Sentences with phrase «studied film history»

A brazen multidisciplinary artist who studied film history and theory, C. Spencer Yeh presents a program of two new moving image works combining diaristic and documentary footage.

Jeff Guess has a BFA in photography from the University of Washington, Seattle and studied film history and theory at the Université de Paris III in Paris where he currently lives.

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The fourth child and younger son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch went to Harvard to study film and history after graduating in 1991 from Horace Mann, an elite New York City private prep school.

I studied an Arts Degree with drama and screen as my majors, so I have an extensive knowledge of theatre and film history which never comes in handy.

The future director studied history at the University of Montreal, and it was there that he would produce his first short film, Seul ou Avec d'Autres, in 1962.

After making his mark in the early thirties with two very different films, the anarchic send - up of the bourgeoisie Boudu Saved from Drowning and the popular - front Gorky adaptation The Lower Depths, Renoir closed out the decade with two critical humanistic studies of French society that routinely turn up on lists of the greatest films ever made: Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game (the former was celebrated in its time, but the latter was trashed by critics and audiences — until history provided vindication).

Her father studied politics and history and was a manager of a film distribution company, but she emphasises that this was incidental — he was more interested in management than film.

But for those interested in this time in American history, those studying music or anyone who likes a good story with interesting characters this film is a must see.

In addition, and unlike much English - language film scholarship even today (and certainly television studies), the book is far from Anglophone - or even Francophone - centric in its account of both cinema and criticism / theory's history, being at pains to emphasise the reality of new - century scholarly discourse as truly global in scope.

Born in Australia, Doyle studied Chinese art history at the University of Maryland, became a sailor, and settled in Taiwan, where he became an apprentice to Chen Kun - hou, the cinematographer on Hou Hsiao - hsien's early films.

Book - length film studies by amateurs can be traced back to Salman Rushdie's 1992 The Wizard of Oz, the volume that launched the BFI Film Classics — possibly the most bountiful book series in the history of film criticism in any language, and one that sums up some of the gains criticism generally can boast over the same period, when DVD extras, building on the precedents established with laserdiscs, started to become institutionalized.

It was the weirdest thing because I never went to film school, I never studied cinema, I didn't know cinematic history or anything, and suddenly, in a very short period of time, I'm on this aircraft carrier with these robots and Bruce Dern trying to figure it out and having all these guys around me to help.

What's most exciting about film criticism in the internet age is that it is truly democratic: the best criticism can come from the most unexpected quarters, from personalities without any history or credentials in film criticism or studies.

With The Grand Budapest Hotel, Anderson seems to be not so concerned with history, but with the history of cinema; we can see references to Kubrick and F.W. Murnau, and the plot descends into an elaborate caper full of bizarre character studies, wondrous sequences (including a superb cat - and - mouse chase where Gustave and Zero zoom down a precarious mountain atop a toboggan in pursuit of Willem Dafoe on skis), and meticulously - designed, glamorous sets that are reminiscent of the traits of classical Hollywood films and murder - mysteries.

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

Using original photographs, film footage, eyewitness accounts, oral histories, diaries and letters, the Eighth in the East learning pack has pulled together primary and secondary resources from across the country to provide educators with a diversely resourced local history study.

However, it generally includes class discussions about readings from the Facing History and Ourselves Resource Book: Holocaust and Human Behavior (Parsons & Strom, 1977); films with FHAO study guides; guest speakers; literature; and journal writing.

It's an array of materials including Pulitzer - prize winning magazine articles, news stories past and present, photographic essays, maps, charts, research and case studies, autobiographies, biographies, oral histories, films, and the universe of multimedia materials.

Some of the earliest research in social studies education focused on the use of films to teach history (Consitt, 1931; Knowlton & Tilton, 1929).

Our aim is to provide teachers with the resources and the expertise to introduce film into their teaching, be it History, Media Studies or Citizenship.

Another example of activities in an enrichment program would be to have students studying the prehistoric era watch films on dinosaurs, draw pictures of them, and go to a natural history museum to see a dinosaur exhibit.

He holds a bachelor of science degree in general studies, a bachelor of science in film and television production, and a minor in history.

For many years before I had steeped myself in Japanese history and literature, reading widely, watching films, studying the language.

With experience of undertaking modules in a diverse range of subjects, she has acquired exceptional knowledge of contemporary and classical theories which include philosophy, history, cultural studies, film and literature.

Building on lessons learned throughout my professional and academic history, from a focus in world literature (I was named the 2009 Outstanding Graduate in English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University), to high - level Technical support for global teams at Apple in Cupertino, to my experiences filming, writing about, and sharing our world as a travel blogger with «The Radical Dreamer», I'm currently studying to build transformative game experiences at one of the United Kingdom's top universities for digital humanities with the MA Independent Games and Playable Experience Design program at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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A graduate of Goldsmith's and University College in London with degrees in Media and Film Studies, Chinese artist Hao has been drawing the attention of curators from Beijing (where she lives) to New York with her evocative, pseudo-documentary films that mine her country's social history.

