Entrepreneurship education is a complex topic that can be discussed from a variety of perspectives. One key question in the discussion concerns how one can adapt the general core principles of entrepreneurship education, many of which are closely linked to business education, to other academic areas that currently lack this type of education. This…

Films have been used successfully to teach students about "the institutional and cultural role mass media play in creating, sustaining or changing social relations." They have also provided important lessons regarding ethical decision-making. This article presents an activity that enables students to understand the role of media and the concept of…

This article presents the findings of a cross-disciplinary project between BA (Hons) Interior Design, Creative Multimedia and Film and Media Studies at a large Metropolitan University in the North of England. The collaboration was part of Unit X, a faculty-wide credit-bearing initiative to enable better collaboration across art and design courses.…

The youth media movement, which now has a place in countless venues, communities, and scholarly discourses, reflects an evolution of practices pioneered in the 1950s and 1960s as amateur filmmaking increasingly became a reality in American families and schools. In this paper, we examine the films of Robert J. Clark, Jr. as a representative early…

UNESCO defines media education as the priority field of the cultural educational development in the XXI century. The article presents the development of media education since the beginning of it up to our days. The sections of the article are the main periods for the development of the media education. In each section more countries are mentioned.…

Cinema and media studies have been a prominent part of American academy since the 1960s and at a few universities since the 1910s, but it was only in the mid-1990s that the field was declared to be an emerging discipline. A discussion on the state of cinema and media studies is presented as they stand on the verge of being officially recognized as…

The author discusses the real business of teaching - one's self as demonstrated by the film course he taught at Dayton's Julienne High School. (AS)

Discusses the moral and ethical aspects of documentary film from the prospective of both filmmakers and the public. (MH)

This topical history of American films begins with an explanation of how movies work and describes the earlier American films from the nickelodeons through D.W. Griffith. The development of the studios and the major American films of the 1920's through the 1950's is treated largely in terms of important stars, like Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin,…

Discusses T. S. Elliot's essay, "The Three Voices of Poetry" which conceptualizes the position taken by the poet or creator. Suggests that an examination of documentary film, within the three voices concept, expands the critical framework of the film genre. (MH)

Investigates the ethical dimension that separates films that purport to deal with actualities from other types of cinema. (MH)

The authors examine all the possibilities for a media study. (MR)

A turn to "cultural diversity" in the curriculum offers a multitude of opportunities for educational practitioners: questioning Eurocentric knowledge; deconstructing "marginality"; recognising the ensuing hybridities, intercultural dialogues and encounters in a globalizing world. However, this article questions the current representational…

"Photoplay" Magazine is the source of these articles and photographs, which date from the start of the sound era to the start of World War II. Sections are devoted to stars, living and working in Hollywood, contributions of the production crew to films, trends in motion pictures, and a sample of film fans' favorite columns. (JK)