Prose, Francine. "A Nightmare on Broadway." The New York Review of Books (January 28, 2015) [on Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman]
Celluloid Liberation Front. "Locarno 2014. Joel Potrykus' Buzzard." Notebook (January 14, 2015)
Celluloid Liberation Front. "Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive." Notebook (April 12, 2014)
Schlöndorff, Volker. "Making of Last Year at Marienbad." La Règle du Jeu (July 23, 2010)
Benedict, Steven. "Coen Country." (Posted on Vimeo: February 5, 2015)
Lee, Kevin B. "Laura Poitras, Lives on the Line (Video)." Keyframe (August 14, 2013)
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Resources for February 4, 2014
Kellner, Douglas. "The horrors of slavery and modes of representation in Amistad and 12 Years a Slave." Jump Cut #56 (Winter 2014/2015)
Goldmacher, Donald. "Director of Heist Film School (August 24, 2012)
Carlstein, Jennie. "Violence in The City of God: The Fantasy of the Omniscient Spectator." Cinephile #1 (2005)
Bigott, Joseph. "Hollywood Films and the Built Environment." VAF Chicago 2015 (2014)
Swinney, Jacob T. "A Video Essay on Paul Thomas Anderson's Provocative Use of the Long Shot." Press Play (January 30, 2015)
Boogie Nights (USA: Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997) Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Resources for February 3, 2015
Pasolini Poetry and Politics Video Essay from Simon Rushton on Vimeo.
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Italy/France: Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964) Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)
Schmidle, Nicholas. "Caught in the Crosshairs." The New Yorker (June 3, 2013) ["Chris Kyle, a decorated sniper, tried to help a troubled veteran. The result was tragic."]
Atkinson, Michael. "The Shooting and Ride in the Whirlwind: We Can Bring a Good Bit of Rope." The Current (November 10, 2014)
Zobel, Craig. "Director of Compliance." Film School (August 22, 2012)
Compliance (USA: Zobel, 2012: 90 mins) Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)
“And from these melancholy dispositions no man living is free, no Stoick, none so wise, none so happy, none so patient, so generous, so godly, so divine, that can vindicate himself… more or less, some time or other, he feels the smart of it. Melancholy in this sense is the character of Mortality.” -- Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholia (1621)
"The 50 best films of the decade so far, part 1" and "The 50 best films of the decade so far, part 2." The Dissolve (February 2-3, 2015)
Jones, Kent. "What’s Up, Doc?" Film Comment (November/December 2014) ["The dream horizons and phantom vibes of 1970 California are brought tangibly close in Paul Thomas Anderson’s spaced-out private investigation."]
Norris, Chris. "Review: American Sniper." Film Comment (January/February 2015)
Monday, February 2, 2015
Compliance (USA: Craig Zobel, 2012)
Compliance (USA: Craig Zobel, 2012: 90 mins)
O'Hehir, Andrew. "'I was just following orders': Why are we so eager to obey authority, whether the boss, the TSA or the president? A new movie has some answers." Salon (August 19, 2012)
Rizov, Vadim. "Film of the Week: Compliance." Green Cine Daily (August 15, 2012)
Zobel, Craig. "Director of Compliance." Film School (August 22, 2012)
Chalmers Johnson: Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, Part 1
Because Americans generally failed to consider seriously why we had been attacked on 9/11, the Bush administration was able to respond in a way that made the situation far worse. I believed at the time and feel no differently five years later that we should have treated the attacks as crimes against the the innocent, not as acts of war. We should proceeded against al-Qaeda the same way we might have against organized crime. ... The day after 9/11, Simon Jenkins, the former editor of the Times of London, insightfully wrote: "The message of yesterday's incident is that, for all its horror, it does not and must not be allowed to matter. It is a human disaster, an outrage, an atrocity, an unleashing of the madness of which the world will never be rid. But it is not politically significant. It does not tilt the balance of world power one inch. It is not an act of war. America's leadership of the West is not diminished by it. The cause of democracy is not damaged, unless we choose to let it be damaged.
Had we followed Jenkin's advice we could have retained the cooperation and trust of our democratic allies, remained the aggrieved party of 9/11, built criminal cases that would have stood up in any court of law, and won the hearts and minds of populations al-Qaeda was trying to mobilize. We would have avoided entirely contravening the Geneva Conventions covering the treatment of prisoners of was and never have headed down the path of torturing people we picked up almost at random in Afghanistan and Iraq. The U.S. government would have had no need to lie to its own citizens and the rest of the world about the nonexistent nuclear threat posed by Iraq or carry out a phony preventive war against that country.
Instead we undermined the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) alliance and brought to power in Iraq allies of the Islamic fundamentalists in Iran. Contrary to what every strategist recommended as an effective response to terrorism, we launched our high-tech military against some of the poorest, weakest people on Earth. In Afghanistan, our aerial bombardment "bounce the rubble" we had helped create there by funding, arming, and advising the anti-Soviet war of the 1980s and gave "warlordism, banditry, and opium production a new lease on life." In Iraq our "shock and awe" assault invited comparison with the sacking of Baghdad in 1258 by the Mongols. In his address to Congress on September 20, 2001, President Bush declared that the coming battle was to be global, Manichean, and simple. You are, he said, either "with us or against us" (failing to acknowledge that both Jesus and Lenin used the phrase first). His actions would ensure that, in the years to come, there would be ever more people around the world "against us."
As I watched these post-9/11 developments, it became apparent to me that, even more than in past empires, a well-entrenched-militarism lay at the heart of our imperial adventures. It is a sad fact that the United States no longer manufactures much -- with the exception of weaponry. We are without question the world's greatest producer and exporter of of arms and munitions on the planet. Although we are going deeply into debt doing so, each year we spend more on our armed forces than all other nations on Earth combined. In The Sorrows of Empire, I tried to analyze the nature of this militarism and to expose the harm it was doing, not only to others but our own society and governmental system.
