HASTAC Commons | Gil Rodman | Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/gilrodman/activity/ Activity feed for Gil Rodman. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:53:14 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 56adf73bf627af87d800adfd0561da57 Gil Rodman's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1929146/ Sat, 27 Sep 2025 22:30:20 +0000 0 9da2e342587690a8f91c72f2b841dc73 Gil Rodman deposited Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards: Mixing Pop, Politics, and Cultural Studies in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1783615/ Thu, 09 Jun 2022 02:23:56 +0000 A handbook essay that explains cultural studies apprroaches to the study of popular music.

]]> 0 6aad760f1d484486aa2b90016f738500 Gil Rodman deposited Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards: Mixing Pop, Politics, and Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1783562/ Wed, 08 Jun 2022 16:08:59 +0000 A handbook essay that explains cultural studies apprroaches to the study of popular music.

]]> 0 0aa7eaea22959a6b127dd6520abe0ca4 Gil Rodman deposited Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Film: What Does It Mean to Be a Black Film in Twenty-First Century America? in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1779139/ Thu, 21 Apr 2022 02:23:38 +0000 “What does it mean to be a black film in twenty-first century America?”
 
Riffing off of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s work in Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man, who in turn drew heavily from Wallace Stevens’ 1917 poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” this chapter wrestles with some of the controversies surrounding the 2012 film Dj…[Read more]

]]> 0 78f7ae5969eb1837bb6ba40351d4f531 Gil Rodman deposited Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Film: What Does It Mean to Be a Black Film in Twenty-First Century America? https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1779022/ Wed, 20 Apr 2022 00:41:18 +0000 “What does it mean to be a black film in twenty-first century America?”
 
Riffing off of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s work in Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man, who in turn drew heavily from Wallace Stevens’ 1917 poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” this chapter wrestles with some of the controversies surrounding the 2012 film Dj…[Read more]

]]> 0 7491700b9e832c71e3b01b5cfb834742 Gil Rodman deposited Textual Stealing?: Copyright, Race, and Elusive Justice in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1778521/ Wed, 13 Apr 2022 02:24:44 +0000 A critical analysis of the racial politics of the “Blurred Lines” copyright infringement case.

]]> 0 78d89352bf62c0ce79a4d9765897f076 Gil Rodman deposited Textual Stealing?: Copyright, Race, and Elusive Justice https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1778512/ Tue, 12 Apr 2022 22:46:37 +0000 A critical analysis of the racial politics of the “Blurred Lines” copyright infringement case.

]]> 0 67291610894b34b9a622baf20822149a Gil Rodman deposited The Net Effect: The Public’s Fear and the Public Sphere in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1764285/ Sat, 01 Jan 2022 02:23:41 +0000 This chapter examines the public discourse — both utopian and panic-driven — about the growth in popularity of the internet in the late 1990s and early 2000s

]]> 0 dfc45066f6b1d8f8b6efaebd0529a694 Gil Rodman deposited The Net Effect: The Public’s Fear and the Public Sphere https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1764208/ Fri, 31 Dec 2021 15:51:06 +0000 This chapter examines the public discourse — both utopian and panic-driven — about the growth in popularity of the internet in the late 1990s and early 2000s

]]> 0 bcb587171526ee13f65f4e73a7c019d7 Gil Rodman deposited What We (Still) Need to Learn: Stuart Hall and the Struggle Against Racism in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1746390/ Tue, 20 Jul 2021 02:23:40 +0000 Forty years ago, in his seminal essay, ‘The Whites of Their Eyes’, Stuart Hall admonished the left for its – our – collective failure in figuring out how to fight back against racism effectively. Sadly, his criticism is no less valid today than it was then, and we still have a lot to learn about how to defeat racism once and for all. We’ve k…[Read more]

]]> 0 926de1eb4bebb13a6f4f74dfa3f9d734 Gil Rodman deposited What We (Still) Need to Learn: Stuart Hall and the Struggle Against Racism https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1746211/ Mon, 19 Jul 2021 09:50:17 +0000 Forty years ago, in his seminal essay, ‘The Whites of Their Eyes’, Stuart Hall admonished the left for its – our – collective failure in figuring out how to fight back against racism effectively. Sadly, his criticism is no less valid today than it was then, and we still have a lot to learn about how to defeat racism once and for all. We’ve k…[Read more]

