Jason Jacobs

University of Queensland

http://www.screenaesthetics.com

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In Media Res

Reaching out: Milch’s teaching, voice, genius.

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Jason Jacobs University of Queensland

April 23, 2012
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Reaching out: Milch’s teaching, voice, genius. television genius David Milch Curator's Note Listen to the painstaking patient care with which David Milch walks his audience through his teaching materials in this lecture that theorises the themes and ...
In Media Res

“Money, Shame and Reparation: A Moment from The Sopranos”

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Jason Jacobs University of Queensland

June 28, 2007
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“Money, Shame and Reparation: A Moment from The Sopranos” character narrative race HBO The Sopranos aesthetics camera movement decor Curator's Note Season three, ‘Another Toothpick’ and Tony and Carmela are driving home after a joint session with Mel ...

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In Media Res

Re: Reaching out: Milch’s teaching, voice, genius.

Thanks

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Jason Jacobs University of Queensland

Thursday, April 26, 2012 — 9:56 pm
Thank you Charlotte, Martin and Sean for your comments and apologies for my delay in responding to them. I think that the New Criticism practised by Warren and Brooks (as distinct from Wimsatt and Beardsley) would have been fairly relaxed with the notion ...
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Re: The Idea of the End of a Thing

Moods and Endings

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Jason Jacobs University of Queensland

Thursday, April 26, 2012 — 11:58 pm
I adore this typically sensitive, nuanced and original writing by Sean and it made me wonder about our craving for an ending as something understandable (rather than a mistake) as well as a source of melancholoy, especially in art when an ending forces u ...