skip to main | skip to sidebar

Let's Read and Find Out!

A blog on which we will blog about reading and you will read about it.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Taking history personally

In anticipation of the 92Y Tribeca screening of Los Angeles Plays Itself on Saturday, here's my interview with director Thom Andersen.

Posted by Evan at 9:43 AM

Labels: Interviews, Los Angeles

Newer Post Older Post Home

Things Simultaneously Happening Elsewhere

Not Coming to a Theater Near You

Recommended Cinema for November 08-November 14, 2020
3 years ago
Second Balcony

I think one of the biggest gaps in our understanding of human affairs is that we have no theory of...
5 years ago
Working Notes

Follow me!
8 years ago
Free Space Comix: the blog

Index Card Poems
10 years ago
A View to a Kill

10 years ago
funboring.com - The Music Issue

valentine's day comes early, just to make you happy
11 years ago
The Valve

The Valve - Closed For Renovation
12 years ago
Riff City

Witch House: Harry Potter and the Wizard Rock Phenomenon
12 years ago
Stephen Elliott's blog

Notes on Book Publishing in a Socially Networked World
14 years ago
{LIME TREE}

H.D.'s "Helen"
21 years ago
Freewill Applicator
My Life and Thoughts
jane dark's sugarhigh!

Archive

► 2011 (9)
- ► October (1)
- ► May (1)
- ► April (2)
- ► March (2)
- ► February (1)
- ► January (2)

► 2010 (76)
- ► December (1)
- ► November (2)
- ► October (2)
- ► September (7)
- ► August (10)
- ► July (7)
- ► June (10)
- ► May (6)
- ► April (10)
- ► March (6)
- ► February (7)
- ► January (8)

▼ 2009 (112)
- ► December (7)
- ▼ November (16)
- ► October (15)
- ► September (9)
- ► August (3)
- ► July (9)
- ► June (4)
- ► May (11)
- ► April (8)
- ► March (5)
- ► February (5)
- ► January (20)

► 2008 (155)
- ► December (20)
- ► November (10)
- ► October (9)
- ► September (17)
- ► August (7)
- ► July (12)
- ► June (19)
- ► May (5)
- ► April (15)
- ► March (12)
- ► February (10)
- ► January (19)

► 2007 (197)
- ► December (9)
- ► November (12)
- ► October (16)
- ► September (33)
- ► August (56)
- ► July (43)
- ► June (23)
- ► May (5)

