October 2006
Street Media: A Thesis Proposal
by jlesage
Images found in an urban environment and how to evaluate them: a key component of photography, film, photos, visual anthropology.
H-Net Review: John C. Ehrhardt on Tourism: Between Place and Performance
by jlesage
For students of documentary, it is useful to conceptualize place, space, locale, and social performance all at the same time.
The Kitchen - Essays
by jlesage
"SELECTION OF ESSAYS AND PUBLICATIONS RELEVANT TO ART, CRAFT AND POLITICS IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF VIDEO"
Marita Sturken'sHomePage
by jlesage
links to full text of some of her essays, especially one on Katrina, weather media, and Homeland Security
Image and Narrative: Online Magazine of the Visual Narrative
by jlesage & 2 others
valuable resource, worth time to print out and read selected essays
OUP: Cartwright & Sturken: "Practices of Looking"
by jlesage
Oxford U. Press offers PDFs of chapters one and nine of this introduction to visual culture
H-Net Review: J. Michael Ryan on Sharon Zukin's "Point of Purchase"
by jlesage
subtitle of Zukin's book: How Shopping Changed American Culture; H-Net review offers reviews of humanities scholarship
re-public: re.imagining democracy
by jlesage
e-journal: "process of re-imagining democracy, broadly conceived as referring to the multitude of practices that shape everyday life"; in-depth left essays from an international perspective
Paul Virilio: Speed and Information: Cyberspace Alarm!
by jlesage
complete text of major essay; overview of Internet use
A Rape in Cyberspace By Julian Dibbell
by jlesage
1993, complete text of essay delineating important event in Internet history
Kali Tal - Reviews: Lisa Nakamura: Lisa Nakamura, "Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet"
by jlesage
Kali Tal is a major writer on trauma literature and film; this essay appears on her blog.
"Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet"
by jlesage
major essay by Lisa Nakamura
September 2006
Lev Manovich - Avant-garde as Software
by jlesage
The 1920s avant garde "revolution" in film, arts, typography, and architecture has become part of computer hard- and software design; new media does not now provide new ways of seeing but radically new ways of using already accumulated media.
elearnspace. Connectivism: Learning as Network-Creation
by jlesage & 1 other
useful essay on educational theory
Film Bibliographies: Media Resources Center UCB
by jlesage
Good place to start research for both scholars and students, comprehensive resource collection for film studies at UC-Berkeley: Bibliographies here for many film/TV Topics,Themes, Genres, Directors; on National Cinemas; and on Individual Films/Videos; Ful
Film Studies Resources - Academic Info
by jlesage
useful site with lots of resources: bibliographies, "digital library" links, academic programs listed; full text artices; Online Film Collections, Archives, Themes: women, genre, theory; Film History, silent and sound eras, International--by region; Indiv
August 2006
Autonomy & Solidarity | Autonomy & Solidarity Network
by jlesage
left journal: change comes from self organization of workers and oppressed groups
July 2006
MILLENNIUM FILM JOURNAL
by jlesage
important journal covering independent and avant-garde films; complete index; online essays begin with issue no. 26, fall 1992
Posthegemony
by jlesage
cultural theory, literature, media--from the perspective of a Latin Americanist
