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Academic Free Fall By Neil Smith on August 21, 2010 1 Comment When I left Britain in the 1970s to pursue a doctorate in the US, it was an item of faith that US universities were far more corporatized than their UK counterparts, in the social sciences as well as the natural sciences. To be sure the […]
With Memories of Overdevelopment the young Cuba film-maker Miguel Coyula has made a remarkable sequel to one of the classic films of the Cuban Revolution, Memories of Underdevelopment by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. Intriguingly, the new film, like the old, is based on a novel by the Cuban author Edmundo Desnoes—who settled in New York after quitting […]
Found on Liberal Conspiracy: ‘He’s a liar liar’: a new song about the cuts https://youtube.com/watch?v=BQFwxw57NBI%3Ffs%3D1%26hl%3Den
DocSpot: The Artist & The Poet (Leonard Baskin & Ted Hughes in Conversation) (PG*) 18:30 / + Q&A with Noel Chanan, poet Tom Paulin, Nicholas Penny (Director of the National Gallery), and Nicholas Spice (London Review of Books) 17 November 2010 Barbican, Cinema 1 In 1983 poet Ted Hughes and American printmaker and sculptor Leonard […]
Michael Nyman’s Palimpsest of Man With A Movie Camera In a new work called NYman With A Movie Camera, Michael Nyman has conducted a really interesting experiment by taking the music he wrote a few years ago for Vertov’s Man With A Movie Camera, and employing it again, this time for his own remake of […]
It is time to rescue film Film has the potential to be a most beautiful art, but it has been debased by US cinema, and by television Ken Loach guardian.co.uk, Friday 15 October 2010 19.00 BST Film is an extraordinary medium. Like theatre, it has all the elements of drama. It has character, plot, conflict, […]
One of the themes running through the work of artist film-maker William Raban is the creation of a counter-image of London to the classic and generally stereotypical representations of the city we are all too used to. I’m thinking here of work like Thames Film of 1986 and Island Race ten years later. His new […]
Some interesting feedback on my recent post about universities funding, from discussion lists and private contacts. Two or three people thought that the situation I described isn’t crazy but a logical result of the way capitalism works. As one comment put it, state support of higher education is part of the social wage, and it […]
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The last time I voted Labour (apart from the London Mayoral election) was 1997. My disillusion with New Labour under Tony Blair began almost immediately, and was due to his treatment of the Dearing Report on Higher Education. Higher education had been taken off the agenda of election issues by the appointment of the Dearing […]