Guy Kibbee in Big Hearted Herbert (1934)
I suppose you think that college is the high spot in every young man’s existence. . . . Colleges! We don’t have ’em any more. Big athletic institutions. Football! Basketball! . . . Tiddlywinks teams, for all I know.
Penn State just announced a new, open-access journal under development, to be called Digital Literary Studies: http://journals.psu.edu/dls/index
Since this is basically a bookmarking post, here are some others:
Digital Humanities Quarterly: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/
Journal of Digital Humanities: http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/
Literary and Linguistic Computing: http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/ (not free or open access) Digital Studies / Le champ numerique http://www.digitalstudies.org/ojs/index.php/digital_studies Digital Humanities Now: http://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/ Here’s a good list of resources from Duke: http://guides.library.duke.edu/content.php?pid=129864&sid=1114041Books:
A Companion to Digital Literary Studies: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companionDLS/
A Companion to Digital Humanities: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/
Debates in the Digital Humanities: http://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/
University of Illinois Press series (not free or open access): http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/find_books.php?type=series&search=tdh
Lesson links:
Also bookmarking this set of tutorials at programminghistorian: http://programminghistorian.org/lessons/
Scholars’ lab: http://praxis.scholarslab.org/scratchpad/
For decades, the seven reels from 1913 lay unexamined in the film archives of the Museum of Modern Art. Now, after years of research, a historic find has emerged: what MoMA curators say is the earliest surviving footage for a feature film with a black cast. It is a rare visual depiction of middle-class black characters from an era when lynchings and stereotyped black images were commonplace. What’s more, the material features Bert Williams, the first black superstar on Broadway. Williams appears in blackface in the untitled silent film along with a roster of actors from the sparsely documented community of black performers in Harlem on the cusp of the Harlem Renaissance. Remarkably, the reels also capture behind-the-scenes interactions between these performers and the directors.
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Comment: This is good news indeed.
Donna M. Campbell 