August round-up

What I’ve been writing about this month.

Suede performing at the Lokerse Festival in Belgium in 2012 (Ed Webster).

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Rewound

For Rewound this month, I wrote this piece on Jesus Jones’s 1991 album Doubt, and how it captured a sense of optimism following the end of the Cold War.

Doubt (1991)

I also wrote this post on John Ford’s 1953 The Sun Shines Bright and its depiction of law, race, gender, and the social order in post-Civil War Kentucky.

The Sun Shines Bright (1953)

Research and Reflections

With Oasis having just announced their reunion, I wrote this piece for Research and Reflections placing their coming tour…