Washington and Lee University English professor Suzanne Keen has found that her students who grew up on Harry Potter exhibit a new appreciation for and understanding of the novels of Charles Dickens.
Are books such as vampire novels, mysteries and fantasy “real” literature? Do they have a place in the education of today’s children? Boise State University English education professor Jeffrey Wilhelm can share insights from a current study about how passionate adolescent readers of non-traditional texts.
Music has been described as the “universal language,” even apparently the harsh sounds of heavy metal. This seems to be borne out by the pervasive popularity of the genre over the last four decades. A new book co-written and edited by Bowling Green State University popular culture associate professor Dr. Jeremy Wallach, “Metal Rules the Globe: Heavy Metal Music Around the World,” traces it from Easter Island to Nepal and China to Madagascar, Brazil and beyond.
Controversy and scandal marred Michael Jackson's reputation as the most influential entertainer of all time, however a new book about the King of Pop is designed to change that.
The painting "Le Bonheur de vivre," by Henri Matisse, is revered as one of two masterpieces that changed the course of painting in the early 20th century. University of Delaware Prof. Robert L. Opila is collaborating with conservation experts at the Barnes, and at Winterthur, to study the paint’s material microstructure and attempt to determine why the cadmium sulfide is changing color.
St. Lawrence University Class of 1924 graduate J. Kimball Gannon, the composer of "I'll Be Home For Christmas," left the University a portion of the royalties from his compositions.
The 20-minute bloody birth scene in Breaking Dawn – Part One continues a long line of horror films featuring women giving birth to otherworldly creatures, says Kelly Oliver, a philosophy professor who has written a book on images of pregnancy in recent movies and popular culture.
Guitar Hero" and "Rock Band" are ways people can unleash their inner Slash and Eddie Van Halen personas, but the Wii gaming system an go well beyond those two popular games to be used for innovative - and educational - opportunities within music education.
The Dancing with the Stars reality competition has given America a chance to connect with a real life American hero.
You may remember Kevin Sorbo as the actor who played the mighty Hercules on a hit TV show. But at the time, few people were aware that the brawny star was struggling through the aftereffects of a series of strokes. Sorbo talks about his experiences—including his long and life-changing road to recovery—in the November issue of Heart Insight, a quarterly magazine for patients, their families and caregivers, published by the American Heart Association (AHA) and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.
American art historian Henry Adams has written extensively about painters like Thomas Hart Benton, Thomas Eakins, Jackson Pollock, Andrew Wyeth, and Grant Wood. Now he turns to photographer Abe Frajndlich, whose images of major photographers from the past half-century have earned him a place alongside them.
University of Cincinnati research examining the edgy intersection of fashion and crime is revealed at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Montreal.
Dr. Frank Lee, of Drexel University's nationally ranked video game design program, contends that the popularity of video game sequels such as recently released "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" and "Battlefield 3" has caused a creativity crisis in the video gaming industry.
A team of students has helped develop and launch the companion website to the book "Van Gogh: A Life," by two Pulitzer Prize winning authors.
This week, Ruth Madoff publicly admitted in an exclusive interview on 60 Minutes that she and husband Bernard attempted suicide after his Ponzi scheme was revealed. The Real Housewives of New Jersey’s Melissa Gorga sported a fat suit in Times Square on Entertainment Tonight in an attempt at tolerance for overweight Americans. Dancing with the Stars’ Maksim Chmerkovskiy mouthed off to judge Len Goodman on live TV and later expressed “no regrets," building anticipation for next week’s episode. Meanwhile, local affiliates nationwide are promoting the heck out of hidden dangers and hidden cameras.
Aretha Franklin has worn some memorable ensembles, and she’ll be unusually dressed at the upcoming American Music Masters tribute concert honoring her achievements: the 18-time Grammy Award winner will don academic regalia as she accepts an honorary degree from Case Western Reserve University.
Experts in various aspects of the macabre include several University at Buffalo faculty members who specialize in what in many cultures find horrible and terrifying.
Why we do move when we hear good music? Researchers at McMaster University have found that tapping to the beat measurably enriches the listening experience, broadening our capacity to understand timing and rhythm.
The 2008 vice presidential race became a battle between Sarah Palin and Tina Fey rather than then-Senator Joe Biden.
The Kinsey Institute announced a gift of 30 photographs by influential 20th century photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. The gift includes portraits and powerful images documenting the sexual lives of people in his circle in the 1970s and early 1980s.
A new iPad game called Syz: EG, now available from Apple's App Store, showcases the professional quality of the work done by UC Santa Cruz students in the computer game design program.
Actors Jack Black, Owen Wilson and Steve Martin go on a one-year search for birds in the upcoming comedy film, “The Big Year.” The movie, which debuts in the United States on Oct. 14, includes 18 sounds from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Macaulay Library, the world’s largest collection of animal sounds.
AMC's Breaking Bad makes chemistry entertaining but the show is not improving chemistry’s tarnished public image says Matthew Hartings, assistant professor of chemistry at American University.
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” the best-selling novel of the 19th century, has had an enduring impact on film and popular culture. In a year when we observe the 200th anniversary of author Harriet Beecher Stowe’s birth, a UC researcher is presenting on the novel’s impact, interpretation and reinterpretation on the silver screen.
