Melodrama, Cinema, and the Mechanization of Emotions
In order to understand the conventions of film music, either from the silent or the sound era (including the silent-to-sound transitional period of 1926-1936), ...
Month: May 2012
Historic Artifacts in the City of Steel
Last week I was back in Chicago for the workshop meetings of the Connected Learning Research Network. During two days members of the different research teams di...
The Grotesque Imagery of Basil Wolverton
For a long time I have been interested in the popular arts. Their vernacular power and their low brow sensibility have captivated my attention and triggered my ...