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2018

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Documentary Production & Documentary Problems, Shara K. Lange Dec 2018

Documentary Production & Documentary Problems, Shara K. Lange

Shara K. Lange

Excerpt: Making documentary films forces students to engage in the complexities of the genre.

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The Template Model: Putting Meaning At The Centre Of Film Education, Marc Barrett Oct 2018

The Template Model: Putting Meaning At The Centre Of Film Education, Marc Barrett

Marc Barrett

This article proposes a way for educators, and those who prepare their resources, to place meaning at the centre of film education, both in terms of creating filmic texts and in terms of comprehending them. It will take a social semiotic view of the primary tool in film education – the shot-type list – and suggest a way of supplanting the dominant perfunctory approach to the medium of film in Australian educational settings.

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Wear And Care Feminisms At A Long Maker Table, Jacqueline Wernimont, Elizabeth M. Losh Aug 2018

Wear And Care Feminisms At A Long Maker Table, Jacqueline Wernimont, Elizabeth M. Losh

Elizabeth Losh

Although there is a deep history of feminist engagement with technology, the FemTechNet initiative (a feminist collective of which we are both a part) argues that such history is often hidden and that feminist thinkers are frequently siloed. At the same time, initiatives to promote critical making, acts of “shared construction” in which makers work to understand both the technologies and their social environments, often exclude women and girls from hacker/makerspaces that require both explicit permissions and access to implicit reserves of tacit knowledge. Even attempts to provide superficial hospitality can inflict microagressions on those who feel excluded from the …

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Wocmes 2018: "I Am The Entertainer": Embodying Entertainment In The Egyptian Film Poster, Roberta L. Dougherty Jul 2018

Wocmes 2018: "I Am The Entertainer": Embodying Entertainment In The Egyptian Film Poster, Roberta L. Dougherty

Roberta L. Dougherty

No abstract provided.

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Wocmes 2018: "I Am The Entertainer": Embodying Entertainment In Egyptian Film Posters (Slides), Robin Dougherty Jul 2018

Wocmes 2018: "I Am The Entertainer": Embodying Entertainment In Egyptian Film Posters (Slides), Robin Dougherty

Roberta L. Dougherty

No abstract provided.

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Dare Not To Speak The Name: A Closer Look At Greta Gerwig’S 'Lady Bird’, Stephen D'Arcy Jun 2018

Dare Not To Speak The Name: A Closer Look At Greta Gerwig’S 'Lady Bird’, Stephen D'Arcy

Stephen D'Arcy

An interpretive essay, exploring the film, Lady Bird, written and directed by Greta Gerwig.

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Critical Animal And Media Studies: Expanding The Understanding Of Oppression In Communication Research, Nuria Almiron, Matthew Cole, Carrie P. Freeman Mar 2018

Critical Animal And Media Studies: Expanding The Understanding Of Oppression In Communication Research, Nuria Almiron, Matthew Cole, Carrie P. Freeman

Carrie P. Freeman

Critical and communication studies have traditionally neglected the oppression conducted by humans towards other animals. However, our (mis)treatment of other animals is the result of public consent supported by a morally speciesist-anthropocentric system of values. Speciesism or anthroparchy, as much as any other mainstream ideologies, feed the media and at the same time are perpetuated by them. The goal of this paper is to remedy this neglect by introducing the subdiscipline of Critical Animal and Media Studies (CAMS). CAMS takes inspiration both from critical animal studies, which is so far the most consolidated critical field of research in the social …

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Kawabata And Cinema: The Ambivalence Of Knowledge, Medium, And Influence, Aaron Gerow Jan 2018

Kawabata And Cinema: The Ambivalence Of Knowledge, Medium, And Influence, Aaron Gerow

Aaron Gerow

Many researchers have considered the involvement of Kawabata Yasunari in cinema and the medium’s possible influence on his literature. Such approaches, however, tend to assume a definition of the motion pictures as visuality or montage that then influences Kawabata instead of first considering Kawabata’s own conception of cinema, his own film theory. By analyzing his writings on film, including his film criticism, short stories involving cinema, and his involvement in the film A Page of Madness, this paper outlines Kawabata’s conception of cinema and argues that he developed a portrait of cinema that posed it as a challenge to …

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Controversial Heroism: Media Martyrdom And The Inspiration Of Kanye West, Matthew B. Vandini Dec 2017

Controversial Heroism: Media Martyrdom And The Inspiration Of Kanye West, Matthew B. Vandini

Scott T. Allison

This chapter explores this dichotomy of
heroism and villainy that has surrounded Kanye West during his entire career. This essay
seeks to understand perceptions of Kanye as representing both the best
and the worst of human nature.

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What's Up Doc? A Review And Analysis Of English Language Documentaries On Contemporary Graffiti And Street Art, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D., Ronald Kramer Dec 2017

What's Up Doc? A Review And Analysis Of English Language Documentaries On Contemporary Graffiti And Street Art, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D., Ronald Kramer

Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

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The Dancer's Paradox: Dance In Egyptian Film, Roberta L. Dougherty Dec 2017

The Dancer's Paradox: Dance In Egyptian Film, Roberta L. Dougherty

Roberta L. Dougherty

Egyptian films have presented us with many portrayls of the dancer, but what role did she play in our collective consciousness? And how did audiences perceive her?

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