Techniques & Aesthetics in 3D Films of 1950s and their Impact on Later Productions by David A. Cook

Techniques & Aesthetics in 3D Films of 1950s and their Impact on Later Productions by David A. Cook

Although I have written about 3D films before in A History of Narrative Film (HNF, W. W. Norton, 1981; 1990; 1996; 2004; 2016) – both polarized and digital – in Chapters 12 and 21 respectively, I wanted to understand stereoscopy in moving images better and thought an historical survey of...
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The Cruel Irony of Organ Transplantation’s Success By Edmund O. Lawler

The Cruel Irony of Organ Transplantation’s Success By Edmund O. Lawler

Seventy-one years ago, Dr. Richard Lawler led a team of surgeons and nurses in performing the world’s first solid organ transplant by grafting a kidney from a just-deceased patient into the abdomen of a 44-year-old Chicago woman. She lived nearly five more years. In the decades that followed that groundbreaking...
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Digital identity, rights and citizenship in Latin America and the Caribbean: who are we including and who is being left behind?

Digital identity, rights and citizenship in Latin America and the Caribbean: who are we including and who is being left behind?

The guest author of this post is Eve Hayes de Kalaf. She is a Stipendiary Fellow at the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, and the author of the Anthem title ‘Legal Identity, Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic’. Over the...
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Columbia Strike

Columbia Strike

The guest author of this post is Blake Stricklin. He is a lecturer at the University of Houston – Victoria and the author of ‘American Paraliterature and Other Theories to Hijack Communication’. In April 1968 students at Columbia University overtook the campus. Members from Columbia’s Student Afro-Society (SAS), Students for...
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