Katherine Parkin, Ph.D., Jules Plangere, Jr., Endowed Chair in American Social History and professor in the department of History and Anthropology, is featured on a podcast “Blood Alley,” part of the Death on the Lot series produced by Adam McKay (“The Big Short,” “Vice,” “Succession”).
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The series examines 1950s Hollywood and the untimely death of stars such as James Dean, Hattie McDaniel, and John Garfield. The eight-episode podcast aims to tell “the story of how Hollywood sold us on a new American Dream, and left a few unlucky stars holding the bag.”
Parkin joins episode four as an expert on American car culture to shed light on the “life of James Dean, a restless man-child desperate to express himself in uptight post-World War II America. The original Rebel Without a Cause, and the prototype for a new kind of American teenager who longed to escape Mayberry.”