Not exact matches
You recall that the SABC, the South African Broadcasting Corporation, the exclusive state monopoly for radio
and television, had the night before run an American Defense
Department film version of their latest report on «Soviet Military Power,» with Secretary Casper Wineberger issuing dire warnings as animated hammer -
and - sickle emblems marched menacingly down the coast of Africa.
He
and his coresearcher, Dr. Neil Malamuth, Chair of the
Department of Communications at UCLA, believe that the increase in «slasher»
films and R - rated violence movies in general («I Was a Teenage Werewolf,» «I Spit on Your Grave,»» Maniac,» «Texas Chainsaw Massacre,»
and «The Toolbox Murders») are creating a serious problem in homes where such
films are now readily available via cable
television and home video.
At various points in his fantastically varied
and storied career he wrote position papers on the need of support for a moribund Australian
film industry, wrote
and directed numerous episodes of such seminal TV shows as Homicide
and Division 4 for Crawford Productions, was central in establishing
film courses
and departments in places such as Canberra
and Brisbane (Griffith University), wrote plays
and performed poems at Melbourne University
and La Mama in the 1960s, directed feature
films in the early 1980s (most memorably Ginger Meggs in 1982), made documentaries for the ABC
and SBS (The Myth Makers, Images of Australia, The Legend of Fred Paterson,
and numerous others), wrote
and edited such books as Screenwriting: A Manual
and Queensland Images in
Film and Television, helmed commercials for a vast array of companies
and government bodies, contributed
film reviews to ABC radio (
and more occasionally TV) across various states (for almost 40 years), wrote for numerous publications including Overland, The Canberra Times, Metro, The Concise Encyclopedia of Documentary
Film, The Hobart Mercury,
and so much more.
Alexis Garcia is a partner in WME IMG's Global
department, where he packages financing
and distribution for
film and television projects,
and consults financier
and corporate clients on strategic entertainment
and media investments.
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film,
television,
and in translation.
The panel was moderated by Mari Carmen Ramírez, the Wortham Curator of Latin American Art,
and director, International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the MFAH
and Chon Noriega, professor, UCLA
department of
film,
television,
and digital media,
and director, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center.
Contributors include historian / critic Michael Duncan; critic / professor Christopher Miles (
Department of Art, California State University, Long Beach); author /
television and film screenwriter, Nevin Schreiner; exhibition curator
and SBMA Curator of Contemporary Art, Julie Joyce;
and SBMA Director, Larry J. Feinberg.