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  1. Dr Doran

    "What the Great Depression Did to Culture"

    One thing that freaks me out is this. I have absolutely no antipathy against gay persons in general. However, I recall on two occasions a favorite text of mine from the 1920s was lectured about by, on one occasion, a gay graduate student, and on another occasion, a gay professor. Both of these...
  2. Dr Doran

    "What the Great Depression Did to Culture"

    I agree with you one thousand percent, Lizzie. That's why I like the fact that the field of History (as a discipline) emphasizes thorough familiarity with the primary sources as opposed to emphasizing interpretative strategies.
  3. Dr Doran

    "What the Great Depression Did to Culture"

    I have no goatee, true. I hate blowhardism, too. Perhaps one of the irritations you face is in the fact that you are dealing with the DISCIPLINE of "Cultural Studies" which rests on axioms that are questionable. As Fletch pointed out, Stuart Hall was a bigshot in early Cultural Studies and he...
  4. Dr Doran

    "Show us your self portrait"

    I sat for a drawing class and one Lisa Hsia did this portrait of me.
  5. Dr Doran

    "What the Great Depression Did to Culture"

    What you are identifying is a very left-wing, very politically correct viewpoint that treats, for example, mild nativism as violent racism, that treats the US as though it were the only land in which slavery had ever existed, treats the human family as an intrinsically oppressive, arbitrary...
  7. Dr Doran

    Monocles.

    True. At Cambridge and Oxford there is a whole "Chap" scene that is similar to the vintage scene here.
  8. Dr Doran

    "What the Great Depression Did to Culture"

    I agree with you 100% on this post, Fletch. The grievance group thing is still really bad in academia now.
  9. Dr Doran

    "What the Great Depression Did to Culture"

    That's pretty good. I'd emphasize the ideologies part over the conventions part. "Anything goes" is too vague unless you are talking about postmodern art production. But we aren't really talking about art production here. We are talking about the postmodern way of looking at cultural...
  10. Dr Doran

    "What the Great Depression Did to Culture"

    I am not sure if this accords with what I have seen.
  11. Dr Doran

    "What the Great Depression Did to Culture"

    People use postmodern techniques and a postmodern lens and postmodern assumptions to study pre-industrial cultures all the time. So they also do it for later times. Michel Foucault himself (I hate him) wrote a History of Sexuality which started in the Greco-Roman period. It's fading out now...
  13. Dr Doran

    "What the Great Depression Did to Culture"

    Personally I hate postmodernism, but plenty of postmodern thinkers find pop culture relevant and have developed and elaborated a vocabulary of ideas and theories for pop culture. As for material culture, the more recent schools of archaeology might have things to say about that, such as...
  14. Dr Doran

    "What the Great Depression Did to Culture"

    If you, and/or Lizzie, or anyone else, should care to write a list of the aspects or angles of the 1930s that have not, in your opinion, been adequately covered by the books and articles you have seen, then I would be happy to do the following things for you: a.) I could try to find obscurer...
  15. Dr Doran

    Introducing........cufflinks.......and now tie bars.......

    Great 'flinx.
  16. Dr Doran

    Same as 2010? Use a Vintage Calendar!

    John, thank you. I JUST NOW scored a 1926 leather calendar from EBay, for ultra-cheap, thanks to your wonderful idea. I owe you one. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310156686827
  17. Dr Doran

    The Perfect Desk.

    There is also a "Home Office" thread with many many photos of desks and such. It's worth a look. http://207.218.231.242/~thefedor/showthread.php?t=19516 And then there is Fletch's "1937 Home Office" thread: http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=40067 And some useful ideas are...
  19. Dr Doran

    "What the Great Depression Did to Culture"

    A short article from the current (Sept 21 cover date) issue of The New Yorker on screwball comedies of the 1930s particularly "Sullivan's Travels," the book "Dancing in the Dark" by Morris Dickstein (Norton), James Agee's "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," politics' influence on art, Henry Roth's...
  20. Dr Doran

    Film Noir?

    There is an existing thread from 2008 devoted to "The Scar." Great minds think alike! http://207.218.231.242/~thefedor/showthread.php?t=19708
  21. Dr Doran

    "Backwards" neckties in 1939?

    This is kind of interesting. I occasionally like to look unpleasant, especially when I shave my head completely bald. I think I may adopt it for limited occasions.
  22. Dr Doran

    Show us your TIES

    Those are very nice, esp. the ones in the bottom photo and the one on the left in the photo right above the bottom photo. PS I still haven't gotten your sand-colored suit adjusted ... perhaps this weekend.
  23. Dr Doran

    Show us your TIES

    Good score, Anon.'

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