Lady Gaga and other celebrities commenting on bullying have the chance to teach young people about the horrors of bullying abuse, says the director of the University at Buffalo’s Alberti Center for the Prevention of Bullying Abuse, a power that makes it important they act responsibly.
The iPod remixed the music industry when it was introduced by Apple Inc. ten years ago. Along with the iPod came iTunes, a program that transformed the way music was sold, played and produced. The music device also led to mobile marketing as we know it today.
In Contagion, scientists scramble to diagnose and stop a new strain of flu virus that achieves pandemic status. It's a scary scenario, but one that should help convince people to "roll up their sleeves" and get a seasonal flu vaccine.
When presidential candidates poke fun at themselves or at opponents, viewers take away different impressions of the humor and of the candidates based on previously held opinions.
Buddy Holly's impact on music and the legal side of the music industry still raves on today.
Diagnosed at age 48 with a potentially deadly form of lymphoma, Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist John Kaplan turned the lens on himself and chronicled his experience in a moving visual journal. Kaplan’s new film, Not As I Pictured, is now showing on PBS stations nationwide. Kaplan is giving away 10,000 DVD copies to anyone affected by cancer.
On Sept. 1, the Fall 2011 issue of Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review hit the newsstand — the virtual newsstand, that is. The 61-year-old literary journal is now entirely online and free.
National radio personality Bob Edwards has teamed up with University Press of Kentucky to offer his new memoir, "A Voice in the Box," for free as an e-book prior to its print release.
In this International Year of Chemistry (IYC), writers and producers for the most popular crime and science-related television shows and movies are putting out an all-points bulletin for scientists to advise them on the accuracy of their plots involving lab tests, crime scenes, etc., and to even give them story ideas.
In an essay published this month in the Public Library of Science journal Medicine, two prominent tobacco researchers argue against adopting adult movie ratings in the United States for films that include on-screen cigarette smoking.
Monica Mei is smart, savvy, stylish and... an entrepreneur. In fact, she’s one of Toronto’s hottest young entrepreneurs, according to the Globe and Mail. This fashion-preneur has found a home at Ryerson’s Digital Media Zone, a space for the every-preneur.
The film adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s "The Help," which opens nationwide today, Aug. 10, depicts a fictional slice of the 1960s civil rights movement. Washington University in St. Louis holds one of the largest archives of civil rights media in the United States, thanks to the Henry Hampton collection and "Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965," a six-episode documentary on the American civil rights movement. Since receiving a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in April 2011, Washington University has been in the process of preserving the acetate-based film used in "Eyes on the Prize."
American courts are significantly expanding the legal rights and privileges celebrities can command over others using their names or likenesses. And a University at Buffalo Law School professor is questioning whether these courts have gone too far.
“The Interrupters,” a documentary by director Steve James ("Hoop Dreams") and bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz ("There Are No Children Here") featuring the University of Illinois at Chicago's CeaseFire project will open in Chicago Aug. 12 at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
For fans, the day an artist dies is also the day the music dies -- unless the artist has left some previously unreleased material. But according to two Kansas State University professors, a posthumous release of unfinished and shelved material can often trivialize a career. Worse, it can also come off as unethical.
University of Kentucky will present a compelling documentary drama based on riveting oral history interviews of student veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at the New York Fringe Festival.
An expert on sexuality among young people says a “friends with benefits” situation can provide some healthy outlets for sexual needs and desires, but can also be a very difficult relationship to navigate.
The phone-hacking scandal that has engulfed British newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch is starting to make waves in the United States as well, according to a media critic and former commentator for Fox News.
In his examination of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1956 film The Wrong Man, University of Arkansas film scholar Jonathan Cavallero finds that the director perpetuated the very stereotype he tried to avoid in the film.
Since the beginning of May, architecture students from Dalhousie University have been working away at a structure in Cheverie, Nova Scotia designed to accommodate a camera obscura which will make a projection of the tide moving the water in and out of the Bay of Fundy.
A gift to the University of Kansas provides the definitive collection of influential writer, co-inventor of "live long and prosper."
Virtually anyone who stays in the work force long enough will eventually have a really lousy boss — and perhaps quite a few, if that employee sticks it out until retirement age. Those lousy bosses should count themselves lucky, then, that very few long-suffering employees resolve to have them murdered, as three fed-up friends attempt to do in the black comedy film “Horrible Bosses,” which opens nationwide this weekend.
The award-winning author of One Fine Potion: The Literary Magic of Harry Potter says the final film in the Harry Potter series, which premieres July 15, "marks the end of an era."
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart suffered from many infectious illnesses from 1762 to 1791, the year of his death at 35 years of age. Most of these illnesses occurred between mid-October and May. Mozart died on December 5, two-to-three months into the 6-month vitamin D winter at that latitude.
UNC Charlotte’s College of Arts + Architecture will bring “Violins of Hope” to Charlotte for a series of premiere exhibitions and performances about the instruments recovered from the Holocaust.
In the wake of the unveiling of a commemorative stamp depicting Mark Twain, a Baylor University scholar says there was more to anti-racist Twain than most people know — including a stint as a Confederate soldier.
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