Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prophet Marshall McLuhan has just invaded what he calls the "hot" medium of printed journalism. As he sees it, people are so absorbed with old-fashioned words that they don't even notice the tidal wave of change about to engulf them. To help them "survive," he says, he is putting out a monthly newsletter called The McLuhan Dew-Line. It is intended to "raise a mighty scream" to warn readers of the imminent electronics takeover...
...most influential. He may be more of a comet than a planet, but currently light follows wherever he streaks. His Marat/ Sade, with its writhing choreographic movement and untrammeled vocabulary of sound, was the first step toward a revolution in drama: making the theater a director's medium...
...York Stock Exchange he acquired in 1936, also finds time for antique collecting and philanthropy. The man who actually runs MCA is President Lew Wasserman, 55, who was elevated to that job by Stein in 1946. A onetime theater usher, Wasserman moved MCA into TV production when the new medium began threatening the movie industry in the early 1950s, six years ago acquired Decca Records and its controlling interest in Universal Pictures. Under Wasserman, MCA has grown into a $224 million-a-year company, with earnings last year...
...presented in court. The scene is cathartic, as Lang presents the camera per se as an instrument of fate, the omniscient agent of grim truths. It is even more cathartic in its simplicity, for the concept of film-as-evidence recalls the very motives for the genesis of the medium, that of stopping time--freezing and thereby capturing an ever-undeniable reality...
...shots realized by the camera, and there are no traces of the nouvelle vague hand-held technique of Truffaut's films through Soft Skin. A shot will follow a telephone wire in close-up through two rooms, stopping briefly at a closeup of the phone, then dollying into a medium close shot of the victim, unaware his phone wire has been severed. In this respect, The Bride Wore Black is a calculated film, one difficult to fault because it is plainly exactly what Truffaut wanted...