Yale University Plans a Course On Beyoncé’s Cultural Impact

Beyonce Yale University

Photo Credit: Beyoncé by Raph PH / CC by 2.0 Yale University is introducing a course dedicated to studying the cultural impact of Beyoncé, to kick off next spring. A course dedicated to studying Beyoncé’s […]

Iconic ’60s Model And Cultural Influencer Was 86

Iconic '60s Model And Cultural Influencer Was 86

Peggy Moffitt, the iconic ’60s model who was also a contract player at Paramount and who appeared in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-Up, died at her Beverly Hills home on Saturday from complications of dementia. Her son, […]

BEETLEJUICE: The Franchise’s Strange Origin Story and Cultural Legacy

Michael Keaton in his striped suit as Beetlejuice.

Beetlejuice was the unlikeliest of hits upon release in the spring of 1988. Since then, the film has left an incredible pop culture footprint. The Michael Keaton-starring supernatural comedy introduced the Tim Burton aesthetic to […]

Saeed Taji Farouky on Cultural Boycotts and Cinema as Resistance

Saeed Taji Farouky

Saeed Taji Farouky, photographed by Layla Tosifi. In August, I met the director Saeed Taji Farouky at the Mimesis Documentary Festival in Boulder, Colorado. He was the event’s headliner with his latest film, A Thousand […]

Prithvi Raj Karreddula fuses cultural roots with Hollywood stories

Prithvi Raj Karreddula fuses cultural roots with Hollywood stories

Photo courtesy of Prithvi Raj Karreddula Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Prithvi Raj Karreddula, an accomplished Indian filmmaker, stands at the intersection of cultural heritage and cinematic innovation. The self-taught writer and director […]

On my radar: Samantha Morton’s cultural highlights | Samantha Morton

A small girl on a bike stands next to a man working under a car

The actor Samantha Morton was born in Nottingham in 1977 and had a turbulent childhood, spending nine years in and out of foster care. At 13, she joined the Central Junior Television Workshop and in […]

On my radar: Nitin Sawhney’s cultural highlights | Nitin Sawhney

Joanna Woodward (Clare) and David Hunter (Henry) in The Time Traveller’s Wife.

Nitin Sawhney was born in south London in 1964 and grew up in Kent, learning piano, guitar, sitar and tabla from an early age. He studied law, then accountancy at Hertfordshire University, where he met […]

Disused Tottenham Ikea store to become 15,000-capacity cultural venue | Music

Inside the Drumsheds venue.

It once played host to the sound of staff announcements, bored children and tense couples arguing over wardrobes with semi-pronounceable names. Now, a 608,000 sq ft Tottenham warehouse that was home to an Ikea for […]

From cultural cringe to clogged charts: why aren’t Australians listening to Australian music? | Australian music

The Kid Laroi performing at O2 Academy, London.

Last month, US rapper Azealia Banks published an Instagram story in which she labelled the Australian music industry “ever dwindling”, “insignificant” and “culturally stale”. In her posts – which also contained allegations about dealings she […]

On my radar: Aaron Dessner’s cultural highlights | The National

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou.

Musician and producer Aaron Dessner was born in 1976 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He plays guitar, piano and keyboard for the National, is one half of Big Red Machine alongside Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon, and has […]