| May 2006
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G1 - Taking the Measure of the Creative Campus
Tepper, Steven J
Peer Review, Spring 2006, v8, # 2; pp4-8
"Tepper argues that the arts provide a particularly useful
window into the creative campus. The arts have long been recognized
as important catalysts for creative work across domains. […] Creativity
thrives on those campuses where there is abundant cross-cultural
exchange and a great deal of "border" activity between
disciplines, where collaborative work is commonplace, risk taking
is rewarded, failure is expected, and the creative arts are pervasive
and integrated into campus life. Beyond examining the conditions
for creativity, it is important to think about how to explore
and assess these conditions. What would a research agenda on the
creative campus look like? In the absence of an established research
community, what ideas, methodologies, and approaches might be
useful in pursuing such an agenda?” Steven J. Tepper is Associate
Director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy
and Assistant Professor of sociology, Vanderbilt University.
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Film & Television
G2 - Day-and-Date Disturbance – Will Theaters Weather
the New Release Patterns
Toumarkine, Doris
Film Journal International, April 1, 2006, v109 #4, pp.16-22
“Technology is driving the experiments and new paradigms that
mean change in the theatre-to-DVD-to-TV sequential release pattern
for features. […] Disney CEO Robert Iger sent an unwelcome message
to the exhibition community when he opined that simultaneous releases
in theatres and on DVD may be the best way to meet customer needs
and desires. But in early February, in a conference call with
analysts, he emphasized the importance of the theatrical release,
saying, "It's clear that that window creates a lot of value."
In the same call, however, Iger predicted there would be more
changes in release windows, especially with the next generation
of high-def DVDs and players entering the marketplace.” Fulltext
G3 - The Politics of the Thriller. On Munich and Moral
Ambiguity
Dickstein, Morris
Dissent; Spring2006, v53, #2, pp89-92
"If history came to an end in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin
Wall, the recent rebirth of the political thriller is yet another
indication that history has resumed its course. Such thrillers
thrive on the melodrama of global political struggle, especially
the subterranean world of espionage, assassination, and dirty
tricks. […] The article discusses the role of literature and motion
pictures in depicting politics. The author describes various books
and films such as The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, by John Le
Carre, the television series 24, films such as the The Constant
Gardener, Syriana, and Steven Spielberg's Munich. Morris Dickstein
teaches English and film at the CUNY Graduate Center. His most
recent book is A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real
World (Princeton). Fulltext
Literature
G4 - Pearl's Great Price
Melvin, Sheila
Wilson Quarterly, Spring2006, v30,#2, pp.24-30
"“Melvin describes the life and works of Pearl Buck, the
American author who won the Nobel Prize for her books set in China.
She notes that Buck wrote about China as she saw it, not as it
wanted to be seen, and her unflinching honesty angered and embarrassed
many in the nation's intellectual and political elite. […] Pearl
Buck's chronicles of everyday life in China won her millions of
readers and a Nobel Prize. They also won her the scorn of highbrow
Western critics and the venom of China's Communist leaders. Now
her adopted land is rediscovering the work of this woman once
denounced as a cultural enemy.” Sheila Melvin is a writer
and journalist, is coauthor, with her husband, Jindong Cai, of
Rhapsody in Red: How Western Classical Music Became Chinese (2004).
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G5 - The Son Also Rises
Stimpson, Henry
Poets & Writers, March-April 2006, v34, #2, pp.34-40
“Poetry, Wright says, "paradoxically uses words to embody
something that cannot be said." He adds, "I want to
have it both ways. I want to be simple and clear and colloquial,
and yet incantatory and magical." This article profiles the
poet Franz Wright. Within the past five years, Wright has published
three books of poetry, among them a Pulitzer Prize nominee and
a Pulitzer Prize winner. Henry Stimpson is a writer who lives
in Wayland, Massachusetts. Fulltext
Performing Arts
G6 - The Escape Artist
Howland, Bette
Commentary; May2006, Vol. 121 Issue 5, pp52-58
"He was the New World's new man: the challenger, an American
jack-in-the-box wild and woolly as his hair. There was a strange
symmetry here: an immigrant Jew exported to the Old World as the
spirit of the new…" Where but in America could a rabbi's
son remake himself into Harry Houdini? This article describes
the life and death of Harry Houdini, the famous escape artist.
Bette Howland is the author o/W-3, Blue in Chicago, and Things
to Come and Go. She is currently working on a novel. City of Refuge.
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G7 - Edgy Elegance
Jarrett, Sara
Dance Spirit, April 2006, v10, #4, pp. 52-62
"For the past 22 years, with one hand on the pulse of pop
culture and the other bent toward fast, aggressive movement, Stephen
Petronio has been challenging audiences with dance that is filled
with more slicing, slashing, and piercing than the understatement
of the artistic minimalist period during which he came of age.
Stephen Petronio Co (SPC) dancers are as fierce and luscious as
the movement is aggressive and physical. Here, Jarrett profiles
SPC dancers and highlights its newest works, BLOOM and Bud Suite,
that will premiere in April at New York City's Joyce Theater,
in collaboration with singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright.” Fulltext
Visual Arts
G8 - Flowers of Friendship
Ollman, Leah
Art in America, Apr 2006, v94, #4, pp68-73
This article reports on the staging of the exhibition "Semina
Culture: Wallace Berman and His Circle" at the Santa Monica
Museum of Art in California in 2006. It includes information on
the photographs, mailers, assemblages, collages, films, paintings,
books, and broadsides by the late Wallace Berman, a legendary
Beat-era artist, and 49 other traveling artists that were featured
in the exhibition. Leak Ollman writes for the Los Angeles
Times. Fulltext
G9 - Gordon Parks, Legendary Photographer & Filmmaker
Dies At 93
Jet, March 27, 2006, v109, # 12, pp54-59
"Gordon Parks, pioneering photographer and the first major
Black filmmaker with such movies as The Learning Tree and Shaft,
recently died at his home in New York. He was 93. Parks was the
first Black photojournalist for Life magazine, where he covered
everything from fashion to sports during his 20 years there from
1948 to 1968. [...] Parks also was best known for his gritty photo
essays on the effects of poverty in the United States and abroad
and on the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement. His groundbreaking
journey from poor high school dropout to Black pioneer left a
legacy of poignant photographs, classic movies, best-selling novels,
poetry books, music compositions and even a ballet." Fulltext
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