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...within the framework of a person selecting films from an archive, History Lessons has very little dialogue but makes up for this fact with attention-grabbing visual effects. Hammer uses her artistic license generously as she dubs in lesbian-rights messages over women’s voices in old films of a roundtable discussion. This effect, which Hammer uses throughout the film, provides a bit of needed levity. Her presentation of antiquated photographs, transposition of negatives and reverse negative images, and carnivalesque background music creates an interesting mixture of the serious and?...
Many of the visual images that are utilized in History Lessons are actual magazines, books and movies from the past, almost all of which make a negative statement about lesbians. Though it seems odd that such derogatory images should be used in a film that is a celebration of being a lesbian, the juxtaposition of these divergent images is a stark, but very effective, contrast. In doing so, Hammer challenges the “traditional” notions of lesbians as being “butch?...
Kenan Professor of English Marjorie Garber has been appointed the new chair of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, replacing Ellen Phelan, Professor of the Practice of Studio Arts in Visual and Environmental Studies...
Garber, who also directs Harvard's Humanities Center, has met with department faculty and staff several times since she was installed as chair. Garber is one of the world's foremost authorities on Shakespeare, but has no formal background in the visual arts...
...even be possible to prod children's intellectual growth. As babies' brains weave their neuronal connections, parents may be able to stimulate, say, the visual or musical ones by exposing kids to picture books or CDs, but it is doubtful that these fortify the brain in any meaningful way. "It's a myth that we can accelerate a child's developmental milestones," says Alan Woolf, a pediatrician at Children's Hospital. "Children are kind of preprogrammed to reach those points." Bruer puts it more bluntly: "The idea that you can provide more synapses by stimulating the child more...