The Boat That Rocked

Something for you to do on what is looking to be a rainy weekend.

The Boat That Rocked, Richard Curtis' film about the British Pirate Radio Stations is playing at the Metropolitan, the movie theater in Via del Corso, near the Piazza del Popolo. The film is in English (with Italian subtitles). Of course the film is directed by the guy that did Four Weddings and a Funeral so like Xan Brooks says in The Guardian, it's more 'born to be mild' than anything else, but it's nonetheless a good example of how pirates, with hindsight, can be cuddly and cute.

A light hearted take on some of the issues we discussed at the beginning of the session and like I said it's something to do --it keeps you out of the rain if it rains or it gives you some air conditioned respite from the heat if the sun's out.



Review in The Guardian here. Video review here.

The Democratic Right To Know

McKenzie Wark, A Hacker Manifesto (Ver. 4.0)

James Boyle from The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind
Link above is for the whole book which Boyle made available through the Creative Commons License. You should read Chapter 6: I Got A Mashup.
If you don't want to download the whole book you can find a link to the annotatable online version of the chapter here.

Matt Mason - We Invented The Remix

Henry Jenkins - Interactive Audiences? The 'Collective Intelligence' of Media Fans

Aoki, Boyle and Jenkins - Bound By Law?
This is a comic book on copyright. Don't be fooled by it's form: it's a great read and I strongly encourage you to read at least the first 15 pages.
You can also find it free on-line from its publisher --crazy, huh?-- Duke University and The Center for the Study of the Public Domain in a variety of formats. You can also 'remix' it and you're encouraged to translate it. It's all here.

From The Cultural Resistance Reader: please have the articles in Section Seven read. The following articles from Section 8 are also required: Jordan on 'Reclaim the Streets'; Jason Grote on 'Revered Billy' and Ricardo Dominguez's 'Electronic Disturbance'

Bonus:

This is an old post from the blog where you can find a link to download Girl Talk's latest work, Feed The Animals.

Bonus reading for those interested in reading more on Jamaican music:
Dick Hebdige - from Cut'N'Mix: Culture, Identity and Caribbean Music

True Norwegian Black Metal

From VBS.TV - True Norwegian Black Metal - a portrait of Gorgoroth's Gaahl.

Subcultures I

Please complete the readings in Section III from The Cultural Resistance Reader. I will be assigning those from Section IV tomorrow in class.
Don Letts' Punk: Attitude in on reserve in the library for those of you who did not see it in class.

Here are the Dick Hebdige chapters from Subculture: The Meaning of Style

Chapter 6 : Subculture: The Unnatural Break
Chapter 7 : Style as Intentional Communication
Chapter 8 : Style as Homology

Towards A Third Cinema

Of all African film directors, Sembene is the first to confer value to images."
--Med Hondo

Fernando Solanas & Octavio Getino, Towards a Third Cinema
Med Hondo, What is Cinema for us?

If you are interested in reading a brief outline of the life, ideas and struggles of Ousmane Sembene: OUSMANE SEMBENE: THE LIFE OF A REVOLUTIONARY ARTIST