A number of events expand on the themes explored in the exhibition including a tour led by the exhibition curator David Campany (20 July, 6.30 pm, Free); the exhibition's curator David Campany is joined by writer and critic Brian Dillon, artists Xavier Ribas and Eva Stenram for a symposium discussing notions of time, perception and the history of photography (17 June, 2 - 6 pm, # 15 / # 12.50 concs); and award - winning essay film - maker Grant Gee presents his study of the late German writer W.G. Sebald which is a multi-layered exploration of place, memory, longing and dust (29 June, 7 pm, # 9.50 / # 7.50 concs).

After studying art history and sculpture she continued to work with the medium of sculpture while exploring performative actions with the body in relation to film, video, and space in the late 1960s.

JJ: At the same time that I was looking at contemporary work and studying art history I was looking at film — going to Anthology Film Archives [in New York] and a lot of places that don't exist any more that were showing film in the 1960s and 70s.

IT»S LIKE EISENSTEIN PUTTING ONE THING NEXT TO ANOTHER AND CREATING A LANGUAGE THAT WAY, AND IT IS ALSO RELATED TO SURREALISM AND JUXTAPOSING DISPARATE IDEAS, OBJECTS AND IMAGES JJ: At the same time that I was looking at contemporary work and studying art history I was looking at film — going to Anthology Film Archives [in New York] and a lot of places that don't exist any more that were showing film in the 1960s and 70s.

An internationally renowned visual artist who has been showing in major museums of modern and contemporary art, and a distinguished thinker, Bracha L. Ettinger is also one of the world's leading theorists in the realm of art and philosophy of aesthetics, ethics, sexual difference and French psychoanalysis and feminism, whose writings have influenced film and literary thinking, queer studies, contemporary aesthetics and ethics, and art history.

He abandoned painting in 1982, studying art history at the Vrije Universiteit, Brussels (1982 — 6), and spent three years experimenting with video and film until 1985.

David Molander has been studying photography and film at Harvard University and has a BA in Rhetoric and a BA in Art history from Uppsala University.

It offers courses in painting, drawing, sculpture, film, video, and animation, as well as photography, film history and theory, studies of the built and natural environment, and contemporary art.

Julian Rosefeldt's four - screen installation (Super 16 - mm film transferred to DVD) The Ship of Fools, 2007, at first seems a kind of study in art history or visual culture.

They also need to write about them and, in the process, incorporate media theory, game studies, film criticism, anthropology, history, philosophy, and scientific studies, perhaps as a way of indicating that they are engaging in art making rather than basic Internet use.

Ms. Farrell has a Ph.D. in art history and a certificate in film studies from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and a B.A. in art history from Smith College.

He is currently studying the visual cues and contextual idiosyncrasies within the photographs and documentary films of Suriname's past and present history.

Recent films, such as Crow Requiem and The Way Out Is the Way To, move between Smith's active study of multiple sources and archives (avant - garde, African - American histories and improvisational music), and Smith's personal and political response to recent and ongoing violence against people of color at the hands of the state.

Jonas's work developed out of her art - history studies and sculptural practice, and expanded to performance and film in the 1960s through her involvement with the New York avant - garde.

VES also offers lecture courses and seminars in film history and theory, studies of the built and natural environment, design and urbanism, and contemporary arts.

Mercurially applying the logic, aesthetics and politics of his subjects — who include the composers / musicians Cornelius Cardew and L. Voag, and the psychologist R.D. Laing — to the film he is making about them, he creates atmospheric, sampled histories that reverberate with the vitality of the people he studies.

Students are given the opportunity to work one - on - one with our accomplished faculty who are actively engaged in a range of disciplines and areas that include art and cultural theory, art history, film, video, architecture, digital media, print media, photography, performative studies, painting, spatial arts and related fields in the Humanities, Sciences and Engineering.

Courses are offered in various types of art including: painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, fashion design, arts administration, art history, theory, and criticism; art education and art therapy, film - making, architecture, historic preservation, performance art, photography, time arts (time - based media), film and video, visual communication, critical studies and writing.

Additionally, you will be exposed to the history and creative practices in film through contextual studies.

Graduating from New York University with an interdisciplinary Master's in Art History and Gender / Sexuality Studies, she organized a panel discussion on the issues surrounding David Wojnarowicz's film «A Fire In My Belly» with panelists Dr Thomas Crow, Karen Finley and Leon Hilton, as well as published an academic article on David Wojnarowicz's representations of his mentor and lover Peter Hujar.

Megan was a founding director of Project 10 %, an Aboriginal - led company campaigning for policy reform and integration, and she has collaborated in multi-disciplinary groups to produce community resources such as case studies, life histories and a well - travelled group discussion guide to accompany the Australian feature film, Mad Bastards.

We collect printed material relating to all topics about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies including languages, culture and society, family history and biography, visual arts, creative arts, performing arts, songs and music, history, health, education, land rights, native title, business and economics, media, film and communications, environment, cultural heritage protection, sport, government policy, law and justice and Australian parliamentary reports.