Episode 26: Con Air with Kathleen Belew

Historians At The Movies - A podcast by Jason Herbert

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This week Kathleen Belew joins us to talk about maybe the most '90s action movie ever made, Con Air. We get into everything on this film, including Kathleen's work on white power and paramilitary movements in the United States, the cultural production of the South, Nicolas Cage as an action star, and yes, maybe the worst Southern accent in history. This movie has it all.About our guest:Kathleen Belew specializes in the history of the present. She spent ten years researching and writing her fi...