Posts (Category)

Classical Hollywood

• The Director, the Set, the Star, and Her Vibrator: Hollywood Lore from Yolanda and the Thief (Quote of the Day)
• The Oscars' (Misleading, Dumb, and Revealing) 2012 Ad Campaign
• Backstage Musicals: For People Without Balls (Quote of the Day)
• Ambitious, Creative, and Indispensable: RIP, Gene Kelly (Pic of the Day)
• TCM's 31 Days of Oscar Promo
• Gene Kelly Fan vs. Scholar (Dancing in the Rain)
• Gene Kelly: The Scar, The Rug, The Number, The Stilettos (Dancing in the Rain)
• Gene Kelly: Status, Style, and Substance (Dancing in the Rain)
• Getting Hooked On, Teaching About, and Rating Gene Kelly (Dancing in the Rain)
• Gene Kelly's Prominence in American Film (Dancing in the Rain)
• Dancing in the Rain: Gene Kelly, the BBC, and Me
• M-G-M, Hollywood's Greatest Backlot: 10 Juicy Tidbits
• What, An Erotic Judy Garland? Burn the Negative! (Quote of the Day)
• Gene Kelly Cops a Feel in The Pirate
• Putting the Ass in Assets: The Objectification of Gene Kelly (and Other Men) on Social Media
• Woody Allen on Double Indemnity (Quote of the Day)
• 11 Top Posts of 2011
• Gene Kelly in the 21st Century: SCMS 2012
• Gene and Debbie (Not) Sitting in a Tree: That One Kiss Debbie Reynolds Cannot Forget
• Media Texts and Textual Memories: Reconstructing the Star Image of Humphrey Bogart through Lauren Bacall’s Autobiography
• The Movie Ratings System and Jack Valenti's Delusions
• Orson Welles "Apologizes" for War of the Worlds (Quote of the Day)
• Good and Bad in The Maltese Falcon (Quote of the Day)
• Canon Fodder: A New (and Dumb) "Experiment" from GQ (Quote of the Day)
• The "Goddamnedest Best Piece of Direction" Katharine Hepburn Ever Heard (Quote of the Day)
• Buster and Bogie: Keep the Smiles to a Minimum, Please
• On Sleeping in Gene Kelly's Pajamas (Quote of the Day)
• Poitier on Steiger, Method Actor (Quote of the Day)
• Bogie and Bacall: The Headiest Romance Imaginable (Quote of the Day)
• A Tribute to Gene Kelly's Rug
• Thank You, Gene Kelly, for Not Directing Cabaret
• On Academics and Fansites (or, My Justification for Creating Gene Kelly Fans)
• Animated GIFs, Cinemagraphs, and Our Return to Early Cinema
• The Bias of All That: Gene Kelly and His Wives
• Ahoy, Matey: A Pirate in My Class
• Those Gene Kelly Volkswagen Commercials Suck, and Here's Why
• Most Powerful/Memorable Cinematic Moments: My Perspective
• Double Indemnity vs. Body Heat: A Sexy Showdown
• Favorite Student Tweets: Singin' in the Rain Edition
• Boston Legal and The 40-Year-Old Virgin
• Favorite Student Tweets: Boats, "Rosebuds" and The Mentalist
• Favorite Student Tweets: Moses, Pokemon, and Swirling Liquor
• Singin' in the Rain: Duped Again
• Top Posts of 2010: Scars, Stars, Sex, Satire, Students, and Social Networking
• "Did You Really Smoke Cigarettes?" and Other Questions: An Interview with Gene Kelly
• Casablanca on the Big Screen
• The Thrill of the Long Shot
• Gene Kelly: Simply Irresistible
• Men vs. Women: A Movie Title-Off
• Letters to the Editor: Gene Kelly
• On Hollywood Stars and the Titles of Their Memoirs
• Stars and Scars
• Recognizing Gender Representations in Introduction to Film; or When “I Never Realized” Becomes “Now I Will Notice It”
• Elation, Star Signification, and Singin’ in the Rain; or Why Gene Kelly Gets Me All Hot and Bothered

