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Thursday, November 1, 2012

Alphabetical List of Open Access Journals in Middle Eastern Studies

[First posted 1/3/11]

This is a list of Open Access Journals in Middle Eastern Studies collected since we began AMIR on December 5, 2010. It is by no means complete. We welcome your comments and your suggestions of titles to include. Please use the comment feature at the bottom of the page.

500 titles as of June 5, 2013.

Sasquatch: The Legend of Bigfoot (1977)

By using documentary-style elements such as a narration track filled with facts and figures, plus a linear storyline tracking the drudgery of a scientific exploration (think Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom), executive producer/story author Ronald D. Olson creates an immersive but unpersuasive illusion that Sasquatch: The Legend of Bigfoot is a re-creation of something that actually happened. Presumably, this fakery was used to obfuscate the paucity of, for lack of a better word, “money shots”—Sasquatch only has about 10 minutes of screen time in the entire picture, most of it in flashbacks that Olson uses to illustrate old stories the movie’s characters share with each other while sitting around campfires. The bulk of this picture comprises dull footage of explorers venturing into the wilds of British Columbia to search for Bigfoot. Supervised by scientist Chuck Evans (George Lauris), the group of explorers includes such clichéd types as a gruff mountain man, a skeptical big-city reporter, and a stoic Native American. After meandering through pointless interludes—frolicking with raccoons, tussling with mountain lions—the group reaches a valley believed to be Sasquatch’s lair. Then, in the final scenes, the explorers set up surveillance equipment around the valley and endure a nighttime assault by an unknown number of creatures. Director Ed Ragozzino relies on quick cutting and silhouettes to create a low-grade sense of danger, and composer Al Capps provides a Jaws-style motif that rumbles on the soundtrack whenever Bigfoot appears. (The monster is primarily depicted through point-of-view shots, another rip-off from Jaws.) Getting to the climax requires a great deal of stamina on the viewer’s part, and the payoff isn’t nearly worth the trouble—because by the time the picture concludes with a silly theme song (“There in God’s country, he just wants to be left alone”), mediocrity has given way to monotony.

Sasquatch: The Legend of Bigfoot: LAME

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(photo taken in a street market in Bangkok, Thailand)

Hello lovelies! We're back!! Man, it sort of feels like we have been gone forever! We packed so much traveling, shopping, sight-seeing, walking, exploring, eating and drinking into the past two weeks that it actually felt more like we've been away for a month. *Whew!* As much as we do love the tropical heat, it does feel good to be back home (and with our husbands again!)

Here is some more good news: while we were gone we bought lots of amazing vintage dresses which we will be putting out at our brick-and-mortar shop starting tomorrow, so if you live in the area be sure to stop by and check out our new stock! (psst... we also have plans of doing a big update on our online shop in the very near future... more to come on that soon...)

Hope you all had a lovely Halloween yesterday! We got back late in the afternoon so we didn't really have time to put together any fun costumes this year (that, and the fact that we had been awake for almost 30 hours straight, eep!) but we saw so many adorable costumes from friends on instagram and other blogs. Hopefully we will be around to celebrate next year!

We have so many photos and fun experiences that we can't wait to share with you guys so be sure to keep your eyes peeled in the next few days, but first things first we need to unpack and tackle our (many) loads of laundry...

XO, Stef & Erin