public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags academic & television

04 December 2006

02 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

01 December 2006

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.

BUBL LINK: Media studies

a UK portal's link to media links portals; some entries here will be new to US academics

Blogging as pedagogic practice: by Marcus O'Donnell

theoretical overview and roundup of concepts about Internet and education

30 November 2006

Synoptique

film journal from Concordia University in Montreal

26 November 2006

media teacher's home page, lots of resouces, links pages

"news and journalism, film, TV, media policy, media reform activism, philosophy and social theory, urban history, contemporary American politics--\perspective informed by media history, political economy and social and cultural theory."

MIT communications forum archive

the various programs are on many topics of media and mass communications; available in audio, video, or print format; good overview of contemporary media issues by academics and practitioners

Mediascape

ejournal, interdisciplinary approaches to visual culture

20 November 2006

Notes on The Gaze

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

Aesthetics and Visual Culture

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

18 November 2006

EServer.org: Accessible Writing

by 3 others
large collection of academic essays; "such diverse topics as art, architecture, race, Internet studies, sexuality, drama, design, multimedia, and current social issues. Also hypertext and streaming audio and video recordings."

Communication Studies Resources: The University of Iowa

one of the largest set of links, updated regularly, to all aspects of communication; many political themes; a wide range of disciplinary approaches included; highly recommended

Early Visual Media

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

Dave Harris and Colleagues

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

Dr Daniel Chandler's UWA Home Page

extensive website of visual semiotician, with course outlines, online papers, and an interesting links page

Category D: A Film and Media Studies Blog: The Intro Textbook: A Comparison

an entry in a film blog that I like that compares and contrasts the Film 101 textbooks commonly used

16 November 2006

cinelinks

links page from Cinetext: Film and Philosophy ejournal

13 November 2006

12 November 2006

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

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