After all, we now station over half a million U.S. troops, spies, contractors, dependents, and others on more than 737 military bases spread around the world. These bases are located in more than 130 countries, many of them presided over by dictatorial regimes that have given their citizens no say in the decision to let us in. The Pentagon publishes an inventory of the real estate it owns in its annual Base Structure Report, but its official count of between 737 and 860 overseas installations is incomplete, omitting all of our espionage bases and a numbe of others that are secret or could be embarrasing to the United States. For example, it leaves out the air force base at Manas in Kyrgyzstan, formerly part of the Soviet Union and today part of our attempt to roll back the influence of the Soviet Union's successor state, Russia, and to control crucial Caspian Sea oil. It even neglects to mention the three bases built in tiny Qatar over the past few years, the headquarters for our high command during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, so as not to embarrass the emir of that country, who invited in our "infidel" soldiers. (4-6)
Johnson, Chalmers. Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic. Henry Holt and Co., 2008:
Had we followed Jenkin's advice we could have retained the cooperation and trust of our democratic allies, remained the aggrieved party of 9/11, built criminal cases that would have stood up in any court of law, and won the hearts and minds of populations al-Qaeda was trying to mobilize. We would have avoided entirely contravening the Geneva Conventions covering the treatment of prisoners of was and never have headed down the path of torturing people we picked up almost at random in Afghanistan and Iraq. The U.S. government would have had no need to lie to its own citizens and the rest of the world about the nonexistent nuclear threat posed by Iraq or carry out a phony preventive war against that country.
Instead we undermined the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) alliance and brought to power in Iraq allies of the Islamic fundamentalists in Iran. Contrary to what every strategist recommended as an effective response to terrorism, we launched our high-tech military against some of the poorest, weakest people on Earth. In Afghanistan, our aerial bombardment "bounce the rubble" we had helped create there by funding, arming, and advising the anti-Soviet war of the 1980s and gave "warlordism, banditry, and opium production a new lease on life." In Iraq our "shock and awe" assault invited comparison with the sacking of Baghdad in 1258 by the Mongols. In his address to Congress on September 20, 2001, President Bush declared that the coming battle was to be global, Manichean, and simple. You are, he said, either "with us or against us" (failing to acknowledge that both Jesus and Lenin used the phrase first). His actions would ensure that, in the years to come, there would be ever more people around the world "against us."
As I watched these post-9/11 developments, it became apparent to me that, even more than in past empires, a well-entrenched-militarism lay at the heart of our imperial adventures. It is a sad fact that the United States no longer manufactures much -- with the exception of weaponry. We are without question the world's greatest producer and exporter of of arms and munitions on the planet. Although we are going deeply into debt doing so, each year we spend more on our armed forces than all other nations on Earth combined. In The Sorrows of Empire, I tried to analyze the nature of this militarism and to expose the harm it was doing, not only to others but our own society and governmental system.
After all, we now station over half a million U.S. troops, spies, contractors, dependents, and others on more than 737 military bases spread around the world. These bases are located in more than 130 countries, many of them presided over by dictatorial regimes that have given their citizens no say in the decision to let us in. The Pentagon publishes an inventory of the real estate it owns in its annual Base Structure Report, but its official count of between 737 and 860 overseas installations is incomplete, omitting all of our espionage bases and a numbe of others that are secret or could be embarrasing to the United States. For example, it leaves out the air force base at Manas in Kyrgyzstan, formerly part of the Soviet Union and today part of our attempt to roll back the influence of the Soviet Union's successor state, Russia, and to control crucial Caspian Sea oil. It even neglects to mention the three bases built in tiny Qatar over the past few years, the headquarters for our high command during the invasion of Iraq in 2003, so as not to embarrass the emir of that country, who invited in our "infidel" soldiers. (4-6)
Johnson, Chalmers. Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic. Henry Holt and Co., 2008:
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Italy/France: Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964)
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Italy/France: Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964: 137 mins)
Aslan, Reza. "Zealot." Radio West (October 18, 2013)
Collier, Stuart, et al. "The First Pasolini Episode (1961 - 1966)." Illusion Travels by Streetcar #126 (October 26, 2016)
Iannone, Pasquale. "Five Ways to Know a Pasolini Film." BFI (November 3, 2015)
Newman, Nick. "On the Anniversary of His Death, Watch Documentaries About and By Pier Paolo Pasolini." The Film Stage (November 2, 2015)
Rich, Nathaniel. "The Passion of Pasolini." The New York Review of Books (September 27, 2007)
Rushton, Simon. "Pasolini Poetry and Politics Video Essay." (Posted on Vimeo: August 2014)
Resources for February 2, 2015
Dreyfuss, Hubert. "Phil 7: Existentialism in Literature and Film" (University of California-Berkeley Lectures: Spring 2006)
"Top 15 messages in Clint Eastwood's anti-war masterpiece American Sniper." libcom (January 22, 2015)
Wes Anderson // Centered from kogonada on Vimeo.
CINEMA in CINEMA from Brutzelpretzel on Vimeo.
Thorburn, David. "The Film Experience." (MIT OpenCourseWare, Fall 2007)
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (USA/UK/France: Martin Scorsese and Michael Henry Wilson, 1995: 225 mins)
Bendjelloul, Malik. "Director of Searching for Sugarman." Film School (August 17, 2012)
Friday, January 30, 2015
Michael Benton (writing available online)
As citizens of a globalized world it is imperative that we begin to develop a broader awareness of the interconnected cultures and societies that influence and shape world events. Anyone remotely aware of the American social/cultural landscape must recognize that many of our citizens are unaware of the broader relations and connections of the world in which they live in. Many Americans tend to have a narrow understanding of world history, educated through ethnocentric American textbooks and informed through mediatized narratives filtered through the lenses of the dominant center, both of these effectively ignore the realities of the margins (culturally, economically and socially). Many concerned citizens struggle to carve out meaning in the contemporary data stream and suffer the neglect of a mainstream media that limits itself to predigested dualistic positions. In this simplified media environment, vast regions of the world are presumed to be unable to speak for themselves and rarely, in the mainstream corporate media that serves as the news for a majority of American citizens, do we receive sustained and in-depth critical analysis of issues through the voices and experiences of multiple interested parties. --Michael Benton, August 9, 2016
