Archives for June, 2012

Tron Uprising

How did this get past me? It’s two episodes in now BTW.

0 Comments. Posted by on Sunday, June 10, 2012 at 10:50 pm.

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Alien and Academics

Image from Salon Salon’s Tom Shone asks Prometheus: Why are academics so obsessed with Ridley Scott’s Alien and its sequels? I cram The Alien quadrilogy into my Animation Studies class for a number of reasons. 1) Ridley Scott got double the budget because his storyboards were so good. 2) “It’s in the cut” – Ridley […]

0 Comments. Posted by on Friday, June 8, 2012 at 12:02 am.

Filed under animation studies, film studies, movies.

Persepolis: Still Got It

I ran into this article from the Atlantic while pretending that I was going to get out of bed. On Thursday, Tunisian courts will hand down a verdict in the public prosecution of Nabil Karoui, chief of popular Tunisian broadcaster Nessma TV, for airing Satrapi’s film. The verdict will say a lot about the future […]

0 Comments. Posted by on Sunday, June 3, 2012 at 2:50 pm.

Filed under animation, animation studies, film studies.