media ethics
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Read More: HeroismI recently attended the festival screening of my friend, Ellen Spiro’s amazing documentary, “Body of War,” which she shot and directed with Phil Donahue (yes that Phil Donahue). It was…
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Read More: #1 SCALE screeningOn Thursday, October 4, we had our first work-in-progress screening of SCALE fro a friendly audience at the Claremont Colleges, where I teach. Antonia made it, as did representatives of…
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Read More: Slogan Ten
“The boundaries between the subject, if not the body, and the ‘rest of the world’ are undergoing a radical refiguration, brought about in part through the mediation of technology. ”…
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Read More: Slogan Nine
“The more we assert our own identities as historically marginalized groups, the more we expose the tyranny of a so-called center.” Pratibha Parmar [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNh4kdSsBoY&rel=1] YouTube serves the de-centering mandate of…
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Read More: Editing SCALE 3August 8, 2007 Back home after a month in Columbus OH defined, in the end, by the concerns addressed in my earlier posts: what it means to be an artist-on-my-own…
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Read More: Slogan Eight
“What is in question is not the expression of some lost origin or some uncontaminated essence in black film-language but the adoption of a critical voice that promotes consciousness of…
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Read More: FOX it is and FOX is itI went to bed last night exhausted, relieved and resolute. I had survived one week in the media limelight and it was over, ending on a mid-note with my mediocre…
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Read More: Editing SCALE 2
July 16, 2007. It has been a really great first week. I have been editing with concentration and fervor helped and abetted by the Wexner’s master editor, Paul Hill. We’ve…
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Read More: Slogan Six“The real crime of representation is representation itself.” David MacDougall, ethnographic filmmaker [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1SPB3eYLdg&rel=1] Media presentation on YouTube must be attentive to the ethics and power inherent in all acts of…
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Read More: On YouTube Celebrity and SCALEAn article about my class ended up on the AP wire and less then 24 hours later, I’ve done or scheduled 10 print and radio interviews, including a visit from…