Ben Stein features ISU professors in intelligent design and evolution film in theaters today April 18, 2008
Posted by John in Education, Entertainers, Films, Nature, Science.Tags: academic freedom, Ben Stein, documentary films, evolution, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, Guillermo Gonzalez, Hector Avalos, Intelligent Design, Iowa State University, tenure, YouTube
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Background on intelligent design from Encyclopedia Britannica.
From IMDB.com:
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
Release Date: 18 April 2008 (USA)
This Wikipedia page about the film lists Iowa State University professor Guillermo Gonzalez (recently denied tenure) among those featured.
According to the Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed film site, it is showing locally at Galaxy 16 in Cedar Rapids, and Sycamore 12 in Iowa City.
Found a 7+ minute trailer at YouTube:
Please send me additional links or add your own thoughts here!
UPDATE: Guillermo Gonzalez to leave Iowa State University after this semester. For more information, see ISU Intelligent design proponent finds new job.
Iowa City woman’s documentary film about American Gothic house April 1, 2008
Posted by John in Art, Films.Tags: American Gothic, Eldon (Iowa), Grant Wood, Sasha Waters Freyer
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From The Capital Times (Wisconsin):
“American Gothic,” stolid, creaky, stuck in a time warp. Pretty near homely. How did it become such a central image in our culture and consciousness?
“No one really knows,” says Sasha Waters Freyer, who has made a documentary film “This American Gothic,” about the painting’s contemporary legacy. …
The film becomes the story of the town’s long, dogged effort to raise money to build a tourist attraction, the American Gothic House Center, a chance to come back from its second Depression. …
Many Iowans had originally felt insulted and mocked by these two faces, as stereotypes of dour Midwestern rubes. “I think there’s a dual meaning that also can be positive,” says Freyer, an Iowa City resident who lives in a farm house with a big front porch like the painting’s. …