Film (in General)

• The Director, the Set, the Star, and Her Vibrator: Hollywood Lore from Yolanda and the Thief (Quote of the Day)
• The Oscars' (Misleading, Dumb, and Revealing) 2012 Ad Campaign
• Backstage Musicals: For People Without Balls (Quote of the Day)
• Ambitious, Creative, and Indispensable: RIP, Gene Kelly (Pic of the Day)
• TCM's 31 Days of Oscar Promo
• I'm Not Impressed: Elaborate CGI vs. Old-Fashioned Planning (Quote of the Day)
• Gene Kelly Fan vs. Scholar (Dancing in the Rain)
• Gene Kelly: The Scar, The Rug, The Number, The Stilettos (Dancing in the Rain)
• Gene Kelly: Status, Style, and Substance (Dancing in the Rain)
• Getting Hooked On, Teaching About, and Rating Gene Kelly (Dancing in the Rain)
• Gene Kelly's Prominence in American Film (Dancing in the Rain)
• Dancing in the Rain: Gene Kelly, the BBC, and Me
• M-G-M, Hollywood's Greatest Backlot: 10 Juicy Tidbits
• What, An Erotic Judy Garland? Burn the Negative! (Quote of the Day)
• Gene Kelly Cops a Feel in The Pirate
• Putting the Ass in Assets: The Objectification of Gene Kelly (and Other Men) on Social Media
• 11 Top Posts of 2011
• Clue, the Movie, and Those Flames, on the Side of Her Face
• Gene Kelly in the 21st Century: SCMS 2012
• Gene and Debbie (Not) Sitting in a Tree: That One Kiss Debbie Reynolds Cannot Forget
• Chill Out, Shakespeare Scholars: Fabrication and Narrative Framing in Anonymous
• "Where in the World Is Matt Lauer?" and Nanook of the North
• Media Texts and Textual Memories: Reconstructing the Star Image of Humphrey Bogart through Lauren Bacall’s Autobiography
• The Movie Ratings System and Jack Valenti's Delusions
• On Adaptations, Remakes, Homages, and That New Footloose Movie
• CFP: Shakespeare on Film, TV, Video (SW/TX PCA/ACA)
• Good and Bad in The Maltese Falcon (Quote of the Day)
• Miss Representation: On the Media's Disparaging Representations of Women
• Penis Jokes and Hollywood Comedy (Quote of the Day)
• Canon Fodder: A New (and Dumb) "Experiment" from GQ (Quote of the Day)
• The "Goddamnedest Best Piece of Direction" Katharine Hepburn Ever Heard (Quote of the Day)
• Buster and Bogie: Keep the Smiles to a Minimum, Please
• Brad Pitt Finds His Juice in Se7en (Quote of the Day)
• Poitier on Steiger, Method Actor (Quote of the Day)
• Bogie and Bacall: The Headiest Romance Imaginable (Quote of the Day)
• A Tribute to Gene Kelly's Rug
• 9/11 Ninety Years Ago: Fatty Arbuckle Should've Nursed His Ass at Home
• Colin Firth: Actor, Sex Symbol, Drag Queen
• Thank You, Gene Kelly, for Not Directing Cabaret
• Hangin' with the Ghosts of Buster Keaton and John Barrymore: Movie Palaces and Murals in Toledo, OH
• Animated GIFs, Cinemagraphs, and Our Return to Early Cinema
• The Bias of All That: Gene Kelly and His Wives
• Favorite Student Tweets: Rashomon
• Bridesmaids and the Critical Hysteria Surrounding It
• Ahoy, Matey: A Pirate in My Class
• Those Gene Kelly Volkswagen Commercials Suck, and Here's Why
• S#*! My Teacher Does: An Explanation of My Temporary Senility on 4/6/11
• Do the Right Thing: Follow Spike Lee on Twitter
• On Jesus Camp (and Who Do You Think You Are?)
• Favorite Student Tweets: French "Hotties," Kayaks, and WTF Is Mame?
• Film and TV Professors on Twitter
• Most Powerful/Memorable Cinematic Moments: My Perspective
• A Little Ditty about Jack and Diane: Self-Reflexivity and Diegetic Disruptions in Something’s Gotta Give
• Favorite Tweets: Oscars 2011
• Academics on the Oscars: Live-Tweeting, Snarking, Surviving
