101 Thought Provoking Films

Author : Bob Navarro
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359716369
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 101 Thought-Provoking Films written by Bob Navarro and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-06-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Films are entertainment that create an escape from our ordinary reality. Many of these films are thought-provoking, especially when they address possibilities that may come true in the future.

Author : Ryan Uytdewilligen
Publisher : Algora Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1628941944
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 101 Most Influential Coming of Age Movies written by Ryan Uytdewilligen and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lifelong movie buff puts his knowledge and passion on paper to show you the best films of his favorite movie genre, Coming of Age. The author highlights some of the finest acting, the most poignant moments, and the funniest gags in movies about growing up, reflecting each decade of American culture since the beginning of film-making, while illustrating the ageless turbulence and confusion of adolescence.

Author : Gregory J Watkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199714582
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching Religion and Film written by Gregory J Watkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a culture increasingly focused on visual media, students have learned not only to embrace multimedia presentations in the classroom, but to expect them. Such expectations are perhaps more prevalent in a field as dynamic and cross-disciplinary as religious studies, but the practice nevertheless poses some difficult educational issues -- the use of movies in academic coursework has far outpaced the scholarship on teaching religion and film. What does it mean to utilize film in religious studies, and what are the best ways to do it? In Teaching Religion and Film, an interdisciplinary team of scholars thinks about the theoretical and pedagogical concerns involved with the intersection of film and religion in the classroom. They examine the use of film to teach specific religious traditions, religious theories, and perspectives on fundamental human values. Some instructors already teach some version of a film-and-religion course, and many have integrated film as an ancillary to achieving central course goals. This collection of essays helps them understand the field better and draws the sharp distinction between merely "watching movies" in the classroom and comprehending film in an informed and critical way.

Author : Sandra Mooser
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527588165
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nollywood-Inspired Migrant Filmmaking in Switzerland written by Sandra Mooser and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-28 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the emerging, but still little-known, phenomenon of Nollywood-inspired filmmaking by African migrants in Europe. Using the unique example of a performance ethnographic case study in Switzerland, it shows how members of the African diaspora represent themselves through audio-visual media and what influence the post-colonial images of the Nigerian video film industry have on their image production. Drawing on Jean Rouch’s Shared Anthropology and the methods of Performance Ethnography, this book provides an in-depth look at the complexity of migrants’ everyday lives and showcases Nollywood-inspired transnational filmmaking practices. In its refreshing and accessible writing style, it also illustrates the performance ethnographic research process, highlights the pitfalls and challenges of collaborative film projects, and critically engages with fundamental questions of social research in decolonial settings.

Author : Michael C. LeMay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440854084
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immigration Reform written by Michael C. LeMay and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a comprehensive, unbiased, and easily accessible review of U.S. immigration reform, and explains why reform efforts have resulted in the current state of political deadlock over the issue in the United States Congress. Comprising seven chapters, Immigration Reform: A Reference Handbook surveys the complex topic for high school, undergraduate, and general readers. Chapter 1 gives the historical background to current immigration reform efforts, concentrating on the period from 1965 to date. Chapter 2 discusses problems and controversies, and the proposed solutions to them. Chapter 3 consists of eight original essays contributed by other scholars, complementing the perspective and expertise of the author. Chapter 4 profiles major organizations and people who, as stakeholders in the politics of immigration reform, drive the agenda on the issue. Chapter 5 presents data and documents on the topic, giving readers the ability to analyze the facts. Chapter 6 provides additional resources that the reader may wish to consult, such as books, journal articles, and films. Chapter 7 provides a detailed chronology of important events from 1965 to 2017 that propel the politics and establish the policy of U.S. immigration reform. The book closes with a useful glossary of key terms used throughout the book and a comprehensive subject index.

Author : Sergi, Gianluca
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 033522251X
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cinema Entertainment: Essays On Audiences, Films And Film Makers written by Sergi, Gianluca and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entertainment is seen as something that is superficial, lacking in substance - 'mere entertainment'. Taking Hollywood cinema as its main focus, this text challenges this negative account.

Author : Gianluca Sergi
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335240445
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book EBOOK: Cinema Entertainment: Essays On Audiences, Films And Film Makers written by Gianluca Sergi and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2009-05-16 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entertainment is a defining feature of contemporary culture, yet it is often accused of being superficial and even harmful. In this thought-provoking book, the authors challenge this negative view and argue for a reconsideration of the value of entertainment and the effect it has on the world in which we live. Taking Hollywood cinema as its central focus, this exciting book explores the range of debates that the phenomenon of cinema entertainment has aroused. It is packed with examples from modern, popular films throughout, including a whole chapter on the hugely successful film The Dark Knight. The book features interviews with Randy Thom and Walter Murch, filmmakers involved in creating some of the most successful films of recent years. There is an interesting discussion of the work and reputation of renowned filmmakers, Steven Spielberg and Alfred Hitchcock, names which have become synonymous with cinema entertainment. The authors consider what makes a film successful by looking at box office figures as well as detailed description and critique of current debates surrounding what it means to entertain and be entertained. Cinema Entertainment is important reading for film and media students as well as anyone interested in contemporary mass culture.

