CUNY Academic Commons | Al Douglass | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/adouglass/activity/ Activity feed for Al Douglass. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 570bd0551f51c9eb0f2cf2fe7336d2ba Al Douglass (she/her) changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/839878/ Tue, 03 May 2022 13:19:41 -0400 02f95836f8e7e4d996c33715559e31c0 Al Douglass (she/her)'s profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/839877/ Tue, 03 May 2022 13:17:47 -0400 f8a924139616724859fbc361b807a4a2 Al Douglass (she/her) changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/477593/ Tue, 14 Nov 2017 00:26:47 -0500 c255c3951bffd668f5ba97c85693946f Al Douglass (she/her)'s profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/477592/ Tue, 14 Nov 2017 00:26:17 -0500 d3fd70f0ef5b795a4665d82879d934e7 Allison Douglass uploaded Genet BBC Interview to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/433107/ Tue, 03 May 2016 03:14:18 -0400 This is a fun little interview where Genet gets really cranky with his interviewers and accuses them of acting as “interrogators,” and keeps directly asking the film crew why they put up with standing there, listening to all the stupid things he has to say. Why don’t they resist the unpardonably static setup of the filmmaking process? http://bbc.in/ZliWbD

]]> 053c23ba9f8930d4f6ec423e01c6cd6e Allison Douglass uploaded Jonathan Kemp, "Erotic Indifference to Time" to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/433102/ Tue, 03 May 2016 02:20:11 -0400 Today for no particular reason I kept thinking about a book I loved in college, Jean Genet’s Our Lady of the Flowers, and so I wanted to use the posting this week to search around and find what kinds of work have been done with it of late. I landed on this piece by Jonathan Kemp, which looks at the book as a representation of a particular way of…[Read more]

]]> 9c6b1e1b520054d4da8a816b050b68c1 Al Douglass (she/her) joined the group English Comprehensive Exam Study Group – 2016 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/432465/ Wed, 20 Apr 2016 20:50:53 -0400 0487832651d0d3c3687bbff4544f8761 Allison Douglass modified Charles Busch Archives in Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/432138/ Mon, 18 Apr 2016 16:06:24 -0400 a3a18b6e9950c2b55e714bffa79b06c2 Allison Douglass modified Slapstick and Comic Performance, Peacock in Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/432137/ Mon, 18 Apr 2016 16:03:48 -0400 4df70c305e711d7536f5b33f279a890c Allison Douglass modified Charles Busch Archives in Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/432136/ Mon, 18 Apr 2016 16:02:06 -0400 e5e0dc76bfbe05797585f256b16b1ef3 Allison Douglass uploaded Slapstick and Comic Performance, Peacock to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/432135/ Mon, 18 Apr 2016 16:01:49 -0400 I found this text when I was working on some Commedia research for my clowns class with McCoy. This book by Louise Peacock examines at length the nature and effects of slapstick violence as a comedic device, citing commedia as the first fully-realized location of slapstick, and examining its practice from the Renaissance through the present.…[Read more]

]]> 8d96d0cd02b78718165f12ca42cb6d3b Allison Douglass uploaded Charles Busch Archives to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/432132/ Mon, 18 Apr 2016 15:57:29 -0400 Since we had such a great trip to the archives this week, I thought I’d pass along an NYPL archive that Jason Baumann suggested to me. Attached is the file list for the Charles Busch papers in their collection. If you aren’t familiar with Busch, he’s a New York playwright and drag artist who has, in my opinion, done some of the most interesting…[Read more]

]]> 8a7e0a58c9ae17445f06747971527073 Allison Douglass uploaded Elise Kramer, "The Playful is Political" to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/431411/ Mon, 11 Apr 2016 00:21:32 -0400 This examination by Elise Kramer looks at the kinds of rhetorical conversations ordinary people take part in surrounding jokes about rape on internet forums. She starts with the idea that such conversations take on typical, predictable forms, and that they recur seemingly ad infinitum, to the point that it feels almost like a futile exercise. The…[Read more]

]]> 9146f98d0d5c7678946a61627705cd84 Allison Douglass uploaded 1941 Illustration, "John Carter and the Giant of Mars" to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/431410/ Mon, 11 Apr 2016 00:14:47 -0400 This week I went to a talk at the GC on bigotry in science fiction publishing, and one of the presenters, Andre Carrington, looked at the way in which those fighting against diversity in science fiction today talk about it as a politicization and corruption of a previously “pure” form. As part of his response, he was looking at the ways in which…[Read more]

