Author Archives: tony

Politicizing Documentary Pedagogy in the name of the Precariat

Posted on September 20, 2016 by tony

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Vol 4 (2) Ben Stork, Seattle University   In its current configuration, American higher education subtly attempts to foreclose explicit discussions of its working conditions through the structures of instructional employment. For contingent faculty, members of … Continue reading →

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Casual Lecturers in UK Universities: A View from/off the Edge of Europe

Posted on September 20, 2016 by tony

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Vol 4 (2) C. Paul Sellors, Edinburgh Napier University   Many readers of this dossier work or have worked as teaching assistants and adjunct lecturers, enduring low wages, long hours to prepare for and teach tutorials … Continue reading →

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When Precarity is Too Much and Academia is Not Enough

Posted on September 20, 2016 by tony

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Vol 4 (2) Jorie Lagerwey, University College Dublin At the Console-ing Passions Conference in June 2016, a plenary session titled New Directions brought together five so-called “emerging scholars” to share our experiences of scholarly transition from … Continue reading →

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“New Weapons” for the Precariat in Film and Media Studies

Posted on September 20, 2016 by tony

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Vol 4 (2) Charles Burnetts, King’s University College, Western University This essay seeks to reproduce the candor and incisiveness of the adjunct memoir in its critique of contingent hiring practices in the academy, without being an … Continue reading →

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Short Assignment: Using Anti-Surveillance Tools

Posted on May 21, 2016 by tony

The purpose of this assignment is to ask student groups to give brief presentations on how to use online, anti-surveillance tools and analyze potential benefits and drawbacks of these tools.  I include this assignment after students have read and discussed … Continue reading →

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Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier CFP: Negotiating Precarious Positions

Posted on May 4, 2016 by tony

Negotiating Precarious Positions: Strategies for Working As and With Adjuncts, and Other Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Cinema and Media Studies Deadline: June 20, 2016 Edited by Beth Corzo-Duchardt, Dawn Fratini, and Isabel Pinedo The increasing reliance on adjunct labor has … Continue reading →

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DH and Media Studies Crossovers/ Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Vol. 3 (3)

Posted on January 9, 2016 by tony

          DH and Media Studies Crossovers Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Vol. 3 (3)  Table of Contents  Producing Knowledge in the Media Studies Classroom: Working with Wikis by Lauren S. Berliner Collective Reading: Shot Analysis and Data Visualization … Continue reading →

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Design and DH in the Media Studies Classroom

Posted on January 9, 2016 by tony

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier DH and Media Studies Crossovers Vol. 3(3) Grant Wythoff Columbia University In the Spring of 2014, I worked with a group of Columbia University undergraduates to tackle the question of what happens when readers move from … Continue reading →

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Rebuilding and Repair as a Critical Practice in the Media Studies Classroom

Posted on January 9, 2016 by tony

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier DH and Media Studies Crossovers Vol. 3(3) David N. Wright Douglas College The Preamble By introducing rebuilding and repair as critical practice in the media studies classroom, students can examine effects as they are triggered by … Continue reading →

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Teaching Subtitles as Historiographic Research

Posted on January 9, 2016 by tony

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier DH and Media Studies Crossovers Vol. 3(3) Kevin L. Ferguson  Queens College, City University of New York I see this question on Twitter: “Someone shouting, ‘We got company!’ is a classic action movie cliché. Does anyone … Continue reading →

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