Revive Your Darlings
The Great Leg Show!
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Hot pants served as a sartorial riposte to the fashion industry’s relentless campaign for the midi.
Entertainment & Recreation
How Canons Are Formed
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Many Progressive Era playwrights were women. So how did they become “invisible” in the canon?
Shorts
The Olympic Paradox
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The Olympics has always relied on two antithetical forces: nationalism and internationalism.
Field Trip
The Magician In The Castle
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This museum riled illusionists worldwide when its exhibit dared to reveal Houdini’s secrets.
Shorts
Bowling For Suburbia
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By adopting middle-class aesthetics, the bar-basement bowling alley became the “poor man’s country club.”
Shorts
The Pitfalls of Fandom for Women of Color
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What happens if we demystify fandom as a haven for female desire?
Features
A Little More Knowledge Lights Our Way
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Who gets to take meaning from things and have that meaning-making respected and valued?
Features
Sacred Objects
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A medieval relic economy operates in the Star Wars universe—and in the universe of its fans.
Shorts
Far, Far Away?
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The line between cultural influence and cultural appropriation can be blurry.
Shorts
I’ve Never Seen Anything
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How could the Jedi Order vanish from public memory in less than a generation?
Features
Death to the Ewoks
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Though the genocidal event isn’t canon, many fans apparently wish it was.
Shorts
From A Certain Point Of View
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By denying access to the original cuts of the saga films, George Lucas has left us without the critical cultural documents needed for understanding the franchise’s power.
Features
If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Batuu
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To work, a theme park needs to collapse the mythic pasts that it depicts with the pasts of our own lives.
Features
Fandom: A Star Wars Story
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This is about much more than Star Wars—it is about media bias and “information disorder” in the twenty-first century.
Field Trip
The Circus Hitler Said He Loved
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Simultaneously beloved and despised by the Nazi regime, their stories are now being uncovered by a team of researchers.