Sentences with phrase «people in film studies»

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In one study, people watched a silent film about an accident at an industrial site that occurred because of poor safety practices.

Churches need to foster discussions of character by using films or case studies that present difficult choices in work or relationships, situations in which people must ask themselves, «What does it mean to do the honest, decent thing here?»

In a classic study often dubbed the «Invisible Gorilla» test, researchers showed participants a film clip of several people passing a basketball back and forth and asked them to count the number of passes between players in white and to ignore the players in blacIn a classic study often dubbed the «Invisible Gorilla» test, researchers showed participants a film clip of several people passing a basketball back and forth and asked them to count the number of passes between players in white and to ignore the players in blacin white and to ignore the players in blacin black.

Lead researcher Professor Tuomas Eerola, Professor of Music Cognition in the Department of Music, Durham University, said: «Previous research in music psychology and film studies has emphasised the puzzling pleasure that people experience when engaging with tragic art.

Back to the film... What I love about Forks Over Knives is, in addition to hearing from incredible doctors like Colin Campbell (author of The China Study) and Caldwell Esselstyn, is that the film tells inspiring stories of real people, from all walks of life, who've embraced a plant - based diet and have thus reversed chronic health conditions like heart disease, cancer, and diabetes.

Kenneth Lonergan's Manchester By the Sea (six nominations) is another film by a real movie artist: a study of grief and the ways in which it is denied and displaced into other human activities which in turn have their effects on other people.

The film, a satirical look at the Soviet dictator's last days and the chaos of the regime after his death, fits neatly into Iannucci's ongoing study of biting political commentary, situational humor, and a lot of people badgering each other in hallways.

Like I said, I love your movies, and I truly hope that you continue to do more great and hilarious works of arts, comedy, and action, but, as a black movie buff and a film studies student, PLEASE INCLUDE MORE PEOPLE OF COLOR IN YOUR FUTURE FILMS.

Those for whom space travel is a strong interest, or a study in science class, are the people most likely to have caught the film in its long, limited large - format release.

As Hollywood touts great wins for diversity and inclusion with recent films like «Black Panther» and «Wonder Woman» shattering box office records, a new study from GLAAD asserts that representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people in 2017 films released by the major studios hit a six - year low.

The writer or co-writer of films like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull (both screenplays were nominated for Golden Globes) and the Last Temptation of Christ and director of American Gigolo, Cat People and Auto Focus, he had never seen a film before the age of seventeen, being more occupied by a strict Calvinist upbringing and college studies with a minor in theology.

From his second feature, 2008's Tony Manero, about a Saturday Night Fever - obsessed killer in»70s Chile, up to his forthcoming film, the poetic Neruda (out in the UK in April), Larraín has made character studies that trust audiences to search the sweep of a film for meaning, using the formal potential of cinema to explore what people are like, rather than saddling an actor with revelatory baggage.

Having studied film making in college, for my first projects, I too just had people walk around, focusing more on their expressions and the settings.

Like his 2009 debut, «Samson & Delilah,» the new film, which won a special jury prize in Venice, finds Thornton expressing a palpable anger at the brutal mistreatment of his country's Aboriginal people, in a style that melds classical western filmmaking with studied art - film longueurs.

Melissa Tamminga lives in Bellingham, Washington, and when she's not teaching English and film studies at Whatcom Community College, frequents the Pickford Film Center; writes about movies for Seattle Screen, on her website, A Journal of Film, and on Letterboxd; and listens to more film podcasts than is healthy for one person.

The first disc also has a 22 - minute featurette that looks at the remote locations in the film and the great lengths the filmmakers went to study them in - person.

While his detractors blame Kinsey for much of the looseness of morals that developed in the decades following his published studies, Condon's film seeks to make him somewhat of a hero, as sexual repression and lack of adequate education were responsible for a high number of unhappy and confused people who saw anything but heterosexual intercourse as deviant behavior — even oral sex was against the law in some parts of the United States at the time.

That, in fact, is where this film takes him as he studies and makes conclusions based on people's eyes.

Woodley's quite good in this too, but the film doesn't ask as much of her as I would like; she mostly becomes a case study for Sutter's effect on people that are close to him, as she is both charmed by his charisma but led into a habit of regular drinking.

I saw films with stories about finding happiness even with cancer (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl), the struggles of addiction (I Smile Back), transgender women in Los Angeles (Tangerine), post-apocalyptic love triangles (Z for Zachariah), a teenage girl's sexual awakening (The Diary of a Teenage Girl), relationships between interviewer and interviewee (End of the Tour, True Story), washed up Olympians (The Bronze), two kids who go for a joy ride (Cop Car), psychological studies (The Stanford Prison Experiment), lesbian lovers coming - of - age (The Summer of Sangaile), being a single parent (People, Places, Things), and geeky kids learning how to grow up (Dope).

Don't be surprised if people are studying and talking about this film in years to come.

In that sense, Shyamalan is telling what appears to be a very personal, two - person character study in the setting of a big - budget science - fiction action filIn that sense, Shyamalan is telling what appears to be a very personal, two - person character study in the setting of a big - budget science - fiction action filin the setting of a big - budget science - fiction action film.

This detailed and high quality unit includes: * 15 lesson plans (with 13 differentiation strategies) * 93 slide PowerPoint presentation (divided into lessons) * All resources and worksheets (21 sheets) Unit's lessons include: * Introduction to the AQA GCSE Media Studies course requirements * Introduction to the four key concepts * Activity focused on pupils» own consumption of media texts * Detailed research into the history of the media - creating a timeline of people, technology and institutions * Applying Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to film media * Introduction of camera shots, angles and movement * Film terminology «speed - dating» to introuce key media language * Analysing a mise - en - scene * Analysing a film trailer: genre conventions and audience appeal * Creating genre - specific typography and writing a commentary * Analysing logos and slogans * Exploring stereotypes in the media * Music industry terminology and genre features * Analysing a CD album sleeve: genre conventions and audience appeal * The history ofvideo gaming * Video gaming genres and gratifications * Analysing a video game cover: genre conventions and audience appeal

In his spare time, he listens to loud rock music, writes plays about very silly things, studies the films of Fellini and Will Ferrell, and repeatedly reminds people that, no, he's not that Brian Wilson.

«I think there's a lot of cross over, there's a lot of people who work in film and interactive who are interested in games, and a lot of people that work in games who are interested in both of those things,» Warren told us, «I think for us there are a couple groups we are really interested in, students was one, I see students who are studying games or other forms of interactive design.

I recently attended a Manhattan screening of «Promised Land,» a new feature film written by and starring Matt Damon and John Krasinski that aims to examine America's natural gas drilling boom as a case study in «what happens when real people and real money collide,» as Krasinski explained in publicity materials.

In fact, although we all like to think that comfort foods bring us, well, comfort, new research suggests that is rarely the case.7 In one study conducted at the University of Minnesota, participants watched films that were chosen because they were expected to make people feel sad.

Level 1: Bridging the Couple Chasm A two - day professional training workshop, with films from their clinical office, presented by Drs. John and Julie Gottman, either in person or as a DVD home study program.