by Natalie Kopp | Aug 2, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
Yesterday was our CURI final symposium, and the team loved sharing our research from the past ten weeks with the St. Olaf College community. Just because CURI has ended, though, this project is by no means over. We hope to broaden, enlarge, and advance this project...
by Natalie Kopp | Jul 27, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
Downton Abbey fans anyone? If so, you might recall that the fifth season starts in 1924 (nice coincidence, eh?). And you might remember the season’s second episode when Robert reluctantly agrees to install a “wireless” (radio) in order to hear King George V’s speech...
by Natalie Kopp | Jul 27, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
Despite the fact that we call them “silent films,” films of the 1920s were by no means silent. To a modern audience, we may be bored when watching old silent films, but it’s easy to forget that we are experiencing them out of context. In addition the to intrigue...
by Natalie Kopp | Jul 7, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
In A Room with a View, E.M. Forster’s beloved 1908 novel, the young British protagonist Lucy Honeychurch religiously clutches her Baedeker travel guide as she explores the Italian city of Santa Croce. The tactless and comical Miss Lavish believes herself to be more...
by Natalie Kopp | Jul 5, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
In 1924, film technology had been around for slightly more than thirty years, yet the relatively new medium was already playing multiple roles, from popular entertainment to experimental art. Paris contained more than 100 cinema houses. Some theaters were owned by...
