Posted in Film, Lexington, Media, tagged Gaines Center, James Chapman, Lexington, new media, video on November 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I want to give a brief plug for a Gaines Center fellow, James Chapman, who is starting a project called the Lexington Video Challenge? What does it entail? See the video below:
Chapman simply asks us to create a video that captures what Lexington is all about. He’s interested in how we [...]
Posted in Film, News, Politics, War, tagged documentaries, evil, evil leaders, Iraq, Media, Vietnam, Walter Cronkite on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This week’s recommendation is a short documentary, War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us To Death. This film outlines our nation’s recent trend of using the media to legitimize wars of aggression, most of which are initiated on dubious grounds.
Among the many great points that this film makes is the fallacy of [...]
Posted in Capitalism, Economics, Film, Lexington, Pastoral, Politics, tagged Kentucky Theatre, Back to the Future, Robert Zemeckis, Steven Spielberg, Reaganomics, the 1980s, suburban sprawl, wish fantasy on July 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Ah, the power of love. I’m still a little bit in a funk from last week’s installment of the Summer Classics series at the Kentucky Theatre, the mid-1980s wish fantasy fulfillment, Back to the Future (1985). It’s hard to believe that the summer film series has canonized Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis alongside Hitchcock and [...]
Posted in Film, Politics, tagged ambivalent critiques, Cold War ideology, patriotism, the War on Terror, Tom Hanks on May 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the many things I wanted to write about this past semester (but didn’t get the chance, because I studied) is the recent film Charlie Wilson’s War (2007). While this film recounts the “true story” of Texas congressional representative Charlie Wilson and his efforts to spearhead a covert attack against Russia in the [...]
Posted in Evangelicalism, Film, Politics, The Bible, tagged Church offensiveness, End times, evil leaders, low-budget films, New Testament apocalypticism, the rapture on November 27, 2007 | 3 Comments »
If it seems like this blog is plowing along, that’s because it is. It’s the end of the semester, and I’m in an apocalyptic mood, not because I have a bunch of term papers due, but because I’m teaching my least favorite book of the New Testament, the Revelation. One member of my Sunday School [...]
Posted in Evangelicalism, Film, Pedagogy, The Bible on September 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today I met with a student, who is writing his first essay about the tradition of contradictory interpretations of the death of Judas Iscariot. Even people who proclaim that the Bible is the literal, infallible, inerrant word of God that does not contradict itself have difficulty explaining the disparity between the accounts in Matthew and Acts.
To [...]
Posted in Capitalism, Film, Sports, tagged aging television personas on September 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
To what can we attribute Bob Costas’s incredible lapse from his status as “most eloquent sports television persona?” I watched NBC’s Sunday Football Night in America telecast tonight, and not without some level of disgust. Many people have pointed out NBC’s lackluster product, i.e. its decision to confine their most highly-talented personality (Cris Collinsworth) to [...]
Posted in Film, tagged Gratuitous Seinfeld allusions on July 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »
It’s been fourteen years since Steven Spielberg’s magnum opus, Schindler’s List, first appeared in theatres. Until a few weeks ago, I had never seen it, but I finally watched it while at home (recovering from a severe ankle injury). In case you’re wondering, yes, Starla watched with me, and no, we did not make out [...]
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Dissertation Reading
