palimpsest

Postmodern Lit

Just found out that one of the books I was planning to teach in my upper-level Postmodern Literature course this fall, Susan Daitch's The Colorist, is now out of print. That leaves me scrambling for a replacement. The course will have a sub-theme on urban space/aesthetics, including some attention to 9/11. Other authors include Delillo (Underworld and Cosmopolis both), Gibson's Pattern Recgonition, Alice Notley's Descent of Alette (poetry), an issue of Transmetropolitan (graphic novel) and other stuff that I'm forgetting. I'm looking for a contemporary novel that might fit here, and I'd like to have a female author to maintain gender balance. Kathy Acker's an obvious choice (Empire of the Senseless) but I'm not sure I have the nerve (or whatever it takes). A colleague's suggested Angela Carter. Thanks--

The Film Experience

Bedford-St. Martins has launched a website designed to complement Timothy Corrigan and Patricia White's The Film Experience: An Introduction. I haven't dug around too much, but the links section looks very useful and informative. If anyone is planning an introduction to film course, this might be a helpful resource.

Cross-posted at the chutry experiment.

19th-c news online

Via Slashdot:

mfh writes "The BBC is reporting that approximately a million news stories from the 19th century are going online. The project will cost roughly $3.6 mil USD (converted from UK pounds) and include 100 years of news and images from publications that are no longer copyright protected, and currently only available at the Newspaper Library in Colindale, North London. 52000 newspapers and magazines will be included and the project should take 18 months to complete."