Cinematic Social Commentary
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Alice Guy: Grand Lady of Cinema
The life of film pioneer Alice Guy
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The Changing Audience
The audience is fracturing along demographic lines
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The Writer's Choice
The choices the Writer faces in story material
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The Eye of the Beholder
When is a movie a good movie?
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The Choice of Material
How Hollywood chooses material for the Screen
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The Mass Audience
Filmmakers Aim to Please All
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The Director
The role of the Director in film.
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The Screenwriter's Craft
The Work of the Screenwriter
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The Actor's Craft
How the Actors work Affects the Audience
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The After Effects
The Power of Film over our Lives
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The Villain
No Villain, No Film.
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Books to Film
The problems of making a book into a film.
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The Movie Critic
What's the Purpose of a Movie Critic?
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Image or Word
Do we go to movies to see or hear them?
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The Hays Office
The first motion picture code.
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Language of Film 3: Lighting
Lighting reveals information no words can
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Science Fiction to Science Fact
Movies can Predict the Future
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Film Preservation
Some thoughts on the need for preservation of old films
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The Do It Yourself Movie?
Should the audience make the movie?
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'U-571'
The history behind the movie, U-571.
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The Digital Revolution
Digital technology means a leap forward in the way we shoot and view movies.
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The Camera's Eye
The lens is the camera's eye
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The Thirst for Image
A look at why the mind has a thirst for Image
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Sound
Sound helps the film come alive.
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Language of Film 2: The End
The third act of the film brings the story to an emotional climax.
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Language of Film 2: The Middle
The second act of a film is where they main story takes place.
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Language of Film 2: Beginning, Middle and End
The first act of a film helps define the rest of the movie.
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Movies and Ritual
The design of the movie theater and the church comes from a common root.
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The Language of Film
Just as the written word has rules of expression so does film.
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Reality without Reality
The movie represents a departure from reality for the human mind. How and why does the mind react to this departure?
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The Image Age
An overview of the development of motion pictures.
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