• Live-Tweeting the Oscars 2011: Five Questions
• Film Students Live-Tweeting the Oscars
• Favorite Student Tweets: Sleeping, Cavities, and Soft-Core Porn
• Double Indemnity vs. Body Heat: A Sexy Showdown
• Favorite Student Tweets: Singin' in the Rain Edition
• Boston Legal and The 40-Year-Old Virgin
• Favorite Student Tweets: Boats, "Rosebuds" and The Mentalist
• Danger: Film Teacher (Initially) in a Bad Mood
• King Lear Live! Well, Sorta
• Favorite Student Tweets: Moses, Pokemon, and Swirling Liquor
• A Two-Horse Race: The Social Network and The King's Speech
• Favorite Student Tweets: (Senior) Citizen Kane, The Great Garbo, and An Ageless Samuel L. Jackson
• Singin' in the Rain: Duped Again
• Favorite Student Tweets: Colin Firth, Shiny Shoes, and Coming to America
• Live-Tweeting the Golden Globes 2011
• Favorite Student Tweets: Cool Prof, Educational Virgin, and Hays Code 101
• Favorite Student Tweets: Twitter Snark and Early Cinema
• Top Posts of 2010: Scars, Stars, Sex, Satire, Students, and Social Networking
• Cracks in the System: The MPAA, Blue Valentine, Black Swan, and This Film Is Not Yet Rated
• Challenging Onscreen Masculinity: The Lehman/Luhr Test for Men
• True Grit, Mattie's Fate, and Testing Onscreen Women
• True Grit: Give Me A Different Ending and Some Freakin’ Contractions
• CFP: Shakespeare on Film, Television, and Video
• "Did You Really Smoke Cigarettes?" and Other Questions: An Interview with Gene Kelly
• Entering a Conversation, Teaching The Academic Essay
• Teaching 200 Students How to Tweet: The Rewards
• Casablanca on the Big Screen
• The Thrill of the Long Shot
• Gene Kelly: Simply Irresistible
• Men vs. Women: A Movie Title-Off
• Letters to the Editor: Gene Kelly
• On Hollywood Stars and the Titles of Their Memoirs
• Stars and Scars
• The Film That Changed My Life
• Recognizing Gender Representations in Introduction to Film; or When “I Never Realized” Becomes “Now I Will Notice It”
• '80s Remakes: Will Gen X Buy It?
• Gen X's Midlife Crisis: For Men Only?
• Elation, Star Signification, and Singin’ in the Rain; or Why Gene Kelly Gets Me All Hot and Bothered
• CFP: An American Bromance (Film & History)
• Could You Be a Little Nicer Perhaps?: Grading, Scrutiny, and the University Classroom (A Personal Account)
• The Paradox of Pixar: Threatening Representations of Technology in Some Pixar Films
• Live-Tweeting the Oscars 2010: Virtual Affirmation, Valuable Community
• SHUTTER ISLAND: Subtlety and Solace in a Small Dose (5% to Be Exact)
• Love It, Loathe It: My (Problematic) Relationship with YouTube
• Sir, Please Move Your Head: Nostalgia vs. Stadium Seating
• What Is Your Favorite Word? Waking up with James Lipton
• Simultaneously Horrifying and Fascinating: Hamlet 2 and "Rock Me, Sexy Jesus"
• Film Salon/Films of the Decade: Something's Gotta Give
• Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, View View?
• Marley and (Not) Me: Why I Don't Do Animal Movies
• Christmas with Orson, Meryl, and Colin
• Boyz n the Hood, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Hollywood Dads
• Just Not Doing It For Me: Trailers for 2012 and PRECIOUS
• Good Hair, But with a Price
• Film Students, Do the Right Thing, and Developing a Critical Sense of Race
• Narrative, Framing, and Props in the Opening of Inglourious Basterds
• Mamma Mia: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
• Beating Up Brosnan
• Workin' It Like Clinton
• Iron Man
• Live Free or Die Hard

