Film – The Guy in the Black Hat

The Digital Baroque and Recent Mainstream Cinema

[This post constitutes me thinking out loud in a forum not as ephemeral as social media. If you want to start a fight, the comments here or elsewhere would not be the place to do it. E-mail me instead.] In 2008, this scholar Timothy Murray published a book on the “digital baroque,” in which he’s arguing for…

May 27, 2015

Film Education and Wondrous Food – My 2012 Hong Kong Trip

At the end of May, Kat and I took a trip to Hong Kong. Film Education: This trip was part of a DEFA-Stiftung-funded project on German film schools co-authored Barton and myself: Divided Dirigisme: Nationalism, Regionalism and Reform in the German Film Academies. This article will appear in Mette Hjort’s 2-volume anthology The Education of the…

June 11, 2012

The Herzog Swoon

My take on Werner Herzog’s visit to UMass, April 24, 2012

April 24, 2012

To the End of April

About my April Plans

April 21, 2012

MLA

A bit about my trip to the MLA.

January 3, 2012

Red Alert! Future Prof. at Work

Dear Family, Friends, Colleagues and Other People Who Might Know Me or (Because It’s the Internet) Don’t, I thought I’d type up a quick summary of what’s going on with me this fall of 2011. While economic institutions lurch around their avaricious withdrawal of all capital from 98% of the world’s population, poor/plucky little me…

September 27, 2011

Category: Film

The Digital Baroque and Recent Mainstream Cinema

Film Education and Wondrous Food – My 2012 Hong Kong Trip

The Herzog Swoon

To the End of April

MLA

Red Alert! Future Prof. at Work

Reset

The Ticking Final Days

An Evening with Rainer Simon

Summer in Berlin