One Hour Photo (Mark Romanek, 2002)
Cast: Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, Dylan Smith, Gary Cole, Evie Daniels, Paul Kim Jr., Eriq La Salle, Clark Gregg. Screenplay: Mark Romanek. Cinematography: Jeff Cronenweth. Production design: Tom Foden. Film editing: Jeffrey Ford. Music: Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek.
Robin Williams gives a fine performance in One Hour Photo, but it remains just that: a performance, a tamping down of his familiar manic presence into the persona of the repressed, furtive Sy Parrish. He works in the photo processing department of SavMart, a vast and impersonal big box store. He lives alone, and his chief human contact is with his customers, who bring him their rolls of film to be developed. Their snapshots give him a glimpse into the lives of people who have families and children and celebrate events like weddings and birthdays. He also gets a glimpse of the secret lives of people, who bring in shots revealing their sexual proclivities, but he chooses to concentrate on the happy families, especially the Yorkins: the beautiful Nina (Connie Nielsen), her handsome husband, Will (Michael Vartan), and their cute 9-year-old son, Jakob (Dylan Smith). His admiration for the Yorkins grows into an obsession, and from that writer-director Mark Romanek spins the plot. One Hour Photo is supposed to be a thriller, in which we watch uneasily as Sy's obsession curdles into something malevolent. But by showing us Sy talking to the police at the start of the film, he deprives us of that surprise. There's a slackness in the narrative that works against the suspense, and Sy's breakdown and eruption into violence feels less like an integral part of the character than a plot device. Romanek also gets distracted into making a satiric point about the soullessness of the megacorporate entities embodied by SavMart, turning the store manager (Gary Cole) into the villain who pushes Sy over the edge. For many people, however, watching Williams perform is enough to overcome the movie's flaws.
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July is Disability Pride month, and that means it's time for a bigger, better, updated Disability Pride reading list!
A Disability History of the United States, by Kim E. Nielsen
Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist, by Judith Heumann
About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times, Peter Catapano and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, editors
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and how to Be an Ally, by Emily Ladau
Disability as Diversity: Developing Cultural Competence, by Erin E. Andrews. Companion case study volume here.
Exile & Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation, by Eli Clare
The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability, by Elizabeth Barnes
Nothing about Us without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment, by James I. Charlton
The Problem Body: Projecting Disability in Film, Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotić, editors
Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies, Nick Watson and Simo Vehmas, editors
My Wonderful Life as a Vegetable, Lars Feldballe producer/director
The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation, by Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames
Disability Experiences: Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Other Personal Narratives, G. Thomas Couser and Susannah B. Mintz, editors
The Routledge Handbook of Disability Activism, Maria Berghs, Tsitsi Chataika, Yahya El-Lahib and Andrew K. Dube, editors
Black Disability Politics, Sami Schalk
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life, by Alice Wong
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, Alice Wong, editor
From the Periphery: Real-Life Stories of Disability, by Pia Justesen
Young, Disabled and LGBT+: Voices, Identities and Intersections, Alex Toft and Anita Franklin, editors
Disability, Media, and Representations: Other Bodies, Jacob Johanssen and Diana Garrisi, editors
The Routledge Handbook of Disability Arts, Culture, and Media, Bree Hadley and Donna McDonald, editors
Occupying Disability: Critical Approaches to Community, Justice, and Decolonizing Disability, Pamela Block, Devva Kasnitz, Akemi Nishida, Nick Pollard, editors
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Interesting Papers for Week 7, 2024
Targeted memory reactivation in human REM sleep elicits detectable reactivation. Abdellahi, M. E., Koopman, A. C., Treder, M. S., & Lewis, P. A. (2023). eLife, 12, e84324.
Dynamics of cortical contrast adaptation predict perception of signals in noise. Angeloni, C. F., Młynarski, W., Piasini, E., Williams, A. M., Wood, K. C., Garami, L., … Geffen, M. N. (2023). Nature Communications, 14, 4817.
Continuous odor profile monitoring to study olfactory navigation in small animals. Chen, K. S., Wu, R., Gershow, M. H., & Leifer, A. M. (2023). eLife, 12, e85910.
Object representation in a gravitational reference frame. Emonds, A. M., Srinath, R., Nielsen, K. J., & Connor, C. E. (2023). eLife, 12, e81701.
Metacognitive judgments during visuomotor learning reflect the integration of error history. Hewitson, C. L., Al-Fawakhiri, N., Forrence, A. D., & McDougle, S. D. (2023). Journal of Neurophysiology, 130(2), 264–277.
Temporal scaling of dopamine neuron firing and dopamine release by distinct ion channels shape behavior. Juarez, B., Kong, M.-S., Jo, Y. S., Elum, J. E., Yee, J. X., Ng-Evans, S., … Zweifel, L. S. (2023). Science Advances, 9(32).
Evidence for a common mechanism supporting invigoration of action selection and action execution. Kita, K., Du, Y., & Haith, A. M. (2023). Journal of Neurophysiology, 130(2), 238–246.
