
Films
A film, also called a movie, motion picture or moving picture, is a work of visual art used to simulate experiences that communicate ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound, and more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using …
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DDN: Dundurn Press · 4 February 2025 English
The shocking crimes of a trusted teacher wrought lasting damage on Inuit communities in Canada’s Arctic. In the 1970s, a young schoolteacher from British Columbia was becoming the darling of …
bleak. The only bright spot, he said, was the films that were shown in the school some evenings. And …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 4 February 2025 English
A provocative and revealing look at the scandals and corruption behind the Sweet Science’s greatest fights. Controversy is the one constant running throughout modern boxing’s history since its inception in …
Angelo Dundee, watching old black-and-white films of famous fights. I had actually met Angelo thirty-one … at a movie studio in downtown Toronto, watching films of famous fights. Angelo had been present at many … Terry McGovern is instantly noticeable in the films of the fight, and such details favoured Gans by … fight. Of course, any income earned from fight films in that era depended on the length of the fight … There are other films of both men in action — won- derful black-and-white films that showcase these …
FRHD: Freehand Books · 1 February 2025 English
Debut stories about the absurdity of growing up and being human in the twenty-first century. A woman finds her childhood friend working in a booth at a psychic fair in …
classmates are right now watch ing age-appropriate films, practising piano, drawing horses, writing poems …
UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 21 January 2025 English
Bringing History to Life explores the school-based uses of history as cultural goods, leisure, and services to train students to better practice some of the thinking that historians must perform …
interviews with writers, directors, and artists who use films, plays, and songs to present his torical narratives … that popular discourses, like those surrounding films and video games, have a lasting effect on collective … visits to war memorials, fam ily anecdotes, and films, such as Forrest Gump (Zemeckis, 1994). The importance … Indigenous peoples and European settlers in two Western films made 34 years apart: The Searchers (Ford 1956) … 1990). In his study, Seixas exposes students to films with different reputations. The form and content …
UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 January 2025 English
Every culture and society has read stories in the night sky. From the careful attention of astronomers across all times and all parts of the world to the search for …
2011. 20. Lefebvre 2011, 59, notes two prior films of Méliès in which a similar effect is achieved … inflated with air until it explodes. In all three films substitution splices are used but for different …
ARCC: Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada · 20 December 2024 French
nombre croissant de films et d’émissions de télévision, qui traitent le sujet comme une décision. [...] La base de données Abortion Onscreen Database propose une liste complète de films et d’émissions de …
Normalisation de l’avortement dans un nombre croissant de films et d’émissions de télévision, qui traitent le sujet … Onscreen Database propose une liste complète de films et d’émissions de télévision des États-Unis qui …
CIRANO: Centre for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organizations · 19 December 2024 French
irrémédiablement ac. [...] DeSève est distributeur de films et propriétaire d’un réseau de salles de cinéma, de salles de concert et de studios de production de films québécois. …
Contrairement au Canada anglais, le marché limité des films de langue française en Amérique du Nord a laissé … télévision à la production et à la diffusion de films québécois. Cette loi a été complétée en 1995 par … Rose Films, Spectel Vidéo, Téléfiction, Sogestalt 2000, les Productions du Verseau, les Films Rozon … fondé en 1988. Cette société a produit plus de 55 films qui lui ont rapporté plus d’une centaine de prix … Ottawa, avec mandat de produire et de distribuer des films de langues française et anglaise, le siège social …
UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 December 2024 English
Jessica Jones made her first Marvel Comics appearance in Alias #1, November 2001, and went on to star in three ongoing series. In 2015 the Netflix adaptation Jessica Jones premiered …
about how these shows hope to be different from the films and even the broadcast series, such as Marvel’s … she is a woman on a personal journey as well. Films of the 1990s, as Jeffrey A. Brown recounts, began …
CSLS: Centre for the Study of Living Standards · 13 December 2024 English
Productivity and Industrial Policy by Design: The UK Experience Diane Coyle Bennett Institute, University of Cambridge and The Productivity Institute Ayantola Alayande University of Oxford and The Productivity Institute1 Abstract …
such as Marconi to create a commer- commercial films; and the launch in 1982 cial rival to RCA and help …
CSLS: Centre for the Study of Living Standards · 13 December 2024 English
Productivity and Industrial Policy by Design: The UK Experience Diane Coyle Bennett Institute, University of Cambridge and The Productivity Institute Ayantola Alayande University of Oxford and The Productivity Institute1 Abstract …
such as Marconi to create a commer- commercial films; and the launch in 1982 cial rival to RCA and help …