Author : Mark Gibney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317249364
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Watching Human Rights written by Mark Gibney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to be able to protect human rights, it is first necessary to see the denial of those rights. Aside from experiencing human rights violations directly, either as a victim or as an eyewitness, more than any other medium film is able to bring us closer to this aspect of the human experience. Yet, notwithstanding its importance to human rights, film has received virtually no scholarly attention and thus one of the primary goals of this book is to begin to fill this gap. From an historical perspective, human rights were not at all self-evident by reason alone, but had to gain standing through an appeal to human emotions found in novels as well as in works of moral philosophy and legal theory. Although literature continues to play an important role in the human rights project, film is able to take us that much further, by universalizing the particular experience of others different from ourselves, the viewers. Watching Human Rights analyzes more than 100 of the finest human rights films ever made-documentaries, feature films, faux documentaries, animations, and even cartoons. It will introduce the reader to a wealth of films that might otherwise remain unknown, but it also shows the human rights themes in films that all of us are familiar with.

Author : Martin P. Rossouw
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900446087X
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transformational Ethics of Film written by Martin P. Rossouw and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is ‘the good’ of the film experience? And how does the budding field of ‘film as philosophy’ answer this question? Charting new routes for film ethics, Martin P. Rossouw develops a critical account of the transformational ethics at work within the ‘film as philosophy’ debate. Whenever philosophers claim that films can do philosophy, they also persistently put forward edifying practical effects – potential transformations of thought and experience – as the benefit of viewing such films. Through rigorous appraisals of key arguments, and with reference to the cinema of Terrence Malick, Rossouw pieces together the idea of an inner makeover through cinema – a cinemakeover – which casts a distinct vision of film spectatorship as a practice of self-transformation. "Recasting much of the existing debate, Martin Rossouw’s [...] emphasis on film’s power for enacting ethical transformation, rather than theoretical insight or discovery, gives a much-needed shot in the arm to a topic whose development has stalled in recent years. [...] This highly original book offers a unique and provocative contribution to the scholarship. Rossouw is a persistent questioner, often demonstrating sharp philosophical instincts." -Shawn Loht, Philosophy in Review, Vol. 43 no. 1 (February 2023). "At once a comprehensive record and a ceaseless meta-critique, Rossouw’s Transformational Ethics of Film is a thorough and bittersweet investigation into the aspiration and limits of this strand of film-philosophy scholarship [...]. [...] Rossouw’s detailed commitment to this critical exercise both provides a bountiful resource for film ethics scholarship, bringing organized clarity to an otherwise scattered but nonetheless commanding school of thought, and presents a potentially radical prospect for the position of meta-hermeneutics in the world of art theory." -Daniel E. Smith, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Vol. 22 no. 2 (July 2024).

Author : R. Douglas Geivett
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830875182
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith, Film and Philosophy written by R. Douglas Geivett and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2009-09-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Those who tell stories rule society." Plato So who today are our principal storytellers? Not philosophers, but filmmakers. For those who know both the enormous entertainment potential and the culture-shaping power of film, this book will stir mind and imagination. For great stories freight world-sized ideas, ideas worthy of contemplation and conversation. Great cinema inspires wonder. But another philosopher, Aristotle, reminds us that wonder is the true source of philosophy. So perhaps Plato or Aristotle might have a shot at ruling society, even today--if they took an interest in film. These fourteen essays consider classic and current films together with several major philosophical themes, all within the context of Christian faith: (1) the human condition, (2) the human mind and the nature of knowing, (3) the moral life, and (4) faith and religion. Citizen Kane, Big Fish and Pretty Woman contribute to an in-depth consideration of the human condition. The Truman Show, The Matrix, Being John Malkovich and It's a Wonderful Life, among others, illuminate reflection on the human mind and the nature of knowing. Looking at the moral life, contributors interact with such notable films as Pleasantville, Bowling for Columbine, Mystic River and The Silence of the Lambs. The final section pursues the theme of faith and religion traced through a number of Hong Kong martial arts films, Contact, 2001: A Space Odyssey and U2's music documentary Rattle and Hum. A veritable film festival for all those who want to nurture the wonder of philosophical inquiry and the love of Christian theology through an engagement with the big ideas on the big screen.