]]> 16a6394a733049beb93d79ddfad2c447 Allison Douglass uploaded Lockyer, Pickering, "Dear Shit Shovellers: Humour, Censure, and the Discourse of Complaint" to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/430726/ Sun, 03 Apr 2016 16:27:28 -0400 Lockyer and Pickering perform a linguistic analysis of the kinds of metaphorical language people use when writing letters of complaint to a particular satirical magazine, Private Eye. They find that complaints often seek metaphors of high/low that imply a kind of binary opposition between what is and is not acceptable, which reveals their purpose…[Read more]

]]> dbe5a6981008d33d24363f10fbd4f698 Allison Douglass uploaded Lenny Bruce at UCLA to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/430725/ Sun, 03 Apr 2016 16:24:46 -0400 UCLA has been digitizing their recordings of public events from throughout their history, and this is a talk given by Lenny Bruce in 1966. I accessed it via UCLA’s library website, but the recordings are up on youtube, so I’ll give you a link to the channel here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5zrXo0H-GugDtgkMIyBUHoUQEmJjJm3A I’m going…[Read more]

]]> 1e1fa2f20a3e69d8f2c17f72f7ec692d Allison Douglass uploaded Vancouver Snot Rag Review of Enemy Performance to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/430309/ Wed, 30 Mar 2016 14:19:46 -0400 Since I uploaded an article on punk scenes, I thought I should highlight a punk archive for my nugget. Collections like this one are a godsend for me in terms of my interest in cultures of small-scale performance, because they preserve records of not only these ephemeral performances themselves, but also of the ways in which the communities…[Read more]

]]> 3420a47d83f269b2af6d5220ba590b08 Allison Douglass modified Van Ham "Reading Early Punk as Secularized Sacred Clowning" in Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/430308/ Wed, 30 Mar 2016 13:59:24 -0400 a120f1a6f3cdd33826e7febcca518096 Allison Douglass uploaded Van Ham "Reading Early Punk as Secularized Sacred Clowning" to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/430307/ Wed, 30 Mar 2016 13:58:30 -0400 This is a really great little piece for me that interrupts the growing body of scholarship on early punk scenes as subcultural phenomena expressing working class politics. It attempts to do a couple of things with this move of finding the intersection between punk and clown. First, as I’ve already implied, it shakes punk scenes loose from specific…[Read more]

]]> e12139b75ca6cf309e983f8a99a18514 Allison Douglass modified Schuyler, The Function of Camp in Documentary Films in Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/428785/ Mon, 14 Mar 2016 16:07:16 -0400 8c32b4021cf5a90ebde32905becbcbf9 Allison Douglass modified Schuyler, The Function of Camp in Documentary Films in Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/428698/ Sun, 13 Mar 2016 20:27:39 -0400 98fda0d19323d6a9e34ef748775961a9 Allison Douglass uploaded Schuyler, The Function of Camp in Documentary Films to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/428697/ Sun, 13 Mar 2016 20:26:46 -0400 This is the article I’m analyzing for my paper. I chose it because I picked up this essay thinking it would be really fruitful for me, but the structure of the argument fell apart by the end and obscured the valuable observation I thought it essentially had going for it, so I wanted to think about why that happened. Schuyler looks at the way…[Read more]

]]> ad796511ec878b46577be7b652dce352 Allison Douglass uploaded Columbia Dramatic Museum Realia to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/428695/ Sun, 13 Mar 2016 20:16:32 -0400 Columbia’s online collections include a wide array of physical objects from historical stage productions worldwide, including a varied selection of set models from important productions, which are extraordinarily useful in studies that consider the production history of dramatic texts. I’m attaching a photo of a set design for a Tokyo production…[Read more]

]]> e7bc71c9b37c9398bd2c46d075e0fbad Allison Douglass uploaded Meserko "Standing Upright: Podcasting, Performance, and Alternative Comedy" to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/428247/ Mon, 07 Mar 2016 03:19:00 -0500 In the Lit as Industry course, we’re thinking about the ways in which different art worlds, or networks of people who contribute to creative work as producers/support/consumers/critics, affect the kind of work that can be or is likely to be produced within them. As someone who’s interested in popular forms of entertainment, I’ve been thinking…[Read more]

]]> 484dc6766d922163cc9a21fa3182930a Allison Douglass uploaded Bancroft Interview with Alice B. Toklas to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/428245/ Mon, 07 Mar 2016 03:00:56 -0500 Berkeley’s Bancroft Library has a collection of interviews conducted by their Regional Oral History Office since the 1860s on a wide range of topics, all of which have some relationship with the history of California and the western United States. This is an interview from 1952 with Alice B. Toklas. She covers a huge range of topics (the…[Read more]

]]> 14f7205eaca03de706238c069e00b6c0 Allison Douglass uploaded 1984, Manchester theater doing Dario Fo to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/427910/ Mon, 29 Feb 2016 23:25:46 -0500 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqKfwC70YZI This video is available on youtube, and the link is also in the document I’ve attached. I’m doing some research for one of my other classes on the commedia dell’arte, and I always think that when you’re researching a theatrical form, it’s important to watch it as well as read about it. Though this…[Read more]

