Saturday, December 7, 2013

Resources for December 8, 2013

Katharina Bonzel for Screening the Past: "A League of Their Own: The Impossibility of the Female Sports Hero."

"I Hate Pink Floyd," and Other Fashion Mistakes of the 1960s, '70s, and Beyond" by George A. Reisch for Popular Culture and Philosophy: To Listen to the Episode (MP3)

Holly Simms-Bruno and Gary Potter for Uprooting Criminology: "Money for Nothing: Whiteness, Terrorism, Surveillance and Profit"

Virginie Sélavy for Electric Sheep Magazine podcasts interviews "Melanie Light, director of Switch, Kate Shenton, director of Bon Appetit, and Jennifer Eiss, co-director of Short Lease" in a special feature on women directors working in the make-dominated genre of Horror: "Bloody Women: A Birds Eye View Special"


Reality Check Podcasts:

Alex Fitch for interviews Nicolas Alberny and Jean Mach, the directors of Eighth Wonderland, "an extract from the Tron: Legacy press conference in which director Joseph Kosinski, stars Jeff Bridges and Olivia Wilde and others talk about their sequel to a VR film classic": "Virtual Worlds on Film

Alex Fitch and Lily Savy-Gorman talk to director John Hough about Escape to Witch Mountain and Alex also interviews Duncan Jones about Source Code: Source Code and Witch Mountain





John Trayton for Bright Lights Film Journal: "David Ayer's End of Watch (2012) and the Militarization of U.S. Law Enforcement."

If you have not seen Errol Morris' 1988 documentary The Thin Blue Line, get it asap. Not only a great documentary that revolutionized our conception of documentary filmmaking (aesthetics and politics), but a great example of a creative filmmaker patiently (forensically?) recreating the scene of the crime multiple times to reflect shifting testimonies/perspectives. You feel like you are in a jury and the case is being presented to you. Also, as far as I know, this was the first film that successfully freed a person on death row (and he was convicted for killing a police officer in Texas -- what are the odds of doing that?)





Open Culture posts: "Slavoj Žižek Examines the Perverse Ideology of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy"

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