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Markets Declare Truce in Copyright Wars - WSJ.com
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But content owners are finally realizing they're better off helping their customers use digital media than trying to stop the march of technology.
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The most fascinating truce in the copyright wars is this month's settlement of litigation between book publishers and authors on one side and Google on the other -- at $125 million, the biggest book deal ever. Google has digitized some seven million books. Of these, one million were already covered by an agreement with publishers to allow "preview" selections of books. Another one million books are old enough that they're no longer covered by copyright.
RaceProject.org
While initially conceptualized as an "ad watch" page during the camaign seasons, this page currently features a variety of clips with racialized messages (either explicit or implicit). Some of the videos are serious in nature (e.g., classic and contemporary political ads, lectures by Dr. Cornel West, etc.), while others are satirical (e.g., "Harold Ford Is a Black Man") or just plain fun (e.g., Jesse Jackson reading Green Eggs and Ham).
Analysis of these ads and others (as well as more video, audio and text of racialized political communication) are featured in presentations by the Race Project team.
Rewriting the Discourse of Racial Identity: Towards a Pedagogy and Politics of Whiteness
Abstract
In this article, Henry Giroux places the study of Whiteness in a historical context, recognizing the various modes in which racial identity has been used by conservative ideologues and critical scholars who seek to expand the discussion of race and power. The author also points out the limitations of the current scholarship on Whiteness. Although this scholarship has successfully expanded the study of race to include the study of Whiteness as a historical, cultural, and political construction, it has not shown the liberating potential of deconstructing Whiteness in the public sphere. With an analysis of Dangerous Minds and Suture, two movies with contrasting narratives of race, the author provides an example of the possibilities for critically discussing, in a classroom, the representation of race and ethnicity in the media. Through such a discussion, students of different races and ethnicities can reflect on the representation of themselves and others and the position of Whiteness as the dominant referent. There is a need for Whiteness to be theorized and discussed in a manner that recognizes the potential for criticism, as well as the possibility for White students to recognize their own agency and legitimate place within the struggle for social change and an anti-racist society.
(pp. 285-320)
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Black Film Center/Archive Feature Presentation: Race Movies
Beginning in the 1910s, a separate film industry began to take root, in part, to remedy the negative depiction of blacks in motion pictures. One of the motivating forces behind this movement was the racist depictions of blacks in D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation (1915). Early responses to this, such as The Birth of a Race (1918) [click here to view a clip from the film] and the Lincoln Motion Picture Company's The Trooper of Troop K (1916), did not achieve box office success but ushered in a new subset of films in America, commonly referred to as "race movies."
Media, Education & Public Consciousness
DR. TARIQ RAHMAN
In a sense the media and the educational apparatus have similar roles. In the oldest societies about which there is evidence, this role was to socialize the young to accept the dominant worldview and, along with it, the power structure. Education was in the hands of the family but in societies, which had an agrarian base there was enough surplus wealth to support a paid priesthood, which imparted education
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a sense the media and the educational apparatus have similar roles.
Ideology and the Hollywood classroom - DISSERTATION Nellis
Walking into the light: Ideology and the Hollywood classroom
by Nellis, Robert Christopher, M.Ed., University of Alberta (Canada), 2001, 246 pages; AAT MQ69460
Abstract (Summary)
Walking into the Light: Ideology and The Hollywood Classroom (1) analyzes 25 Hollywood films depicting educational phenomena and (2) identifies the ideological character of the individual films, their sub-genre categories, and the entire sample.
Methodologically, the study is situated within (1) Critical Social Science (CSS) and (2) Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA); as well, (3) it applies the depth hermeneutics of John B. Thompson's Tripartite Approach.
The thesis divides the films into six categories: (1) the classroom Western (depicting schools saved from lawlessness); (2) pictures of privilege (featuring British public or American private schools); (3) the teen comedy; (4) the teen drama; (5) the adult comedy; and (6) love letters to me (sentimental epistles of the teaching profession). The study finds that the overall ideological character of the pictures is liberal and that this is best explained by Antonio Gramsci's conception of hegemony. The project concludes by presenting possibilities for action.
Reel teachers - DISSERTATION Nederhouser
Reel teachers: A descriptive content analysis of the portrayal of American teachers in popular cinema
by Nederhouser, Deborah Margaret Dobbin, Ed.D., Northern Illinois University, 2000, 168 pages; AAT 9997597
Abstract (Summary)
This dissertation analyzed the portrayal of K-12 teachers in American movies. A quantitative, qualitative, and comparative content analysis was used to study the portrayal of American teachers as seen in American movies. Coding categories were synthesized from applicable literature. The researcher applied characters to coding categories based on film dialogue and film action. Categories were quantified using a computerized database to run permutations of fields and applied to graphs. Emerging trends were analyzed and applied to the portrayal of teachers in film.
Image of teachers in film (DISSERTATION Tan)
The image of teachers in film
by Tan, Ann Gaik Ang, Ph.D., Boston College, 2000, 379 pages; AAT 9961615
Abstract (Summary)
Film is one of the most influential sources of the media today though it is a relatively young industry. Some critics believe that films reflect the trends and beliefs of the society that produces them. By comparison, the teaching profession may be considered one of the oldest occupations. Teachers form one of the largest and most ubiquitous professions in this country. Yet, when the two merge, the teachers that appear on film seldom resemble any that we know.
This study contends that the teacher images that appear on the screen are reflections of stereotypes that already existed in society as a result of the way the teaching profession has developed in this country. It also contends that the stereotypes have been maintained by the nature of film itself, and that in being transposed onto film, the teacher character becomes transformed into a "hero" as defined by film.
The American high school experience: A cinematic view from the 1980s (DISSERTATION Moraites)
This study looks at Hollywood films and their depiction of the role of formal and informal education in the lives of teenagers in American society. Prototypes of the "teenage education" genre from 1955 to 1961 are presented before focusing on films produced during the 1980s. The films are analyzed according to their verbal and nonverbal communication by examining the sound and visual images they contain. The 1980s films are further analyzed in terms of their depiction of public and private school experiences and the black, white, Hispanic and women's experiences. The study seeks to answer the following questions: How is the high school as an institution portrayed? How are the principal participants (administrators, teachers, athletic coaches, staff members, parents and students) portrayed? What problems are identified?
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