public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags literature & space

01 December 2006

Orion Magazine

ideas of sustainability and its cultural contexts; many notable writers and artists here

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

27 November 2006

Dr. Chris Mullen, The Visual Telling of Stories, illustration, design, film, narrative sequences, magazines, books, prints etc

by 1 other
a very large historical archive, often from advertising, "to provide for all levels of possible viewer a visually orientated taxonomy of the ways in which pictures are used to tell stories." unique collection, also useful for many other purposes

21 November 2006

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.

11 November 2006

06 November 2006

Comics and Zines by Kevin Huizenga

clever, about midwest life; some for sale, some online

Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society

very large bibliography on Critical Whiteness Studies, broken down into various categories; not interactive and does not lead to full text essays; worth going to the library to follow up on

Sensing Place: Photography as Inquiry

Course outline and reading list for fine arts course on landscape photography; excellent bibliography; will require a trip to the photography books section of a fine arts library

03 November 2006

"Flaubert's Point of View" by Pierre Bourdieu

complete text of long essay; Flaubert was a touchstone for Bourdieu in establishing the concept of the field of cultural production

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

Story Myth Dream Drama by Helena Sheehan

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

21 October 2006

STORYTRON - Interactive Storytelling

Software for something between a game and literary hypertext. "Storytronics uses Verbs to define what may happen in interactive storytelling. Each Verb represents one possible dramatic action, like a kiss, a demand, or an advice." Looks like fun.

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