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• In Media Res
  Re: Bringing Wreck: The Films of Ava Duvernay

  Thanks for your thoughts & comment!

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  Rachel Raimist University of Alabama

  Thursday, September 6, 2012 — 1:55 pm

  Apologies for the delayed response--- no matter how little I have typed over the last few days the form just kept saying "over the word limit"   ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Bringing Wreck: The Films of Ava Duvernay

  Changing frm rich text editor & new browser. Yes, I can comment!

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  Rachel Raimist University of Alabama

  Thursday, September 6, 2012 — 2:09 pm

  Yes, I absolutely agree that Ava’s narrative films open up rich possibilities for analysis both for hip-hop in the cinema and the cinema in the hip-hop, if that makes sense. I think that both aspects you propose – both the form and the mode of distributio ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Bringing Wreck: The Films of Ava Duvernay

  continued...

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  Rachel Raimist University of Alabama

  Thursday, September 6, 2012 — 2:18 pm

  It is crazy to consider that as a generational moment our imprisoned population top more than 2 million of us. Even crazier is that 7+million of this country are on some sort of parole, probation or supervised release. Again Duvernay resists the typical r ...
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  Re: Rap Video Remake: Activism (Re)Mixed With Viewer Generated Documentary Footage

  The Importance of Archives - yes!

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  Rachel Raimist University of Alabama

  Wednesday, January 25, 2012 — 3:15 am

   Thank you, Sheila! Since reading Alex Juhasz's  Learning from YouTube, I've been thinking considerably about digital archives. I am not a big YouTuber, in terms of watching hours and hours of "funny" videos (I call it video spam), but ...