Sentences with phrase «as film scholar»

As film scholar Tom Gunning puts it in the catalogue, «Cinema still is — but what is it?»

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Since then, the film argues, a variety of measures — from Jim Crow laws to President Richard Nixon's «war on drugs» and President Bill Clinton's «three - strikes - you're - out» legislation — have served to send increasingly large numbers of black men in prison, and several legal scholars and activists interviewed on camera suggest a profit motive at work, as well as racism.

There are times when the film seems to be too freighted with meaning, as if inviting scholars to write thesis papers analyzing its masculine and feminine symbols.

There are also some archival interviews: Terry Gilliam in discussion with film scholar Peter von Bagh as the 1998 Midnight Sun Film Festival and actress Shelley Duvall with Ton Snyder on Tomorrow from 1981.

The movie is credited to two directors, Wanda Tuchock and George Nichols Jr., but film scholar Jeremy Arnold believes Tuchock, who also wrote the screenplay, should be regarded as the film's sole auteur: «This one has Wanda's fingerprints all over it.»

Through this series, programmed by film scholar Michael Raine, American audiences may be surprised to discover that the roots of the movie musical in Japan are nearly as intertwined with the rest of the country's film history as they are in the U.S.

The critics, of course, were shocked and the Marxist film scholar Umberto Barbaro attacked White Nights vociferously as «a formalistic nightmare.»

I thought I knew a great deal about Ford, but, as taught by talented filmmaker and learned film scholar Michael G. Smith, the courses proved to be a revelation.

That includes an insightful feature - length commentary from scholar Glenn Erickson, who spends the bulk of his breathless offerings analyzing character types, production details, and commenting of the film's importance as an unorthodox film noir.

It is here that the author as an especially well - read film scholar really comes into his own.

A recurring image of bees (part of the Candyman's torment) hints at the picture's eventual nod towards a matriarchy, while the evolution of the Helen character from scholar to myth points to film itself as the modern equivalent of firesides and oral history.

The marginality of the films has bestowed upon them the status of being «illegitimate» and to be treated as «worthless» or with indifference by critics and scholars.

Shakespeare scholar Holger Syme was even less charitable, proposing in a blog entry that has since become an Oxfordian recruitment camp fronted by Orloff himself that the film's chief sin is not historical inaccuracy but its filmmakers» posture as courageous iconoclasts, railing against established wisdom.

The film follows Turing, a mathematical genius, as he leads a motley group of scholars, linguists, chess champions and intelligence officers, who are tasked with cracking the so - called unbreakable codes of Germany's World War II Enigma machine.

Ultimately there are 16 films here by Hitchcock, canonical viewing for the film scholar, also as much fun to watch as any movies ever made.

Special Features New, restored 2K digital transfer, approved by director Michael Haneke, with 5.1 surround DTS - HD Master Audio soundtrack New interview with Haneke Introduction by Haneke, actor Juliette Binoche, and producer Marin Karmitz, as well as on - set footage of cast and crew Interview from 2001 in which Haneke discusses the filming of the boulevard sequences New interview with film scholar Roy Grundmann Teasers New English subtitle translation Plus: An essay by critic Nick James

Film scholar Gilberto Perez, in his brilliant work The Material Ghost: Films and their Medium, expresses as well as anyone I've read the physical experience of watching a film on screen: The...

But in an interview on Criterion's new Blu - ray of Renoir's full - length 1931 film La Chienne (which also contains «On Purge Bébé» as a bonus feature), scholar Christopher Faulkner says the French master quickly realized the possibilities of sound, even while cranking out a thudding farce.

There's a generous new 35 - minute career retrospective interview with Michel Piccoli conducted by Juan - Luis Bunuel, as well as an interview with Bunuel scholar Victor Fuentes, commentary by film scholar Ernesto R. Acevedo - Munoz and an accompanying booklet with essays.

As an undergraduate, I took a course with a well - regarded film scholar who used to demand that we pay special attention to the opening and closing sequences of any movie we were trying to analyze.

As he commented, «if you've ever had anonymous sex in a park or even in a bathhouse, basically it is like having sex with a zombie, and not necessarily in a bad way... having sex with them frees you from the personal and emotional restraints of normal sexual behaviour».65 American scholar Shaka McGlotten echoes this sentiment when he suggests that the «collective zombification» of «contemporary queer sociality» as represented in LaBruce's zombie films, possesses a creativity and «openness» from which «enlivening modes of agency» can be at the very «least» imagined if not cultivated.66 In symbolising the «return of the repressed» LaBruce's zombies evoke the idealised polymorphous body of sexual liberatioAs he commented, «if you've ever had anonymous sex in a park or even in a bathhouse, basically it is like having sex with a zombie, and not necessarily in a bad way... having sex with them frees you from the personal and emotional restraints of normal sexual behaviour».65 American scholar Shaka McGlotten echoes this sentiment when he suggests that the «collective zombification» of «contemporary queer sociality» as represented in LaBruce's zombie films, possesses a creativity and «openness» from which «enlivening modes of agency» can be at the very «least» imagined if not cultivated.66 In symbolising the «return of the repressed» LaBruce's zombies evoke the idealised polymorphous body of sexual liberatioas represented in LaBruce's zombie films, possesses a creativity and «openness» from which «enlivening modes of agency» can be at the very «least» imagined if not cultivated.66 In symbolising the «return of the repressed» LaBruce's zombies evoke the idealised polymorphous body of sexual liberation.

