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Michael E. Birdwell <birdie@tntech.edu> Tennessee Technological University Currently I am the Business and Industry section editor for the upcoming Encyclopedia of Appalachia. I have just completed two essays on the depiction of the trans-Appalachian frontier and its heroes for the _Columbia Companion to American Film_. Additionally, I am working on a series of essays about Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons. While working on that project I am investigating the possibility of a biography about Harry Warner. I also act as the curator and archivist of Sergeant Alvin C. York's papers and continue to work on a biography of his life |
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Address: | Department of History Box 5064 Tennessee Technological University Cookeville, Tennessee 38505 United States |
Secondary Phone: | 931-372-3332 |
Fax Number: | 931-372-6142 |
Web Page: | https://tntech.edu |
List Affiliations: | List Editor for H-Appalachia Reviewer for H-Southern-Music |
Reviews: | untitled |
Interests: | American History / Studies Demographic History / Studies Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies Intellectual History Local History Military History Religious Studies and Theology Women, Gender, and Sexuality |
Bio: BS and MA from Tennessee Technological University Ph.D. (1996) from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville Books: _Celluloid Soldiers: Warner Bros. Campaign Against Nazism_ (NYU Press, 1999) Forthcoming: _From Frontier to Interstates: An Investigation of Transportation and Architecture in Eight Upper Cumberland Counties_ (co-written with W. Calvin Dickinson to be published by Hillsboro Press, Nashville, 2001). Articles: Forthcoming: "`Oh, YOu Thing from Another World, You': Warner Bros. Animators Respond to the Cold War." _Film and History_ _One Soldier's War: Albert Perrine Smith and World War I," _Tennessee Historical Quarterly_ LVII (Summer 1999): 98-127. etc. Conference Papers: "`I Knew I Should Have Taken That Left at Albuquerque': Images of the American West in Looney Tunes Cartoons," presented at the Texas/Southwest Popular CUlture Association Conference, March 10, 2001. "Every Soldier Fights His Own War: Terrence Malick's Version of _The THin Red Line_" Ohio Valley History Confernce, October 2000. etc. Courses Taught include: American History Survey WOrld Civilization Western Civilization Tennessee History Film History Appalachian History Topics in American Cultural History Art History |