The Eternal Reverse Succession of Contemplated Entities

Reviews (36) Eliot (29) Twee (29) Criticism (28) Pound (22) Bourdieu (20) William Carlos Williams (20) Metaphors (16) Philosophy (14) America (13) Death (13) Latour (13) Lookalikes (13) Moore (13) Sociology (13) Stein (13) Yeats (13) Auden (12) Blackmur (12) Ashbery (11) Graves (11) Stevens (11) Adorno (10) Poetry (10) Wilson (10) 1950s (9) Empson (9) Joyce (9) Panofsky (9) Theory (9) Academia (8) Age (8) Burke (8) Freud (8) Jarrell (8) Letters (8) Los Angeles (8) Moretti (8) WWI (8) Cavell (7) Cummings (7) O'Hara (7) Obama (7) Regionalism (7) Time (7) Whitman (7) 1930s (6) Aesthetics (6) Aphorisms (6) Baudelaire (6) Christgau (6) England (6) Faulkner (6) Foucault (6) France (6) Hegel (6) Internet (6) Kenner (6) Marx (6) Modernism (6) Nabokov (6) Pastoral (6) Perloff (6) Rhetoric (6) Wallace (6) Wittgenstein (6) 1940s (5) Avant-Garde (5) Barthes (5) Cinema (5) Comics (5) Conferences (5) Crane (5) Derrida (5) Dos Passos (5) Fitzgerald (5) Friendship (5) Fussell (5) Games (5) Hardy (5) Kant (5) Koch (5) Kraus (5) Leavis (5) Lowell (5) Lévi-Strauss (5) McKay (5) Paley (5) Poems (5) Rorty (5) Science (5) Surrealism (5) Truffaut (5) 1920s (4) Apollinaire (4) Architecture (4) Benjamin (4) Brooks (4) Bureaucracy (4) Chaplin (4) Dewey (4) Dial (4) Dialectic (4) Fiedler (4) Godard (4) Goffman (4) H.D. (4) Indie Rock (4) Interviews (4) Ireland (4) Jameson (4) MacNeice (4) Nietzsche (4) Owen (4) Politics (4) Postmodernism (4) Proust (4) Raymond Williams (4) Riding (4) Sartre (4) School (4) Spender (4) Style (4) Swinburne (4) Symbolism (4) Tate (4) Television (4) Updike (4) Wood (4) Work (4) 1960s (3) 1970s (3) Administration (3) Autodidacticism (3) Bishop (3) Blogs (3) Bloom (3) Critique (3) Culture (3) Didion (3) Economics (3) Education (3) Ellison (3) Eluard (3) Frank Lloyd Wright (3) Fried (3) Gender (3) Generations (3) Graff (3) Habermas (3) Harman (3) Heidegger (3) Hemingway (3) Hughes (3) James Weldon Johnson (3) Lawrence (3) Liberalism (3) Lists (3) Little Magazines (3) Marxism (3) Muldoon (3) New Criticism (3) Ngai (3) O'Neill (3) Olson (3) Oppen (3) Princeton (3) Professionalism (3) Public Sphere (3) Pynchon (3) Rainey (3) Ransom (3) Ray (3) Realism (3) Religion (3) Research (3) Rock Music (3) Roth (3) Schwartz (3) Serres (3) Simmel (3) Space (3) Structuralism (3) Taste (3) The Subject (3) Trilling (3) WWII (3) Weather (3) Weber (3) Wheelwright (3) photography (3) teaching (3) 00s (2) 1922 (2) Advertising (2) Aiken (2) Allegory (2) Althusser (2) Andersen (2) Anthologies (2) Archives (2) Argument (2) Ash (2) Associations (2) Beckett (2) Bellow (2) Bemis (2) Bernhard (2) Biography (2) Boltanski (2) Books (2) Bourgeoisie (2) Camp (2) Chesterton (2) Children (2) China (2) Close Reading (2) Coleridge (2) Davie (2) Deconstruction (2) Depression (2) Dickinson (2) Dictionaries (2) Dylan (2) Elitism (2) Existentialism (2) Fiction (2) Food (2) Fools (2) Frost (2) Gaddis (2) Ginsberg (2) Goldsmith (2) Greenberg (2) Greene (2) Hackwork (2) Hair (2) Harlem Renaissance (2) Herriman (2) Hip-Hop (2) History (2) Humanism (2) Influence (2) Intentional Fallacy (2) James English (2) Jazz (2) Jones/Baraka (2) Kafka (2) Kathleen ni Houlihan (2) Kinsey Report (2) Kuhn (2) L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E (2) Larsen (2) Lautréamont (2) Laziness (2) Lectures (2) Lyrics (2) Mailer (2) Malkmus (2) Mallarmé (2) Manifestos (2) Marcus (2) Marginalia (2) Maxims (2) McLuhan (2) Melville (2) Memory (2) Merrill (2) Michael North (2) Middlebrow (2) Modernity (2) Nehamas (2) Networks (2) New York School (2) Novels (2) O'Connor (2) Objectivism (2) Pedagogy (2) Plath (2) Plato (2) Poet-Critics (2) Poetics (2) Popular Music (2) Pragmatism (2) Prosody (2) Psychoanalysis (2) Publishing (2) Randy Newman (2) Reaction (2) Repetition (2) Reznikoff (2) Richard Wright (2) Risk (2) Rossetti (2) Rukeyser (2) Said (2) Samuel Johnson (2) Sandburg (2) Sedgwick (2) Shields (2) Spielberg (2) Sublime (2) Svevo (2) Taylor (2) Tennessee Williams (2) Travel (2) Utopia (2) Value (2) Violence (2) Wiseman (2) Wolk (2) Woolf (2) Writing (2) Zukofsky (2) cultural imperialism (2) poetics of peace (2) 1910s (1) 1980s (1) 1990s (1) 2000s (1) Aaron Douglass (1) Abish (1) Adam Frank (1) Adam Smith (1) Adams (1) Agassiz (1) Ages (1) Agrarians (1) Airports (1) Alan Moore (1) Ambiguity (1) Amsterdam (1) Anachronism (1) Analysis (1) Anne Frank (1) Anti-Semitism (1) Apps (1) Aragon (1) Aristotle (1) Arrière-Garde (1) Art (1) Attridge (1) Autonomy (1) Axelrod (1) Bachelard (1) Baker (1) Barbershops (1) Barnes (1) Barthel (1) Basic English (1) Bataille (1) Beatles (1) Beats (1) Becker (1) Beethoven (1) Benigni (1) Benn Michaels (1) Berkeley (1) Berman (1) Bernstein (1) Berryman (1) Bettelheim (1) Biology (1) Bohemianism (1) Boulding (1) Breton (1) Britten (1) Broch (1) Brooke (1) Brooker (1) Bryant (1) Bulgaria (1) Bunting (1) Burger King (1) Burroughs (1) Burt (1) Bush (1) Bök (1) C.B. Falls (1) Cahn (1) Calculation (1) Caldwell (1) California (1) Camus (1) Capitalism (1) Carl Wilson (1) Cartoons (1) Casanova (1) Causality (1) Censorship (1) Chabon (1) Chakrabarty (1) Charisma (1) Chiasson (1) Children's Books (1) Christmas (1) Clair Wills (1) Clare (1) Clarity (1) Clarke (1) Cliché (1) Clover (1) Cohorts (1) Cold War (1) Collaboration (1) Communism (1) Comparison (1) Complaint (1) Computers (1) Confessionalism (1) Connolly (1) Conrad (1) Conservatism (1) Control (1) Conventions (1) Coordination (1) Coover (1) Copies (1) Cosmopolitanism (1) Coterie (1) Cover Art (1) Creeley (1) Crime (1) Cullen (1) Cultural Capital (1) Cultural History (1) Cultural Studies (1) Cynicism (1) Dali (1) Dance-Pop (1) Danger (1) Danny Boyle (1) Dante (1) David Lloyd (1) Day-Lewis (1) De Beauvoir (1) De Man (1) DeLillo (1) Debate (1) Debord (1) Deep Image (1) Delay (1) Demuth (1) Denby (1) Deresiewicz (1) Descartes (1) Description (1) Desnos (1) Destroyer (1) Devlin (1) Dictatorship (1) Disco (1) Disinterest (1) Divorce (1) Doctorow (1) Dogs (1) Don Quixote (1) Donne (1) Doors (1) Double Entendres (1) Doughty (1) Dowson (1) Dreams (1) Dreyfus (1) Duchamp (1) Dugan (1) Duncan (1) Durkheim (1) Durrell (1) Dyer (1) Dylan Thomas (1) Eagleton (1) Economy (1) Edith Wharton (1) Edna Longley (1) Edwards (1) Ellis (1) Emerson (1) Emily (1) Englander (1) English (1) Ennis (1) Entertainment (1) Epistemology (1) Erika Mann (1) Erotica (1) Esty (1) Ethics (1) Europe (1) Evan (1) Evangelicalism (1) Exchange (1) Exhibitionism (1) Explication (1) Facebook (1) Facts (1) Failure (1) Family (1) Farber (1) Fascism (1) Fashion (1) Fassbinder (1) Fiery Furnaces (1) Filesharing (1) Film Criticism (1) Fish (1) Fisher (1) Flanner (1) Flarf (1) Flaubert (1) Fleck (1) Fletcher (1) Ford Madox Ford (1) Forster (1) Fowler (1) Frankfurt School (1) Franzen (1) Freddy Krueger (1) Frere-Jones (1) Fry (1) Frye (1) Fuller (1) Future (1) Gambling (1) Garvey (1) Gascoyne (1) Gass (1) Gauss (1) Gavin Jones (1) Generals (1) Geoffrey Hill (1) Germany (1) Geuss (1) Ghosts (1) Gilpin (1) Glenn Beck (1) Global Warming (1) God (1) Goldsby (1) Gondry (1) Gopnik (1) Gossip Girl (1) Green (1) Grietzer (1) Groucho Marx (1) Guillory (1) Habit (1) Hall (1) Hamilton Cottier (1) Hans Hoffmann (1) Hartman (1) Hassan (1) Hate (1) Haynes (1) Hejinian (1) Henry Horace Williams (1) Henry Miller (1) Hill (1) Historicism (1) Hitchcock (1) Hitler (1) Hobsbawm (1) Hollander (1) Hollywood (1) Holman Hunt (1) Homelessness (1) Houellebecq (1) Housman (1) Huey Newton (1) Hulk (1) Hume (1) Humor (1) Ideas (1) Ideology (1) Imitation (1) Industry (1) Inequality (1) Information (1) Institutions (1) Intellectual History (1) Intention (1) Interpretation (1) Intersectionality (1) Invisible Man (1) Irving Howe (1) Iser (1) Isherwood (1) Ives (1) J.P. Morgan (1) Jacob (1) James Bond (1) James Laughlin (1) James Wood (1) Jane Jacobs (1) Jeff Wall (1) John Denver (1) Johnson (1) Jokes (1) Jung (1) Justification (1) Kael (1) Kanye West (1) Karl Shapiro (1) Kazin (1) Keats (1) Keri Walsh (1) Kermode (1) Kerouac (1) Keywords (1) Khan (1) Kingsley Amis (1) Kogan (1) Koontz (1) Kubrick (1) Kunitz (1) Laforgue (1) Lanchester (1) Lane (1) Langland (1) Lanham (1) Larkin (1) Lazarsfeld (1) Lear (1) Lefebvre (1) Lehman (1) Lehrer (1) Leibniz (1) Lentricchia (1) Life (1) Linh (1) Lipking (1) Lippmann (1) Literature (1) Lorca (1) Los Angeles Review of Books (1) Loy (1) Loyalty (1) Lukács (1) Lutz (1) Löwenthal (1) Macaulay (1) Madge (1) Magazines (1) Magee (1) Mamet (1) Man of Letters (1) Manchester (1) Manet (1) Mannheim (1) Maoism (1) Maritain (1) Marriage (1) Martin Amis (1) Martin Luther King (1) Marvel (1) Marxism-Leninism (1) Masochism (1) Mathews (1) Maturity (1) McCain (1) McCombs (1) McGann (1) McGuinness (1) Meillassoux (1) Menand (1) Mencken (1) Merleau-Ponty (1) Meter (1) Methodology (1) Middle-Class (1) Midwest (1) Militarism (1) Millay (1) Milton (1) Minimalism (1) Miracles (1) Misanthropy (1) Mlinko (1) Money (1) Morality (1) Morrison (1) Motherwell (1) Mullins (1) Museums (1) Music (1) Musil (1) Muybridge (1) MySpace (1) Myth (1) Nathaniel West (1) Neil Jordan (1) New Directions (1) New Historicism (1) New Media (1) New Yorker (1) New Zealand (1) Newman (1) Nobel Prize (1) North (1) Nouvelle Vague (1) Nussbaum (1) Objects (1) Ophüls (1) Orientalism (1) Orientation (1) Ornament (1) Overheard (1) Packer (1) Palin (1) Pascal (1) Paul Fry (1) Paz (1) Penn Warren (1) Perec (1) Perpetua (1) Phil Collins (1) Philanthropy (1) Pinball (1) Pleasure (1) Pluralism (1) Poe (1) Poggioli (1) Polemic (1) Pollock (1) Poovey (1) Popper (1) Popularization (1) Populism (1) Positivism (1) Powers (1) Preparation (1) Prizes (1) Production (1) Proletarian Literature (1) Pronunciation (1) Propp (1) Proverbs (1) Psychology (1) Public Relations (1) Punctuation (1) Puritanism (1) Putnam (1) Puzzles (1) Queneau (1) Quine (1) Quintilian (1) Rabaté (1) Race (1) Racism (1) Radical Chic (1) Radio (1) Radiohead (1) Randall Collins (1) Rationality (1) Reader-Response Theory (1) Reed (1) Relativity (1) Revolution (1) Reynolds (1) Rhyme (1) Rich (1) Richard Ford (1) Richards (1) Richman (1) Riesman (1) Ripoffs (1) Rivette (1) Robbe-Grillet (1) Robert Fitzgerald (1) Robeson (1) Romanticism (1) Rosales (1) Rothko (1) Rousseau (1) Roussel (1) Russia (1) Russian Formalism (1) Sadness (1) Safran Foer (1) Saintsbury (1) Sassoon (1) Satan (1) Saussure (1) Scholarship (1) Sestinas (1) Sexism (1) Shame (1) Shapiro (1) Shaw (1) Shyness (1) Sickness (1) Sidney (1) Simic (1) Simpsons (1) Sincerity (1) Singer (1) Singing (1) Sitwell (1) Skepticism (1) Sleep (1) Sloterdijk (1) Smith (1) Snark (1) Sociability (1) Soliloquy (1) Sonic Youth (1) Spelling (1) Spicer (1) Spiegelman (1) Spivak (1) Stanley Kauffmann (1) Statistics (1) Stereotypes (1) Sternbergh (1) Stone (1) Stoppard (1) Study (1) Supermarkets (1) Supervillainy (1) Susan Stewart (1) Sweden (1) Symptoms (1) Syntax (1) Taxes (1) Technocracy (1) Tel Quel (1) Thayer (1) The Shining (1) The Social (1) Therapy (1) Thompson (1) Thomson (1) Thurber (1) Tomkins (1) Transgression (1) Truth (1) Twain (1) UCLA (1) Underground (1) Understanding (1) United Nations (1) Upward (1) Vampire Weekend (1) Van Wyck Brooks (1) Varda (1) Venturi (1) Verlaine (1) Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1) Voltaire (1) Vonnegut (1) Waldo Frank (1) Walker (1) Wareham (1) Warner (1) Wayne White (1) Weddings (1) Westlake (1) Wilentz (1) William James (1) Windmills (1) Wordles (1) Young (1) Yourdon (1) Youth (1) Zurbrugg (1) bears (1) elegy (1) globalization (1) imagism (1) modern art (1) nouveau roman (1) reconstruction (1) relaxation (1) romance (1) stead (1) transatlanticism (1) typewriter (1) von Sternberg (1) von Stroheim (1) Žižek (1)

Followers

Contributors

Adrienne
Evan
gregory