Film | Digital Media

Teorija in praksa 50 (2013). Special Issue on “JFK Assassination: The Rise and Fall of Camelot.” Ed. Karmen Šterk. “Did you ever wake up to find /A day that broke up your mind/ Destroyed your notion of circular time” (Rolling Stones,  “Sway” in Sticky Fingers; 1971). ABSTRACT: The Zapruder video is a visual sampling of a traumatic event that needs to be repeated, retold, and reframed in an endless hermeneutic process. The document revealed that the replay offers the

THATCamp Harrisburg 2013Call for Participation Call for Participation October 25th and 26th, Harrisburg University   What Is THATCamp?   THATCamp stands for The Humanities And Technology Camp.  THATCamp Harrisburg is a professional development opportunity for humanities professionals in both academic and non-academic settings. It serves to introduce newcomers to the tools and purposes of the Digital Humanities and give veterans an opportunity to deepen and broaden their skills, and to share them with others.  

I will be at Educause Annual Conference 2013 ~ October 15-18; Anaheim, CA. Educause is a nonprofit association and community of IT professionals committed to advancing higher ed.   I will be attending two seminars: Principles and Practices: Building an Effective Social Media Toolkit  Social media represents a powerful cultural shift in communication, relationships, and information. Although specific platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest may not be with us forever, the larger change they wrought

A preview of my upcoming article accepted for publication in The Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies (special issue “Temporalities in Latin American Film”).

Other video essays produced this semester: Argo from Cinemablography on Vimeo. Looper from Cinemablography on Vimeo.

This map is going to become interactive soon thanks to a digital project that I’ll coordinate  and will include other Italian locations as well. FONTANA DI TREVI La dolce vita (Fellini, 1960) Vacanze Romane (Wyler, 1953) Tre soldi nella fontana (Negulesco, 1954) Totòtruffa ’62 (Mastrocinque, 1961) Risate di Gioia (Monicelli, 1960) C’eravamo tanto amati (Scola, 1975) Stanno tutti bene (Tornatore, 1991) VIA DEL MORTARO Al numero 17 si tenne la prima proiezione cinematografica a Roma, 13 marzo 1896. GALLERIA ALBERTO SORDI Polvere

“One Hundred Steps: Marco Tullio Giordana, Sicily, and the Flow of Universal History” has been selected for the upcoming volume The Cinema of Marco Tullio Giordana (June 2014) READ MORE BOOK DESCRIPTION: The work of Italian film director Marco Tullio Giordana has recently become the subject of academic attention. Major scholars in the field of Italian Studies have expressed interest in his work in articles, book chapters and presentations. His films are constantly screened at Italian

The paper “What Julian Smith Hates (and Loves) About Facebook: Social Media Parody as Self-Promotion”  has been accepted for the Humor in the Digital Age Session at  South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference. Presiding: Pete Kunze. November 8-10, 2013. Atlanta, Georgia.     Here is the Abstract: In the video “25 Things I Hate About Facebook” (2009) comedian Julian Smith parodies the annoyances of the most successful social network (e.g., poking, birthday notifications).  In order to

A preview of the Splice Film Festival program, which I organized in collaboration with Krista Imbesi and the Department of Communication. 16 MM  Saving Chloe (Chris Lyell, David Wingert, Heidi Sheppard, Kayla Caracci, Mackenzie Alexander, Mark Trinkle, Michael Hoffman, Ryan Fargo) Art Videos Heaven’s Music Box (Kenzie Alexander, Sarah Stevenson, Heidi Shepard, Will Colfelt) Geisteskrankheit: A Short German Expressionist-Style Film (Sarah Stevenson)  Documentaries  More than Service (Kenzie Alexander) Taken (Melody Ritchey) Just a Taste (Caroline Phillips) Neo-noir  The Ghost Detective (David Wingert) McFly (Mitch

My  paper “One Hundred Steps: Marco Tullio Giordana, Sicily, and the Flow of Universal History ” has been accepted into a session on Italian Cinema at the 2013 PAMLA conference. The conference will be held November 1-3 at Bahia Resort Hotel, San Diego, California.