Gene Kelly

• The Oscars' (Misleading, Dumb, and Revealing) 2012 Ad Campaign
• Backstage Musicals: For People Without Balls (Quote of the Day)
• Ambitious, Creative, and Indispensable: RIP, Gene Kelly (Pic of the Day)
• TCM's 31 Days of Oscar Promo
• Gene Kelly Fan vs. Scholar (Dancing in the Rain)
• Gene Kelly: The Scar, The Rug, The Number, The Stilettos (Dancing in the Rain)
• Gene Kelly: Status, Style, and Substance (Dancing in the Rain)
• Getting Hooked On, Teaching About, and Rating Gene Kelly (Dancing in the Rain)
• Gene Kelly's Prominence in American Film (Dancing in the Rain)
• Dancing in the Rain: Gene Kelly, the BBC, and Me
• What, An Erotic Judy Garland? Burn the Negative! (Quote of the Day)
• Gene Kelly Cops a Feel in The Pirate
• Putting the Ass in Assets: The Objectification of Gene Kelly (and Other Men) on Social Media
• 11 Top Posts of 2011
• Gene Kelly in the 21st Century: SCMS 2012
• Gene and Debbie (Not) Sitting in a Tree: That One Kiss Debbie Reynolds Cannot Forget
• On Sleeping in Gene Kelly's Pajamas (Quote of the Day)
• A Tribute to Gene Kelly's Rug
• Thank You, Gene Kelly, for Not Directing Cabaret
• On Academics and Fansites (or, My Justification for Creating Gene Kelly Fans)
• Animated GIFs, Cinemagraphs, and Our Return to Early Cinema
• The Bias of All That: Gene Kelly and His Wives
• Those Gene Kelly Volkswagen Commercials Suck, and Here's Why
• Most Powerful/Memorable Cinematic Moments: My Perspective
• Favorite Student Tweets: Singin' in the Rain Edition
• Singin' in the Rain: Duped Again
• Top Posts of 2010: Scars, Stars, Sex, Satire, Students, and Social Networking
• "Did You Really Smoke Cigarettes?" and Other Questions: An Interview with Gene Kelly
• The Thrill of the Long Shot
• Gene Kelly: Simply Irresistible
• Letters to the Editor: Gene Kelly
• Stars and Scars
• Elation, Star Signification, and Singin’ in the Rain; or Why Gene Kelly Gets Me All Hot and Bothered

Generational Studies

• Miss Representation: On the Media's Disparaging Representations of Women
• Top Posts of 2010: Scars, Stars, Sex, Satire, Students, and Social Networking
• Student Poll: How Many Names Do You Know?
• Why Millennials (and Others) Are Not Religious
• Slipping Off That Pedestal: Shifts in the Student-Professor Relationship
• '80s Remakes: Will Gen X Buy It?
• Gen X's Midlife Crisis: For Men Only?
• Brokaw's BOOMER$: Movers and Shakers, Consumers and Critics
• We're All Winners and It's Mister Rogers's Fault: Pew Research, The Millennials, and the Classroom

