Saturday, September 19, 2015

August Media Journal

Tame Impala. Currents. Modular Recordings, 2015.
Murphy, Peter. Deep. BMG Music, 1989.
Machines of Love and Grace. Burn like Brilliant Trash [EP]. Mammoth Records, 1992.
Best Coast. Crazy for You. Mexican Summer, 2010.
Buckner, Richard. Surrounded. Merge Records, 2013.
Blow, Charles. Fire, Shut up in My Bones. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2014.
Zakaria, Fareed. In Defense of a Liberal Education. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2015.
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2015.
Titus Andronicus. The Most Lamentable Tragedy. Merge Records, 2015.
Review [Season 2]. Creators Jeffrey Blitz, Andrew Daly, Charlie Siskel. Abso Lutely Productions, 2015.
Show Me a Hero. Creator David Simon. HBO Productions, 2015.
Vile, Kurt. Smoke Ring for my Halo. Matador Records, 2011.
Anita. Dir. Freida Lee Mock. Samuel Goldwyn Films, 2013.
A Million Ways to Die in the West. Dir. Seth McFarlane. Bluegrass Films, 2014.
Young, Neil. The Monsanto Years. Reprise Records, 2015.
Wilco. Star Wars. Anti- Records, 2015.
a-ha. Hunting High and Low. Warner Bros., 1985.
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. Unvarnished. Blackheart Records, 2013.
Straight Outta Compton. Dir. F. Gary Gary. Circle of Confusion, 2015.

Thursday, August 6, 2015

July Media Journal

Magill, Jr. R. Jay. Sincerity. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012.
McCartney, Paul. Chaos & Creation in the Backyard. Capitol Records, 2005.
True Detective [Season 2]. Creator Nic Pizzolatto. Anonymous Content, 2015.
Flowers, Brandon. The Desired Effect. Island Records, 2015.
Inside Llewyn Davis. Dirs. Ethan Coen & Joel Coen. CBS Films, 2013.
Nylund, David. Beer, Babes, and Balls: Masculinity and Sports Talk Radio. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007.
Vowell, Sarah. Assassination Vacation. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.
The Brink [Season 1]. Creators Kim Benabib & Roberto Benabib. Everyman Pictures, 2015.
Walsh, Joan. What’s the Matter with White People?: Why We Long for a Golden Age that Never Was. Hoboken, NJ. John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
Orange is the New Black [Season 3]. Creator Jenji Kohan. Tilted Productions, 2015.
Rectify [Season 3]. Creator Ray McKinnon. Gran Via Productions, 2015.
Obvious Child. Dir. Gillian Robespierre. Rooks Nest Entertainment, 2014.
Klein, Naomi. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014.
[Various Artists]. Mojo Presents: The Bad Seeds Jukebox. Mojo Magazine, 2014.
[Various Artists]. Mojo Presents 1-2-3-4!: The Roots of the Ramones. Mojo Magazine, 2011.
[Various Artists]. Mojo Presents: The Roots of Paul McCartney. Mojo Magazine, 2011.
[Various Artists]. Mojo Presents: Bad Seeds: Nick Cave: Roots & Collaborations. Mojo Magazine, 2009.
[Various Artists]. Mojo Presents: Heavy Soul. Mojo Magazine, 2010.
Married [Season 2]. Creator Andrew Gurland. FX Productions, 2015.
Masters of Sex [Season 3]. Creator Michelle Ashford. Round Two Productions, 2015.
7 Days in Hell. Dir. Jake Szymanski. HBO Productions, 2015.
Alpha House [Season 1]. Creator Garry Trudeau. Sid Kibbitz Productions, 2013.
Deutschland ’83 [Season 1]. Creators Anna Winger & Joerg Winger. RTL, 2015.
[Various Artists]. Pure Funk. Polygram Records, 1998.
Bowie, David. Aladdin Sane. Virgin Records, 1999/1973.
Bowie, David. Low. Virgin Records, 1999/1977.
Bowie, David. Let’s Dance. Virgin Records, 1999/1983.
Perrotta, Tom. The Leftovers. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2011.
Kasson, John F. Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America. New York: Hill & Wang, 2001.
The Trainwreck. Dir. Judd Apatow. Apatow Productions, 2015.Z
Zanesville. Curb. [Self-Released], 2012.
Isbell, Jason. Something More than Free. Southeastern Records, 2015.
Barnett, Courtney. Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit. Mom & Pop Music, 2015.
Jay, Martin. The Virtues of Mendacity: On Lying in Politics. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010.

Colebrook, Claire. Irony. Routledge, 2003.

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

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.

Sunday, May 3, 2015

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.

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

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.

Saturday, March 7, 2015

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.