About a week or so ago I got Robert Crumb’s Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country which I have been totally digging. The book has been reinforcing an informal education I’ve been getting through my various conversations with Folklorist Gary Stanton and Musician/Artist Kent Ippolito (who gave me the book –thanks Kent!) on early [...]
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Course Mangement Systems as the Gentrification of EdTech
Published by July 24th, 2008 in films, insructional technology and movies. 22 CommentsImage thanks to Lulu Vision
Here at UMW we have been going through a CMS Review. It has been a pretty interesting project, and while I only tangentially involved, I have been following the basic rhetorical thrust of the sales pitches from companies like Desire2Learn, BlackBoard, and Angel (well be getting in-house demos of Sakai and [...]
Who needs Netflix with the Internet Archive around?
Published by July 23rd, 2007 in film, film noir, films and movies. 5 CommentsOver the last month or so I have been scouring the Internet Archive for pubic domain films. Below are 31 of the 38 movies I bookmarked in del.icio.us that are currently available at Internet Archive del.icio.us seems to be balking the feed after 31 entries for some reason). To see all 38 go here. The list [...]
Clare Quilty, or my excuse for talking about the limits of auteur theory
Published by June 30th, 2007 in film, films and movies. 12 CommentsIn the early 90s (probably 1993), I went to the Directors Guild of America to see a Peter Sellers retrospective. I was not a huge Sellers fan at that point. I had seen him a couple of times on the Muppet Show, and mainly associated him with the Pink Panther series. It was [...]
Tales from the Teaching Crypt: American Film Genres syllabus from Summer 2000
Published by June 12th, 2007 in film, film noir, films and movies. 10 CommentsFrom another lifetime, here is class I taught at SUNY Old Westbury that was a total blast. A recent post on Film Noirs inspired me to start putting my old syllabi on bavawiki in order to begin archiving and making available some of the work I have done over the last ten years (has [...]
This post started out as a comment on my favorite blog these days, The Tattered Coat. Matt, the proprietor of said blog, has one of the most intelligent, entertaining, and interactive blogs going. After a long hiatus to finish his dissertation, Tattered Matt is back at it and as good as ever. Lately he [...]
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