The full playlist, including more clips of Ellen Hume, Mark Jurkowitz, Doug Smith, and Sree Sreenivasan is available here.
Matthew Weise: “Press the ‘Action’ Button, Snake! The Art of Self-Reference in Video Games”
“It is useful to think about the boundary between player and fiction as an elastic membrane—a threshold—rather than a wall.”
Help for landowners who could be victimized by natural gas drilling
“Landman Report Card will help landowners in any state navigate the government and corporate databases.”
Jay Scheib production makes Gertrude Stein sing
From Minnesota Public Radio, featuring director and MIT faculty member Jay Scheib.
Sam Ford: “Centenarian Newspaper Columnist Leaves Us Many Storytelling Lessons”
Sam Ford, CMS alum and Director of Customer Insights for Peppercom, writes about the late Rev. John C. Morris, storyteller extraordinaire.
Podcast: Christina Klein, “The Case of Tekkon Kinkreet: Transnational, U.S.-Asian Cinema”
Anime, often considered a uniquely Japanese cinematic form, is no exception. This talk will explore one recent example of transnational anime: Tekkon Kinkreet, the first Japanese anime to be written and directed by Americans.
Wyn Kelley on Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick
Wyn Kelly discussion how her thoughts on Melville’s Moby-Dick changed after she worked with Ricardo Pitts-Wiley on the play, Moby-Dick: Then and Now.