Musicals

• The Director, the Set, the Star, and Her Vibrator: Hollywood Lore from Yolanda and the Thief (Quote of the Day)
• Backstage Musicals: For People Without Balls (Quote of the Day)
• Ambitious, Creative, and Indispensable: RIP, Gene Kelly (Pic of the Day)
• Gene Kelly Fan vs. Scholar (Dancing in the Rain)
• Gene Kelly: The Scar, The Rug, The Number, The Stilettos (Dancing in the Rain)
• Gene Kelly: Status, Style, and Substance (Dancing in the Rain)
• Getting Hooked On, Teaching About, and Rating Gene Kelly (Dancing in the Rain)
• Gene Kelly's Prominence in American Film (Dancing in the Rain)
• Dancing in the Rain: Gene Kelly, the BBC, and Me
• M-G-M, Hollywood's Greatest Backlot: 10 Juicy Tidbits
• NBC's Smash: Original, Convincing, and, Well, Smashing
• Gene Kelly Cops a Feel in The Pirate
• Gene and Debbie (Not) Sitting in a Tree: That One Kiss Debbie Reynolds Cannot Forget
• On Adaptations, Remakes, Homages, and That New Footloose Movie
• A Tribute to Gene Kelly's Rug
• Thank You, Gene Kelly, for Not Directing Cabaret
• Those Gene Kelly Volkswagen Commercials Suck, and Here's Why
• "Music of the Night": Reminiscing, Analyzing, Praising
• Most Powerful/Memorable Cinematic Moments: My Perspective
• Boston Legal and The 40-Year-Old Virgin
• Singin' in the Rain: Duped Again
• Top Posts of 2010: Scars, Stars, Sex, Satire, Students, and Social Networking
• "Did You Really Smoke Cigarettes?" and Other Questions: An Interview with Gene Kelly
• Flow TV Conference 2010 (Glee Edition)
• The Thrill of the Long Shot
• Gene Kelly: Simply Irresistible
• Letters to the Editor: Gene Kelly
• Elation, Star Signification, and Singin’ in the Rain; or Why Gene Kelly Gets Me All Hot and Bothered

News

• Christmas with Letterman: Cher in a Muff, the Lone Ranger, and Darlene Love
• Orson Welles "Apologizes" for War of the Worlds (Quote of the Day)
• Stevie Wonder "Sees" MLK Memorial
• Jon Stewart on Vacation (Quote of the Day)
• 9/11 Memorial Merchandising: Where Should We Draw The Line?
• Rick Perry and the GOP Love Them Some Executions
• Obi Wan Obama, Bin Laden's Death, and Tumblr
• Osama Bin Laden's Death, Twitter Style
• Top Posts of 2010: Scars, Stars, Sex, Satire, Students, and Social Networking
• Student Poll: How Many Names Do You Know?
• Letters to the Editor: Gene Kelly
• Gen X's Midlife Crisis: For Men Only?
• Satire and the Educated Elite in The Daily Show and The Colbert Report
• Jon Stewart Rips Glenn Beck (and Beck's Audience) a New One
• We're All Winners and It's Mister Rogers's Fault: Pew Research, The Millennials, and the Classroom
• A Few Media Matters: Miss America, Misogyny, and Rush Limbaugh
• Jon Stewart's (Healthy) Obsession with Facts and Truth
• Bonding with the Bard: NBC, Shakespeare, and Public High Schools in America
• Jon Stewart Can't Do a British Accent, But Satire?
• Earning Respect: Tim Russert

Personal

• Eating Soul Food in Chicago
• Gettin' My Culture On: The Clarke House Museum (Chicago)
• Here's to George Strait's "Baby Blue," First Loves, and Tight-Rolled Jeans
• So Long, Potbelly’s Chicken-Salad Sandwich: Why the Kentucky Derby Made Me Stop Eating Meat
• Live from The Texas Independence Relay
• Weird Ohio
• Jon Stewart, Cremation, and Alcatraz: My List of Randomness from Facebook (Back in the Day)
• A Meager Salary, An Unemployed Spouse, and Large Classes: Why I'm Still Attending Conferences
• Marley and (Not) Me: Why I Don't Do Animal Movies
• The Museum of Sex

Pop-Culture Pic of the Day

• Ambitious, Creative, and Indispensable: RIP, Gene Kelly (Pic of the Day)
• Gene Kelly Cops a Feel in The Pirate
• Clue, the Movie, and Those Flames, on the Side of Her Face
• Stevie Wonder "Sees" MLK Memorial
• Buster and Bogie: Keep the Smiles to a Minimum, Please
• Here's to George Strait's "Baby Blue," First Loves, and Tight-Rolled Jeans
• A Tribute to Gene Kelly's Rug
• 9/11 Ninety Years Ago: Fatty Arbuckle Should've Nursed His Ass at Home
• Colin Firth: Actor, Sex Symbol, Drag Queen
• Los Pollos Hermanos: Chicken and Blue Magic Slushees, Sold Here!
• Oprah Goes National
• Happy Birthday, Gene Kelly

