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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited The Mass Psychology of Fascist Cinema: “Triumph of the Will” in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis essay uses the work of Wilhelm Reich to analyze the “mass psychology of fascism” in Leni Riefenstahl’s infamous Nazi propaganda film, TRIUMPH OF THE WILL.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited The Gospel According to Spielberg in “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial” in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis article examines the parallels between the space alien in Spielberg’s “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial” and the New Testament account of the life of Jesus Christ.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited Empire of the Gun: Steven Spielberg’s SAVING PRIVATE RYAN and American Chauvinism in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis book chapter analyzes Steven Spielberg’s supposedly anti-war SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1992) as a pro-war, pro-military, and pro-America movie.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited “I’ll See It When I Believe It”: Rodney King and the Prison-House of Video in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis book chapter analyzes the numerous responses to the famous videotape of Los Angeles motorist Rodney King at the hands of the L.A. Police Department.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited EROS and Civilization: Sexuality and the Contemporary International Art Cinema in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis essay describes and analyzes the anthology film EROS (2004), which consists of three short films by major directors: Wong Kar-wei, Steven Soderbergh, and Michelangelo Antonioni. The focus is on the cinematic depiction of sexuality as it pertains to the national origins of the three shorts: Hong Kong, United States, and Italy.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited EL TOPO and the Midnight Movie Craze in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoAlejandro Jodorowsky’s EL TOPO set off a trend for midnight movies that brought numerous esoteric films to an insomniac audience. This essay analyzes the surreal movie and its position as an early exemplar of independent cinema exhibited outside the mainstream patterns.
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Charlie Gleek replied to the topic #HCSummerRefresh: Reflection & Making it Official in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoHi all-sorry for the late post (I had family in town all day yesterday).
Caitlin, thanks as always for organizing the Summer Camp. The questions that you pose are excellent ways to reflect on our professional practice. I’m sketching out some ideas over the next few weeks about how to incorporate HC work into one of my classes this term; work that…[Read more]
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Irina Sadovina replied to the topic #HCSummerRefresh: Reflection & Making it Official in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoCaitlin, thank you so much for doing this work! I’m late to the boat; properly joined the Workshop today and am still figuring out my academic online presence.
I’ve only completed some tasks, but it’s a start. So I’m proudest of the bare minimum – having set up my profile at all. Step by step! Perhaps I’ll be back in August, to flesh out my p…[Read more]
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Kristen Mapes replied to the topic #HCSummerRefresh: CORE in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoI just got in and uploaded an article that I co-authored a few years ago (https://hcommons-staging.org/deposits/item/hc:25255/). I have a question about co-authorship in CORE and how it works with author profiles: My co-author for this work was Brandon Locke, who has an HCommons profile (https://hcommons-staging.org/members/brandontlocke/). But…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic #HCSummerRefresh: Reflection & Making it Official in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoWelcome to the last day of our first Humanities Commons Summer Refresh Workshop! If you missed out on joining us this time around or if you’d like to do it all over again, you’re in luck! We will do another round of this workshop in August, from Monday, August 5th to Friday, August 9th.
If you were able to participate in this round of #…[Read more]
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Flavio Gregori replied to the topic CFP – Adaptation of (English) literary works in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe deadline for sending proposals has been moved to July 30th, 2019.
You can write to my address: flagre@unive.it
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited Colonel North Goes to Washington: Observations on the Intertextual Re-Presentation of History in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis essay examines the parallels between Frank Capra’s MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON and the televised Oliver North hearings 40 years later.
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited Narrate AND Describe?: Point of View and Narrative Voice in CITIZEN KANE’s Thatcher Sequence in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThis article examines the theoretical aspects of point of view and narrative voice in CITIZEN KANE’s Thatcher Sequence, with an eye to untangling the thorny aspects of subjectivity in that reticular film. In addition, there are larger implications that pertain to ALL narrative cinema in terms of who or what generates film images and sounds.
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Charlie Gleek replied to the topic #HCSummerRefresh: Sites in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months ago‘morning folks.
Thanks to @caitlinduffy49 for inviting me to moderate today’s discussion. In addition to everyone’s posts and responses to Caitlin’s questions and prompts, I’ll offer that thinking about your profile and sites should be an ongoing process. Just as creative or analytical writing is a form of knowledge formation/construction,…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy replied to the topic #HCSummerRefresh: CORE in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months ago@cgleek – Thanks for sharing these exam lists! I also really like your idea of encouraging more people to upload and share their exam lists and other graduate student documents. I now plan to upload my lists to CORE, though they’re also already up on my site (linked in case anyone wants to see them). Creating an HC group that specifically caters…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic #HCSummerRefresh: Sites in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoIt’s day four of the first Humanities Commons Summer Refresh Workshop, and we’re focusing on updating and creating HC sites! Thanks again for the conversations happening in the previous days’ threads… let’s keep it going!
Before I get into the activities for today’s focus, I wanted to introduce @cgleek, our sites mentor! He was a member of t…[Read more]
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Lucy Ayre replied to the topic #HCSummerRefresh: CORE in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 6 years, 6 months agoI’m a complete newbie to HC and CORE so spent some time searching the repository first. I loved finding so much stuff in there that interested me and led me down a cool rabbit hole of groups and people discussing these topics. One feature I’d like to see is an ability to bookmark items in CORE that can be saved in my profile to read later.
I then…[Read more]
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Charlie Gleek replied to the topic #HCSummerRefresh: CORE in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoOne area I think that HC can help its members with is the sharing of readings/exam materials. Yes, we’re all interested in posting our working papers and articles, but there’s real value in emerging scholars posting their comps reading lists, as well as departments posting mock lists, expected PhD readings, and similar documentation. To this end,…[Read more]
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited The Sounds of Silence: Minimalist Acting in BLOW-UP in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThis essay explores the use of understated modernist performance tropes in Michelangelo Antonioni’s film BLOW-UP. The filmmaker relies on directorial prerogatives such as camera angles, lighting mise-en-scene, editing. subtle gestures and facial expressions, and other minimalist cinematic techniques to convey meaning and mood — rather than overt…[Read more]
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Frank P. Tomasulo, Ph.D. deposited BICYCLE THIEVES: A Re-reading in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThis article investigates the mixed ideology of Vittorio DeSica’s classic neorealist film, BICYCLE THIEVES (1948) from a cinematic and political perspective.
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