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What The Whale Teaches us about Teaching

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Celtic Christianity in Wolfwalkers and The Secret of Kells (Analysis)

13:33

Dead Poets Society: What Makes a Great Teacher? (ft. Parker J. Palmer)

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Encanto Analysis ("Encanto, Marquez, and the Potential of Memory")

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Angela's Christmas 2 and the Patterns of Advent

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A Hidden Life: Telling the Story of Saints

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Poetry's Best Triple Pun: The Collar by George Herbert

More visual poetry analysis! This video takes a visual deep dive into "The Collar" by English poet George Herbert. The poem is a vulnerable exploration of despair and doubt, as well as a powerful reflection on the meaning of vocation. And it’s one of my favorite examples of poetic wordplay!
*Read the full poem here: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44360/the-collar
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Introduction
00:45 Poem Analysis
04:15 The Final Stanza
05:07 Conclusion
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What The Whale Teaches us about Teaching

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What The Whale Teaches us about Teaching

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A teacher’s take on The Whale! In this video essay analysis, I focus on the role that teaching and education plays in Darren Aronovsky’s 2022 heartbreaking film. I find that The Whale’s character development and its relational themes resonate deeply in a world where teaching and schoolwork increasingly lack genuine connection and humanity. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Introduction 00:48 Relationships in Th...

Celtic Christianity in Wolfwalkers and The Secret of Kells (Analysis)

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Celtic Christianity in Wolfwalkers and The Secret of Kells (Analysis)

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Wolfwalkers and The Secret of Kells are the bookend films of Tomm Moore's "Irish Folklore Trilogy." They share many similarities, but their vastly different portrayals of the legacy of Christianity in Ireland stir up many interesting questions. This video is a thematic analysis of both films that attempts to shine light this distinction. It also presents some lessons and questions worth conside...

Dead Poets Society: What Makes a Great Teacher? (ft. Parker J. Palmer)

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Dead Poets Society: What Makes a Great Teacher? (ft. Parker J. Palmer)

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Why is Robin Williams' portrayal of Mr. Keating in Dead Poets Society so iconic? What is it that actually makes him a great teacher? This video essay presents an analysis of Mr. Keating's English class and teaching that I think would be interesting to fans of this film or anyone interested in educational professional development! My analysis draws heavily upon the work of the wonderful educatio...

Encanto Analysis ("Encanto, Marquez, and the Potential of Memory")

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Encanto Analysis ("Encanto, Marquez, and the Potential of Memory")

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As an English teacher, I loved the way that the 2021 Disney film Encanto made extensive use of the influence of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the famous 20th Century Colombian author, and his classic novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. WHY don’t they talk about Bruno? Why are his prophecies displayed on glass? What does the miraculous candle symbolize? And what’s the deal with the yellow butterflies...

Angela's Christmas 2 and the Patterns of Advent

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Angela's Christmas 2 and the Patterns of Advent

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(See an adapted version of my Advent script published at Dappled Things Magazine - www.dappledthings.org/deep-down-things/lmstt88njbtr9c526rd3m9uw33caet) Angela’s Christmas Wish (Angela's Christmas 2) on Netflix may seem like just one more animated Christmas movie, like so many being churned out by our streaming services each year. But it is so much more. Like its 2017 predecessor Angela’s Chri...

A Hidden Life: Telling the Story of Saints

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A Hidden Life: Telling the Story of Saints

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Hagiography, accounts and legends of the lives of saints, has been a vital undertaking throughout the history of Christianity. Though it is not commonly practiced in the modern era, I argue in this video essay/analysis that A Hidden Life (2019) directed by Terrance Malick is surprisingly consistent with the spirit of Christian hagiography in how Malick goes about telling this story. The film re...

Flannery O'Connor's Fingerprints in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

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Flannery O'Connor's Fingerprints in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

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It’s hard to miss the reference to famed American Southern Gothic writer Flannery O’Connor in 2017 film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. I find this film to be the best homage to Flannery O’Connor’s style and themes that I’ve come across in a long time. In this video essay, I present an analysis of this film by essentially viewing it through the lens of O’Connor’s unique approach to a...

"The Heavens Draped in Sackcloth" (Poetry Reading ft. Michael Stalcup & Dekoningtan)

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"The Heavens Draped in Sackcloth" (Poetry Reading ft. Michael Stalcup & Dekoningtan)

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This video is a collaboration among some dear, like-minded artistic friends! It animates a reading of an original poem by Michael Stalcup with music composed and recorded by Gersom de Koning (“Dekoningtan”). The poem is a powerful meditation on the beauty and the question-begging mystery of a winter’s snow. “The Heavens Draped in Sackcloth Sigh” was originally published in Ekstasis magazine - w...

Escapism vs. Community (Into the Wild Analysis)

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Escapism vs. Community (Into the Wild Analysis)

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My analysis of Into the Wild (featuring shoutouts to Wendell Berry and Huck Finn), for all the literature lovers out there! The 2007 adaptation of Krakauer's book the true story of ill-fated adventurer Christopher McCandless remains one of my favorite films. While I’m still drawn to its transcendentalist aesthetic and its romantic portrayal of travel and ascetic rebellion, I’ve grown to think t...

What The Motorcycle Diaries Teaches us about Travel

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What The Motorcycle Diaries Teaches us about Travel

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I find that depictions of travel in media are often over-romanticized, failing to address the difficult questions that our increased freedom of international travel presents to us. It may seem that the beautiful 2004 adaptation of The Motorcycle Diaries Ernesto "Che" Guevara's famous South American travel memoir falls into this trap. But I think that this movie and its original text highlight s...

"No Language But A Cry" (animated reading from Tennyson's In Memoriam)

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"No Language But A Cry" (animated reading from Tennyson's In Memoriam)

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What does it look like to maintain hope in dark times? Is it foolish to trust that justice and goodness will win out over cruelty and evil? These are among the scores of questions that Alfred, Lord Tennyson explores in my favorite work of poetry, In Memoriam AHH. The poem’s 133 cantos, written over a span of 17 years after his dear friend’s death, run the gamut of human emotion and philosophica...

My Favorite Ekphrastic Poem (feat. William Blake and Wendell Berry)

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My Favorite Ekphrastic Poem (feat. William Blake and Wendell Berry)

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Poetry analysis, from an English teacher! Ekphrasitic poetry, from the Greek “ekphrasis” (description), engages visual works of art through poetic language. This video explores my favorite ekphrastic poem a 2004 selection from American poet Wendell Berry’s vast collection of spiritual, nature-oriented Sabbath Poems, which in Berry’s words, were written “in silence, in solitude, mainly out of do...