Benton, Michael Dean. "American Sniper." Letterboxd (January 28, 2015)
---. "A Nation Starts to Mobilize: Something's Happening Here." North of Center (October 12, 2011)
---. "The Anti-50 Shades of Grey: The Wachowski's Jupiter Ascending." Letterboxd (February 7, 2015)
---. "A Quick Game of Blog Tag." Dialogic (March 12, 2007)
---. "Astroturf and Front Group Research: The Center for Union Facts." Dialogic Cinephilia (January 20, 2014)
---. "Astroturf Organizations Spreading Propaganda: 'Don't Make Us Pay.'" Dialogic Cinephilia (March 3, 2011)
---. "'Be Me, for Awhile': Ideological Becoming and Future Objectivity in Let the Right One In." Dialogic Cinephilia (September 12, 2014)
---. "Bluegrass Film Society 2006/2007: 24 Films, From 24 Countries, in 24 Weeks." Dialogic (July 30, 2006)
---. "City of God, Schindler's List and Contextual Viewings." Dialogic (September 5, 2008)
---. "Decoding the Success of The Matrix: A Contextual Analysis of the Influences of Postmodern Theory and Underground Cultures." (English Department, Illinois State University: 2000). [Professor has copies]
---. "Defining Community; Conceptual Awareness; Textual Positions; H.L. Goodall." Dialogic (November 16, 2004)
---. "Dialogic Cinephilia 5.0" Dialogic Cinephilia (March 6, 2014)
---. "Easy Ammo and Evil Acts: Comments on the aftermath of the Aurora shooting." North of Center (August 2, 2012)
---. "Exploring the Nature and Causes of Violence in Films." Uprooting Criminology (February 10, 2014)
---. "Fragile Victory in Egypt: Will U.S. foreign aid impede the will of the Egyptian people?" North of Center (February 16, 2011)
---. "Gender and Sexuality at Carnegie Center." North of Center (January 29, 2010)
---. "Getting Off on John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus North of Center (March 30, 2011)
---. "'he could resist': The Lexington Tattoo Project and A Noosed Life." North of Center (February 3, 2013)
---. "Here There Be Monsters: A Response to the Public Outcry Surrounding the San Diego High School Shootings." Dialogic (August 20, 2007)
---. "If a Tree Falls: Enforcing the Green Scare." North of Center (September 28, 2011)
---. "Initial Thoughts on the Aftermath of the Verdict in the Trial of George Zimmerman." Dialogic Cinephilia (July 16, 2013)
---. "Introductiuon and Discussion of The Battle of Algiers." Dialogic Cinephilia (February 20, 2014)
---. "James Allen: Without Sanctuary; The Debate Over the Hanging of a Barack Obama Effigy on the University of Kentucky Campus; The History of Lynching in America." Dialogic (November 3, 2008)
---. "Learning From El Mexterminator and Cyber Vato: Social Anxiety as a Performative Pedagogy." Reconstruction 2.4 (Fall 2002)
---. "The Many Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic" Politics and Culture #3 (August 10, 2010)
---. "Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story." The Smirking Chimp (Nove,ber 3, 2009)
---. "Monsanto (Multinational Agricultural Biotechnology Corporation)." Dialogic Cinephilia (November 24, 2014)
--- "My Understanding of Anarchism 5.0" Dialogic Cinephilia (March 17, 2017)
---. "Notes on Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophernia." Dialogic (February 20, 2014)
---. "Occupy: One Year Later." North of Center (September 5, 2012)
---. "On Anarchism." Dialogic (June 10, 2010)
---. "On Feminism." Dialogic (August 31, 2007)
---. "Pantheist Anarchists -- Should We Fear Them?" Dialogic (February 23, 2009)
---. "The Politics of Meat 3.0" Dialogic (March 9, 2009)
---. "Quentin Tarantino, King of the Mooks - One Basterd’s Inglourious Response." North of Center (August 30, 2009)
---. "Response to Jarhead." Bluegrass Film Society (November 6, 2005)
---. "Review: Exit Through the Gift Shop." North of Center (March 2, 2011)
---. "Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo." North of Center (January 9, 2010)
---. "Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Researching the Issues." Dialogic (January 21, 2009)
---. "Selma" Letterboxd (January 18, 2015)
---. "'The Stars are Projectors': A Modest Appreciation of Modest Mouse." (October 24, 2006)
---. "Steve McQueen’s Hunger (2008): A Powerful Exploration of Political Resistance and Retributive Justice." Uprooting Criminology (December 2, 2013)
---. "Thanksgiving." Dialogic (November 25, 2006)
---. "Thoughts on Blogging by a Poorly Masked Academic." Reconstruction 6.4 (2006)
---. "Top Films From 1930 to the Present." Dialogic Cinema (Ongoing Archives)
---. "Violence in Films." North of Center (Novemver 9, 2011)
---. "What Does Our Nation Value: Examining Two Cases of Student Demonstrations and Police Responses (or non-responses)." Dialogic (November 10, 2011)
---. "What I Learned in Pittsburgh: The 2009 G20 Summit and Protests (Part 1)." North of Center (October 7, 2009): 1, 3.
---. "A Different Hope: What I Learned in Pittsburgh (Part 2)." North of Center (October 21, 2009): 1, 3.
---. "Letter to the Editor." North of Center (November 4, 2009): 7.
Benton, Michael Dean and Michael Marchman. "So long—it’s been good to know ya: Remembering Howard Zinn." North of Center (February 13, 2010)
Benton, Michael Dean, et al. "ENG 282 1st Week: Responses to An Oversimplification of Her Beauty (2012)." Dialogic Cinephilia (January 29, 2014)
---. "ENG 282 2nd Week: Code Unknown (France/Germany/Romania: Michael Haneke, 2000)." Dialogic Cinephilia (January 28, 2014)
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Resources for January 30, 2015
Lee, Kevin B. "Video Evidence: Who Should Win the Oscar for Best Lead Actor?" Keyframe (January 28, 2015)
Lee, Kevin B. "Video Evidence: Who Should Win the Oscar for Best Lead Actress?" Keyframe (January 29, 2015)
Lee, Kevin B. "Jem Cohen’s Ground-Level Artistry (Video Essay)." Keyframe (June 27, 2013) ["A look at two brilliantly genuine Jem Cohen bookends, the punk-rock loud INSTRUMENT and his gallery quiet MUSEUM HOURS."]
Dick, Kirby and Amy Ziering. ""The Hunting Ground": Film Exposes How Colleges Cover Up Sexual Assault and Fail to Protect Students." Democracy Now (January 28, 2015)
Lucca, Violet. "Robert Altman's Evolution, From Early TV Work to His Last Films (Video Essay)." Press Play (January 29, 2015)
Resources for January 29, 2015
Taibbi, Matt. "American Sniper Is Almost Too Dumb to Criticize: Almost." Rolling Stone (January 21, 2015)
Rosenbaum, Ron. "Errol Morris: The Thinking Man's Detective." The Smithsonian (March 2012) ["The documentary filmmaker has become America's most surprising and provocative public intellectual."]
