Richard Van Heertum
Richard Van Heertum is a full-time faculty member in the Liberal Arts and Sciences department at the New York Film Academy, Los Angeles and has previously taught at UCLA, CUNY, Drexel and the Art Institute. He earned his Ph.D. in education and cultural studies at the University of California Los Angeles in 2009, where he had earlier completed a master’s degree. He also earned a master’s in economics from San Diego State University. He has published over 30 academic essays to date, including works in Policy Futures in Education, Interactions, McGill Journal of Education, Peace Studies Journal and PMR, among others, as well as contributing to a number of anthologies. He has co-edited two academic books, Educating the global citizen: Globalization, educational reform, and the politics of equity and inclusion with Bentham and Hollywood exploited: Corporate movies, public pedagogy and cultural crisis with Palgrave. He has also presented his research extensively at conferences and in lectures including at AERA, PCA/ACA, the annual CAFÉ Conference, Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed and the Paulo Freire Lecture Series at UCLA. His work focuses on a number of related themes including progressive/critical education and the work of Paulo Freire, media/multiple literacy and the intersection of education and technology, globalization and its social, political and economic implications and cultural pedagogy and the effects of popular culture on the formation of political and social identities. He has also published extensively in the popular press with hundreds of articles on music, movies, the arts, sports and politics appearing in The San Diego Union Tribune, Principally Uncertain, the San Diego Reader, Slamm Magazine (staff writer), Sidelines (staff writer), Asbury Bay Press, Style Weekly, Rockazine (staff writer) and LA Weekly, among others. He served as Program Office of the Paulo Freire Institute at UCLA for four years and continues to be active with a number of non-profits today.
Phone: 310-430-8006
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In this five-part series, I consider the reasons Hollywood has become so enamored with the never-ending storyline, continuing, recycling and rebooting the same tale over and over again into a hackneyed hairball of congestive unoriginality.
1. In the first installment, I consider the historical context of our current unispired and repetitive era.
2. In the second, I tell the tragedy of the Rise of the Blockbuster.
3. In the third, I offer a more empirical analysis of sequel mania, looking at data over the past 25 yearsand considering why audiences continue to consume these eternal stories with such fervor.
4. In the fourth entry in the series, I inspect the role of television as an instigator and purveyor of this shift, recycling the same themes, tropes and characters in a kaleidoscope of diversified sameness.
5. I conclude by exploring the broader ramifications for filmmakers, scriptwriters, television producers and viewers alike.
This three-part series explores the demographic, political framing and outside influences that led Trump on the road to his unlikely victory. Part 1 below looks at the election in a general sense and then focuses on five key demographic influences on the outcome. Parts 2 and 3 then turn to political messaging/framing and outside influences that influenced the campaign.
In this five-part series, I consider the reasons Hollywood has become so enamored with the never-ending storyline, continuing, recycling and rebooting the same tale over and over again into a hackneyed hairball of congestive unoriginality.
1. In the first installment, I consider the historical context of our current unispired and repetitive era.
2. In the second, I tell the tragedy of the Rise of the Blockbuster.
3. In the third, I offer a more empirical analysis of sequel mania, looking at data over the past 25 yearsand considering why audiences continue to consume these eternal stories with such fervor.
4. In the fourth entry in the series, I inspect the role of television as an instigator and purveyor of this shift, recycling the same themes, tropes and characters in a kaleidoscope of diversified sameness.
5. I conclude by exploring the broader ramifications for filmmakers, scriptwriters, television producers and viewers alike.
This three-part series explores the demographic, political framing and outside influences that led Trump on the road to his unlikely victory. Part 1 below looks at the election in a general sense and then focuses on five key demographic influences on the outcome. Parts 2 and 3 then turn to political messaging/framing and outside influences that influenced the campaign.