Vivian Sobchack's 2000 essay "What My Fingers Knew: The Cinesthetic Subject, or Vision in the Flesh." (which became Chapter 4 in her 2004 book Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image Culture)
This is great music for easing into the second half of the work day - John Coltrane's Blue Train
This isn't available online, but I can make a copy for students that are interested: Freedman, Carl. "Post-Heterosexuality: John Wayne and the Construction of American Masculinity." Film International 5.1 (2007)
Martin Scorsese discusses his first time watching John Ford's classic Western The Searchers (1956)
Boredpanda's 40 Must See Photographs From the Past
Jay Livingston at Sociological Images: The Revenge Fantasy: Django Unchained vs. 12 Years a Slave
Martin Hart-Landsberg at Sociological Images: U.S. Corporations are Hoarding Wealth at Highest Rate Since 1971
Frank Rich for New York magazine examines the American slave narrative tradition in literature and film as a context for discussing 12 Years a Slave: "Liberal Echo Chamber
Matt Karp in Jacobin: "A Confederacy of Kidnappers: 12 Years a Slave rightly grounds slavery in economic exploitation, but reflects our era’s painful uncertainty about how that exploitation can be opposed.
Kogonada in Sight and Sound provides a discussion of Richard Linklater's representation of the "unfolding of life" along with a powerful short video in which Linklater reflects on time in his films: "Video: The long conversation – Richard Linklater on cinema and time
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