Hailed as a «masterpiece of visual design» by film scholar Donald Richie, Kon Ichikawa's Tokyo Olympiad (Tokyo 1964) breathlessly combines massive spectacle with idiosyncratic portraiture.

Here at Fiction Factory we just finished editing on RUNNING IN THE DARK, in which film scholar Glenn Erickson tells the fascinating story behind Jules Dassin's noir masterpiece NIGHT AND THE CITY (1950), starring Richard Widmark as an American low - life racketeer literally running out of luck in London.

Most likely filmed without sound and then dubbed into various tongues as distribution demanded (thank Argento scholar Mike Bracken for that information), Musante's tired, tortured performance is all the more impressive.

In college, I had a professor who was, ironically, one of the great film scholars in the world, but a mediocre lecturer and guide to the group as a whole.

Over the course of his 25 - year career, Mattox has: * written numerous articles for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA TODAY, and other major publications; * spoken at educational conferences in Geneva, Prague, Rome, and Vatican City; * led writing workshops at Duke, Vanderbilt, the University of Virginia, and other major universities; * served as a speechwriter for several Members of Congress in Washington, D.C.; * directed a documentary film and a number of other media projects, including a public service ad campaign that ran in Rolling Stone; and * spearheaded a number of quantitative and qualitative research projects, working closely with polling firms, focus group organizers, and «think tank» scholars.

Video games have a history as rich and engrossing as literature or film, but you don't hear people telling you these games are required for game scholars.

For a group like the Criterion Collection, the prioritization of this concern happens through signaling their ongoing act of «working closely with filmmakers and scholars to ensure that each film is presented as its maker would want it seen and published in an edition that will deepen the viewer's understanding and appreciation of the art of cinema.»

Reception from western critics was much more positive; many critics and film scholars have come to proclaim its action scenes as among the best ever filmed.

Programs such as keynote lectures from visiting scholars, gallery talks, readings, archival presentations, adult education courses, and film screenings at the Museum will be presented at no cost to all registrants.

It includes essays by the curator Jens Hoffmann, the scholar José Luis Barrios, and the film critic Ernesto Diezmartínez Guzmán as well as information on all the participating artists and their works, extended notes on the classic films selected by the artists, and a special insert featuring a newly commissioned photographic project by Fernando Ortega depicting abandoned or repurposed movie theaters in Mexico City.

Filmmaker and scholar Karen Alexander and filmmaker Campbell select screenings by artists such as Kara Walker whose provocative films retell narratives around slavery and domination.

Curated by independent scholar Susan Harris with Grey Art Gallery director Lynn Gumpert, the exhibition features approximately 35 major paintings and over 50 gouaches, prints, and drawings, as well as numerous sketchbooks, films, maquettes, source materials, and ephemera.

Created in dialogue with an international array of curators and scholars, International Pop features some 140 works from 14 countries as well as a dedicated film / video program daily in the galleries.

Using film the way one might use a journal, film scholar Robin Blaetz characterizes Keller's films as having a «Notebook aesthetic,» often performing descriptive passages of ephemeral perception.

As scholar David Green has explained, «Claerbout's work subtly proposes a relationship of similitude between film and the objective world that lies outside and beyond the narrative space of cinema.

The couple's accomplishments - as patrons, philanthropists and political activists who lived and worked along a Paris - Houston - New York axis - is told in lively texts and remembrances by contributors such as the artist Dorothea Tanning, architect Renzo Piano, film scholar Gerald O'Grady, architectural historian Stephen Fox, curators Bertrand Davezac and Walter Hopps, and Africanist Kristina Van Dyke.

Featuring commentary from Bjork herself, interviews with notable environmentalist and scholars (Omar Ragnarsson and Andri Snaer Magnason) as well as other prominent Icelandic figures, the film is centered around exploring the concept of alternative energy and how it can apply to the Icelandic environment.

Even noted film and media scholar Patricia Aufderheide, professor of Film and Media Arts in the School of Communication at American University and director of the Center for Social Media, noticed, tweeting: Dueling documentaries; looks like the big - biz folks aren't as good filmmakers... http://wapo.st/qwM4N7 @hotcoffeemovie

Some of our notable entertainment and media attorneys are: John Quinn, General Counsel of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who has also represented entertainment and media clients in a number of high profile cases; Kathleen Sullivan, the former Dean of Stanford Law School, First Amendment scholar, and nationally renowned appellate advocate, who heads the firm's appellate practice group; Bob Raskopf, an expert in the sports, entertainment and media bars in New York, who is perhaps best known for his work on behalf of professional sports leagues and teams, newspapers and publishers; Claude Stern, who has represented a broad array of leading software developers, videogame manufacturers, online publishers and other media clients in all forms of intellectual property litigation, including copyright, patent, trade secret, trademark, and licensing disputes; Bruce Van Dalsem, who has tried and resolved disputes for studios, producers and performing artists in the film, television, music and finance businesses, securing a top five verdict in California based on the misappropriation of a film library; Gary Gans, an expert litigator in motion picture financing, production and distribution disputes, as well as copyright and idea theft cases, who has been named in 2012 by The Hollywood Reporter as one of America's «Top Entertainment Attorneys;» Jeff McFarland, who has litigated entertainment related cases for more than 20 years, including cases involving motion picture and television series profits, video game licenses, idea theft and the «seven year rule;» and Michael Williams, who represents a satellite exhibitor and other media clients in trademark, copyright, patent, antitrust and other commercial litigation.