Got Literacy?
“Literacy” is one of the English language words that has become more contested and opaque due to its spawning across diverse fields. Attached to dif...
Author: andres lombana bermudez
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), ...
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 ...
Peelander Z : Performing Comic Action Punk in the 21st Century
“We are not Japanese, we are not Americans, we are not human beings, we came from planet Peelander” yelled Kengo Hioki at the terrace of the Elysium...
Neighborhood and City Learning : Spinning Catraca Livre
During the summer I lived in São Paulo, Brazil, in 2010, I became a regular visitor of the website CatracaLivre (Free Turnstile). The site helped me a lot to or...
The Compilation Score of The Children of Men(2006)
Although the practice of building a film music score by selecting a number of pre-recorded songs has been well established since the 1970s, this method of “comp...