Tag: movies
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The future of documentary: American Murder: The Family Next Door and the Watts family murders
Whatever you feel right now—joy, sorrow, pain, elation, cynicism, optimism—your spirits can be obliterated with a viewing of American Murder: The Family Next Door. This Netflix documentary tells the story of the Watts family murders, a crime so disturbing it gave the case investigators PTSD and prompted the presiding judge, who’d handle thousands of cases,…
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American magical thinking: It’s all an illusion, but who cares? (Right now)
A few years ago, a former mid-level administrator at a prestigious private graduate school told me that one of their job responsibilities was to make the admissions process less corrupt. But they never got much traction. Wealth and influence, i.e., networking and future donations, were a candidate’s most valued qualifications. The dean—who came to higher…
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The book is always better than the movie, but will you read it?
If you were hoping for a breakdown of specific books and movies, my apologies. This post is about the concept. It’s about how and why motion pictures beat written books, but also about why that might not last forever. Photographs changed everything It’s a discussion, and it starts with the invention of the photograph, a…
Nathan Schiller 