English @ SUNY Geneseo | Thomas McCarthy | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/thomasm20/activity/ Activity feed for Thomas McCarthy. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 51f6163416ce8d6decde5634c1565128 Thomas McCarthy started the topic Redemption and Cynicism in “Mr Smith Goes to Washington” in the forum Film Talk http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/film-talk/forum/topic/redemption-and-cynicism-in-mr-smith-goes-to-washington/ Mon, 13 Feb 2017 20:42:51 -0500 <p style=”text-align: left;”><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>I found Frank Capra’s film </span><i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Mr. Smith Goes to Washington</span></i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”> fascinating. I was very quickly reminded of Mark Twain in the sense that the portrayal of the senators and the political system is heavily s…[Read more]

]]> 40a0e871fb0d2f2eaf6a299ebae8a248 Thomas McCarthy wrote a new blog post Redemption and Cynicism in "Mr Smith Goes to Washington" in the group Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7878/ Fri, 03 Feb 2017 19:28:15 -0500 I found Frank Capra’s film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington fascinating. I was very quickly reminded of Mark Twain in the sense that the portrayal of the senators and the political system is heavily satirized both t […]

]]> 0 5bcc09504e7463ef80178638adddf7e5 Thomas McCarthy joined the group Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7844/ Mon, 30 Jan 2017 22:24:25 -0500 0 1c86e02fed75bef3c2bd77903165eaa9 Thomas McCarthy edited the blog post Canto I Beat in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7560/ Thu, 03 Nov 2016 21:40:49 -0500 I don’t have anything particularly insightful to say about this, but I find it fascinating how many different ways Dante’s text is used.

]]> 0 eee151966d6d3c6d849f7adb521f9b1d Thomas McCarthy edited the blog post "Subverting" and Repurposing Dante in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7559/ Thu, 03 Nov 2016 21:40:46 -0500 A question I have had early on in our class is why Toni Morrison chose Dante’s trilogy to frame and play with in at least three of her novels. I read Dante in HUM I like everyone else. I thought the text was fascinating and rich, and I can see the value of studying it, and I have a great respect for the scholarship surrounding it. Yet, the moral,…[Read more]

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I have been unable to shake a connection I made between the Foucauldian reading of the Panopticon and the ways in which Morrison, through internal character dialogue, examines systems of power and domination, which from my readings so far are overt and important themes across Morrison’s work; each novel explores in different times and places…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b20baa7ece96fb9fb7cc971c104b4c8 Thomas McCarthy edited the blog post "The Songs are Free": Black Oral Tradition and the Classroom in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7369/ Thu, 06 Oct 2016 03:06:30 -0500 I was especially moved by Bernice Johnson Reagon’s articulations about the oral tradition within Black churches and Civil Rights movements and later our unique dynamic in the classroom. Bill Moyers jokingly comments that his experience with the Southern Christian (white) churches is vastly different from Bernice’s. He jokes that “This Little Light…[Read more]

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