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Still, economist García-Montalvo remains optimistic. "There will be problems in the short and medium term, but the economy is more dynamic, with more education, more entrepreneurship, more will to work," he says. "These are good signs for long-term growth...
While Ray did fashion shoots for a living, he also produced beautiful and inventive photos that advanced the medium. In various hijinks experiments, he photographed ordinary things around the house and gave them such a rich depth of tone that they seemed beautiful, like abstract art. He called a photo of an egg whisk Man after himself and the whole of humanity. And he created new techniques, including the Rayogram: the contours of everyday objects magically emerge on paper without anything actually being photographed. The Rayograms are ethereal, light-filled and lovely, though still obviously merely a saucepan...
...Fletcher's store is its own adorable anachronism. The dominant poster is from Blast from the Past, and his stock is just that, since all the films available for rental are videotapes - that obsolescent VHS format, the vinyl of home movie entertainment. DVD, in medium or high definition, is nowhere to be found in his rickety establishment, where Mike (Def) works behind the counter and Jerry (Black) lives in a trailer across the street and spends his time getting in Mr. Fletcher's grayed hair...
Since the great majority of the voters live or work in the Los Angeles area, there is little motive to reward foreign-language films. Few movie lovers would deny that some of the medium's greatest works have been in tongues other than English. Yet no foreign-language film has ever won the top Oscar; only eight have been nominated--and one of them was directed by Clint Eastwood. That's less than 2% for the best films from the rest of the world...
...Craft of Storytelling on Stage, Television, and Screen,” will give students an understanding of the differences and similarities of the three media—stage, television, and film—through script-reading. By close study of a script in each medium, Melvoin hopes to help students explore what is universal to storytelling and what is specific to each creative medium. “This course, by taking a look at these three different uses of scripts, hopefully will get to the underlying principles of what makes a dramatic story work,” Melvoin says...