Lecture Library
A community-generated archive of lectures, presentations and screening programs, complete with associated media clips and critical commentaries.
A series of image-sound experiments using an old Dodge commercial and various sound tracks
A collection of clips showing the relationship of Hollywood films to events in American history
Abstract: This paper explores the ways in which Geoffrey Sax and Andrew Davies have adapted Shakespeare's Othello from stage to screen by specifically looking at moments when characters "break the fourth wall".
If the Panopticon is a discipline-mechanism, what happens when people actively in the center cultivate its power to be seen--virtually or physically?
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Jesse MacKinnon examines the survey of historical memory in the Babylon5 episode "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars".
A short history of the relationship between play and labor as seen through Zynga's Facebook game Farmville.
When you travel through your mind, expect humiliations, fast speed, and free association.
By Chris Pratola. A Lecture Arguing how society has become obsessed with Virtual Worlds and Using 3D to be more in touch with created realty. The move into the future of Gaming, Movies and beyond.
A collection of clips from popular film and television illustrating principles of Economic theory.
A collection of clips related to the formal analysis of contemporary TV from Jeremy Butler's books <i>Television Style</i> and <i>Television: Critical Methods and Applications</i>.
If the Panopticon is a discipline-mechanism, what happens when people actively in the center cultivate its power to be seen--virtually or physically? by Krishnan Unnikrishnan
Scenes from the NBC TV series Seinfeld are used to illustrate economic principles at work in everyday life
Filmmakers on YouTube are making interactive videos providing agency in video format. by Nelson
An examination of how films are bringing more self-awareness to McLuhan's concept of "The Medium is the Message". The films The Game, Existenz, Being John Malkovich, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind play with this concept and explore it in various ways as interactive technology plays a more important role in our lives.
Using the fourth clips below, the notion of remixability is examined through a discussion of Ray Charles and his 1954 hit song "I Got a Woman." By Lorien Hunter
Two instances in which artists have harnesses the powerful ubiquity of vernacular culture by remixing popular games. --Sarah Brin
An examination of the development of the "perfect" being, and the ways in which the features of "imperfect" human sexualization interact with these beings, eventually resulting in the destruction of their purpose.
Taking a look at two movies and a commercial that use the POV technique