public marks

PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tag film

06 October 2006

The Hero's Three-Part Journey

different versions of this mythological structure, often used by screenwriters; somewhat male-oriented

The RML Movie Page

links page for many aspects of cinema, internationally; not well organized

The Media and Communications Studies Site

gateway to media information, including narratology, listed under textual analysis

05 October 2006

| The John Cassavetes Pages |

attractively designed web site hosted by scholar Ray Carney

Posthegemony

The "about" page for a blog on posthegemony. Author also comments succinctly on books, Latin America, film and television.

02 October 2006

BBC - Writersroom - Scriptsmart

free screenwriting formatting tool to use with Microsoft Word; I have not tried it and do not know how well it works.

Street Media: A Thesis Proposal

Images found in an urban environment and how to evaluate them: a key component of photography, film, photos, visual anthropology.

course outline on social construction of space

understanding this topic is crucial for folks in the visual arts, especially documentarians

H-Net Review: John C. Ehrhardt on Tourism: Between Place and Performance

For students of documentary, it is useful to conceptualize place, space, locale, and social performance all at the same time.

01 October 2006

OUP: Cartwright & Sturken: "Practices of Looking"

Oxford U. Press offers PDFs of chapters one and nine of this introduction to visual culture

Sam Brody: American Filmmaker and Photographer

co-founder of 1930's Film and Photo League, a memorial web site gathering his writings

28 September 2006

The Top 50 Movie Endings of All Time : filmcritic.com

by 2 others
I teach screenwriting students to write for the ending; it economizes crafting a storyline.

27 September 2006

Movie Blogs

I have not looked at all these, but about.com often has some new tips to follow up on.

25 September 2006

Popular Tags on Flickr Photo Sharing

by 1 other
For teaching film, popular tags to follow include "narrative," "fiction," "story." It makes a good early Easy assignment: ask students to do a photo narrative, which now can be posted in Flickr and tagged with a class title, e.g., "101lesage"--teacher mu

Lev Manovich - Avant-garde as Software

The 1920s avant garde "revolution" in film, arts, typography, and architecture has become part of computer hard- and software design; new media does not now provide new ways of seeing but radically new ways of using already accumulated media.

The House Next Door

thoughtful and substantial essays on TV shows and current and foreign films; excellent set of links on right side to film blogs and other Intenet film resources

24 September 2006

the complete idiot's [eejit's] guide to all aspects of filmmaking

clear and witty, useful for practitioners as refresher or for students, especially production teachers