public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags film & culture

11 November 2006

benditonontze.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)

a fascinating narrative flash animation, perhaps a metaphor about war in our times

06 November 2006

03 November 2006

Jahsonic

wide ranging litblog with many interests, images, and links; includes interests in film, music and visual culture

02 November 2006

Luxonline - Home

web site for/about UK film and video artists, mostly avant garde

filmscreed

film blog with lots of images regularly posted

40 Things That Only Happen In Movies - Nostalgia Central

by 5 others
witty observations on film narrative and visual continuity

01 November 2006

U B U W E B

by 28 others
"independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts"; lots on experimental film

31 October 2006

Dr. Helena Sheehan / Home Page

much material on her media and society courses, including powerpoint lectures

Story Myth Dream Drama by Helena Sheehan

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

M/C Journal - Latest Issue

from Australia, looking at media internationally and politically

30 October 2006

ZoneZero from analog to digital photography

by 2 others
a large, excellently curated photography site, including slide shows and discussions of key issues in photography and representation in general; highly recommended; under tutelage of Pedro Meyer; take "tour" first

Planned Obsolescence

Kathleen Fitzpatrick is a media teacher and is spearheading an important online project for media scholars, Media Commons. Her blog has many teaching resources and summaries of sessions at the recent Flow TV Conference.

Screens - Arts - New York Times Blog

Virginia Heffernan's blog; here a discussion about dance and music video on YouTube with popularity that does not depend on the viewer knowing English

21 October 2006

17 October 2006

architechtural, music, media blog

by 2 others
well written; of use to media people, especially for mise en scene, ways of attending to space

15 October 2006

09 October 2006

Semiotics for Beginners by Daniel Chandler

semiotics, like connotation, and metaphor and metonymy are terms that convey how images bear meaning; valuable for anyone interested in film and photography

jan van eyck . avantgarde film biopolitics

list of films and readings putting together a film series and discussions of biopolitics in a new and interesting way; complete texts of accompanying theoretical readings

screenonline

by 1 other
"Screen" is the British Film Institute's major journal; here look at film and television headings for many short articles and resources about UK film/tv

Bright Lights Film Journal | Welcome!

by 1 other
well designed web site, excellent essays, covers experimental and gay/lesbian work

05 October 2006

| The John Cassavetes Pages |

attractively designed web site hosted by scholar Ray Carney

Posthegemony

The "about" page for a blog on posthegemony. Author also comments succinctly on books, Latin America, film and television.

02 October 2006

H-Net Review: John C. Ehrhardt on Tourism: Between Place and Performance

For students of documentary, it is useful to conceptualize place, space, locale, and social performance all at the same time.

01 October 2006