Davis, Ron, Lucia McBath and Marc Silver. "Black Lives Matter: New Film on Jordan Davis Captures Family’s Struggle to Convict White Vigilante." Democracy Now (January 26, 2015)
Geogaris, Bill. The 21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films They Shoot Pictures (Ongoing Archive)
DuVernay, Ava. "Selma Director Ava DuVernay on Hollywood’s Lack of Diversity, Oscar Snub and #OscarsSoWhite Hashtag." Democracy Now (January 27, 2015)
DuVernay, Ava. "'The Power of the People': Selma Director Ava DuVernay on Fight for Civil Rights, Voting Equality." Democracy Now (January 27, 2015)
DuVernay, Ava. "Selma Director Defends Film’s Portrayal of LBJ-MLK Dispute on Voting Rights Legislation." Democracy Now (January 27, 2015)
DuVernay, Ava. "'One Person Can Make a Difference': Ava DuVernay Remembers Film Critic Roger Ebert’s Early Support." Democracy Now (January 27, 2015)
Feld, Rob. "Errol Morris: Truth be Told." Directors Guild of America (Winter 2011)
Rosenbaum, Ron. "Errol Morris: The Thinking Man's Detective." The Smithsonian (March 2012) ["The documentary filmmaker has become America's most surprising and provocative public intellectual."]
Davis, Ron, Lucia McBath and Marc Silver. "Black Lives Matter: New Film on Jordan Davis Captures Family’s Struggle to Convict White Vigilante." Democracy Now (January 26, 2015)
Geogaris, Bill. The 21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films They Shoot Pictures (Ongoing Archive)
DuVernay, Ava. "Selma Director Ava DuVernay on Hollywood’s Lack of Diversity, Oscar Snub and #OscarsSoWhite Hashtag." Democracy Now (January 27, 2015)
DuVernay, Ava. "'The Power of the People': Selma Director Ava DuVernay on Fight for Civil Rights, Voting Equality." Democracy Now (January 27, 2015)
DuVernay, Ava. "Selma Director Defends Film’s Portrayal of LBJ-MLK Dispute on Voting Rights Legislation." Democracy Now (January 27, 2015)
DuVernay, Ava. "'One Person Can Make a Difference': Ava DuVernay Remembers Film Critic Roger Ebert’s Early Support." Democracy Now (January 27, 2015)
Feld, Rob. "Errol Morris: Truth be Told." Directors Guild of America (Winter 2011)
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Resources for January 27, 2015
Schlosser, Eric. "Almost Everything in Dr. Strangelove Was True." The New Yorker (January 17, 2014)
Cavanaugh, Jeffrey. "American Sniper: Clint Eastwood’s American Horror Story." Mint Press (January 23, 2015)
Bordwell, David. "Godard comes in many shapes and sizes." Observations on Film Art (December 14, 2007
Larimer, Sarah. "A guide to the American Sniper culture wars controversy." Washington Post (January 26, 2015)
Budd, Mike. "Saving Mr. Banks and building Mr. Brand: the Walt Disney Company in the era of corporate personhood." Jump Cut #56 (Winter 2014/2015)
Lee, Kevin B. "Video Evidence: Who Should Win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor?" Keyframe (January 21, 2015)
Cavanaugh, Jeffrey. "American Sniper: Clint Eastwood’s American Horror Story." Mint Press (January 23, 2015)
Bordwell, David. "Godard comes in many shapes and sizes." Observations on Film Art (December 14, 2007
Larimer, Sarah. "A guide to the American Sniper culture wars controversy." Washington Post (January 26, 2015)
Budd, Mike. "Saving Mr. Banks and building Mr. Brand: the Walt Disney Company in the era of corporate personhood." Jump Cut #56 (Winter 2014/2015)
Lee, Kevin B. "Video Evidence: Who Should Win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor?" Keyframe (January 21, 2015)
film·mak·ing | de·fined from FilmmakerIQ.com on Vimeo.
What Can We Learn From This Photo of Scarlett Johansson from FilmmakerIQ.com on Vimeo.
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Resources for January 25, 2015
Taub, Amanda. "Every movie rewrites history. What American Sniper did is much, much worse." Vox (January 22, 2015)
Wickman, Forrest. "What Should We Make of Enemy’s Shocking Ending?" Slate (March 14, 2014)
"Paul Thomas Anderson." The Close Up #1 (November 2014)
Gibson, S.M. "The Real American Sniper: A Response to the Critics." The Anti-Media (January 22, 2015)
LeSuer, Mike. "Spike Jonze vs. the Conspiring Escapist: On Her, Robert Coover’s Universal Baseball Association, and Jan Švankmajer’s Conspirators of Pleasure." Bright Lights Film Journal (January 16, 2015)
Blue, Violet. "Blackhat the movie, as reviewed in Loki gifs." ZD Net (January 19, 2015)
"Laura Poitras." The Close Up #2 (October 2014)
Turner, Brian. "I Served in Iraq, and American Sniper Gets It Right. But It’s Still Not the War Film We Need." Vulture (January 22, 2015)
Brody, Richard. "The Limits of American Cinephilia." The New Yorker (January 20, 2015)
Lee, Kevin B. "Video Evidence: Who Should Win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress?" Keyframe (January 23, 2015)
Wickman, Forrest. "What Should We Make of Enemy’s Shocking Ending?" Slate (March 14, 2014)
"Paul Thomas Anderson." The Close Up #1 (November 2014)
Gibson, S.M. "The Real American Sniper: A Response to the Critics." The Anti-Media (January 22, 2015)
LeSuer, Mike. "Spike Jonze vs. the Conspiring Escapist: On Her, Robert Coover’s Universal Baseball Association, and Jan Švankmajer’s Conspirators of Pleasure." Bright Lights Film Journal (January 16, 2015)
Blue, Violet. "Blackhat the movie, as reviewed in Loki gifs." ZD Net (January 19, 2015)
"Laura Poitras." The Close Up #2 (October 2014)
Turner, Brian. "I Served in Iraq, and American Sniper Gets It Right. But It’s Still Not the War Film We Need." Vulture (January 22, 2015)
Brody, Richard. "The Limits of American Cinephilia." The New Yorker (January 20, 2015)
Lee, Kevin B. "Video Evidence: Who Should Win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress?" Keyframe (January 23, 2015)
Friday, January 23, 2015
ENG 282: Spring 2015 Letterboxd Profiles
At the bottom of this list I will start posting some responses that I believe provide unique insights to the films we are watching.
Develop a strong focus/theme for your response and stick to it. Form paragraphs (it helps you communicate clearly). Give your response a title (hint: should reflect your focus/theme)
Recommended Class Responses:
Zachary Johnson: "Hero or Terrorist: Che, Part Two
Zachary Johnson: "Dirty Wars: War's Whore, What's It Good For?"
Zachary Johnson: Citizenfour
Crystal Bradshaw: Selma
Crystal Bradshaw: Heartbeats
Kayla Pigg: Citizenfour
Kayla Pigg: Whip It
Kevin Vanhoose: "False Love: Heartbeats."