]]> 3421f8f708c4dd2c6480ed38aa2316a8 Allison Douglass uploaded Henry Jenkins, "Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars?: Digital Cinema, Media Convergence, and Participatory Culture" to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/427907/ Mon, 29 Feb 2016 22:57:07 -0500 The PDF attached here is a book that contains this article…if you’d like to take a look at it, please go to page 549. The discussion here is about creative/artistic response from fan groups of various cinema franchises. I thought it had a useful perspective in conversation with the section in the Culler for this week on cultural studies. That…[Read more]

]]> cb1a4a445e738597248b35ddafcea6bd Allison Douglass uploaded Munoz, "Stages: Queers, Punks and the Utopian Performative" to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/427396/ Mon, 22 Feb 2016 20:35:06 -0500 This is a nostalgic piece by Jose Esteban Munoz, a chapter from his book Cruising Utopia. It examines the physical stages of queer and punk clubs from his own youth in L.A., as photographed by Kevin McCarty, and theorizes these spaces as utopian locations: utopian in the sense that they posit a societal incompleteness in the present and, through…[Read more]

]]> 63dae20612e33952795d56b39ea56b88 Allison Douglass uploaded Don DeLillo on Taylor Swift to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/427393/ Mon, 22 Feb 2016 20:13:42 -0500 A somewhat whimsical choice for my nugget this week: this is a piece published in the Atlantic after the release of Taylor Swift’s album 1989. The correspondent from the Atlantic playfully states that they at the magazine were unsure whether the track on that album containing nothing but white noise was “a mistake or a super-profound commentary on…[Read more]

]]> 1d5114d957d5fffb780c7a16abd110cf Allison Douglass uploaded Historical Origins of World-Systems Analysis to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426714/ Sun, 14 Feb 2016 19:57:26 -0500 We are reading World-Systems Analysis by Immanuel Wasserstein in another course I’m taking (Literature as Industry with Marc Dolan), and I thought that, based on our discussion last week, the class might be interested in the first chapter on the methodology’s history. In situating the concepts of this particular form of analysis, Wasserstein gives…[Read more]

]]> 44230e5d2b43709a2b86d262365e223d Allison Douglass uploaded Nabokov Teaching Diagrams to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426712/ Sun, 14 Feb 2016 19:43:41 -0500 This nugget is a selection of diagrams/sketches drawn by Vladimir Nabokov related to his teaching career. Nabokov, when questioned about his teaching philosophy, would often respond with statements about his demand that students focus on detail rather than theme in literature and then elaborate anecdotally about particular visual elements in works…[Read more]

]]> f7de4069fe8b5bec3b80eeb7ac7b2529 Allison Douglass modified Disciplining the Carnivalesque in Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426095/ Mon, 08 Feb 2016 04:09:51 -0500 28afea8339387f9d8b7afede9dd4a54a Allison Douglass modified Adrienne Rich Reading 1951 in Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426094/ Mon, 08 Feb 2016 04:03:42 -0500 cd818b54b24670d6245b1ad55ed807f0 Allison Douglass uploaded Adrienne Rich Reading 1951 to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426093/ Mon, 08 Feb 2016 04:03:10 -0500 http://rudolph.lts.harvard.edu:9032/ramgen/Content/1454903437819_7635294.smi

This is an audio-recording from Harvard’s digital archives collection of poets doing readings at Harvard. The link to the audio file accesses a reading by Adrienne Rich of a selection of her poetry — twenty poems in all including “Storm Warnings” and “Aunt Jennifer’…[Read more]

]]> 1889c23528fb2354d6a7b5e2a0db105e Allison Douglass modified Disciplining the Carnivalesque in Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426092/ Mon, 08 Feb 2016 03:46:40 -0500 0d40ac33d3ba357387117352fd33fe78 Allison Douglass uploaded Disciplining the Carnivalesque to Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426091/ Mon, 08 Feb 2016 03:45:02 -0500 I chose this article not because I think it’s argument is particularly elegant (I actually think it’s problematic in several ways), but because it is utilizing theory in a way that I wanted to consider. I’ve been thinking quite a bit about Bakhtin’s Rabelais and His World lately, and this piece uses a Bakhtinian lens of the grotesque to look at…[Read more]

]]> 1d509ddb7c2954d685aa7515948f7912 Al Douglass (she/her) joined the group Introduction to Doctoral Studies in English: English 70000 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/423795/ Sat, 09 Jan 2016 06:17:56 -0500 c885c943de38161e256a000db6be976b Al Douglass (she/her) became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/423792/ Sat, 09 Jan 2016 06:12:05 -0500