Resources for August 16, 2015

"Andrea Štaka's Cure - The Life of Another." Notebook (august 4, 2015)

Taubin, Amy. "Like a Hurricane: The Diary of a Teenage Girl boldly goes where no American coming-of-age movie has gone before." Film Comment (July/August 2015)

Coates, Ta-Nehisi. "Reads from His Block-Buster Memoir Between the World and Me." Building Bridges (August 11, 2015) €["Readers of his work in The Atlantic (including his June 2014 feature The Case for Reparations) and elsewhere know Ta-Nehisi Coates for his thoughtful and influential writing on race in America. Written as a series of letters to his teenaged son, his new memoir, Between the World and Me, walks us through the course of his life, from his neighborhood in Baltimore in his youth, to Howard University—which Coates dubs “The Mecca” for its revelatory community of black students and teachers —to the broader Meccas of New York and Paris. Coates describes his observations and the evolution of his thinking on race, from Malcolm X to his conclusion that race itself is a fabrication, elemental to the concept of American (white) exceptionalism. Ferguson, Trayvon Martin, and South Carolina are not bumps on the road of progress and harmony, but the results of a systemized, ubiquitous threat to “black bodies” in the form of slavery, police brutality, and mass incarceration."]

"The Women of the Avant-Garde: An Introduction Featuring Audio by Gertrude Stein, Kathy Acker, Patti Smith & More." Open Culture (August 5, 2015)

Juel, Henruk. "Defining Documentary Film." P.O.V. #22 (December 2006)

Faraci, Devin and Amy Nicholson. "Goodfellas." The Canon #1 (November 11, 2014)

Graeber, David. "Ferguson and the Criminalization of American Life." Gawker (March 19, 2015)

Kantor, Jodi and David Streitfield. "Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace." The New York Times (August 15, 2015) ["The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers to get them to achieve its ever-expanding ambitions."]

American Psycho (USA: Mary Harron, 2000: 102 mins) Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)

Faraci, Devin and Amy Nicholson. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom." The Canon (November 10, 2014)

The Imitation Game (UK/USA: Morten Tyldum, 2014: 114 mins)