York, United Kingdom

Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: arts
University website: www.york.ac.uk
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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.)
Interactive Media
Interactive media normally refers to products and services on digital computer-based systems which respond to the user's actions by presenting content such as text, moving image, animation, video, audio, and video games.
Media
Media may refer to:
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.
Television
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
Kurt Vonnegut, Cold Turkey, In These Times, May 10, 2004
Film
[Steven Spielberg's films] are comforting, they always give you answers and I don't think they're very clever answers. … The success of most Hollywood films these days is down to fact that they're comforting. They tie things up in nice little bows and give you answers, even if the answers are stupid, you go home and you don't have to think about it. … The great filmmakers make you go home and think about it.
Terry Gilliam Interview to TCM comparing the work of Steven Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick (2009)
Film
American motion pictures are written by the half-educated for the half-witted.
St. John Ervine Ney York Mirror(June 6, 1963).
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