Teaching ITALIAN NEOREALISM today in "Film History to 1960" and I'm so glad my colleague reminded me of this gem of a video essay that gets to the 'essence' of neorealism by juxtaposing DeSica's TERMINAL STATION w/ Selznick's re-cut, INDISCRETION OF AN AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE vimeo.com/68514760

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Passing on the big public love for the works of Letty Ten Harkel and Annette Parks (the latter my former advisor)! Letty's work was cited in the room at a conference I was at over the weekend, and I sang Dr Park's praises to my students this morning.

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can't take "LLMs are people" discourse seriously when we haven't even convinced everyone that all people are people.

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Pleased to see a piece I co-authored with @atasoyemrah.bsky.social on teaching utopias and dystopias appear in the Times Higher today. You can read it here: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/teach...

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Pre-orders begin today for The Silent Film Companion: A Recovered and Expanded History, a book @lizclarke100.bsky.social and I co-edited to bring attention to 57 (at least) silent films that challenge what we think we know about film history. www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-silent-f...

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