]]> 0 56ab7d23a716745b562630fc8b50327f Gil Rodman deposited The Impossibility of Teaching Cultural Studies in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1672838/ Tue, 17 Dec 2019 16:25:23 +0000 “When I said that part of what the Centre was about was trying to produce organic intellectual work, I of course had the question of pedagogy essentially in mind.”
— Stuart Hall, “Cultural Studies and Its Theoretical Legacies”

Those of us in the academy who call cultural studies “home” often claim that one of the main things we do is to teach…[Read more]

]]> 0 4d6b5dda246709e4d6978da590d6f69c Gil Rodman deposited The Impossibility of Teaching Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1672790/ Mon, 16 Dec 2019 17:03:19 +0000 “When I said that part of what the Centre was about was trying to produce organic intellectual work, I of course had the question of pedagogy essentially in mind.”
— Stuart Hall, “Cultural Studies and Its Theoretical Legacies”

Those of us in the academy who call cultural studies “home” often claim that one of the main things we do is to teach…[Read more]

]]> 0 432271734ffd153592aabb63df270565 Gil Rodman deposited Cultural Studies Is Ordinary in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1635659/ Tue, 19 Mar 2019 16:27:44 +0000 In “Culture Is Ordinary,” Raymond Williams challenged the then prevalent notion that “culture” is a phenomenon possessed only by social elites and educated highbrows, and attempted to replace it with a more expansive vision of culture as something commonly found at all levels of a social hierarchy. A truly democratic society, he insisted, could n…[Read more]

]]> 0 d108632abc4d5d6b8cee771cb56d1960 Gil Rodman deposited Cultural Studies Is Ordinary https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1635576/ Mon, 18 Mar 2019 18:23:03 +0000 In “Culture Is Ordinary,” Raymond Williams challenged the then prevalent notion that “culture” is a phenomenon possessed only by social elites and educated highbrows, and attempted to replace it with a more expansive vision of culture as something commonly found at all levels of a social hierarchy. A truly democratic society, he insisted, could n…[Read more]

]]> 0 eeee35a88ae1bd5363ae9f31b3ebed72 Gil Rodman's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1631719/ Mon, 11 Feb 2019 21:08:24 +0000 0 1263f456e1049de2ff88b5b0d279cf7a Gil Rodman deposited Cultural Studies and History in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1627558/ Tue, 01 Jan 2019 16:25:24 +0000 A handbook chapter discussing the relationship between “cultural studies” and “historical theory,” with a specific focus on four facets of cultural studies that help to shape its approach to scholarly research, evidence, and analysis: (1) its overtly political nature, (2) its interdisciplinarity, (3) its constructivism, and (4) its radical contextualism.

]]> 0 0664ce37e95137b5262752c3a585ad32 Gil Rodman deposited Cultural Studies and History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1627530/ Mon, 31 Dec 2018 20:45:48 +0000 A handbook chapter discussing the relationship between “cultural studies” and “historical theory,” with a specific focus on four facets of cultural studies that help to shape its approach to scholarly research, evidence, and analysis: (1) its overtly political nature, (2) its interdisciplinarity, (3) its constructivism, and (4) its radical contextualism.

]]> 0 7c0e5d117f8381570378d2de847a59a1 Gil Rodman deposited Histories in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1624292/ Thu, 22 Nov 2018 16:25:21 +0000 A chapter on “Histories” in an edited collection on key terms in popular music studies. I make an argument for the need to always historicize the study of popular music, with 4 major points of emphasis:
1. Doing history is about interpreting facts, not just reporting them.
2. Historical contexts are things that we have to construct in our…[Read more]

]]> 0 fac3bfe1b21b176d23ed140abb523022 Gil Rodman deposited Histories https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1624265/ Wed, 21 Nov 2018 20:14:17 +0000 A chapter on “Histories” in an edited collection on key terms in popular music studies. I make an argument for the need to always historicize the study of popular music, with 4 major points of emphasis:
1. Doing history is about interpreting facts, not just reporting them.
2. Historical contexts are things that we have to construct in our…[Read more]

