public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags culturalstudies & ethnicity

December 2006

Black Film Research Online

good discussion of Black film in Chicago; also a large section on how to do Black film research on the Internet

November 2006

Miradas--in Spanish

extensive critical discussion of Latin American film and TV; Cuban site

Travel Photos - The Great Mirror

"a large and sprawling collection of photographs of cultural or humanized landscapes. The images are arranged geographically and are narratively sequenced and captioned to reflect the interests of a geographer."

Postcolonial and Postimperial Literature: An Overview

longstanding and well maintained site by Internet humanities pioneer, George P. Landow. Organized by country and by conceptual approaches. Courses linked to. Useful internal search engine.

Geography courses with websites Valparaiso University

Geography courses, both present and past, with exercises, links, bibliography. Also see Urban Studies and American Indian Studies. Understanding place as cultural should inform both fiction and non-fiction film.

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

ZoneZero: from analog to digital photography

a large socially committed ejournal, edited by Pedro Meyer, one of the pioneers in digital photographic art; galleries, essays, investigations into image circulation and production within digital communication, especially the Internet

Journal E: Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America

one of the most important exhibitions of our time, also raising questions about the ethics of exhibiting violence in our media culture today

www.theory.org.uk -- the media theory site

large site, attractive new design as of 11/06. essays, links, delving into popular culture and playing with it, theoretical explorations and savvy; highly recommended

Difference, Diversity and Nomadic Subjectivity

Braidotti is a theorist combining the insights of Donna Haraway with postcolonial theory; this earlier (1998) essay still has relevance today. Useful in teaching.

Place: Cultural, Disability, Ethnic, Media, Postcolonial, Race Studies

huge multi-page database of links on space and place in cultural geography as applicable to interdisciplinary studies

October 2006

TRANSFORMATIONS

"different modes of life embodied within local domains, yet globally interconnected at the same time"

multilingual web journal

check out sections to left on main page, and also writings listed under "correspondence"

June 2006

EServer: Cultural Studies and Critical Theory

large bibliography with links to many full text essays--american studies, critical legal studies, literature, marxism, media, popular culture, postcolonialism, queer, race, women's studies