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Jane Jacobs “helped us see that roads and buildings and streetscapes encapsulated information”
/0 Comments/in MCHS Stories, Newsletter/by Jaan PillI like Alice Munro’s comparison between her way of reading a short story, and the experience a person has when visiting somebody’s house. We all know how a house works, she remarks in the anthology entitled The art of the short story (2206), and “how it encloses space and makes connections between one enclosed space and another and […]
Myth, ritual and the oral (2010)
/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan PillUpdate: A Feb. 21, 2014 New Yorker article is entitled: “Why is academic writing so academic?” [End of update] In Myth, ritual and the oral (2010), Jack Goody discusses fiction and non-fiction, the role of narrative in oral and lecto-oral societies, and the history of novels and the theatre. In lecto-oral cultures, one finds […]
With high-definition video, the close-up may — or may not — be less critical
/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan PillSmall tech: The culture of digital tools (2008) includes includes a discussion by Jim Bizzocchi on the impact of high-definition video on the home viewing experience. Films for television have in the past avoided long shots, and have favoured close-ups, according to Bizzocchi. This was a natural response to the small screen size and low-definition […]