About u-out
OKC. A Film Blog. May 6. 2010.
U-Out is an Oklahoma City-based film blog devoted to looking at mainstream and independent film. You like movies. I like movies. It works.
Published weekly, in addition to film essays and reviews, the website’s While You Were Out section explores queer cinema’s vault, from the days of Edison to “Milk.”
If you dig politics, check out the site’s On Politics section for essays on politics and culture. If all the world’s a stage and politics is theater, then we have quite a show to watch, eh?
I thought this blog would be a swell way to continue to promote film criticism and the film community in Oklahoma, particularly in our LGBT community.
Start a conversation. Start a community. All the cool kids are doing it. Become a fan on Facebook.
—James Cooper, Editor
A little about the author.
An Oklahoma native, Cooper began his writing career in summer 2003 as the film critic for Hardnews Online, a gay online newsletter in OKC, and he continued with the newsletter until it ceased publication in 2009.
In 2007, Cooper graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a degree in Film Studies and Political Science, spending his final semester studying abroad at the University of Bologna, Italy.
That same year, Cooper became a proud member of the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle and he remains with the organization today as its vice president.
Upon returning to Oklahoma in 2007, Cooper started his graduate work in Screen Studies and English at Oklahoma State University where he taught as an English instructor, as well. In fall 2008, he began writing for the The Daily O’Collegian as an opinion columnist, providing news analysis and covering the presidential election.
By summer 2009, Cooper took over as the Opinion Editor for The O’Collegian and in early 2010, the Oklahoma Society of Professional Journalism awarded him second place for his 2009 column “Yep, I’m Gay, Can I get my food now?” on the necessity for federal hate crimes legislation. In Spring 2010, the English Department awarded him the Audre Chapman Scholarship for Teaching Excellence in Composition for the 2009-2010 academic year.
Cooper remained with The O’Collegian as its Opinion Editor until December 2010.
In 2011, Cooper finished his masters thesis, “From Bates to Bush: The New Slasher Film,” on the contemporary American horror genre and completed his degree.
Today, he teaches as an adjunct English instructor at the University of Central Oklahoma and at Oklahoma City Community College.
Awesome recent moments where someone important published what I do…
CBSnews: Obama Gets Back In The Game By Banking On GOP’s Faults
CBSnews: McCain Plays the Politics of Dr. Seuss
Some links worth checking out…
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Erin Elise is the cartoonist.
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