Gary Hill: transcending the senses
Gary Hill's transformative films, performances, and video installations offer resonant philosophic and poetic insights as he explores the tensions
Series: Video Artists, Video Art: Film At The Fringes Of Experience
Contributor(s): Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Transcript: think of video is an imagistic medium. That belongs to film, I think. It's more about this kind of circuit that allows you to sort of think out loud. In
Publisher: Films Media Group (Firm)
The Civil War: Episode 1—The Cause (1861)
Beginning with a searing indictment of slavery, this program dramatically evokes the causes of the war. Here are the burning questions of union and states’ rights, John Brown at Harper’s Ferry, the election of Abraham Lincoln, the firing on Fort...
Genre: Documentary films
Series: The Civil War: A Film By Ken Burns
Contributor(s): Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Publisher: Films Media Group (Firm)
The Civil War: Episode 3—Forever Free (1862)
This program charts the events that led to Lincoln’s decision to set the slaves free. Convinced by July 1862 that emancipation had become morally and militarily crucial to the future of the Union, Lincoln had to bide his time and wait for a victor...
Genre: Documentary films
Series: The Civil War: A Film By Ken Burns
Contributor(s): Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Publisher: Films Media Group (Firm)
The Civil War: Episode 5—The Universe of Battle (1863)
This program opens with an account of the turning point of war: the Battle of Gettysburg. For three days, 150,000 men fight to the death in the Pennsylvania countryside—an action that culminates in Pickett’s ill-fated charge. This extended episo...
Genre: Documentary films
Series: The Civil War: A Film By Ken Burns
Contributor(s): Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Publisher: Films Media Group (Firm)
Expressing the inexpressible: Shirin Neshat
An acclaimed photographer, filmmaker, and video artist, Iranian-born Shirin Neshat addresses the complex forces shaping the identity of Muslim women throughout the world and explores the social, political, and psychological dimensions of women's exp...
Series: Video Artists, Video Art: Film At The Fringes Of Experience
Contributor(s): Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Transcript: difficulties with place of, a new place of visit. The opposites are the world of traditional value represented in our filming in Turkey and by depicting the
Publisher: Films Media Group (Firm)
Media Literacy in the 21st-Century Classroom
basic concepts as well as examples drawn from film and television. Defining media literacy in terms of access, analysis, evaluation, and creation, the
Genre: Educational Films
Contributor(s): Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Subject: Media literacy -- Study and teaching
Transcript: OTHER ELEMENTS OF THE FILM AND WHAT THAT MIGHT REVEAL. AND ALTHOUGH IT MAY SEEM LIKE A LOT OF WORK TO DO THIS WITH EVERY PIECE OF MEDIA YOU ENCOUNTER, IT
Publisher: Films Media Group (Firm)
Media hype: when news coverage goes too far
The Center for Media and Public Affairs reports that during the 1990s the homicide rate in the U.S. dropped 50 percent, yet homicide news coverage
Contributor(s): Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Subject: Mass media--Objectivity
Transcript: SOMETHING DIFFERENT. WE'RE GOING TO REPORT ON US. THE MEDIA. CAN YOU TRUST WHAT WE SHOW YOU♪ YOU CAN SAY PICTURES DON'T LIE BUT TODAY THANKS TO
Publisher: Films Media Group (Firm)
Racially Biased Images in the Media
Racial bias in American media often took the form of negative, exaggerated, stereotypical words and images. Archival film footage depicts a
Latinos Beyond Reel : Challenging a Media Stereotype
-leeching illegals.
The film challenges viewers to think critically about the wide-ranging effects of these media stereotypes, and to envision alternative
Genre: Documentary films
Contributor(s): Open Lens Media
Subject: Hispanic Americans in mass media
Transcript: , economic, and cultural force, the mainstream American media have told a very different story about Latinos. [INTERVIEWER] Do you remember seeing any films
Publisher: Media Education Foundation
Writing about media: Media And Politics
Combining focused writing instruction with a media literacy perspective, Writing About Media serves as an invaluable tool for college and upper
Contributor(s): Media Education Foundation
Subject: Media literacy--Study and teaching
Publisher: Media Education Foundation