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Gender Representation in Student Screenplays

kipress, May 6 2016

In my intro screenwriting class, we do table reads of the students' short scripts before workshopping them. This year I started to notice that men seemed to be cast more than women. There's lot of research out there about unequal representation of gender in a variety of media. The Geena…

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Books

Sometimes A Light Sabre is Just a Light Sabre

kipress, January 5 2016

Happy New Year! It must be time for me to post on my blog. What I Did with My Winter Holidays First, why do I hardly ever post? It’s not just “time,” because, let’s face it, we make the time for the things that we want to make the time…

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Fiction

"I'm from the '90s, and I'm a sucker for Puccini": Q & A With Myself

kipress, January 22 2015

Myself and I realized that we hadn't posted anything for a while, so we sat down at our disorganized desk today to ask and answer a few questions. The theme: personal taste, naming the books, movies, TV, and music we've actually been into lately, because the actual titles can tell…

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Movies

Alice in Movieland

kipress, March 5 2010

So should a die-hard Alice fan like me go see the new Tim Burton movie? My three usual papers disagree: it was reasonably well-reviewed in the Globe, not so well in the Times, and rather badly in the Guardian. I glean from these reviews that its premise is that an…

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