Scott Higgins is a professor and chair of the College of Film and the Moving Image at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. He teaches courses about film history, genre, and aesthetics. He is the author of Harnessing the...

Media isn’t just movies and newspapers and TV shows, it’s also a part of society that involves a lot of money. And all that money has implications for the media that gets created. Media is created by people -- a range of people, making a...

Karen A. Ritzenhoff is professor in the Department of Communication at Central Connecticut State University. She is also affiliated with the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, as well as cinema studies and the Honors...

Can we learn aggression from aggressive media? This film looks at experimental, longitudinal and case study research evidence and how social learning, script theory and susceptibility approaches can help understand and explain this...

Educators share their tips and tricks for successfully using media in their social studies classes when teaching economics.

Michael Rich, MD, MPH, is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard School of Public Health, and practices Adolescent Medicine at Boston...

Filmed at Building Learning Communities 2014.

Professor of Educational Technology and Media at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, C
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Dr. Alec Couros is an Associate Professor of educational...

Rhys Daunic is founder and Director of Brooklyn-based The Media Spot. Rhys has facilitated student media productions, and developed media literacy curricula with educators throughout the country and abroad, primarily within New York...

Why is it so hard to find female superhero merchandise? In this passionate, sparkling talk, media studies scholar (and father of a Star Wars-obsessed daughter) Christopher Bell addresses the alarming lack of female superheroes in the...

Scott Higgins is a professor and chair of the College of Film and the Moving Image at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut. He teaches courses about film history, genre, and aesthetics. He is the author of Harnessing the...

If your family is getting to you this Christmas, allow renowned German director Wim Wenders’s zen Japanese toilet drama whisk you away to a better place.Kōji Yakusho stars in Perfect Days, a film about beauty, fulfilment and simplicity...

In 1960, Chinese-American Hollywood star Anna May Wong appeared in the last film of a long Hollywood career–far too much of it spent battling discrimination and roles that typecast Asian American actors in a negative light. Today, a new...

Renee Hobbs received an Ed.D in Human Development from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, an M.A. in Communication from the University of Michigan, and a B.A. with a double major in English Literature and Film/Video Studies from...

Photographer Phil Borges shows rarely seen images of people from the mountains of Dharamsala, India, and the jungles of the Ecuadorean Amazon. In documenting these endangered cultures, he intends to help preserve them.

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA - 5 NOVEMBER 2017: A defiant teenager born with a rare facial tumour that leaves her unable to speak or eat dreams of becoming a nurse. Doctors said Jacqueline Rodriguez would not live to see her first birthday, but...

A POD of hungry orca descended upon a lone minke whale, ripping it to shreds in just a few short minutes. The rare footage was filmed in Avacha Gulf, Kamchatka, in the Russian Far East by Mikhail Korostelev. The founder of Team Trip, a...

A STUDENT with schizophrenia has set up an organisation to help other pupils with the condition - despite struggling with near-constant horror film-style hallucinations. Cecilia McGough, 23, studies health policy administration at...

A PERSONAL TRAINER suffers with an extreme form of narcolepsy - a condition that causes her to uncontrollably fall asleep up to 15 times a day. For most people, sleep is a luxury, but for Belle Hutt, it's something she spends most of her...

From the streets and taverns of Colonial America to the bright lights of today's Broadway stage, puppets have been a favorite form of American entertainment. The American Puppet is the first documentary to chronicle the arts...

Renee Hobbs received an Ed.D in Human Development from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, an M.A. in Communication from the University of Michigan, and a B.A. with a double major in English Literature and Film/Video Studies from...

Rhys Daunic is founder and Director of Brooklyn-based The Media Spot. Rhys has facilitated student media productions, and developed media literacy curricula with educators throughout the country and abroad, primarily within New York...

What are the key characteristics of religion? Is it possible for Jediism to be defined as a religion? Religions have been described as cultural systems of behaviours and practices and as world views, but many argue that it’s the belief...

Karen A. Ritzenhoff is professor in the Department of Communication at Central Connecticut State University. She is also affiliated with the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, as well as cinema studies and the Honors...

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