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The New Guy’s Post on SEK

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On November 26, 2016
(The LGM powers-that-be asked me to adapt something that I wrote on Facebook about Scott.) I only knew Scott via social media and email, and not terribly well. Like everyone else here, I admired his wit and humor; I looked forward to everything that he wrote. But his writings on visual rhetoric were particularly important to […]

I’m a fraud!

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On August 13, 2013

I don’t want to steal anyone’s thunder or appear to be piling on, but one aspect of Hugo Schyzer’s “confession” strikes me as especially problematic, especially at a time

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Most of what I read about the latest Mad Men (“The Other Woman”) focused on Joan’s decision to accept Pete’s indecent proposal—and rightly so—but the title of the episode basically demands the audience answer the question “Who’s the woman, and who’s the other one?” As far as I can tell, the consensus seems to be that it’s Joan, who […]
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(Another one of those now-more-conveniently-located posts, only significantly longer than usual because I’m squeezing three episodes into one three hour course. So apologies for the length in advance.) One of the core assumptions of the way I teach visual rhetoric is that directors often know more than they know (or are letting on). This is because […]
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