Kevin Vanhoose: Dogtooth
Ashley Rule: Appropriate Behavior
Ashley Rule: Dogtooth
Ashley Rule: Superbad
Jenine Tacket: "Moolaade: Women Control Their Bodies, Not You."
Jeremy Hay: "Hunger: Not a Light Romp."
Jeremy Hay: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
John Turner: Hunger
John Turner: Mooalaade
April Curtis: Hunger
Caitlin Terrell: Zodiac
Dustin Wallace: Pan's Labyrinth
Katrina Blankenship: Moolaade
Becki Tonges: Mooalaade
Becki Tonges: Oldboy
Ashleigh Yokeley: Oldboy
Kayla Pigg: Pan's Labyrinth
Kayla Pigg: The Story of Film, Pts 1-6
Ashley Rule - Warrior Colle:Moolaade
Nick Farler: Moolaade
Jeremy Hay: Moolaade
John Turner: Oldboy
John Turner: City of God
Ashley Rule: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Jenine Tackett: Monsoon Wedding
Becki Tonges: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Zachary Johnson: Selma
Course Profiles:
Michael Benton
Jenine Tackett (4/8 Some Like It Hot: 6 responses)
Ashley Rule (4/15 Appropriate Behavior: 8 responses)
Kevin Vanhoose (4/26 Cloud Atlas: 9 responses)
Brian Grindle (4/26 Citizenfour: 4 responses)
Raychell Estenson (4/26 City of God: 1 responses)
Kayla Pigg (4/26 Citizenfour: 12 responses
Crystal Bradshaw (5/4: 10 responses)
Zachary Johnson (4/26 Che Part Two: 9 responses)
Patrick Maloney (4/29 Dirty Wars: 9 responses)
Ashleigh Yokeley(4/29 Cloud Atlas: 10 responses)
Becki Tonges (3/11 Moolaade: 4 responses)
Katrina Blankenship (3/11 Moolaade: 2 responses)
William Hunter (3/11 Moolaade: 4 responses)
Dustin Wallace (3/11 Pan's Labyrinth: 1 responses)
Jarrett O'Hearn (3/11: 0 responses)
Caitlin Terrell (3/11 Zodiac: 6 responses)
April Curtis (4/5 Heartbeats: 8 responses)
Aaron Washing (4/5 Moolaade: 5 responses)
Tori Hutchinson (4/5 Monsoon Wedding: 1 responses)
Austin Miller (4/5 Dogtooth: 6 responses)
John Turner (4/5 Hunger: 6 responses)
Jaelyn Coles (4/8 Superbad: 0 responses)
Jeremy Hay (4/8 Heartbeats: 9 responses)
Nick Farler (4/8 Moolaade: 4 responses)
Develop a strong focus/theme for your response and stick to it. Form paragraphs (it helps you communicate clearly). Give your response a title (hint: should reflect your focus/theme)
Recommended Class Responses:
Zachary Johnson: "Hero or Terrorist: Che, Part Two
Zachary Johnson: "Dirty Wars: War's Whore, What's It Good For?"
Zachary Johnson: Citizenfour
Crystal Bradshaw: Selma
Crystal Bradshaw: Heartbeats
Kayla Pigg: Citizenfour
Kayla Pigg: Whip It
Kevin Vanhoose: "False Love: Heartbeats."
Kevin Vanhoose: Dogtooth
Ashley Rule: Appropriate Behavior
Ashley Rule: Dogtooth
Ashley Rule: Superbad
Jenine Tacket: "Moolaade: Women Control Their Bodies, Not You."
Jeremy Hay: "Hunger: Not a Light Romp."
Jeremy Hay: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
John Turner: Hunger
John Turner: Mooalaade
April Curtis: Hunger
Caitlin Terrell: Zodiac
Dustin Wallace: Pan's Labyrinth
Katrina Blankenship: Moolaade
Becki Tonges: Mooalaade
Becki Tonges: Oldboy
Ashleigh Yokeley: Oldboy
Kayla Pigg: Pan's Labyrinth
Kayla Pigg: The Story of Film, Pts 1-6
Ashley Rule - Warrior Colle:Moolaade
Nick Farler: Moolaade
Jeremy Hay: Moolaade
John Turner: Oldboy
John Turner: City of God
Ashley Rule: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Jenine Tackett: Monsoon Wedding
Becki Tonges: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Zachary Johnson: Selma
Course Profiles:
Michael Benton
Jenine Tackett (4/8 Some Like It Hot: 6 responses)
Ashley Rule (4/15 Appropriate Behavior: 8 responses)
Kevin Vanhoose (4/26 Cloud Atlas: 9 responses)
Brian Grindle (4/26 Citizenfour: 4 responses)
Raychell Estenson (4/26 City of God: 1 responses)
Kayla Pigg (4/26 Citizenfour: 12 responses
Crystal Bradshaw (5/4: 10 responses)
Zachary Johnson (4/26 Che Part Two: 9 responses)
Patrick Maloney (4/29 Dirty Wars: 9 responses)
Ashleigh Yokeley(4/29 Cloud Atlas: 10 responses)
Becki Tonges (3/11 Moolaade: 4 responses)
Katrina Blankenship (3/11 Moolaade: 2 responses)
William Hunter (3/11 Moolaade: 4 responses)
Dustin Wallace (3/11 Pan's Labyrinth: 1 responses)
Jarrett O'Hearn (3/11: 0 responses)
Caitlin Terrell (3/11 Zodiac: 6 responses)
April Curtis (4/5 Heartbeats: 8 responses)
Aaron Washing (4/5 Moolaade: 5 responses)
Tori Hutchinson (4/5 Monsoon Wedding: 1 responses)
Austin Miller (4/5 Dogtooth: 6 responses)
John Turner (4/5 Hunger: 6 responses)
Jaelyn Coles (4/8 Superbad: 0 responses)
Jeremy Hay (4/8 Heartbeats: 9 responses)
Nick Farler (4/8 Moolaade: 4 responses)
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Resources for January 22, 2015
Everything is a Remix Part 2 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo.
