Contributed by Dr. Victoria Schmidt - Kathryn Bigelow is now the first female director to win an academy award! AND she is almost 60 years old AND she won for directing a war film… Was I dreaming? Oh how long women in film have been waiting for such a day but does this really mean anything? Have women come far in the industry?   First off ‘yes’ this does mean something,...
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Contributed by Dr. Keith Thompson - “The Arts” and “The Humanities” are linked together on many campuses and in the minds of many scholars.  Is this merely a marriage of convenience, or is there a substantative relationship between these disciplines?  When I ask students in my music appreciation course “How does music makes us more human?” ...
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