You Can View Point of View

Well, the video of the Point of View event of a couple of weeks ago is now available. Click here for streaming media. There’s a problem, however. While my opening off-the-cuff remarks are utterly unimportant, and so it is not a big deal that the audio of that is poor, the big problem is in the third segment. Apparently (according to the A/V person) the Bluetooth microphone that they were using to capture the sound for the video camera must have used up its battery, as all the audio for USC’s Cinematic Arts School’s Jon Boorstin’s wonderful tour of the issue of point of view (illustrated by a Hitchcock’s “Notorious”) is lost. This is a bit of a blow.

Anyway, you can see and hear the two Amys (the Nation’s Amy Wilentz and USC’s Amy Parish) doing their presentations (on “point of view” in journalism and in anthropology – both very interesting: I learned what Darwinian Feminism was, for example, in the context of women’s points of view and perspectives while working in science, where a lot of careful interpretation of, for example, behavioural patterns needs to be done).

Enjoy.

-cvj