]]> 0 a965b2010ae9d8bd07c2ad51f6322a0f Gil Rodman deposited Media:Culture:Policy, or What We Talk About When We Talk About (Cultural) Policy in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1605280/ Tue, 03 Apr 2018 04:12:29 +0000 The relationship between culture and policy has long been a major topic for media and cultural studies. With
this issue, we hope to broaden the meaning of cultural policy, from policies that are explicitly regulating
something we call the “cultural” (including media or traditional rituals or symbols) to include the practice of
policy-making and…[Read more]

]]> 0 e1c933d89e1260f0593320d7ee2396a4 Gil Rodman deposited Media:Culture:Policy, or What We Talk About When We Talk About (Cultural) Policy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1605252/ Mon, 02 Apr 2018 21:54:01 +0000 The relationship between culture and policy has long been a major topic for media and cultural studies. With
this issue, we hope to broaden the meaning of cultural policy, from policies that are explicitly regulating
something we call the “cultural” (including media or traditional rituals or symbols) to include the practice of
policy-making and…[Read more]

]]> 0 e11efb0ee4c7dc4a043a81bbf9fdbb2c Gil Rodman deposited Cultural Studies in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1604528/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 04:13:10 +0000 This essay explains that cultural studies is, by design, too diverse and heterogeneous a project to be reduced to a single methodology. It goes on to offer a brief definition of project, and to describe four of its major characteristics: (1) its leftist politics, (2) its radical contextualism, (3) its radical interdisciplinarity, and (4) its…[Read more]

]]> 0 4771b9f339d1e300f71d92876ca368e7 Gil Rodman deposited Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1604516/ Mon, 26 Mar 2018 22:10:03 +0000 This essay explains that cultural studies is, by design, too diverse and heterogeneous a project to be reduced to a single methodology. It goes on to offer a brief definition of project, and to describe four of its major characteristics: (1) its leftist politics, (2) its radical contextualism, (3) its radical interdisciplinarity, and (4) its…[Read more]

]]> 0 516aa3060d6ac0d6c929ac0491209a33 Gil Rodman deposited Notes on Reconstructing “the Popular” in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1603975/ Tue, 20 Mar 2018 04:13:12 +0000 Drawing on Stuart Hall’s influential “Notes on deconstructing ‘the
popular’” [Hall, S. (1981). In R. Samuel (Eds.), People’s history and
socialist theory (pp. 227–240). London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.],
this essay maps out some of the major shifts in cultural studies’
relationship to popular culture over the past several decades. It
co…[Read more]

]]> 0 c310504529fcf3bc505f6e27688128a6 Gil Rodman deposited Notes on Reconstructing “the Popular” https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1603957/ Mon, 19 Mar 2018 22:49:48 +0000 Drawing on Stuart Hall’s influential “Notes on deconstructing ‘the
popular’” [Hall, S. (1981). In R. Samuel (Eds.), People’s history and
socialist theory (pp. 227–240). London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.],
this essay maps out some of the major shifts in cultural studies’
relationship to popular culture over the past several decades. It
co…[Read more]

]]> 0 8a972b81b5186052f12d5e5f35e83c46 Gil Rodman deposited Cultural Studies and Critical Literacies in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1603343/ Tue, 13 Mar 2018 04:12:27 +0000 This article introduces a special issue on the topic of Cultural Studies and Critical Literacies. The collection of articles is drawn from the central theme of the inaugural Summer Institute of the Association for Cultural Studies: to explore the implications of studying literacy by combining perspectives from cultural studies and (critical)…[Read more]

]]> 0 a5a8007cfac1f0b601c2020524fd0220 Gil Rodman deposited Cultural Studies and Critical Literacies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1603324/ Mon, 12 Mar 2018 20:53:53 +0000 This article introduces a special issue on the topic of Cultural Studies and Critical Literacies. The collection of articles is drawn from the central theme of the inaugural Summer Institute of the Association for Cultural Studies: to explore the implications of studying literacy by combining perspectives from cultural studies and (critical)…[Read more]

]]> 0 7f13c2ba13431ff41649e033bb5ffe55 Gil Rodman deposited Race . . . and Other Four Letter Words: Eminem and the Cultural Politics of Authenticity in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1597314/ Tue, 16 Jan 2018 04:12:27 +0000 Rap superstar Eminem has become the new poster child for everything that’s dangerous about contemporary popular culture. He’s crude, juvenile, and foul-mouthed. His lyrics are violent, misogynistic, and homophobic. He’s corrupting our youth, poisoning our culture, and laughing about it all the way to the bank. Or so the story goes. This essay…[Read more]

