Resources for November 20, 2016

Alter, Alexandra. "Colson Whitehead Wins the National Book Award for The Underground Railroad." The New York Times (November 17, 2016)

Berger, Dan. "Mass Incarceration And Its Mystification: A Review Of The 13th." AAIHS (October 22, 2016)

Brigden, Charles. "The Beautiful Sounds of Death by Jaws." Wrong Reel #201 (November 2016)

Brown, Julia Prewitt. "Box office failure: Honky Tonk Freeway and the risks of embarrassing the United States." Jump Cut #57 (Fall 2016)

Cusick, William, Parker Dixon and Tara Maen. "William Cusick's Pop Meets the Void." Wrong Reel #168 (July 28, 2016)

Edwards, David. "Filtering the Election." Media Lens (November 18, 2016)

Estaff, Remezcla. "The Stop Trump Reading List: Arm Your Mind with These 16 Books." Remezcla (November 15, 2016)

"From Tree to Shining Tree." Radiolab (July 30, 2016) ["A forest can feel like a place of great stillness and quiet. But if you dig a little deeper, there’s a hidden world beneath your feet as busy and complicated as a city at rush hour. In this story, a dog introduces us to a strange creature that burrows beneath forests, building an underground network where deals are made and lives are saved (and lost) in a complex web of friendships, rivalries, and business relations. It’s a network that scientists are only just beginning to untangle and map, and it’s not only turning our understanding of forests upside down, it’s leading some researchers to rethink what it means to be intelligent."]

Stravers, Jon, et al. "The Mississippi." To the Best of Our Knowledge (July 31, 2016)  ["The Mississippi River is an American icon. It's a body of water that’s been shaped as much by cultural processes as by environmental ones. From the state lines it draws to its role in literature and the arts, it’s a river that flows deep in the American psyche. This episode is about the boundaries and horizons of the Mississippi — its deep geologic past, its history as a route to freedom, and its meaning today. "]

Subissati, Andrea and Alexandra West. "Kill is Kiss: Pontypool (2008)." Faculty of Horror #24 (February 25, 2015) ["Up is down, left is right and black is white in this month’s episode. Tackling the Canadian winter horror film Pontypool, Andrea and Alex talk about national identity, broadcast journalism and how the stories we tell should stop making sense."]