The Columbian Exchange: Pocahontas and The New World
Among the deepest and most indelible fictions of American national origin is the notion of the “new world” encountered by the earliest English colonists, a world typically characterized as a…
Prosthetic memory/ traumatic memory: Forrest Gump (1994)
Uploaded 16 April 1999 In this essay I would like to consider some of the ramifications of a widely accepted yet undertheorized idea: that the preeminence of the moving image…