01 December 2006
Hayden White, Historiography and Historiophoty
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"Historiophoty" is Robert Rosentstone's term for our representing history visually and filmically; in contrast, according to White, is "historiography," representing history verbally, in prose.
Plants In Motion
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"Time-lapse photography allows us to easily see the movements of plants and clearly demonstrates that plants are living organisms capable of some extraordinary things." various phases of plant life, both on cellular and external level
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Offscreen.com :: Volume 10, Issue 10
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Canadian film journal online since 1997, wide coverage of independent and international film; many resources
28 November 2006
James Elkins - Syllabi
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many of this teacher's lectures on art, visual culture, and social issues are here, along with his syllabi
27 November 2006
Reconstruction
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a cultural studies ejournal, with essays on literature and film; fall 06 issue is on blogging theories and practices.
26 November 2006
media teacher's home page, lots of resouces, links pages
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"news and journalism, film, TV, media policy, media reform activism, philosophy and social theory, urban history, contemporary American politics--\perspective informed by media history, political economy and social and cultural theory."
Cyberstudies webring
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collection of sites with interest in cyberculture, many from the social sciences
21 November 2006
Geography courses with websites Valparaiso University
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Geography courses, both present and past, with exercises, links, bibliography. Also see Urban Studies and American Indian Studies. Understanding place as cultural should inform both fiction and non-fiction film.
Research on Place and Space
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huge portal site, across disciplines; "...other terms are sometimes used in place of place, such as home, dwelling, milieu, territory, and of course, space. None of these, though, are necessarily equivalent to the notion of place."
20 November 2006
Visual Culture and the Contemporary City
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extensive course lectures with special attention to Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin's concepts, especially Benjamin on the flaneur.
Enculturation: Barry Mauer on Found Photographs
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"The Found Photograph and the Limits of Meaning"
American Studies Electronic Crossroads
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large American Studies web portal, organized into Communities | Curriculum | Technology & Learning | Reference & Research
Notes on The Gaze
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Daniel Chandler's overview of the use of an important concept in media theory
Welcome to Transparency
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"interprets and critiques movies and television, news and political rhetoric, theme parks and advertising, computer games and the Internet, and other creations of contemporary culture"
Picture This: Literary Theory and the Study of Visual Culture
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by Paul Jay, Univ. of Chicago
Nicholas Mirzoeff : An Introduction to Visual Culture (Routledge, 1999)
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Introduction to book, tells basic concepts, history
Changing Approaches to Cultural Landscapes
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good overview of shifts in theory and focus of studies
Design Observer: writings about design & culture
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very well written blog; as I have commented before, knowing about space and place is crucial for thoughtful mediamakers
Local consumption cultures in a globalizing world by Peter Jackson
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Focusing on the resilience of distinctive local consumption cultures, with evidence from three contrasting consumption cultures: consumption and 'public culture' in India, 'consumer nationalism' in China, and 'artful consumption' in Russia.
19 November 2006
(Notes on) Politics, Theory & Photography
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blog that reviews and critiques aspects of art and visual culture and photojournalism, often from an ethical standpoint