tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post7267690652529410807..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: Mark the teapartying dateUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-1095263135843111042013-06-16T09:39:42.765-04:002013-06-16T09:39:42.765-04:00I was thinking the same thing, Wylodmayer!!I was thinking the same thing, Wylodmayer!!Edna Expathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11438002061912782295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-85603827488097410992013-06-15T14:50:42.002-04:002013-06-15T14:50:42.002-04:00I'm surprised that this is the first time that...I'm surprised that this is the first time that you've encountered this--dismayed, though, that it was a grad student. <br /><br />This happens all the time in the essays I get. All the time. <br /><br />It is challenging to live through the decline of modern civilization as we know it and to be aware that we are doing so.<br /><br />(Yeah, I'm in a dark place today.)Great Lakes Gretahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08101613060478193833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-17696396020714387942013-06-14T18:04:37.027-04:002013-06-14T18:04:37.027-04:00CC, I'm familiar with that exercise and, on th...CC, I'm familiar with that exercise and, on the surface, it does make some sense. Attempt to introduce a new concept by asking students to use a familiar depiction as an example. <br /><br />But as you point out, it is a difficult struggle to convince students that the exercise is a <i>very</i> limited foray into the discipline. <br /><br />In this incident (The Myth's snark Aware and Scaredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14700345349806280657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-83185094297502549992013-06-14T18:00:53.464-04:002013-06-14T18:00:53.464-04:00Thank you F&T.
I have told my (middle school ...Thank you F&T.<br /><br />I have told my (middle school aged) child, that while I do enjoy documentaries/docu-dramas, their portrayals often leave me asking "I wonder if that was <i>really</i> how it happened?"<br /><br />Case in point, we attended a showing of <i>Red Tails</i> the Lucasfilm telling of the story of the Tuskegee Airmen which was shown in honor of an actual Tuskegee Aware and Scaredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14700345349806280657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-27117494251186840192013-06-14T17:48:33.168-04:002013-06-14T17:48:33.168-04:00I stand on my desk and applaud FandT.I stand on my desk and applaud FandT.Lucy, Countess of Bedfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07181713706519539554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-44438239133405782732013-06-14T17:45:52.224-04:002013-06-14T17:45:52.224-04:00Because perhaps you believe that "reality&quo...Because perhaps you believe that "reality" television actually is reality?Aware and Scaredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14700345349806280657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-84388731450572219612013-06-14T17:45:07.448-04:002013-06-14T17:45:07.448-04:00Really, BB?
That is the important issue?
::sigh::...Really, BB?<br /><i>That</i> is the important issue?<br /><br />::sigh::<br /><br />Yes, it actually was properly cited.Aware and Scaredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14700345349806280657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-77722973352075807662013-06-14T17:03:02.902-04:002013-06-14T17:03:02.902-04:00Ohhh, blahhhhhh -- I have received so many papers ...Ohhh, blahhhhhh -- I have received so many papers arguing that a character is "really" bipolar or had ADHD or whatever. Who knew it was my colleagues in psych unleashing this evil.Frog and Toadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06377542172335502858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-15760129302302626232013-06-14T14:08:32.138-04:002013-06-14T14:08:32.138-04:00For some years (perhaps still), one of my universi...For some years (perhaps still), one of my university's intro psych courses had students write a paper in which they diagnosed/analyzed a character in a movie. I can see the reasoning behind the assignment: it gave students a chance to apply the information they'd received, and think/analyze for themselves, without letting them loose on actual human beings (which some of them seem Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-47215250273318383962013-06-14T14:07:20.945-04:002013-06-14T14:07:20.945-04:00So, my issue isn't with pop culture references...So, my issue isn't with pop culture references per se, but with the inability to recognize that genre conventions will have an enormous bearing on how something is portrayed. I mean, if you don't get that literature, television, film, etc. *mediate* reality according to a set of conventions with their own history, you shouldn't be in grad school.<br /><br />The end of my Frog and Toadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06377542172335502858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-64920980884528893982013-06-14T13:56:28.373-04:002013-06-14T13:56:28.373-04:00"...the worst and most ephemeral bits of popu..."...the worst and most ephemeral bits of popular culture are now studied at university."<br /><br />Absolutely true. Or at least, I hope so, since much of my research is on exactly such ephemeral bits of pop culture.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-11720195841277169702013-06-14T13:51:42.334-04:002013-06-14T13:51:42.334-04:00Nicely done on the graphic!Nicely done on the graphic!Compound Calicohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00059155949950433688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-52494914888125365092013-06-14T13:35:16.378-04:002013-06-14T13:35:16.378-04:00Why am I thinking this is yet another knee-jerk ov...Why am I thinking this is yet another knee-jerk over-reaction from a popular culture-loathing academic?<br /><br />Without details to suggest otherwise, I see a tempest in a teapot.The_Mythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10621186404597424842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-44188648578543772672013-06-14T13:24:50.773-04:002013-06-14T13:24:50.773-04:00I'm not surprised, since even the worst and mo...I'm not surprised, since even the worst and most ephemeral bits of popular culture are now studied at university. Still, fiction can help illuminate reality--that's why it's so enduring.Doctor BPDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15077311480386412339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-32671708712206284312013-06-14T12:24:19.348-04:002013-06-14T12:24:19.348-04:00Let's cut to the important issue. Did he form...Let's cut to the important issue. Did he format the reference correctly?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com