Having just taught a class last week on the advent of widescreen cinema to compete with television in the 1950s, it is very tempting to see Forbidden Planet this Friday and Saturday at the restored Loew’s Jersey theater in Jersey City. Even if you’ve seen this film before, you’ve probably never seen it on the [...]
Using Social Networking for a Job?
The Center for Communication presents a seminar on how to use social networking to land a job. I recommend these workshops for my undergraduates, and if you’re interested, you should look into attending. From the Center for Communication’s website: While social networking can be a great way to make connections and promote your personal brand, job-seekers must [...]
The Seventy-Hour Work Week
Brooklyn’s Light Industry is showing, five times this week, the East Coast premiere of Wang Bing’s Crude Oil. The film is a fourteen-hour documentary of what it’s like excavating for crude oil in Northwest China. The shift starts on Wednesday at 9:00 am and continues each night 11:00 pm through Sunday.
