Tag Archives: Cinema
The Case for Popular Culture, Part 1 of 2: Literature and Film
Colin MacCabe contends that an understanding of twentieth-century literature is impossible without an understanding of film. In the academy, written forms of literature have been valorized historically, but, as viewed from the mid-1980s, the recognition of film as art and … Continue reading
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Tagged Cinema, Film, Literature, Motion pictures -- Social aspects, Popular culture
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Media and Society, Part 2 of 2: The Future of Cinema and Cinema Studies
Robert Allen, John Kuiper, and Russell Merritt discuss the history and future of cinema in the United States, saying that, by 1947, weekly moviegoers in the nation outnumbered the entire American population many times over. From their beginnings, movies clearly constituted important … Continue reading
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Tagged Cinema, Cinema studies
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The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Antony Harrison and Nan Miller discuss John Fowles’s 1969 novel The French Lieutenant’s Woman, which was released as a film in 1981 with screenplay by Harold Pinter. At the time of this interview, Harrison, a Fellow at the National Humanities … Continue reading
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Tagged Cinema, Film, Harold Pinter, John Fowles
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