English @ SUNY Geneseo | Ian Oxman | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/oxmanian/activity/ Activity feed for Ian Oxman. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 7fdd1a76b49b0e026751b37b6e75069d Ian Oxman wrote a new blog post How The Big Short and The Turner House Work Together in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15077/ Fri, 20 Mar 2020 19:58:56 -0500 The Turner House and
The Big Short work well together to
give us as a class a holistic view of the 2008 recession. Initially, both
novels seem considerably different, especially in the writing styles of […]

]]> 0 9cf72a3f2d5e667e5f28092202cc8f83 Ian Oxman wrote a new blog post Identity Intertwined with Liquidity in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14938/ Sat, 15 Feb 2020 21:31:08 -0500 The concepts of identity and liquidity intertwine between the character’s relationships in Shakespeare’s King Lear. Lear conflates his daughter’s love with inheritance in the first act of the play, Edmun […]

]]> 0 8aa89990bf972536b6473978cb53abe1 Ian Oxman wrote a new blog post Awareness and Responsibility: Final Reflective Essay in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12857/ Tue, 14 May 2019 14:15:15 -0500 To me, Dionne Brand’s epigraph “my job is to notice… and to notice that you can notice” speaks about how actively we must listen and pay attention, both in school and in life. Beyond that, we should use what we […]

]]> 0 4038ffe9b286c87e77953af2aad3b0e9 Ian Oxman replied to the topic Cultural Implications in The Thing (1982) in the forum Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/film-talk/forum/topic/cultural-implications-in-the-thing-1982/#post-1404 Tue, 30 Apr 2019 15:29:54 -0500 After discussing the potential political message behind Carpenter’s The Thing in class yesterday, it made me think of a particular scene that plays well into the Cold War allusions pointed out by Alison. I’m talking about the scene where they find the bags of blood tampered with, causing them to lose faith in the current station chief Garry. T…[Read more]

]]> ff36b6d15a8ef8265bb67dd0f7e16de6 Ian Oxman wrote a new blog post Fly on a Wall in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12769/ Sun, 28 Apr 2019 03:44:28 -0500 Fly on a Wall film making refers to a style of shooting in which the camera crew is as unobtrusive as possible. The people who are filmed are real people, not actors, and the situations they are put in are also […]

]]> 0 b066d8cc8b5a2e41db2b16e27b6f1cd3 Ian Oxman edited the blog post Faith, Doubt, and the Big Machine in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12764/ Sun, 28 Apr 2019 03:24:02 -0500 Yesterday in class when discussing in groups some of the ways Big Machine connected to large course themes, Andrew Weber brought up an interesting point about the concept of doubt. For me, doubt and faith have […]

]]> 0 2d92f03b8a2c4c7d08cbeaf4d014a03a Ian Oxman edited the blog post Bloodchild: Master to Slave or Partner to Partner? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12755/ Sun, 28 Apr 2019 02:49:09 -0500 After reading Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild and the afterword, controversy was sparked in class over Butler’s dismissal of the reading of her sci-fi short story as alluding to slavery. As I recall, there were a few […]

]]> 0 d927ea86f750e56b980a527034f1ea87 Ian Oxman edited the blog post The Face of Goodness May Surprise You in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12749/ Sun, 28 Apr 2019 02:07:18 -0500 In class discussion yesterday, Maria Papas brought up this passage from Big Machine to support her argument that the book does not glorify substance abuse:
“Go and tell someone the worst thing about yourself. C […]

]]> 0 f6f5b3c39394dfb931119018495d314b Ian Oxman edited the blog post The Hero's Journey in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12745/ Sun, 28 Apr 2019 02:02:18 -0500 I’m currently taking American Visions: The Hero in Film with Professor Gillin. In this class we discussed the classic hero structure presented in Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With A Thousand Faces. This book ana […]

]]> 0 e32f355c0ece1a1eff918b8ab3dfb2a1 Ian Oxman wrote a new blog post The Theme of Outcasts in African American Literature and Societal Views on Persons with Disabilities in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12678/ Fri, 26 Apr 2019 06:09:17 -0500 Our society rarely recognizes how negatively we view those who are different from us. This motif is rampant in Big Machine as well as present in other works we’ve read throughout the class like “Bloodchild”. We c […]

]]> 0 7bd3be80d570ab43986b9c2c410ed37e Ian Oxman wrote a new blog post For Gus (thank you for cleaning our suite sophomore year) in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12676/ Fri, 26 Apr 2019 04:27:33 -0500 Right now I’m sitting in Newton 213 frantically attempting to finish these blog posts that I so irresponsibly left to the last minute (classic, I beg forgiveness) as maintenance workers mop the floor around me and […]

]]> 0 1e6086ce8c3186ff0bd0155d33d00886 Ian Oxman wrote a new blog post Possession, Interpretation, and Octavia Butler's Bloodchild in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12675/ Fri, 26 Apr 2019 03:41:46 -0500 With the development of Ricky Rice’s pregnancy in LaValle’s Big Machine, I thought it the perfect moment to reflect on one of my favorite readings from this semester, Butler’s sci-fi short story “Bloodchild”. If […]

]]> 0 03b2e4250f48aea73fe14c3f3059a86d Ian Oxman started the topic Deliverance and the genre of Film Adaptations in the forum Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/film-talk/forum/topic/deliverance-and-the-genre-of-film-adaptations-2/ Fri, 15 Mar 2019 01:43:24 -0500 It often seems that films based on novels rarely live up to the expectations set by their inspired work. Even the best film adaptations still feel like they miss out on something. This is not to say that one medium of storytelling is worse than the other, just that each medium has its strengths and shortcomings. Along with the pressure of…[Read more]

]]> 488a05854ecf4cd77a8da89fb8ef290e Ian Oxman wrote a new blog post Circles on Circles on Circles in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12212/ Sat, 09 Feb 2019 16:51:00 -0500 This class will definitely be the most rigorous English  course I have taken to date my college career,  and as I move towards the culmination of my academia, graduation, I feel encouraged to look behind and c […]

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