Me and My Blog

Who Am I? And why on earth am I writing a blog?

In college I became obsessed with movies. This compulsion may have come out of my increasing desire to relax after a long day of studying, classes, and wanting to spend as little time in my tiny freshmen dorm. This relationship intensified when I took a Scandinavian film class. Some people think, and perhaps there are right, that I took this class to look like a cool hipster and escape classes which only assigned 200 pages of reading a week. Though it was nice having a legitimate excuse to watch movies, there was something else about films that continued to hold my fascination. Despite my enthusiasm for the subject, I never considered it a practical field nor an appropriate career path. Deciding to listen to reason, and a crumbling economy, I pursued a career in history. Thinking that I would one day work for the Smithsonian or some significant museum, I moved to America’s history capital, Boston, and added to my already significant student loan debt. Ironically, my first class in grad school was actually a film class! From the very first day I quietly found my seat, opened my notebook, clicked my ball-point pen, and listened to my professor link Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will with the meaning of life and the origins of humanity I was hooked. Unfortunately my interests in the secrets of film, history, and humanity can’t easily be translated into, what my parents classify as a “real job.” So, like many recent unemployed grads, I wait patiently for my “big break” into the real world. To pass the time and save my sanity, I have decided to write a blog about contemporary films, their ability to represent the past, and what that tells us about ourselves. Enjoy!

This blog will not…:

• talk about celebrity gossip
• complain when a film fails to follow the law of realism
• view the history film as an objective source of history

What this blog will…:

• focus on an alternative understanding of the history film
• think see the history film as a subjective art
• encourage discussion and questions