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Video and rebellion: the Middle East

by michaelc Posted on 31 October 2011

Continuing the theme of my penultimate post, a documentary report has appeared on Al Jazeera (‘Images of Revolution’, dir. Ibrahim Hamdan) presenting ‘the story behind the iconic images of the Arab uprisings as told by those who filmed them’. It’s … Continue reading →

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Reading Montaigne in 2011

by michaelc Posted on 17 April 2011

What is going on, culturally speaking, when a person finds themself reading a classic text from say the 16th century, like Montaigne’s Essays, in the form of a 21st century electronic book?

Posted in Cultural Politics, Documentary, Media, Miscellany | Tagged Documentary, Humanities, ipad, Media, Montaigne | 1 Comment

Japan: Metamorphosis of the Image

by michaelc Posted on 24 March 2011

We thought perhaps that we had seen everything on television you could possibly see. The Vietnam War. Famine in Africa. The images that return from history, of the Nazi concentration camps and the atom bomb at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Airplane … Continue reading →

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Video blogging for the New Statesman: Camera in hand and idea in the head

by michaelc Posted on 26 January 2011

For the last few weeks I’ve been out and about filming moments in the developing protest movement against the unconscionable coalition government and its programme of swingeing cuts in every department of social provision. The result has been a number … Continue reading →

Posted in Capitalism, Documentary, Protests, Video | Tagged Media, New Statesman, Politics, Recession, Student Protest, Universities | Comments Off

Walter Benjamin and the iPad

by michaelc Posted on 28 August 2010

or, Advice for Writers in the Age of Digital Orthography In his book of aphorisms, One Way Street, published in 1928, Walter Benjamin has a remarkable premonition. ‘The typewriter’ he says, ‘will alienate the hand of the man of letters … Continue reading →

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Screen Grabs, Fair Use, and the Digital Economy

by michaelc Posted on 17 August 2010

There is continuing confusion about the use of frame grabs for illustrating books and articles about film. It’s a question I get asked regularly, and yesterday there was a query about it on a discussion list I subscribe to, which … Continue reading →

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Isaiah Berlin in the Media

by michaelc Posted on 4 August 2009

As a student of Isaiah Berlin’s back in the late 1960s, I have been intrigued by the media treatment of his hundredth birthday, which with one or two exceptions, faithfully celebrates both the memory of his dazzling personality and his … Continue reading →

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