Sentences with phrase «teaches film history»

He teaches film history at the University of Miami and lives in West Palm Beach with his wife, Lynn.

Not exact matches

Luckow teaches at Barnard and Yale, and she's showed up to the event because she's still interested in the subject of her first film, and probably always will be given their shared history.

Over 2004 — 2005 I took two classes in the history of aesthetics taught by Lydia Goehr and another in the history of film aesthetics by James Schamus (the same James Schamus who is CEO of Focus Features).

Ghost is very much a film of its time, just as the also - Rubin - scripted Jacob's Ladder, from the same year, pinged off the cultural climate in another real, essential way by predicting not the death of the Eighties, but the transformation of the aggressive Eisenhower delusions of Reagan's voodoo cowboy foreign policy into the «history will teach us nothing» nihilism of the fast - digitizing, Luddite, Born - Again Nineties.

In addition to his directorial debut, Cheshire has written two narrative screenplays and recently taught a course on the history of film at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

A new effort seems to fall somewhere between these genres, with well - known Western film actors such as Kiefer Sutherland, Tom Selleck, James Caan, Danny Glover and Ed Harris teaching history lessons.

Opening with one of film history's most wooden leading men, Paul Walker, and «nice Jewish boy» comic relief Jason Biggs sitting in a hundred - degree steam room before running out into a 30 - below autumn day in Antarctica, Eight Below immediately teaches us that human beings heated to a toasty 110 degrees do not steam when exposed to sub-zero temperatures and, more, that if you should ever visit the South Pole, your breath will never, ever show.

It is one of the most beloved film franchises of all time, and now Star Wars has been examined and presented as a means to teach world history.

Here, in a conversation with AITSL (the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership), he discusses how linking the film and novel Rabbit Proof Fence through movie reviews and film editing has helped his students gain a clearer understanding of 1930s law and the history of the Stolen Generation.

As a substitute in several schools last year, I heard a lot of teachers — fairly young ones — reminiscing about a football coach who was assigned to teach history and always showed game films.

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

More teaching American history well Watching an educational film on the human body reminded me once more what makes for good instruction.

While the practices displayed in the film apply to more than teaching American history, they underscore the them... Continue reading →

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.

I know one thing — MacGregor's liberal history of cultural encounters and global diversity, which he communicates through books and radio as well as British Museum's displays, has taught people a lot more about global art than anyone will learn from Campbell's film.

More than 500 students enroll each year in the 45 - plus courses offered by the Program in Visual Arts in painting, drawing, graphic design, photography, sculpture, film, video, and film history and theory, which are taught by a distinguished faculty of working artists, critics, and scholars.

He has taught at the SUNY Buffalo and Ohio State University and currently teaches film theory and history at the California Institute of the Arts.

Jacqueline Stewart's research and teaching explore African American film cultures from the origins of the medium to the present, as well as the archiving and preservation of moving images, and «orphan» media histories, including nontheatrical, amateur, and activist film and video.