Casablanca on the Big Screen
In June, The Michigan Theater (in Ann Arbor, MI) kicked off its 2010 Summer Classic Film Series with John Huston’s The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and it ends next week with Fritz Lang’s newly restored Metropolis, which will feature a live organ accompaniment of the 1927 original score. …
Why I Use Tweetdeck (and You Should Too)
Disclaimer: I’m writing this post primarily with my film students in mind, but I would argue the same for non-students.
From what I can tell, most of my film students — who are required to use Twitter this semester — are turning to the Web to tweet. Since this is where …
Teaching 200 Students How to Tweet: The Challenges
For three semesters I have attempted to incorporate Twitter into the college classroom, even once relying on the service to arrange a win-a-free-textbook contest for my Film Noir students. But overall, these attempts have failed miserably as the majority of college students — at this point in time anyway — …
Everybody Loves Raymond and Seinfeld
Regular followers of Unmuzzled Thoughts have heard me blabbing that one day I’m going to publish an essay explaining why those who loved the sitcom Seinfeld should theoretically also love the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond. Well, that day has come. I finally gathered my thoughts, supported them with evidence (sifting …
The Thrill of the Long Shot
Over the weekend, The Film Dr. tagged me in a blog meme begun by Stephen Russell-Gebbett who blogs over at (the interestingly titled) Checking on My Sausages and MovieMan0283 who blogs at The Dancing Image. According to the guys, the person tagged is to submit a gallery of images that …
About five years ago, I came across a column in The Chronicle of Higher Education entitled “Notes from a Career in Teaching.” (If you don’t have a Chronicle account, you may read the entire piece here.) In it, the author, a recently retired college …
Earlier this year, seven other film/TV/media professors, PhD students, and I live-tweeted the Golden Globes. In other words, we watched the awards show as it aired, commercials and all, and simultaneously posted to Twitter our commentary on the onscreen happenings. [1] From the bizarre (William Hurt’s grizzly beard!) to the …
For the past several days, Brian Croxall’s “The Absent Presence: Today’s Faculty” has been making headlines on Twitter, academic blogs, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. And rightly so. Coherent and convincing, Croxall’s argument is three-fold:
First, humanities job candidates consistently lack the funds necessary to …
A few weeks ago, I sat down for an interview with Toledo’s PBS affiliate (WGTE) about my classroom experiences with Facebook and Twitter. “Why do I use the social networking media,” the interviewer asked. “How do students take to it, and will I continue to use it in the future?” …