Hudson, David. "Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper: 'Infuses an ostensibly gung-ho and patriotic story with an underlying pain and melancholy.'” Keyframe (November 12, 2014; updated through January 19, 2015)
"Film Script: Network (1976)." Cutting on the Action (February 16, 2014)
Bordwell, David. "The Viewer’s Share: Models of Mind in Explaining Film." (Personal website: May 2012)
"Film Analysis 2.0." Yale Film Studies (No Date)
O'Hehir, Andrew. “American Sniper and the culture wars: Why the movie’s not what you think it is." Salon (January 21, 2015)
"Miriam Bale (Johnny Guitar)." The Cinephiliacs #16 (April 21, 2013)
American Sniper (USA: Clint Eastwood, 2014) Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)
Sabo, Lee Weston. "Radio Raheem Is a Broken Record: Lessons from Do the Right Thing on Its 25th Anniversary." Bright Lights Film Journal (December 12, 2014)
Dirk, Tim. "Film Genres." Film Site (Ongoing Archives)
American Sniper (USA: Clint Eastwood, 2014)
American Sniper (USA: Clint Eastwood, 2014: 132 mins)
American Sniper." Critics Round Up (Ongoing Archive)
Benton, Michael Dean. "American Sniper." Letterboxd (January 28, 2015)
Brody, Richard. "American Sniper Takes Apart the Myth of the American Warrior." The New Yorker (December 24, 2014)
Cavanaugh, Jeffrey. "American Sniper: Clint Eastwood’s American Horror Story." Mint Press (January 23, 2015)
"Diminished Lives." Cineaste (Summer 2015)
Ehrenstein, David. "Oscars 2015: Based on a ‘Truthiness’ Story." Keyframe (January 16, 2015) ["Dramatizing history, taking heat this Oscar season: SELMA, FOXCATCHER, THE IMITATION GAME and AMERICAN SNIPER wrangle with the truth."]
Gibson, S.M. "The Real American Sniper: A Response to the Critics." The Anti-Media (January 22, 2015)
Heath, Glenn, Jr. "On Tour: Clint Eastwood’s Jersey Boys and American Sniper." Notebook (December 23, 2014)
Hedges, Chris. "The Myth of War." POV (July 6, 2004)
---. "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning." Wake Up? (January 23, 2007) [Excerpts from the book of the same name and other texts]
Hoberman, J. "The Great American Shooter." The New York Review of Books (February 13, 2015)
Hudson, David. "Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper: 'Infuses an ostensibly gung-ho and patriotic story with an underlying pain and melancholy.'” Keyframe (November 12, 2014; updated through January 19, 2015)
Kinder, Bill. "When Soldiers Come Home in the Movies: The post-war experience as told in tropes." Keyframe (November 11, 2015)
Klawans, Stuart. "American Shooter: Clint Eastwood’s shoot ’em up is remorseless, racist fantasy." The Nation (February 10, 2015)
Larimer, Sarah. "A guide to the American Sniper culture wars controversy." Washington Post (January 26, 2015)
Loewen, James W. "Handicapped by History: The Process of Hero-making." Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. The New Press, 2008.
Maass, Peter. "Oscars Make History, So Hollywood's War Stories Need to Be True." The Intercept (February 13, 2015)
Maher, Stephen. "Hollywood at War." Jacobin (February 21, 2015)
McCoy, Terrence. "The ‘unverifiable’ legacy of Chris Kyle, the deadliest sniper in American history." The Washington Post (July 30, 2014)
Norris, Chris. "Review: American Sniper." Film Comment (January/February 2015)
O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried. Houghton-Mifflin, 1990.
O'Hehir, Andrew. “American Sniper and the culture wars: Why the movie’s not what you think it is." Salon (January 21, 2015)
Schmidle, Nicholas. "Caught in the Crosshairs." The New Yorker (June 3, 2013)
Schwartz, Niles. "Evil Against Evil: The Fascinating Incoherence of American Sniper." Balder and Dash (February 23, 2015)
Taibbi, Matt. "American Sniper Is Almost Too Dumb to Criticize: Almost." Rolling Stone (January 21, 2015)
Taub, Amanda. "Every movie rewrites history. What American Sniper did is much, much worse." Vox (January 22, 2015)
"Top 15 messages in Clint Eastwood's anti-war masterpiece American Sniper." libcom (January 22, 2015)
Turner, Brian. "I Served in Iraq, and American Sniper Gets It Right. But It’s Still Not the War Film We Need." Vulture (January 22, 2015)
Vern. "American Sniper." Vern's Reviews on the Films of Cinema (January 26, 2015)
Wisniewski, Chris. "American Sniper." Reverse Shot (January 26, 2015)
Framing the Picture: Perspectives on Islamophobia in American Sniper and The Reluctant Fundamentalist from Matt Marlin on Vimeo.
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Resources for January 21, 2015
Parkinson, David. "A Crash Course In... Sapphic Cinema." Movie Mail (January 19, 2015)
Churner, Leah. "One Through the Heart: What happened to the Hollywood musical?" Moving Image Source (June 20, 2011)
Heath, Glenn, Jr. "On Tour: Clint Eastwood’s Jersey Boys and American Sniper." Notebook (December 23, 2014)
Finke, Christopher Zumski. "Harry Potter fans – and J.K. Rowling – win a deal to get child labor out of chocolate." Christian Science Monitor (January 20, 2015)
Directors: Chantal Ackerman They Shoot Pictures Don't They (Ongoing Archive)
D'Angelo, Mike. "The highs and lows of High And Low." The Dissolve (February 20, 2014)
Arthuso, Raul and Victor Guimarães. "Each Film is a Laboratory: A conversation with Nicole Brenez." CINÉTICA (February 20, 2014)
Merriam-Webster Word-of-the-Day
pandiculation \pan-dik-yuh-LAY-shun\
noun : a stretching and stiffening especially of the trunk and extremities (as when fatigued and drowsy or after waking from sleep)
Examples
"He was coming on to yawn. His breath sucked in the draught from the window. His shoulders hunched, his legs stretched to their toes, he made claws of his fingers in his hands—a fierce pandiculation of his limbs." — Jamie O'Neill, At Swim, Two Boys, 2001
"Carefully orchestrated pandiculations follow a routine: Lips part, the tongue hunkers down, and muscles in the face, mouth and diaphragm engage as the head tilts back." — Laura Sanders, Science News, May 7, 2011
Cat and dog owners who witness daily their pets' methodical body stretching upon awakening might wonder if there is a word to describe their routine—and there is: pandiculation. Pandiculation (which applies to humans too) is the medical term for the stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities, often accompanied by yawning, to arouse the body when fatigued or drowsy. The word comes from Latin pandiculatus, the past participle of pandiculari ("to stretch oneself"), and is ultimately derived from pandere, meaning "to spread." Pandere is also the source of expand.
