Category: Video

  • Dylan Thomas in Hollywood

    If you’ve seen Interstellar, then you know the role that Dylan Thomas’s poem “Do not go gentle into that good night” plays in the film.  Here’s a video from Slate that traces the poem’s popularity in Hollywood.

  • Great Resource

    Frontline, PBS’s flagship public affairs series, has 170 of its films posted online where anyone can watch for free.  This is a terrific resource for teachers to use in the classroom or to recommend to students when they are doing research on a hot-button issue.  Their documentaries are timely and thorough, and they feature expert testimonies that…

  • The Daily Show’s Depiction of Campus Safety for Women

    http://www.hulu.com/watch/654144 I had a hard time laughing at this piece, but I’m so glad that The Daily Show took on the issue and showed how women remain vulnerable to abuse on college campuses.  The host’s questioning of the “expelled after graduation” sentence (“Isn’t that just…graduation?!?”) points to the ways that colleges and universities struggle to handle sexual assault…