documentary
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Read More: The Flat: Are Feminist Tactics for Holocaust Remembrance Possible?Let’s say, to be evasive (the first evasions of many; an approach that is definitive of the sensitive territory I trod), that I returned agitated from seeing Arnon Goldfinger’s The…
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Read More: Of Labor Lost: Name the EnemyI’m in Boulder Colorado, teaching a summer course on Feminist and Queer Documentary in their film program. My class on Tuesday—on Talking Heads Feminist Labor films—was nothing if not queer:…
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Read More: Miss(ing) Representation(s)Miss Representation (Jennifer Siebel Newsom, 2011) tells a critical and true story about the relations among mainstream media and women’s political and personal power. It follows in the footsteps of…
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Read More: Playing the Pain Card: The Retraction of Ira Glass
This post is late in the news cycle of this media event because I tried, unsuccessfully, to publish it as an Op Ed. Enjoy! A few weeks ago, an unfortunate…
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Read More: Two Conferences: One Students’/Women’s Media PowerHome after back-to-back events where I wore one hat that just might be construed as two (an interesting slip [of the tongue] or tip [of the hat] that helps point…
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Read More: Factiness: Lifespans of and Pissing Matches overJohn D’Agata, “author,” and Jim Fingal,” fact-checker’s” The Lifespan of a Fact is an initially intriguing, often funny, sometimes intellectually stimulating dialogue in the Socratic mode between a famous writer…
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Read More: Why I Won’t See Devil Inside: Because It’s Probably Dumb…I have some passing interest in horror (I teach a class on it), I am supposed to be an “expert” on fake documentaries, and my recent concern is user-made video.…
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Read More: HIV/AIDS ConcordiaI’m in Montreal, getting ready to give a talk “Remembering AIDS Online: Networking, Viruses, Virality, and Arteries” as part of Concordia University’s eighteen year old, multi-disciplinary, year-long undergraduate course and…
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Read More: Radical LinksHere are some links to radical media actions: feminist academic blogging: “The Three Things I Learned at the Purdue Conference for Pre-Tenure Women,” by Kate Clancy dispatches from Occupy Wall…