Causal evidence for the processing of bodily self in the anterior precuneus. Lyu, D., Stieger, J. R., Xin, C., Ma, E., Lusk, Z., Aparicio, M. K., … Parvizi, J. (2023). Neuron, 111(16), 2502-2512.e4.
Long- and short-term history effects in a spiking network model of statistical learning. Maes, A., Barahona, M., & Clopath, C. (2023). Scientific Reports, 13, 12939.
State-dependent coupling of hippocampal oscillations. Modi, B., Guardamagna, M., Stella, F., Griguoli, M., Cherubini, E., & Battaglia, F. P. (2023). eLife, 12, e80263.
Expectations about precision bias metacognition and awareness. Olawole-Scott, H., & Yon, D. (2023). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(8), 2177–2189.
Not what u expect: Effects of prediction errors on item memory. Ortiz-Tudela, J., Nolden, S., Pupillo, F., Ehrlich, I., Schommartz, I., Turan, G., & Shing, Y. L. (2023). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(8), 2160–2176.
Altered oculomotor flexibility is linked to high autistic traits. Pomè, A., Tyralla, S., & Zimmermann, E. (2023). Scientific Reports, 13, 13032.
Dissociation of vicarious and experienced rewards by coupling frequency within the same neural pathway. Putnam, P. T., Chu, C.-C. J., Fagan, N. A., Dal Monte, O., & Chang, S. W. C. (2023). Neuron, 111(16), 2513-2522.e4.
Ventrolateral prefrontal neurons of the monkey encode instructions in the ‘pragmatic’ format of the associated behavioral outcomes. Rozzi, S., Gravante, A., Basile, C., Cappellaro, G., Gerbella, M., & Fogassi, L. (2023). Progress in Neurobiology, 229, 102499.
Testing the generalization of neural representations. Sandhaeger, F., & Siegel, M. (2023). NeuroImage, 278, 120258.
A neural mechanism for terminating decisions. Stine, G. M., Trautmann, E. M., Jeurissen, D., & Shadlen, M. N. (2023). Neuron, 111(16), 2601-2613.e5.
Subtle adversarial image manipulations influence both human and machine perception. Veerabadran, V., Goldman, J., Shankar, S., Cheung, B., Papernot, N., Kurakin, A., … Elsayed, G. F. (2023). Nature Communications, 14, 4933.
Distinct roles of the orbitofrontal cortex, ventral striatum, and dopamine neurons in counterfactual thinking of decision outcomes. Yun, M., Nejime, M., Kawai, T., Kunimatsu, J., Yamada, H., Kim, H. R., & Matsumoto, M. (2023). Science Advances, 9(32).
Alternating capture of attention by multiple visual working memory representations. Zhang, L., & Yamada, Y. (2023). Scientific Reports, 13, 13029.
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THE DANCE AWARDS LAS VEGAS RESULTS 2023
Other JP! awards from Mini Solos that didn’t place in top10:
Melrose Nikolaus - DC2 JP!
Penelope Akey - DC2 JP!
Lauren Thorne - BOBBIE’S JP!
Lennon Bailey - DC2 JP!
Stella Stoltz - CLUB JP!
Maddie Downs - CLUB JP!
Mia Kostinovski - LARKIN JP!
Morgan Martens - LARKIN JP!
Coleman Hinshaw - EXPRESSENZ JP!
Ethan Workman - NEXT STEP JP!
Vivian Greenig - LARKIN JP!
Addison Pichette - CLUB JP!
Tabitha Nan - CSPAS JP!
Evie McCune-Barrett - LARKIN JP!
Aaliyah Kirk - CSPAS JP!
Melina Biltz - THE ROCK JP!
Kate Baker - CSPAS JP!
Harper Kill - LARKIN JP!
Naomi Harper - CSPAS JP!
Hadlie Scott - CLUB JP!
Caitlyn Mckenzie - CLUB JP!
Kaydence Lawton - CLUB JP!
Amelia Joubert - CLUB JP!
Neala Murphy - LARKIN JP!
Bella Linman - CLUB JP!
Hailey Turnbull - LARKIN JP!
Madeleine Angelo - ELEMENTS JP!
Amirah Nealy - EXPRESSENZ JP!
Brindisi Cirbo - BOBBIE’S JP!
Makayla Jackman - DANCEOLOGY JP!
Finley Nielsen - CLUB JP!
Harlow Hilmo - CLUB JP!
Kynzlie Plote - CLUB JP!
Ellie Self - CLUB JP!
Cambrie O’Haver - CLUB JP!
Kallie Brandon - THE COMPANY SPACE JP!
Chelsea Jang - NEXT STEP JP!
Ramsey Landry - DC2 JP!
AvaLeigh Mackaron - NEXT STEPJP!
Aria Surrec - BOBBIE’S JP!
Scarlett Manzel - LARKIN JP!
Kyle Young - CLUB JP!
Tillie Kuhl - LARKIN JP!
Aria McCrea - DANCEOLOGY JP!
Alivia Hughes - DC2 JP!
Pierson Aldridge - KIM MASSAY JP!
June McLean - VDANSE JP!
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