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Back in Black: Clute and Edwards Collaborate on New Noir Initiative (June-July 2015)

Wed, 03 Jun 2023 20:51:15 -0400

Clute and Edwards are proud to announce Into the Darkness: Investigating Film Noir, a free multimedia online course open to learners worldwide and sure to satisfy fans of the noircast.net podcasts. Enrollment is open until July 19, 2015. Join now at the link above. While it has been three years since the last episode of Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir, Clute and Edwards continue to work on innovative noir projects. Their latest efforts have resulted in a collaboration between Turner Classic Movies (TCM), where Clute now serves as head of Marketing and Editorial, and Ball State University, where Edwards is Executive Director of iLearn Research. …

OTTO and Annotating Films Noir

Fri, 31 May 2023 11:08:35 -0400

In a MediaCommons Post, we briefly trace the evolution and application of a powerful new video annotation platform that enables collaborative viewing and encourages cooperative, crowd-sourced criticism. This new tool, called OTTO (Open Text Tool for Online video), was first used in conjunction with a video annotation assignment in a Film Noir MOOC (taught by Richard Edwards) that generated close readings of key moments in film noir, but its potential uses extend much further: the tool could change how films and videos are taught with its capacity to simply and powerfully join critical analyses to film moments, and relate discreet analyses by source and by runtime across films that share stylistic or generic traits. …

Out of the Past's Top Ten Podcasts on Australian National Radio

Sun, 03 Mar 2023 15:11:03 -0500

Australian Broadcasting Corporation broadcast 10 episodes of Out of the Past: Investigating Film Noir on its weekly series entitled Top of the Pods., advertised by ABC as: "some of the best audio to be found in the podcast universe...On Top of the Pods you can try everything and there will always be something to grab you by the ears and engage your cerebellum. Don’t trawl through trash—listen to the Top of the Pods."

We greatly enjoyed knowing that our podcast aired across Australia on one of its main radio outlets. We received wonderful feedback from Australian listeners. …

Clute and Edwards on Jules Dassin's Rififi: The Top of the Pods Broadcast

Wed, 03 Oct 2023 14:38:20 -0400

Click here for the Top of the Pods website, and to listen to the Rififi episode: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/topofthepods/september-25/4228352

Join Out of the Past team Shannon Clute and Richard Edwards as they review Rififi, directed by Jules Dassin in France, where he'd fled after being blacklisted by Hollywood in 1949. Dassin cobbled together a small budget and a motley crew of B stars to create a heist masterpiece: the tale of a ragtag international band of thieves who use inferior tools but superior know-how to pull off the job of…

Clute and Edwards Q&A and Book Signing at the Decatur Book Festival

Thu, 30 Aug 2023 04:43:28 -0400

Clute and Edwards have been invited to the Decatur Book Festival to discuss their book, The Maltese Touch of Evil: Film Noir and Potential Criticism. The Decatur Book Festival is one of the largest book fests in the country. Clute and Edwards will be in a Q&A style interview with moderator Curt Holman. After the panel, they will be signing copies of their book. They will be speaking on Sunday, September 2nd, 2012 at 3:45pm at the Decatur Conference Center Auditorium. If you are in the Atlanta area, please come out and attend this wonderful event. …