Pop-Culture Quote of the Day

• The Director, the Set, the Star, and Her Vibrator: Hollywood Lore from Yolanda and the Thief (Quote of the Day)
• Why Steve Carell and I Dislike DVD Commentaries (Quote of the Day)
• Backstage Musicals: For People Without Balls (Quote of the Day)
• I'm Not Impressed: Elaborate CGI vs. Old-Fashioned Planning (Quote of the Day)
• MLK's Rhetorical Use of Style in "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
• Woody Allen's Smoking Hot Body (Quote of the Day)
• What, An Erotic Judy Garland? Burn the Negative! (Quote of the Day)
• Woody Allen on Double Indemnity (Quote of the Day)
• The Movie Ratings System and Jack Valenti's Delusions
• Orson Welles "Apologizes" for War of the Worlds (Quote of the Day)
• Good and Bad in The Maltese Falcon (Quote of the Day)
• Thank You, Vince Gilligan, for Listening to Billy Wilder (Quote of the Day)
• Penis Jokes and Hollywood Comedy (Quote of the Day)
• Thanks for Taking That Calligraphy Class, Steve Jobs (Quote of the Day)
• Red vs. Blue on The Good Wife (Quote of the Day)
• Olivier on Hoffman: Just Act Already (Quote of the Day)
• The Good Wife, Going Hard (Quote of the Day)
• Canon Fodder: A New (and Dumb) "Experiment" from GQ (Quote of the Day)
• The "Goddamnedest Best Piece of Direction" Katharine Hepburn Ever Heard (Quote of the Day)
• Tina Fey on Photoshopping: Everybody Be Cool (Quote of the Day)
• On Sleeping in Gene Kelly's Pajamas (Quote of the Day)
• Jane Lynch Zings the Cast of Entourage (Quote of the Day)
• Brad Pitt Finds His Juice in Se7en (Quote of the Day)
• Poitier on Steiger, Method Actor (Quote of the Day)
• Jon Stewart on Vacation (Quote of the Day)
• Bogie and Bacall: The Headiest Romance Imaginable (Quote of the Day)
• Nicholson, Sans Sunglasses (Quote of the Day)

Shakespeare

• Chill Out, Shakespeare Scholars: Fabrication and Narrative Framing in Anonymous
• On Adaptations, Remakes, Homages, and That New Footloose Movie
• On Academics and Fansites (or, My Justification for Creating Gene Kelly Fans)
• Locating Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century (CFP)
• National Theatre's Live Lear: My Notes
• Most Powerful/Memorable Cinematic Moments: My Perspective
• King Lear Live! Well, Sorta
• CFP: Shakespeare on Film, Television, and Video
• The Film That Changed My Life
• Something’s Rotten in the State of Heterosexual Love? A Timely Message from a Sassy Gay Friend
• Satire and the Educated Elite in The Daily Show and The Colbert Report
• Simultaneously Horrifying and Fascinating: Hamlet 2 and "Rock Me, Sexy Jesus"
• Bonding with the Bard: NBC, Shakespeare, and Public High Schools in America
• Fire in the Hole!

