2015.

House of Lies [Season 4]. Creator Matthew Carnahan. Cinema Vehicle Services, 2015.

The War on Drugs. Lost in the Dream. Secretly Canadian Records, 2014.

Broad City [Season 2]. Creators Ilana Glazer & Abbi Jacobson. 3 Arts Entertainment, 2015.

The Kroll Show [Season 3]. Creators Jonathan Krisel, Nick Kroll, & John Levenstein. Good at Bizness, 2015.

Shameless [Season 5]. Creator Paul Abbot. Bonanza Productions, 2015.

Parks and Recreation [Season 7]. Creators Greg Daniels & Michael Schur. Deedle-Dee Productions, 2015.

Episodes [Season 4]. Creators David Crane & Jeffery Klarik. Hat Trick Productions, 2015.

Hutcheon, Linda. Irony’s Edge: The Theory and Politics of Irony. New York: Routledge, 1995.

McLeod, Kembrew. Pranksters: Making Mischief in the Modern World. New York: New York University Press, 2014.

Selma. Dir. Ana DuVernay. Cloud Eight Films, 2014.

The Americans [Season 2]. Creator Joseph Weisberg. Dreamworks Television, 2014.

Shovels and Rope. O’ Be Joyful. Dualtone Records, 2012.

Shovels and Rope. Swimmin’ Time. Dualtone Records, 2014.

Losurdo, Domenico. Liberalism: A Counter-History. New York: Verso, 2014/2006.

Inherent Vice. Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson. Ghoulardi Film Company, 2014.

Great White. Hooked. Capitol Records, 1991.

Mandel, Emily St. John. Station Eleven. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

Rose, Caroline. I Will Not Be Afraid. Little Hi! Records, 2014.

Semisonic. Great Divide. MCA Records, 1996.

En Vogue. Born to Sing. Atlantic Records, 1990.

12 Years a Slave. Dir. Steve McQueen. Regency Enterprises, 2013.

December Media Journal

Wilco. Alpha Mike Foxtrot. Nonesuch Records, 2014.

Hjelm, Titus, Keith Kahn-Harris, and Mark LeVine. Heavy Metal: Controversies and Countercultures. Bristol, CT. Equinox Publishing, 2013.

Indigo Girls. Shaming of the Sun. Epic Records, 1997.

Banet-Weiser, Sarah. Authentic: The Politics of Ambivalence in a Brand Culture. New York: NYU Press, 2012.

Orange is the New Black [Season 2]. Creator Jenji Kohan. Tilted Productions, 2014.

Helmet. Betty. Interscope Records, 1994.

Interpol. Turn on the Bright Lights. Matador Records, 2002.

Cold War Kids. Hold My Home. Downtown Records, 2014.

Weisbard, Eric. Top 40 Democracy: The Rival Mainstreams of American Music. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.

Morphine. Yes. Rykodisc, 1995.

God’s Pocket. Dir. John Slattery. Park Pictures, 2014.

Top Five. Dir. Chris Rock. IAC Films, 2014.

Don’t Bother to Knock. Dir. Roy Baker. Twentieth Century Fox Pictures, 1952.

Newman, Michael Z. Video Revolutions: On the History of a Medium. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.

Getting On [Season 2]. Creators Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer. Anima Sola Productions, 2014.

The Rutles. Archeology. Virgin Records, 1996.

Flypaper. Dir. Rob Minkoff. IFC Films, 2011.

Into the Woods. Dir. Rob Marshall. Lucamar Productions, 2014.

The One I Love. Dir. Charlie McDowell. Duplass Brothers Productions, 2014.

Weisbard, Eric. Use Your Illusion I and II. New York: Continuum Books, 2007.

Huyssen, Andreas. Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia. New York: Routledge, 1995.

The Theory of Everything. Dir. James Marsh. Working Title Films, 2014.