The language of film
When Tim Supple directed the filming of Twelfth Night, he was a stickler for sticking to the words as the Bard penned them. Everything else, though
Contributor(s): Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Subject: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Film and video adaptations
Transcript: make that into a vibrant visual image. When I came on to the film, I didn't know Twelth Night. I hadn't really studied it at all. Everything that we
Publisher: Films Media Group (Firm)
Magazine industry
This program examines the evolution of the magazine industry over the course of the 20th century. General-interest magazines like Life and Look once provided a national forum that helped Americans explore their common interests. After World War II, ...
Series: The Film, TV, And Media Industries
Contributor(s): Jones Educational Media
Subject: Mass media--Periodicals
Transcript: audiences for advertisers. And the magazine industry is probably the most segmented of all American media industries. In the sense that magazine companies
Publisher: Films Media Group (Firm)
Television History
Few innovations of the 20th century can top the television in overall effect on culture and daily life. This program covers the development of TV from the labs of John Baird, Philo T. Farnsworth, and Vladimir Zworykin to the present day. Pioneered a...
Genre: Documentary films
Series: The Story Of Film, TV, And Media
Contributor(s): Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Transcript: dominate television, a fourth network, based in Philadelphia and headed by Allen DuMont, was instrumental in the development of this new mass media. What
Publisher: Films Media Group (Firm)
Radio history
This program tells the complete story of radio, from its roots in Marconi's wireless telegraphy and the invention of the vacuum tube by Lee De Forest, to its heyday in the 1930s and subsequent upstaging by television in a battle for audience-share. ...
Series: The Story Of Film, TV, And Media
Contributor(s): Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Publisher: Films Media Group (Firm)
Bystander Intervention and Diffusion of Responsibility
Bystander intervention effect is defined: the greater the number of bystanders who witness an emergency, the less likely it is that any one of them will intervene to help. This documentary discusses research on this phenomenon, providing historical ...
Genre: Documentary films
Series: Insight Media Psychology Series
Contributor(s): Insight Media (Firm)
Transcript: and Charles Carver at the University of Miami provided emergency training to participants by showing public service films
Publisher: Insight Media (Firm)
Conformity
This program examines the psychological concept of conformity and explores related research and theory. It outlines factors influencing obedience and conformity; shows how such individual differences as age, self-esteem, and culture determine probab...
Genre: Documentary films
Series: Insight Media Psychology Series
Contributor(s): Insight Media (Firm)
Publisher: Insight Media (Firm)
Learned Helplessness
This program defines the psychological concept of learned helplessness. It reviews Martin E. P. Seligman's research with dogs; considers criticisms of the theory; explores its implications as a model for depression and for human behavior; looks at b...
Genre: Documentary films
Series: Insight Media Psychology Series
Contributor(s): Insight Media (Firm)
Publisher: Insight Media (Firm)
Psychology of Prejudice
This video explores the psychological processes behind prejudice, considers important historic and contemporary research regarding prejudice, and discusses social and cultural factors that lead to the development of prejudices. It offers techniques ...
Genre: Documentary films
Series: Insight Media Psychology Series
Contributor(s): Insight Media (Firm)
Publisher: Insight Media (Firm)
The Psychology of Power
In this program, Deborah Gruenfeld of the Center for Leadership examines the psychological effects of power, including single-mindedness in decision making, orientation to action, disinhibition, and depersonalization of others. Reviewing research, G...
Genre: Documentary films
Series: Insight Media Psychology Series
Contributor(s): Insight Media (Firm)
Publisher: Insight Media (Firm)
Sexual stereotypes
More than ever before, Americans are being bombarded - and acculturated - by the media, and only discerning individuals will recognize the sexual
Series: Media Interrupted: The Dissection Of Media In American Culture
Contributor(s): Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Subject: Sex role in mass media
Transcript: THE MEDIA, ON HOW TO BEHAVE, CLUES AS TO WHAT IS TO WHAT IS. IT GOES BACK TO AGAIN, BECAUSE FILMS ARE, YOU KNOW, FILMS ARE IDEAL AND THEY REPRESENT AN
Publisher: Films Media Group (Firm)