Social Media

• Gene Kelly Cops a Feel in The Pirate
• Putting the Ass in Assets: The Objectification of Gene Kelly (and Other Men) on Social Media
• Miss Representation: On the Media's Disparaging Representations of Women
• Thanks for Taking That Calligraphy Class, Steve Jobs (Quote of the Day)
• Live-Tweeting The Good Wife
• Animated GIFs, Cinemagraphs, and Our Return to Early Cinema
• "I Hate Twitter, That Piece of Crap" and Other Comments from My Course Evaluations
• Obi Wan Obama, Bin Laden's Death, and Tumblr
• Osama Bin Laden's Death, Twitter Style
• Those Gene Kelly Volkswagen Commercials Suck, and Here's Why
• Do the Right Thing: Follow Spike Lee on Twitter
• Favorite Student Tweets: French "Hotties," Kayaks, and WTF Is Mame?
• Film and TV Professors on Twitter
• Academics on the Oscars: Live-Tweeting, Snarking, Surviving
• Live-Tweeting the Oscars 2011: Five Questions
• Film Students Live-Tweeting the Oscars
• Favorite Student Tweets: Sleeping, Cavities, and Soft-Core Porn
• Favorite Student Tweets: Singin' in the Rain Edition
• Favorite Student Tweets: Boats, "Rosebuds" and The Mentalist
• Favorite Student Tweets: Moses, Pokemon, and Swirling Liquor
• Favorite Student Tweets: (Senior) Citizen Kane, The Great Garbo, and An Ageless Samuel L. Jackson
• Favorite Student Tweets: Colin Firth, Shiny Shoes, and Coming to America
• Favorite Student Tweets: Cool Prof, Educational Virgin, and Hays Code 101
• Favorite Student Tweets: Twitter Snark and Early Cinema
• Top Posts of 2010: Scars, Stars, Sex, Satire, Students, and Social Networking
• Teaching 200 Students How to Tweet: The Rewards
• Why I Use Tweetdeck (and You Should Too)
• Teaching 200 Students How to Tweet: The Challenges
• Slipping Off That Pedestal: Shifts in the Student-Professor Relationship
• Live-Tweeting and the Academic Conference
• Something’s Rotten in the State of Heterosexual Love? A Timely Message from a Sassy Gay Friend
• Live-Tweeting the Oscars 2010: Virtual Affirmation, Valuable Community
• Jon Stewart, Cremation, and Alcatraz: My List of Randomness from Facebook (Back in the Day)
• Love It, Loathe It: My (Problematic) Relationship with YouTube
• Tweeting (and Facebooking) for Textbooks

Teaching and Academia

• Getting Hooked On, Teaching About, and Rating Gene Kelly (Dancing in the Rain)
• 11 Top Posts of 2011
• Gene Kelly in the 21st Century: SCMS 2012
• Stack 'Em Deep and Teach 'Em Cheap: How to Navigate the Large University Classroom
• Academic Publishing and The Thrill of Repeated Rejection
• CFP: Shakespeare on Film, TV, Video (SW/TX PCA/ACA)
• "I Hate Twitter, That Piece of Crap" and Other Comments from My Course Evaluations
• Ahoy, Matey: A Pirate in My Class
• S#*! My Teacher Does: An Explanation of My Temporary Senility on 4/6/11
• Favorite Student Tweets: French "Hotties," Kayaks, and WTF Is Mame?
• Film and TV Professors on Twitter
• Film Students Live-Tweeting the Oscars
• Favorite Student Tweets: Sleeping, Cavities, and Soft-Core Porn
• Double Indemnity vs. Body Heat: A Sexy Showdown
• Favorite Student Tweets: Singin' in the Rain Edition
• Favorite Student Tweets: Boats, "Rosebuds" and The Mentalist
• Danger: Film Teacher (Initially) in a Bad Mood
• King Lear Live! Well, Sorta
• Favorite Student Tweets: Moses, Pokemon, and Swirling Liquor
• Favorite Student Tweets: (Senior) Citizen Kane, The Great Garbo, and An Ageless Samuel L. Jackson
• Favorite Student Tweets: Colin Firth, Shiny Shoes, and Coming to America
• Favorite Student Tweets: Cool Prof, Educational Virgin, and Hays Code 101
• Favorite Student Tweets: Twitter Snark and Early Cinema
• How to Email Your Professors
• Notetaking 101: Earning An “A” Virtually Every Time
• Top Posts of 2010: Scars, Stars, Sex, Satire, Students, and Social Networking
• Cracks in the System: The MPAA, Blue Valentine, Black Swan, and This Film Is Not Yet Rated
• CFP: Shakespeare on Film, Television, and Video
• Entering a Conversation, Teaching The Academic Essay
• Flow TV Conference 2010 (Glee Edition)
• Teaching 200 Students How to Tweet: The Rewards
• Why I Use Tweetdeck (and You Should Too)
• Teaching 200 Students How to Tweet: The Challenges
• Participation and Twitter: Earning Points
• Thick and Thin Tweets
• Twitter and Hashtags
• Why Students (Rarely) Ask Me For Extra Credit
• Tweeting to the Class
• You’re on Twitter: Now What?
• Twitter: Signing Up
• Teaching Seinfeld
• Why I Don't Take Attendance
• Slipping Off That Pedestal: Shifts in the Student-Professor Relationship
• The Film That Changed My Life
• Recognizing Gender Representations in Introduction to Film; or When “I Never Realized” Becomes “Now I Will Notice It”
• CFP: An American Bromance (Film & History)
• Could You Be a Little Nicer Perhaps?: Grading, Scrutiny, and the University Classroom (A Personal Account)
• Class Vote
• We're All Winners and It's Mister Rogers's Fault: Pew Research, The Millennials, and the Classroom
• Love It, Loathe It: My (Problematic) Relationship with YouTube
• Tweeting (and Facebooking) for Textbooks
• A Meager Salary, An Unemployed Spouse, and Large Classes: Why I'm Still Attending Conferences
• Twitter and Facebook in the College Classroom
• Christmas with Orson, Meryl, and Colin
• Boyz n the Hood, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Hollywood Dads
• Film Students, Do the Right Thing, and Developing a Critical Sense of Race
• Fire in the Hole!
• The Contest

