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PUBLIC MARKS with tags film & culture

22 November 2006

Scenes of Provincial Life

by jlesage
a vblog diary from someone who has a good eye and lives in a picturesque environment

Please help me find movies that end with the main character dying. | Ask MetaFilter

by jlesage
It's a query that garnered 135 comments and added film titles within ten days. It lets me think MetaFilter might be fun for students, to craft media-related questions that would get lots of responses, simple queries like this one.

20 November 2006

Pajiba - Scathing Reviews for Bitchy People

by jlesage & 2 others
movie and tv review site, very current, well written, various authors

Notes on The Gaze

by jlesage
Daniel Chandler's overview of the use of an important concept in media theory

Welcome to Transparency

by jlesage & 1 other
"interprets and critiques movies and television, news and political rhetoric, theme parks and advertising, computer games and the Internet, and other creations of contemporary culture"

Design Observer: writings about design & culture

by jlesage & 1 other
very well written blog; as I have commented before, knowing about space and place is crucial for thoughtful mediamakers

Aesthetics and Visual Culture

by jlesage
extensive links page, from a philosophy disciplinary perspective; updated Aug. 06

MRQE - Movie Review Query Engine

by jlesage & 1 other
perhaps an improvement over Rotten Tomatoes, also gives links to blogs that dealt with a given film; worth a try

19 November 2006

Code Z: Black Visual Culture Now

by jlesage
many categories, including fine art, design, fashion, film, architecture, publishing, digital media, public policy; attractively designed site, starting Aug. 06

18 November 2006

Early Visual Media

by jlesage & 1 other
pre-cinema, early photography, early film, early television; lots of visual examples and explanations

Dave Harris and Colleagues

by jlesage
large collection of work, lectures, course materials in media studies, leisure studies, sociology

16 November 2006

15 November 2006

Senses of Cinema

by jlesage
one of the best online film journals; exhaustive and regularly updated links page

Video History Project: Resources - Collections & Distribution Links

by jlesage
documents video art and community television, as it evolved in rural and urban New York State, and across the US

13 November 2006

cin-o-matic

by jlesage & 2 others
in an easily scannable, filterable, and sortable format, users are quickly able to see what movies may interest them

12 November 2006

'The Science Of Ghosts' - Derrida In 'Ghost Dance' (1983)

by jlesage
Derrida plays himself in 1983 film about concepts of memory; he says he is here a ghost in the art of ghosts, cinema. Many clips from this film found here

11 November 2006

Literary Theory. Literary Criticism

by jlesage
very large site, also contains links for art and film, among other things, lots of branching possiblities

Владимир Гвоздев и gvozdariki

by jlesage & 1 other
check out witty animations from a Russian animator, simple, elegant

dream

by jlesage
tranquil animation with zen spirit; again, worth exploring narratives with a whole different time sense and way of making a point