Lovely day at The Bean (aka Cloud Gate) in Millenium Park. Downtown Chicago.
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The Avengers’ $200 Million Opening Weekend and the State of the Superhero Genre Cycle
Currently dominating my Twitter feed are headlines like this: "The Avengers Has Biggest Opening Weekend Ever with $200 Million." This...
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Teaching in T-Shirts and Skirts
Last week, for our lecture on dreams and nightmares in the Hollywood blockbuster, my Cinema History III class screened Back to the Future (1985)....
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Roaming Students and Disruptions in the College Classroom
"Profs: students who get up during lectures to toss trash or who leave for a soda and return, etc.: disruptive or (now) the norm for you?" Earlier...
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Gene Kelly in the Twenty-First Century: A Presentation
As mentioned in my previous post, "Where I've Been Lately: A Confession," I spent much several weeks in March compiling the following talk, which I...
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Where I’ve Been Lately: A Confession
Forgive me, readers, for I have sinned. It has been 3 weeks since my last post. The month of March has been horribly busy. Unfortunately, most of...
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