http://www.syndicatemizzou.org Thu, 24 May 2012 09:25:49 GMT en-us 40 Center for eResearch Connecting you with the University of Missouri’s innovative research and creative activity http://www.syndicatemizzou.org/images/logo.png 384 80 http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/miller/ipod/miller2-beginnings.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/miller/ipod/miller2-beginnings.m4v Miller discusses his journey through New York, commercial advertising, and art school—ulimately leading to his position in the Department of Theatre here at Mizzou. 3 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:00:25 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/urmforum07/ipod/blockus4.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/urmforum07/ipod/blockus4.m4v Student researchers have an opportunity to present their research at academic conferences across the country. Not only do they get to expose their work to a new audience, but they can also observe other projects outside of MU. “There are plenty of opportunities for students to see what’s happening not only in their own research group, but also in other research groups,” Blockus says. In the past, undergraduate researchers have traveled to major cities including Chicago, San Francisco, and New York City. “That’s a really neat experience,” she explains, “whether it is interacting with other scholars on campus or with scholars across the country or world.” 3 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:42:28 GMT http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/west/ipod/West03.m4v Education http://syndicatemizzou.org/resources/west/ipod/West03.m4v West is currently finishing a book, _From Celluloid to Tabloid_, in collaboration with Penelope Pelizzon (University of Connecticut), on Hollywood crime films and tabloid journalism from the 1920s through the 1940s. Unlike the tabloids of today, which West decries as “pretty trashy scandal magazines and newspapers…often designed to expose and ruin people’s careers,” the tabloids of the earlier era contain much more liveliness and inventiveness. “Although the cliché is that the tabloids have always been pitched to the uneducated, these early ones from the 1920s are surprisingly literary, replete with metaphorical word play, allusions, wit, and irony.” Tabloid writers often went on to become celebrated novelists and screenwriters for Hollywood. Beyond their literary value, these tabloids also teach us about urban culture and modernity, especially about New York in the 1920s and 1930s. West and Pelizzon refer to these tabloids as “adaptation-ready sites,” because they know how to spin information so quickly from one source. 3 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:28:07 GMT