Connections: countdown
What happens when you combine a carbon arc light, a billiard ball coating, a spoked wheel and consecutive images? Motion pictures! Complex and
Subject: Motion pictures--Social aspects
Transcript: PICTURES OF A CANNON ON THE WALL. AS HE CRANKED THE LIGHT AROUND BEHIND THE GLASS DISC. WITH THE PICTURES ON IT, EACH SUCCESSIVE PICTURE. SHOWED THE BALL
Representation & the Media
In this illustrated lecture, Stuart Hall examines gender and racial stereotyping in the media. He focuses on the concept of "representation" to show how reality is never experienced directly, but is instead filtered through symbolic cultural catego...
Subject: Motion pictures--Influence
Becoming Visually Literate
To become visually literate, one must know how a picture is created. Knowledge of these elements enable us to make judgements about a picture.
Photographs on Union Mountain
Following Union victory, everyone posed for a picture on Lookout Mountain. Union cemetery is consecrated.
Dotcoms gone bust
At the height of the dotcom mania, Silicon Alley ran with gold, the "new economy" ruled Wall Street, and business as usual was declared dead. A sequel to The Internet Money Machine, this cautionary program tracks the fortunes of TheGlobe.com and Pse...
Contributor(s): Journeyman Pictures (Firm)
The Islamic wave
Rising above the myths and misinformation surrounding Islam, one fact is clear: the Muslim religion is growing as never before. This program surveys the sociopolitical landscape of Islamic hotspots in the Middle East, Pakistan, Indonesia, Sudan, and...
Contributor(s): Journeyman Pictures (Firm)
Global exchange: free trade and protectionism
Did protectionist tariffs initiate the Great Depression? Will free trade across international borders benefit all countries involved, or create winners and losers? Is there any middle ground in the globalization debate? This program surveys the hist...
Contributor(s): Journeyman Pictures (Firm)
Adult entertainment: a psychosocial study of an American obsession - educator's edition
Award-winning director Lance Tracy balances serious science with tongue-in-cheek humor to create a documentary scrutinizing the scope and effects of pornography that is informative, compelling, and unsettling. Constructing an experiment to identify ...
Contributor(s): Axiom Pictures
Transcript: Communications. They exposed 300 willing subjects to a massive exposure... of explicit writings, photographs and motion pictures. Through extensive surveys
Vito
On June 27, 1969, a police raid on a Greenwich Village gay bar took a surprising turn when patrons decided it was time to fight back. As a riot erupted outside the Stonewall Inn, a new era in the Gay Rights Movement was born. Vito Russo, a 23-year-o...
Contributor(s): Automat Pictures
America's immigration debate
Diversity from immigration keeps cities alive, former Senator Bill Bradley (D-NJ) and other leaders assert in this program; opposing views are also presented, thus summarizing America's immigration debate with mixed evaluations of its capacity for c...
Contributor(s): Cadec Pictures (Firm)