Criticism, Volume 57, Number 2, Spring 2015

Criticism provides a forum for current scholarship on literature, media, music and visual culture. A place for rigorous theoretical and critical debate as well as formal and methodological self-reflexivity and experimentation, Criticism aims to present contemporary thought at its most vital.

Criticism Volume 57, Number 2, Spring 2015
Critical Air Studies, a special issue edited by Christopher Schaberg

Introduction
Christopher Schaberg

Threshold To the Kingdom: The Airport Is a Border and the Border is a Volume
Matthew Hart

Airport Memory: Recalling Vietnam From the Terminal in Andrew Pham's Travel Writing
Joseph Darda

The Re(d)active Force of the Transportation Security Administration
George F. McHendry, Jr.

Aerial Homesteading: Aerofuturism in Interwar America
Alan Lovegreen

From Escape To Ascension: The Effects of Aviation Technology on the Flying African Myth
Katherine Thorsteinson

Modernity's Object: The Airplane, Masculinity, and Empire
Robert Hemmings

Aviation Cinema
Kevin L. Ferguson 

Reviews 

Nathaniel A. Rivers on Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing by Ian Bogost, Jet Plane: How It Works by David Macaulay (with Sheila Keenan), and Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things by Jane Bennett

Richmond Eustis on Air: Nature and Culture by Peter Adey