public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags Narrative & essays

December 2006

Making Sense of Metaphors by Bernard J. Tibbetts

subtitle: Visuality, Aurality, and the Reconfiguration of American Legal Discourse, 1994, long full-text essay online

Orion Magazine

ideas of sustainability and its cultural contexts; many notable writers and artists here

Hayden White, Historiography and Historiophoty

"Historiophoty" is Robert Rosentstone's term for our representing history visually and filmically; in contrast, according to White, is "historiography," representing history verbally, in prose.

Flickhead

online film journal, offbeat and cult as well as international film covered

Offscreen.com :: Volume 10, Issue 10

by 2 others
Canadian film journal online since 1997, wide coverage of independent and international film; many resources

Edward Tufte home site

by 4 others
lots here from a major figure in information graphics; especially interesting are many entries in section, "Ask E.T."

November 2006

Video History Project: Resources

information from/about practitioners and groups of videomakers; technical explanations of early video formats and equipment

translate.eipcp.net - translate.eipcp.net

a multilingual web journal that challenges received ideas about linguistic and cultural "translation" along principles of a critique of culturalisation; social recomposition, beyond postcolonialism: a global commons; multilinguality vs. national language

Dialogic: Giorgio Agamben: Means Without Ends

a collection of ideas from Agamben that summarizes some of his key ideas; blog from "a dialogic provocateur searching for viable alternative/oppositional cultures." Much on film; many links.

Project Premises : Sed : A Trail of Thirst

hypertext and visual arts project on southwest US and politics of the border; extensive essay with incorporated artistic material; new vision of documentary media, visual ethnography

October 2006

Jeffrey Ruoff: Publications

major writer on visual ethnography has many of his essays online

Story Myth Dream Drama by Helena Sheehan

chapter one of "Irish Television Drama: A Society and Its Stories" offered by author online

Jahn: Homepage

major figure in narrative theory has much work available online

Jahn: PPP/Narratology

Manfred Jahn Narratology: A Guide to the Theory of Narrative

September 2006

MiT4 abstracts and papaers

conference at MIT in 05 on the work of stories

August 2006

girish

originator of avant-garde blogathon, Aug. 2, 2006; good links on left to other film blogs; Aug. 2 entry has links to bloggers who responded to call.

July 2006

timescape syllabus

course outline with interesting links, especially lecture notes: "Since the birth of cinema, architectural and urban space, and ideas of landscape have played a crucial role in the visual representation of space on screen."