My friend Melanie sends me the coolest links. Behind every Media teacher there is a hardworking, committed feminist making him look good! Anyway, look what she done gone and sent me now:
Sunday, 11 December 2011
Matt Zoller Seitz - video essay on Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee 1989)
Thought-provoking video essay - with link to transcript - which reiterates Jonathan Rosenbaum's suggestion that the film's argument is not a case of either/or, but both/and. This argument helps us understand the closing quotations - the binary opposition between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. Rosenbaum would argue that Lee is not inviting us to choose either King or MalcolmX, but prompts us to acknowledge that both King and Malcolm X have equally valid points to make.
http://www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/do-the-right-thing-is-about-much-more-than-just-race/Content?oid=1198065
(with thanks to filmstudiesforfree.blogspot)
And here's a link to the BBC4 documentary about Public Enemy which was shown on Friday 9th December. Up for a few more days, I imagine. Hurry now.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01805m3/Black_Music_Legends_of_the_1980s_Public_Enemy_Prophets_of_Rage/
http://www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/do-the-right-thing-is-about-much-more-than-just-race/Content?oid=1198065
(with thanks to filmstudiesforfree.blogspot)
And here's a link to the BBC4 documentary about Public Enemy which was shown on Friday 9th December. Up for a few more days, I imagine. Hurry now.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01805m3/Black_Music_Legends_of_the_1980s_Public_Enemy_Prophets_of_Rage/
Tropes vs Women #1 Manic Pixie Dream Girl
And while I'm on a blogging roll, here's the first of the tropes in the series - the one that covers everything from Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's to the unfeasibly named Clementine Kruczynski from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Tremendous stuff.
http://www.feministfrequency.com/2011/03/tropes-vs-women-1-the-manic-pixie-dream-girl/
And here's the video if you like:
Tremendous stuff.
http://www.feministfrequency.com/2011/03/tropes-vs-women-1-the-manic-pixie-dream-girl/
And here's the video if you like:
Feminist Frequency's Tropes vs Women #3 The Smurfette Principle
This page from the ever wonderful Anita Sarkeesian's Feminist Frequency website includes the video blog and a handy transcript, a list of related links AND a lively comment thread.
You know what to do...
http://www.feministfrequency.com/2011/04/tropes-vs-women-3-the-smurfette-principle/
But if you just want the video:
You know what to do...
http://www.feministfrequency.com/2011/04/tropes-vs-women-3-the-smurfette-principle/
But if you just want the video:
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