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Film and Screen Media

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Film and Screen Media at Birkbeck, University of London

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: arts
Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies
University website: www.bbk.ac.uk
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Definitions and quotes

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.)
Film
If I write a crappy comic book, it doesn't cost the budget of an emergent Third World nation. When you've got these kinds of sums involved in creating another two hours of entertainment for Western teenagers, I feel it crosses the line from being merely distasteful to being wrong. To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate — unlike most films.
Alan Moore Independent Monday 15 March 2004.
Film
A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking - it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.
Francois Truffaut interview in Peter Graham's The New Wave (1968).
Film
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
Jean-Luc Godard, Le Petit Soldat (film) (direction and screenplay, 1960)
Researchers have taken the first steps towards a new generation of fuel cell that is more stable and durable than its predecessors
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