]]> 0 e11455db77f3738e3a48f4ce68a660e3 Gil Rodman deposited Race . . . and Other Four Letter Words: Eminem and the Cultural Politics of Authenticity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1597278/ Mon, 15 Jan 2018 20:15:30 +0000 Rap superstar Eminem has become the new poster child for everything that’s dangerous about contemporary popular culture. He’s crude, juvenile, and foul-mouthed. His lyrics are violent, misogynistic, and homophobic. He’s corrupting our youth, poisoning our culture, and laughing about it all the way to the bank. Or so the story goes. This essay…[Read more]

]]> 0 3fe0939edcdc43ce4b8c1842cdb41b0d Gil Rodman deposited Music for Nothing or, I Want My MP3: The Regulation and Recirculation of Affect in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596457/ Thu, 11 Jan 2018 23:08:32 +0000 With the public discourse around filesharing veering towards punitive extremes, our aim in this essay it to reframe the issue in two ways. First, we argue that the filesharing debates are “too economic,” insofar as they reduce a multi-faceted phenomenon to a single issue: financial loss resulting from the theft of intellectual property. Lost in…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d2da108bfd61be212866cfb5d3205f2 Gil Rodman deposited Music for Nothing or, I Want My MP3: The Regulation and Recirculation of Affect https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1596047/ Wed, 10 Jan 2018 00:34:02 +0000 With the public discourse around filesharing veering towards punitive extremes, our aim in this essay it to reframe the issue in two ways. First, we argue that the filesharing debates are “too economic,” insofar as they reduce a multi-faceted phenomenon to a single issue: financial loss resulting from the theft of intellectual property. Lost in…[Read more]

]]> 0 236803b936e21f69ffa1c7b3a0fa607f Gil Rodman deposited Subject To Debate: (Mis)Reading Cultural Studies in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1593292/ Fri, 22 Dec 2017 05:41:07 +0000 A critical analysis of (and intervention into) various misreadings of cultural studies.

]]> 0 0c8ed3d8d4eeb7fd15e447a3b393ad44 Gil Rodman deposited Subject To Debate: (Mis)Reading Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1593204/ Thu, 21 Dec 2017 17:16:55 +0000 A critical analysis of (and intervention into) various misreadings of cultural studies.

]]> 0 946666df6666d99317bb045793106029 Gil Rodman deposited A Hero to Most?: Elvis, Myth, and the Politics of Race in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1581390/ Fri, 15 Sep 2017 01:00:44 +0000 A critical analysis of the racial politics and cultural mythologies surrounding Elvis Presley’s career and stardom.

]]> 0 50879b5acb8e94ae5a3889cf37c0e993 Gil Rodman deposited A Hero to Most?: Elvis, Myth, and the Politics of Race https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1581297/ Wed, 13 Sep 2017 20:09:13 +0000 A critical analysis of the racial politics and cultural mythologies surrounding Elvis Presley’s career and stardom.

]]> 0 e5ab2a79e3f2c2a0f48c2be878890759 Gil Rodman deposited Making a Better Mystery Out of History: Of Plateaus, Roads, and Traces in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1580270/ Fri, 01 Sep 2017 01:00:02 +0000 An essay exploring the serendipitous connections (theoretical, methodological, historiographic) between three seemingly unrelated books: Deleuze and Guattari’s _A Thousand Plateaus_, Carter’s _The Road to Botany Bay_, and Marcus’ _Lipstick Traces_.

]]> 0 5d40ebd517bc7090a902549f151f22f1 Gil Rodman deposited Making a Better Mystery Out of History: Of Plateaus, Roads, and Traces https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1580017/ Tue, 29 Aug 2017 01:42:58 +0000 An essay exploring the serendipitous connections (theoretical, methodological, historiographic) between three seemingly unrelated books: Deleuze and Guattari’s _A Thousand Plateaus_, Carter’s _The Road to Botany Bay_, and Marcus’ _Lipstick Traces_.

]]> 0 93db0769568aad0105c484f7d4f7159a Gil Rodman changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1578572/ Fri, 11 Aug 2017 22:02:24 +0000 0 26ef9ab9131907fcb92e010d54b50eb7 Gil Rodman's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1578571/ Fri, 11 Aug 2017 21:45:01 +0000 0