Without positing a simple-minded connection, Not Hollywood (2013) argues that taste is linked to a particular class background

I have previously posted several items about Not Hollywood (2013). This post discusses these and other posts. Toronto Public Library resources I came across Sherry B. Ortner’s work when I was reading The Hidden Life of Girls (2006), a linguistic anthropology study of cliques of popular girls in American schools. The author of the latter […]

We owe thanks to Eric Karbin for this great Grade 7, June 1958 class photo from Cartierville School in Montreal

Ethnography as journalism

Online chapter by Tanni Kents in Estonian Life Stories (2009) describes her family’s postwar arrival in Cartierville

Click here to access BBC Estonia country profile > In the course of an online search for “Cartierville School Preserved Stories,” I came across the English translation of a chapter in Estonian Life Stories by my late mother Tanni Kents. I’ve read the Estonian version, but had not seen the English version for some years. […]

Additional comments from Graeme Decarie – regarding Saraguay, Cartierville School, and Marlborough Golf Club

We welcome additional biographies from MCHS 60s graduates and staff

We are very happy to add more MCHS biographies to the MCHS 60s Biographies & Histories Category at this website. Altogether, we have four Categories related to MCHS at the Preserved Stories website, listed at the left of the landing page: MCHS 60s Biographies & Histories MCHS 60s Facebook links MCHS 60s REGISTRATION: Please make […]

Klaas Vander Baaren has added a new comment at “Cartierville School in Montreal”

Klaas Vander Baaren has added a new comment at Cartierville School in Montreal. By way of bringing your attention to his comment, I’m posting it as a separate post. In the process, I’ve added spacing between the paragraphs and have corrected the spelling for Morison. I learned some time back that the correct spelling is […]

Graeme Decarie has found his copy of the 1962-63 MCHS Highlander and shares additional recollections

[I will add additional photos at the post later; for now, I’ll begin with just one photo, of Mr. Talbot.] In the following text, I have used just the first initial for a couple of students, in order to respect privacy of information. In the event we get the okay to publish the names, from […]

Sherry B. Ortner adopts a neoliberal framework to address the role of producers in independent filmmaking

Not Hollywood (2013) focuses upon the production of value in independent filmmaking

As I have noted in a previous blog post, Chapter 5 of Not Hollywood (2013) is concerned with the production of value in independent filmmaking. Among the films Ortner discusses is Charles Ferguson’s No End in Sight (2007), which is rated 8.3 at IMDb. Review of Not Hollywood (2013) Many online reviews of the book […]