by Larry Hott | Sep 3, 2008 | The Public Humanist
What do you think is the first thing aspiring filmmakers want to talk about when they take workshops on producing documentaries? The process of self-discovery? How the observer affects the subject matter? The influence of the internet on editing style? Of course not....
by David Tebaldi | Sep 8, 2008 | The Public Humanist
The National Endowment for the Humanities and the state humanities councils . . . have been calling the tune for major Public Television documentaries for almost four decades. Heres how it works for us. Because the major source of funding is in the humanities we gear...
by Martin Newhouse | Sep 11, 2008 | The Public Humanist
Margaret greeted her [husband] with peculiar tenderness on the morrow. Mature as he was, she might yet be able to help him to the building of the rainbow bridge that should connect the prose in us with the passion. Without it we are meaningless fragments, half monks,...
by Martin Newhouse | Sep 15, 2008 | The Public Humanist
"Obtuseness," the mental quality that E.M. Forster identified in Howard’s End, fairly abounds in A Passage to India. We see it in the obtuseness of the English with regard to the Indians, the Indians with regard to the English, Moslems with regard to...
by Kate Navarra Thibodeau | Sep 18, 2008 | The Public Humanist
The United States Department of Education website for Massachusetts claims that "every day we learn what works so students can make greater progress" learning reading and mathematics. They offer statistics on the number of schools making adequate yearly...
