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...financial circumstances and his opposition to the Vietnam War landed him at the University of Wisconsin, where he studied French literature, art history, and cinema. Conley taught at the University of Minnessota before coming to Harvard in 1995, where he now teaches courses in French and Visual and Environmental Studies. Conley is deeply focused on the relationship of maps and cinema. He recounts, “When I tell people I work on maps in movies, they always say, ‘Oh, like in Casablanca or Indiana Jones?’” Laughing, he continues...
...Simple”, eventually breaking down “fly clichés” and easy street/smart dichotomies in favor of an epic, all-American mythos that draws on everything from pulp comic books and cheap kung-fu movies. Any static visual display of artifacts and commentary will be hard-pressed to uncover the symbolic web of even one Wu-Tang album, let alone the genre as a whole. While it may display some truly fly chains, “Hip Hop Won’t Stop” will be hard-pressed to assume a form that approximates...
...courses while denying that status to similar offerings.The proper solution is not to re-label a handful of departmental courses as Core courses, as has been done in the past (for example Literature and Arts B-11, “The Art of Film,”was previously Visual and Environmental Studies 170a). Under proposed General Education guidelines, the reverse will likely happen, as some current Core courses are absorbed into their professors’ departments. Instead of renaming courses twice, there should be a concerted effort, especially in the social sciences and the humanities, to certify additional departmental...
...says. “It’s intellectually and academically irresponsible to ignore them.” “Every day, you read a comic book. Every day, there’s an installment of a new weblog,” says Assistant Professor of Visual and Environment Studies and of English J. D. Connor ’92. “These things reward the kind of attention that cultural studies scholars can bring to bear on them.”Connor, whose VES 195: “Hollywood Film” requires that students watch movies...
...shot by Thomas Edison. The film’s nine credited actors are comprised of eight undergraduates and the late Harry E. Widener, class of 1907. Widener’s photograph acts as a characterization of the soldiers’ soon-to-be-wed friend, who is visually absent from the screen. The eight undergraduate actors auditioned for Van Devere during the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s late-September Common Casting session. Van Devere met with the students for weekly rehearsals before shooting the film in the Adams House Upper Common Room in late October. Van Devere then...