Both curriculum and pop culture, perhaps not coincidentally, have no problem dealing with class systems when they’re at a remove.
Joss Whedon, Modern Dress Shakespeare, and the Problem of Class in Classrooms
June 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment
‘Tiger Eyes’ and Transliteracy: Confessions of Someone Who Hasn’t Read the Novel
June 7, 2013 By 2 Comments
‘Tiger Eyes’ is not really an upbeat film—which is, oddly, what makes it so refreshing.
‘Super Pop!’ and Making (Extremely Fun) Connections Across Media
June 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Quick, what do these have in common… the ‘dingy basements’ in ‘Fight Club’ (the film), the video game Flower, a couple of novels by Harumi Murakami and E.L. Konigsburg, the bathroom in HBO’s ‘Girls,’ Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’s ‘Empire State of Mind,’ and Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’?
This Weekend Forget ‘Gatsby,’ and See ‘The World Before Her’ Instead
May 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment
…the most riveting film about gender I’ve seen in a looooong time.
When Curriculum is Media: The Important Lessons of ‘The Revisionaries’
April 30, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Students are provided with curriculum in much the same way that religious adherents are provided with scripture, as something whose source and authorship are not be discussed, much less questioned.
After Earth Day, Who “Speaks” for Nature?
April 24, 2013 By 1 Comment
Aren’t most of our public policy debates about the environment informed by factoids/partial data/dramatic images supplied by media coverage rather than the relevant research?
A Must-See Movie for Book Lovers Now on DVD
April 19, 2013 By 1 Comment
On top of everything else that they do, libraries with collections of thoughtfully published art books are also, essentially, museums.
Why ‘Marble Season’ is My Favorite Book of 2013 (So Far)
April 16, 2013 By 1 Comment
As far as outside-of-school literacies are concerned, “Marble Season” is possibly a definitive treatise on the subject without even intending to be…
With ‘42’ in Theaters, Here’s a Free Movie Starring Jackie Robinson
April 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Alfred Green’s 1950 film, made at the height of Robinson’s career, is in the public domain…
Book Giveaway… Les Misérables: From Stage to Screen
April 11, 2013 By 4 Comments
If I can appreciate all the work that authors Nightingale and Palmer put into this book, imagine how genuine fans might feel…
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