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Just in case you missed this gallery of reimagined posters for the Best Picture Oscar nominees when College Humor debuted it last month...
"I think it's a tragedy that most of today's textbooks completely ignore media and the important process of scriptwriting."
The only problem with inspirational movies is that they can be kind of corny. Know what I mean? I’m not talking about message movies, although plenty of those attempt to inspire us–it’s just that their attempts are so transparent that the audience feels like it’s being treated like idiots. (And for some reason we educators, [...]
"Yes: I think it is fair, appropriate and altogether fitting that we share our passion for media. I think a great question to ask anyone and to demand an answer to is: why are you a fan of __(fill in the blank)_?"
Ely Landau’s King: A Filmed Record received an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary more than forty years ago, and strangely enough you could see that scenario repeating if it were released today—it’s that riveting, that smart, that important. (And actually this Sunday, it is being “released” again for a single day at select theaters.) Just [...]
Girls with supernatural powers, rumors of demon-worshiping, and of course, romance, are all to be found in "Beautiful Creatures," the film adaptation of the popular YA paranormal series.
Young people need to understand the way that media texts position them—even with, or perhaps especially with, those texts whose content they are sympathetic to...
Katie and Nelson Dellamaggiore’s award-winning documentary Brooklyn Castle tells the story of five young chess players at I.S. 318, the impoverished Brooklyn school that has won more national chess titles than any other junior high in the United States.
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