Archive of Jennifer Pan
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Are you organizing against unpaid labor?
In honor of this week's landmark court victory, in which a judge ruled that former interns who worked on the set of Black Swan should have been paid by Fox Searchlight for their labor, we're giving free copies of Ross Perlin's groundbreaking book, Intern Nation, to groups organizing against unpaid internships.
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The Methodology of Moretti: Graphs from an Iconoclast Literary Scholar
Whatever happened to books with titles like Capacity and Extent of Human Understanding; Exemplified in the Extraordinary Case of Automathes: A Young Nobleman; who was Accidentally left in his Infancy, upon a desolate Island, and continued Nineteen Years in that solitary State, separate from all Human Society. A Narrative abounding with many surprising Occurrences, both Useful and Entertaining to the Reader?
In Distant Reading, Franco Moretti doesn’t just show us when these titles faded away…
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We're going ahead and calling this the "Dean Scream"
Jodi Dean recently spoke to Full Stop, Vice's Motherboard, and the New Left Project about her provocative and potentially very contentious new book, The Communist Horizon. Released a month ago, The Communist Horizon charts the re-emergence of communism as a magnet for political energy following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the stalling of the Occupy movement.
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J. Hoberman's 21 Films of the 21st Century
Is it possible to speak of a twenty-first century cinema barely a decade into the millennium? Acclaimed film critic J. Hoberman’s new book, Film After Film, is a timely and provocative collection of writings that chronicle how the advent of digital technology has led to the displacement of the medium of film—and the very relationship between movies and reality. This sea change in filmmaking also spanned the 2000 American presidential election and the trauma of 9/11, events that reshaped world politics and left an indelible imprint on the emerging aesthetic of the new century’s cinema.
In his book, Hoberman presents considerations of the defining movies of the twenty-first century. GoWatchIt—a new platform and social network that allows users to track where they can watch movies online and share their picks with other users—has assembled a channel where viewers can browse and watch Hoberman's 21 selections.
View Hoberman's list below, or skip right to the channel to watch online:
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How 9/11 changed Hollywood: Film After Film excerpt in L Magazine
Is it possible to speak of a distinctly twenty-first century cinema, only a decade into the new millennium? J. Hoberman's Film After Film, published this week, traces the revolutionary turn of cinema after 9/11 and the advent of digital technology. Today, in an excerpt from the book in the L Magazine, Hoberman examines how Hollywood was changed by 9/11:
In the days following the cataclysm, the Los Angeles Times reported entertainment industry concern that “the public appetite for plots involving disasters and terrorism has vanished.” Thus, Warner Bros. postponed Collateral Damage, and the screenwriters, David and Peter Griffiths, suffered another setback when Fox suspended their top-secret project, Deadline, a hijack drama written for James Cameron. Jerry Bruckheimer decided that the time might not be right for World War III, which called for nuclear attacks on Seattle and San Diego.
Yet, mere days after the terror attacks, the Pentagon-funded Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California convened several meetings with filmmakers. "Hollywood expected to be punished," writes Hoberman. "Instead, they were drafted..."
Visit the L Magazine to read the excerpt in full.