Dialogic Cinephilia - November 16, 2017

"Being John Malkovich (1999)." Philosophical Films (ND)

Berg, Jeff. "The Logic of Drug Legalization." Counterpunch (November 15, 2017)

Berkshire, Jennifer, Adam Johnson and Nima Shirazi. "The Charter School Scam." Citations Needed #1 (July 12, 2017) ["... the media hype surrounding the privatization of education."]

Cargill, Robert C. and Brian Salisbury. "Spice World." Junk Food Cinema (November 8, 2015) ["Brian & Cargill tell you why you want why you really really want to revisit Spice World. No, we’re not kidding. The guys’ two minds become one as they explain the exceptional satire of this bugnuts vehicle for Britain’s premier girl group of the late 90s. They touch upon the self-effacing humor, the cavalcade of cameos, and why Spice World at least belongs in the same conversation as Purple Rain and A Hard Day’s Night."]

Castro, Joy. "'A Place Without Parents': Queer and Maternal Desire in the Films of Christian Petzold." Senses of Cinema #84 (September 2017)

Cohen, Jeff. "Edward Herman: Master of Dissent (1925 - 2017)." FAIR (November 14, 2017)

Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Pedro Almodovar (Part 1)." Cinema Axis (September 29, 2014)

---. "The Auteurs: Pedro Almodovar (Part 2)." Cinema Axis (October 6, 2014)








Hancock, James and Mackenzie Lambert. "The High-Octane Cinema of Enzo G. Castellari." Wrong Reel #338 (November 2017)

Henderson, A. Gwynn. "The Myth of Kentucky as a 'Dark and Bloody Ground.'" 30 Days of Kentucky Archaeology (September 29, 2017)

Holloway, Lisa. "Meeks Cutoff (2010): The unheightened moment; taking aim at the male gaze." Auteuse Theory (June 28, 2016)


Hughes, Darren. "'There are Miracles': A Conversation with Hong Sang-Soo." Notebook (November 15, 2017)

Pizarro, Dave, et al. "Situationism in Psych: Milgram & Stanford Prison Experiments (Part One)." Philosophize This (November 6, 2017) ["Do difficult situations make good people act badly? Are there really "good" and "bad" people, or are we all about the same, but put in different situations? Situationism is supported by Milgram's experiment, where most subjects could be easily pressured into delivering shocks to an innocent person (really an actor… punked!). A more immersive example was provided by The Stanford Prison Experiment, where students took on the roles of guard and prisoner, and quickly became sadistic and passive respectively. John Doris argues that situationism is a direct attack on virtue ethics, that really there is no such thing as a virtue like "bravery" or "generosity" that cuts across all sorts of situations. While there are of course consistent personality traits, these don't map against the virtues as depicted by Aristotle and our common cultural notions. Rather, they're more context-dependent, specific to certain types of situations."]

---. "Situationism in Psych: Milgram & Stanford Prison Experiments (Part Two)." Philosophize This (November 13, 2017) ["Continuing with Dave Pizarro on articles by Stanley Milgram, Philip Zimbardo, and John Doris about situationism, which entails that people's level of morality will vary by situation, as opposed to virtue ethics, which posits that how people will act in a novel situation will be determined by the quality of their character. We get into Doris's article, "Persons, Situations, and Virtue Ethics" (1998), where he argues against the traditional idea that we have virtues like "honesty." Instead, these traits are more situation-specific, so even someone who doesn't cheat on his or her taxes or spouse might well still steal candy. Doris sites a 1975 study by Levin and Isen where people who found a (planted) dime in a phone booth were much more likely to then help someone who dropped some papers as the subject was leaving the booth. Does this really show that helpfulness isn't a stable virtue in people, or is something else going on here and in Milgram's experiment? Does situationism excuse bad behavior? Would any one of us do just what most the citizens of Germany did during the Nazi regime if we were in that situation? Can we maybe train ourselves to better resist social pressure, not just in specific situations we've rehearsed in advance, but across the board?"]

Raven, Chantelle. "Relationship Is Your Great Teacher: 16 Keys for Healthy, Juicy and Authentic Relationships." Eliyah (October 19, 2017)