Imagine, for a moment, that you are a graduate student teaching assistant in an undergraduate film class at a large state university. You are poorly paid, and entirely untrained. You have a full courseload of your own, and you are teaching a subject in which you have no expertise. Though your union contract stipulates you [...]
Posts Tagged ‘film’
October 5, 2010
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The Calculus of Medical Notes: Disability and Higher Education
By aliciaaho in Society
August 14, 2010
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A Bechdel Test for Historical Romance
By aliciaaho in Ladies, Romance, Society, WritingLately I’ve been thinking a lot about the Bechdel test and what it reveals about the film industry. And there’s been at least one post I could find on a Bechdel standard for video games as well, which is interesting, even though I could dispute a whole bunch of points in the post (such as: [...]
April 2, 2010
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Now Put Your Hands Up!
By aliciaaho in Ladies, Music, TelevisionSo lately there has been some discussion on the internet about Beyoncé, and whether or not “Single Ladies” is a feminist anthem or a pseudo-feminist anthem or just, you know, a really catchy number with some top-notch choreography and an alluring bionic hand. A lot of this discussion — both in the recent AV Club [...]