{"id":40802274532,"date":"2023-06-15T17:05:56","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T21:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/?p=40802274532"},"modified":"2023-06-22T11:45:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T15:45:10","slug":"prof-parkin-featured-on-adam-mckay-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/prof-parkin-featured-on-adam-mckay-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Parkin Featured on Adam McKay Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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 \u201cBlood Alley,\u201d part of the Death on the Lot<\/a> series produced by Adam McKay (\u201cThe Big Short,\u201d \u201cVice,\u201d \u201cSuccession\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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 \u201cthe story of how Hollywood sold us on a new American Dream, and left a few unlucky stars holding the bag.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parkin joins episode four as an expert on American car culture to shed light on the \u201clife 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen to \u201cBlood Alley\u201d for free now.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 \u201cBlood Alley,\u201d part of the Death on the Lot series produced by Adam McKay (\u201cThe Big Short,\u201d \u201cVice,\u201d \u201cSuccession\u201d). The series examines 1950s Hollywood and the untimely death of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":40802265743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444,423],"tags":[2566],"person":[614],"audience":[],"school":[95,26],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802274532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monmouth-now","category-faculty-perspectives","tag-womens-history","person-kparkin","school-history-anthropology","school-school-of-humanities-and-social-sciences"],"squareimage":{"id":40802265743,"rendered":"\"Prof.","original":{"url":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/06\/Katie-Parkin-Profile-e1655308317808.jpg","width":418,"height":418}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802274532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802274532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802274532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802290855,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802274532\/revisions\/40802290855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802265743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802274532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802274532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802274532"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802274532"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802274532"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802274532"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802274532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}