Churner, Leah. "One Through the Heart: What happened to the Hollywood musical?" Moving Image Source (June 20, 2011)
Heath, Glenn, Jr. "On Tour: Clint Eastwood’s Jersey Boys and American Sniper." Notebook (December 23, 2014)
Finke, Christopher Zumski. "Harry Potter fans – and J.K. Rowling – win a deal to get child labor out of chocolate." Christian Science Monitor (January 20, 2015)
Directors: Chantal Ackerman They Shoot Pictures Don't They (Ongoing Archive)
D'Angelo, Mike. "The highs and lows of High And Low." The Dissolve (February 20, 2014)
Arthuso, Raul and Victor Guimarães. "Each Film is a Laboratory: A conversation with Nicole Brenez." CINÉTICA (February 20, 2014)
Merriam-Webster Word-of-the-Day
pandiculation \pan-dik-yuh-LAY-shun\
noun : a stretching and stiffening especially of the trunk and extremities (as when fatigued and drowsy or after waking from sleep)
Examples
"He was coming on to yawn. His breath sucked in the draught from the window. His shoulders hunched, his legs stretched to their toes, he made claws of his fingers in his hands—a fierce pandiculation of his limbs." — Jamie O'Neill, At Swim, Two Boys, 2001
"Carefully orchestrated pandiculations follow a routine: Lips part, the tongue hunkers down, and muscles in the face, mouth and diaphragm engage as the head tilts back." — Laura Sanders, Science News, May 7, 2011
Cat and dog owners who witness daily their pets' methodical body stretching upon awakening might wonder if there is a word to describe their routine—and there is: pandiculation. Pandiculation (which applies to humans too) is the medical term for the stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities, often accompanied by yawning, to arouse the body when fatigued or drowsy. The word comes from Latin pandiculatus, the past participle of pandiculari ("to stretch oneself"), and is ultimately derived from pandere, meaning "to spread." Pandere is also the source of expand.
Monday, January 19, 2015
Resources for January 19, 2015
Aradillas, Aaron, Steven Santos and Matt Zoller Sietz. "Motion Studies #11 - Razzle Dazzle Part 6: The Takeaway." Press Play (April 4, 2012) ["A stunning montage that tunnels through the media distortion field as depicted in dozens of movie and video clips."]
Ehrenstein, David. "Oscars 2015: Based on a ‘Truthiness’ Story." Keyframe (January 16, 2015) ["Dramatizing history, taking heat this Oscar season: SELMA, FOXCATCHER, THE IMITATION GAME and AMERICAN SNIPER wrangle with the truth."]
Selma (USA: Ava DuVernay, 2014) Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)
Kayyali, Nadia. "The History of Surveillance and the Black Community." Electronic Frontier Foundation (February 13, 2014)
Hendricks, Obery M. "The Uncompromising Anti-Capitalism of Martin Luther King Jr." The Huffington Post (January 20, 2014)
Mirzoeff, Nicholas. "No Justice in Ferguson: A Checklist of Physical Evidence Mistakes." After Occupy (January 19, 2015)
Totaro, Donato. "The Beyond: Lucio Fulci's Zombie Masterpiece." Offscreen 1.2 (July 1997)
Axmaker, Sean. "The New Wave Wonders of Tinto Brass." Keyframe (February 20, 2014) ["Tinto Brass’s exuberant experiments stir the French New Wave and the sexual revolution into a swirl of sixties free-form madness."]
Ehrenstein, David. "Oscars 2015: Based on a ‘Truthiness’ Story." Keyframe (January 16, 2015) ["Dramatizing history, taking heat this Oscar season: SELMA, FOXCATCHER, THE IMITATION GAME and AMERICAN SNIPER wrangle with the truth."]
Selma (USA: Ava DuVernay, 2014) Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)
Kayyali, Nadia. "The History of Surveillance and the Black Community." Electronic Frontier Foundation (February 13, 2014)
Hendricks, Obery M. "The Uncompromising Anti-Capitalism of Martin Luther King Jr." The Huffington Post (January 20, 2014)
Mirzoeff, Nicholas. "No Justice in Ferguson: A Checklist of Physical Evidence Mistakes." After Occupy (January 19, 2015)
Totaro, Donato. "The Beyond: Lucio Fulci's Zombie Masterpiece." Offscreen 1.2 (July 1997)
Axmaker, Sean. "The New Wave Wonders of Tinto Brass." Keyframe (February 20, 2014) ["Tinto Brass’s exuberant experiments stir the French New Wave and the sexual revolution into a swirl of sixties free-form madness."]
Sunday, January 18, 2015
Selma (UK/USA: Ava DuVernay, 2014)
Selma (UK/USA: Ava DuVernay, 2014: 122 mins)
Abdelmahmoud, Elamin. "2014: the year that black cinema bounced back in America." The Guardian (December 25, 2014)
Badejo, Anita. "Modern Marvel." Buzz Feed (July 20, 2016) [On actress Tessa Thompson]
Civil Rights Movement Veterans (Website/Archive)
Cooper, Brittney. "A racial state of emergency: How we prepare for devastation in Ferguson." Salon (November 19, 2014)
Davidson, Amy. "Why Selma Is More Than Fair to L.B.J." The New Yorker (January 22, 2015)
Digital SNCC Gateway [Archive of resources: "The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was the only national civil rights organization led by young people. Organized in 1960 and mentored by the legendary black organizer, Ella Baker, SNCC activists became full-time organizers, working with community leaders to build local grassroots organizations in the Deep South."]
Dreyfuss, Ben. "'Selma Is Now': John Legend and Common Just Gave An Amazing Oscar Speech." Mother Jones (February 22, 2015)
DuVernay, Ava. "'One Person Can Make a Difference': Ava DuVernay Remembers Film Critic Roger Ebert’s Early Support." Democracy Now (January 27, 2015)
---. "'The Power of the People': Selma Director Ava DuVernay on Fight for Civil Rights, Voting Equality." Democracy Now (January 27, 2015)
---. "Selma Director Ava DuVernay on Hollywood’s Lack of Diversity, Oscar Snub and #OscarsSoWhite Hashtag." Democracy Now (January 27, 2015)
---. "Selma Director Defends Film’s Portrayal of LBJ-MLK Dispute on Voting Rights Legislation." Democracy Now (January 27, 2015)
Ehrenstein, David. "Oscars 2015: Based on a ‘Truthiness’ Story." Keyframe (January 16, 2015) ["Dramatizing history, taking heat this Oscar season: SELMA, FOXCATCHER, THE IMITATION GAME and AMERICAN SNIPER wrangle with the truth."]
