Ralph Lamar Turner
Biographic Data
| ID | 5397935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ralph Lamar Turner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ralph Lamar |
| FAMILY NAME | Turner |
| SIGNATURE | TURNER R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eastern Kentucky University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Between kudzu and killer apps
Although MOOCs have not lived up to previously breathless predictions of disruption, they have had an outsized influence on university administrators who see online learning as a “savior solution” for ever-shrinking budgets. Despite lower student persistent rates, faculty skepticism, and burdensome faculty workloads, the general public and administrative embrace of online learning has been enthusiastic, which may be explained in part using Foucau…
Why Do You Think I am Paying You if Not to Have My Way?” Genre Complications in the Free‐Market Critiques of Fictional and Filmed Versions of True Grit
Explicating the American frontier inevitably evokes the Rashomon-like complexity of perceptions that has made the Western genre an apt and flexible vehicle for exploring questions of economic and political justice. Over the past century in fiction and film, the Western has offered up a rotating, shape-shifting palette of stakeholders and viewpoints (ranchers may be glorified or vilified, townspeople may be painted as corrupt or virtuous, Native A…
Taymor's tempests
Veteran film and stage director Julie Taymor suffered succeeding disappointments when her cinematic adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest was poorly reviewed and failed at the box office in 2010, and she was subsequently fired as writer-director of the stage musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark in 2011. Contextualizing the rejections of Taymor and her creations requires analysis that delves deeply into history and broadly across multiple dimen…
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Why Do You Think I am Paying You if Not to Have My Way?” Genre Complications in the Free‐Market Critiques of Fictional and Filmed Versions of True Grit
Explicating the American frontier inevitably evokes the Rashomon-like complexity of perceptions that has made the Western genre an apt and flexible vehicle for exploring questions of economic and political justice. Over the past century in fiction and film, the Western has offered up a rotating, shape-shifting palette of stakeholders and viewpoints (ranchers may be glorified or vilified, townspeople may be painted as corrupt or virtuous, Native A…
Taymor's tempests
Veteran film and stage director Julie Taymor suffered succeeding disappointments when her cinematic adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest was poorly reviewed and failed at the box office in 2010, and she was subsequently fired as writer-director of the stage musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark in 2011. Contextualizing the rejections of Taymor and her creations requires analysis that delves deeply into history and broadly across multiple dimen…
Between kudzu and killer apps
Although MOOCs have not lived up to previously breathless predictions of disruption, they have had an outsized influence on university administrators who see online learning as a “savior solution” for ever-shrinking budgets. Despite lower student persistent rates, faculty skepticism, and burdensome faculty workloads, the general public and administrative embrace of online learning has been enthusiastic, which may be explained in part using Foucau…
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