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Film and Television

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Film and Television at University of Gloucestershire

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: arts
University website: www.glos.ac.uk

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Film
A film, also called a movie, motion picture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images. (See the glossary of motion picture terms.)
Television
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound. The term can refer to a television set, a television program ("TV show"), or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment and news.
Film
A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
Federico Fellini, [Recipe for a Good Film], a Fellini Lexicon, (1992).
Television
For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.
Zygmunt Bauman, The Individualised Society (2001)
Film
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
Jean-Luc Godard, Le Petit Soldat (film) (direction and screenplay, 1960)
A research background in earthquake engineering seems at first sight like an unusual fit with studying tsunamis. But on her return from Sri Lanka in the wake of the 2004 tsunami, Professor Tiziana Rossetto discovered that very little research had been done into the effects of tsunamis on coastal infrastructure and she wanted to find out more. She will be presenting this research to the public at the TEDx Brussels event on 1 December.
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