Foundas, Scott. "Selma." Variety (November 12, 2014)
Fox, Margalit. "Amelia Boynton Robinson, a Pivotal Figure at the Selma March, Dies at 104." The New York Times (August 27, 2015)
"From Selma to Snowden, Oscar Speeches Invoke Activism & Calls for Social Justice." Democracy Now (February 23, 2015)
Gino, Francesca. "You 2.0: Rebel with a Cause." Hidden Brain (August 9, 2019) ["This week, we'll follow Gino on her mission to understand the minds of successful rule breakers. What are their secrets? And how can we discover our own rebel talent? "I think we really need to shift our thinking," says Gino. "Rebels are people who break rules that should be broken. They break rules that hold them and others back, and their way of rule breaking is constructive rather than destructive. It creates positive change.""]
Hawks, Julie. "Why the Vote Wasn't Enough for Selma: A New Book on Economic Justice." Black Perspectives (October 17, 2017)
Hendricks, Obery M. "The Uncompromising Anti-Capitalism of Martin Luther King Jr." The Huffington Post (January 20, 2014)
Holloway, Jonathan. "AFAM 162 - African American History: From Emancipation to the Present." Open Yale Courses (Spring 2010) ["The purpose of this course is to examine the African American experience in the United States from 1863 to the present. Prominent themes include the end of the Civil War and the beginning of Reconstruction; African Americans’ urbanization experiences; the development of the modern civil rights movement and its aftermath; and the thought and leadership of Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X."]
Hudson, David. "Ava DuVernay’s Selma: 'One of the best American films of the year.'” Keyframe (November 25, 2014)
Joseph, Peniel. "Selma Backlash Misses The Point." Codeswitch (January 10, 2015)
Kayyali, Nadia. "The History of Surveillance and the Black Community." Electronic Frontier Foundation (February 13, 2014)
Lewis, John. "The Art & Discipline of Nonviolence." On Being (January 15, 2015) ["We take in the extraordinary wisdom of Congressman John Lewis, on what happened in Selma on Bloody Sunday and beyond — and how it might inform our common life today. A rare look inside the civil rights leaders’ spiritual confrontation with themselves — and their intricate art of nonviolence."]
Maass, Peter. "Oscars Make History, So Hollywood's War Stories Need to Be True." The Intercept (February 13, 2015)
Menand, Louis. "The Color of Law: Voting rights and the Southern way of life." The New Yorker (July 8, 2013)
Patton, Stacey. "Take Two Seats: What’s Really Behind Jewish Anger Over Selma?” Tim Wise (February 7, 2015)
Sahani, Alakha. "Hollywood wants me to make a certain kind of movie: Ava DuVernay." Indian Express (November 9, 2015)
Young, Bradford. "The Philosophy of Cinematography." The Film Stage (November 5, 2015) [Cinematographer for the films Selma (2014); A Most Violent Year (2014); Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013); Middle of Nowhere (2012); Pariah (2011)]
Resources for January 18, 2015
North, James and Philip Weiss. "The New York Time's double standard on westerners who go off to fight in Middle East conflicts." Mondoweiss (January 17, 2015)
Eddington, Patrick G. "The New Imitation Game." The Cato Institute (January 8, 2015)
Tiflati, Hicham. "Why Charlie Hebdo Offends Me." Mondoweiss (January 16, 2015)
Kluger, Jeffrey. "A Bad Day for Climate Change Deniers … And the Planet." Time (January 16, 2015)
"Kevin B. Lee (Slacker)." Cinephiliacs #12 (January 27, 2013)
Radisic, Danica. "The Journalistic Purgatory of Eastern Europe." Global Voices (February 19, 2014)
Hunte, Matthew. "Photos: Humans of the Caribbean." Global Voices (February 21, 2014)
Bloom, Paul, et al. "Brand Over Brain." TED Radio Hour (January 16, 2015) ["Brands help us assign value to almost everything we buy. But is there a way to know the difference between real and created value?"]
Merriam-Webster Word-of-the-Day
gratuitous \gruh-TOO-uh-tuss\
adjective 1 : done or provided without recompense : free 2 : not called for by the circumstances : unwarranted
Examples
John seems incapable of talking about anything he owns without a gratuitous reference to the amount of money he spent on it.
"Each gratuitous 'Mr.,' 'Mrs.,' 'Miss,' or 'Ms.' appeared not so much respectful as nostalgic, a yearning for a return to the days when all but the closest acquaintances addressed one another with titles and surnames." — Eric Zorn, Chicago Tribune, December 10, 2014
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Resources for January 17, 2015
Hoh, Matthew. "I Stand With Charlie Hebdo, But I Also Stand With the Victims of Our Bombs." Veterans for Peace (January 14, 2015)
"Why Privacy Matters." The Best of the Left #890 (January 14, 2015) ["Today we take a look at how over-policing and the threat of constant surveillance chips away at freedom in direct and indirect ways and why you should be concerned (if it weren’t already obvious)."]
Ford, Glen and Tim Wise. "The State, Racism & Matters of Black Life." Building Bridges (January 6, 2015)
Aronowitz, Stanley. "Rejuvenating the Workers’ Movement – The Road Forward." Building Bridges (January 13, 2015)
Parks, Tim. "The Limits of Satire." The New York Review of Books (January 16, 2015)
Lee, Kevin B. "Experimental Fireworks in the Land of Free Radicals: ‘Independent’ is not so much a genre as a state of mind." Keyframe (July 2, 2013)
Brothers, J. Roger. "Evidence for Geomagnetic Imprinting and Magnetic Navigation in the Natal Homing of Sea Turtles." Current Biology (January 15, 2015)
"Why Privacy Matters." The Best of the Left #890 (January 14, 2015) ["Today we take a look at how over-policing and the threat of constant surveillance chips away at freedom in direct and indirect ways and why you should be concerned (if it weren’t already obvious)."]
Ford, Glen and Tim Wise. "The State, Racism & Matters of Black Life." Building Bridges (January 6, 2015)
Aronowitz, Stanley. "Rejuvenating the Workers’ Movement – The Road Forward." Building Bridges (January 13, 2015)
Parks, Tim. "The Limits of Satire." The New York Review of Books (January 16, 2015)
Lee, Kevin B. "Experimental Fireworks in the Land of Free Radicals: ‘Independent’ is not so much a genre as a state of mind." Keyframe (July 2, 2013)
Brothers, J. Roger. "Evidence for Geomagnetic Imprinting and Magnetic Navigation in the Natal Homing of Sea Turtles." Current Biology (January 15, 2015)
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