Sat 28 Feb, 2009
Negro pool halls, Ragtime, Captain Kirk, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Filed under: Comment nowPublic appearancesTags: Colonialism, Gender, Joss Whedon, Race, Star Trek, Traces of the Trade |
The reason it’s been quiet here for the last couple of days is that I’ve been in Albuquerque, N.M. to speak at an interdisciplinary conference on cultural studies in the humanities and social sciences.
The conference featured two evening screenings of Traces of the Trade for attendees, and I spoke at two panel sessions about the use of film as a popular medium and as a pedagogical tool for exploring under-appreciated history and contemporary social issues.