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Videos for my Harlem Renaissance class

I’m posting some videos here for the interest of the other members of my Harlem Renaissance class. Thought it would be easier to maintain one post rather than multiple links to the multiple videos. Feel free to pass by and ignore if you’re not in the class–or not, it’s up to you.

The Colbert Report: Stephen Colbert’s guest, Debra Dickerson, claims that Barack Obama is not, in fact, black. Interesting counter-position to the editorial we read for class. (Obviously Stephen plays it for laughs, but I think Dickerson does a fair job of making her point despite him.)

a video by a high school student. She’s interviewing black teenagers on racial perception, and includes a recreation of the famous doll experiment from the 1950s.

30 Rock – This NBC sitcom focuses on a Saturday Night Live-type sketch comedy show, the Tracy Jordan Show. In this clip, Tracy and the only black staff writer (nicknamed Toofer, I don’t know why) are working on writing a sketch together, but they clash because of their different racial experiences.

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ENG5394 – 01 – kewego

30 Rock – In another episode, Jack (the, uh, I’m not sure what he is–he’s the boss, but not of the whole network–programming director, maybe?) wants Tracy to entertain an important client, but Tracy resents that role.

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ENG5394 – 02 – kewego

American Idol Audition Recap (warning: many embedded videos)

Okay, I’ve rewatched all the (successful) auditions, and here are my picks for the Top 24. I’m not willing to make predictions any further than that, both because out of the 176 people put through to Hollywood, we only saw 48 full auditions, and also because it’s so difficult to tell from a 30-second a capella audition how they’re going to manage in the full-length performances. (And by full-length, I mean a minute and a half. So. Still not really full-length, but whatever.) And there’ll certainly be at least one or two people who DO make the Top 24 who didn’t get featured auditions. But that’s data I don’t have, so obviously, this is just based on the 48 auditions we do have.

Antonella Barba - kewego
Antonella Barba – kewego

Melinda Doolittle - kewego
Melinda Doolittle – kewego

Chris Sligh - kewego
Chris Sligh – kewego

Jenry Bejarano - kewego
Jenry Bejarano – kewego

The rest of my Top 24 after the jump. We’ll see how close I am! (Click here to play all the auditions I didn’t put in my Top 24.) And these are in no particular order. Oh, and they’re also the ones I would choose, not necessarily the ones I think will get chosen…so they’re more geared toward “what I personally like” than what the judges might end up with.

Tom Hanks is Bond. James Bond.

Dude, this is an awesome trailer mash-up. The voice-over’s a bit weak, and you kind of have to pretend that Tom Hanks looks the same age in all the clips, but wow. Of course, the idea of Hanks being Bond scared me for a second…

I couldn’t catch all the clips, because most of them are from older Hanks films that I haven’t seen, but it has twenty different films represented. TWENTY. That’s an enormous amount of work. Hat tip Trailer Mash.

“The Ruin” (Old English) film

I came across this short film in a blog by an Anglo-Saxon scholar, the Unlocked Wordhoard. It’s a 6-minute adaptation of an Old English elegiac poem, “The Ruin,” done by some students at the University of Oxford. I hadn’t read the poem before (Old English and modern English text here), but it’s hauntingly beautiful. The film is done in Old English with modern English subtitles, and the language is beautiful too. Maybe someday I’ll learn it. But that day may be a ways away. Anyway. My favorite thing about the film is how it applies the poem’s description of a ruined Anglo-Saxon mead-hall to an early industrial-age cement factory…good literature resonates throughout the ages, doesn’t it?

Recut trailers

Recutting movie trailers seems to be all the rage these days. Here’s a few of my current favorites (I’m not really choosing all the ones that take comedies and romances and turn them into thrillers and horror films…that what most everyone is making):

Office Space as a psychothriller:

Sleepless in Seattle with Meg Ryan as desperate obsessive:

And my favorite: The Sound of Music as a tense, yep, you guessed it, thriller.

The strain of music at the very end totally makes it.

Just to reverse the trend, here’s the one that I think started it all (at least, it was the first recut trailer to make the blogosphere rounds that I saw):

The Shining as a feel-good family film.

I haven’t seen The Shining, so I don’t really get as much out of this one as the other three, but I know it’s a horror film, and you definitely don’t get that from this trailer!

And you thought trailers actually gave you a good idea of what to expect from the film! Heh.

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