Television

• Why Steve Carell and I Dislike DVD Commentaries (Quote of the Day)
• Overactors Anonymous: Dickie Bennett, Justified, and Jeremy Davies's Unintentional Scenery Chewing
• NBC's Smash: Original, Convincing, and, Well, Smashing
• 11 Top Posts of 2011
• Christmas with Letterman: Cher in a Muff, the Lone Ranger, and Darlene Love
• "Where in the World Is Matt Lauer?" and Nanook of the North
• Sex and Screwball Comedy in The Good Wife
• Thank You, Vince Gilligan, for Listening to Billy Wilder (Quote of the Day)
• Miss Representation: On the Media's Disparaging Representations of Women
• Red vs. Blue on The Good Wife (Quote of the Day)
• The Good Wife, Going Hard (Quote of the Day)
• Live-Tweeting The Good Wife
• Jane Lynch Zings the Cast of Entourage (Quote of the Day)
• Jon Stewart on Vacation (Quote of the Day)
• 9/11 Memorial Merchandising: Where Should We Draw The Line?
• Los Pollos Hermanos: Chicken and Blue Magic Slushees, Sold Here!
• Oprah Goes National
• Rick Perry and the GOP Love Them Some Executions
• Pimping Aaron Sorkin
• Why I'm Excusing Some of the Problems in AMC's The Killing
• Favorite Tweets: Oscars 2011
• Academics on the Oscars: Live-Tweeting, Snarking, Surviving
• Film Students Live-Tweeting the Oscars
• Favorite Student Tweets: Sleeping, Cavities, and Soft-Core Porn
• Live-Tweeting the Golden Globes 2011
• Top Posts of 2010: Scars, Stars, Sex, Satire, Students, and Social Networking
• CFP: Shakespeare on Film, Television, and Video
• Student Poll: How Many Names Do You Know?
• Flow TV Conference 2010 (Glee Edition)
• It Ain't Gonna Happen, Bigamist Bob: A Quick Look at Lone Star's (Offensive) Promotional Campaign
• Everybody Loves Raymond and Seinfeld
• Teaching Seinfeld
• Messages from Six Feet Under
• On Hollywood Stars and the Titles of Their Memoirs
• Toledo on Television and in Real-Life
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• What Is Your Favorite Word? Waking up with James Lipton
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• Jon Stewart's (Healthy) Obsession with Facts and Truth
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• The Big Slammer in the Sky: Thoughts on Prison Break's Series Finale
• Prison Break and Narrative Structure
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• Maybe It's Better This Way: Idol '09 Revisited
• American Idol: What Kind of Competition Is This?
• The Old Age of Youth and The Youth of Old Age
• Sex & The City: Reasons That I'm For It
• Earning Respect: Tim Russert
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