Ace Economics - This resource is a collection of economics teaching ideas, thoughts, and activities that I have used and refined over my journey of 46 years teaching. having escaped thew tyranny of the textbook. I have focussed on developing and refining creative and engaging activities to connect students with the real world and through problem solving, teamwork and gamification connect their study with their learning. The media and the real world as the entrée that catches the students' ...

Stillmoving II studies a foundational figure of style: a static long take, discussed here as a still Einstellung. An analytical, theoretical and conceptual contribution to cinema and media studies in general and slow cinema and still moving scholarship in particular, the book asks what kind of image a still Einstellung generates.Through figure of style analysis of the still Einstellung of Louis Lumière and Quai de l'Archevêch...

Stillmoving I is a film theoretical exploration of this concept. It is a theoretical and conceptual contribution to cinema and media studies in general and slow cinema and still moving scholarship in particular, asking what kind of image a still Einstellung generates.The book retains the German term, Einstellung, using the ambiguity inherent in this particular kind of image phenomenon as its point of departure: the long take, or ...

A pastoral care resource for teachers to help build relationships and connections within their student groups. Pastoral care needs to be structured and a consistent routine to best engage all the members of the group and to encourage interaction and a sense of belonging. Unfortunately, pastoral care is often a responsibility which teachers are given but are not given real training and at times support. This collection of resources, ideas and activities helps teachers easily plan and implem...

The day you were born was the beginning of your life story, each year on your birthdate you get the chance to reflect on your life journey, your achievements and goals. But you are also part of the people in your life journeys - are you tired of boring happy birthday greetings - now you can send your friends on their birthdays what has happened on the day they were born also through time.

This book makes available for the first time in English—and for the first time in its entirety in any language—an important yet little-known interview on the topic of photography that Jacques Derrida granted in 1992 to the German theorist of photography Hubertus von Amelunxen and the German literary and media theorist Michael Wetzel. Their conversation addresses, among other things, questions of presence and its manufacture, the technicity of presentation, the volatility of the authorial s...

Why have certain kinds of documentary and non-narrative films emerged as the most interesting, exciting, and provocative movies made in the last twenty years? Ranging from the films of Ross McElwee (Bright Leaves) and Agnès Varda (The Gleaners and I) to those of Abbas Kiarostami (Close Up) and Ari Folman (Waltz with Bashir), such films have intrigued viewers who at the same time have struggled to categorize them. Sometimes described as personal documenta...

Michael Haneke is one of the most important directors working in Europe today, with films such as Funny Games (1997), Code Unknown (2000), and Hidden (2005) interrogating modern ethical dilemmas with forensic clarity and merciless insight. Haneke's films frequently implicate both the protagonists and the audience in the making of their misfortunes, yet even in the barren nihilism of The Seventh Continent (1989) and Time of the Wolf (2003) a dark...

In Death 24x a Second, Laura Mulvey addresses some of the key questions of film theory, spectatorship and narrative. New media technologies, such as video and DVD, have transformed the way we experience film, and the viewers’ relationship to film image and cinema’s narrative structure has also been fundamentally altered. These technologies give viewers the means to control both image and story, so that films produced to be seen collectively and followed in a linear fashion may be ...

This book is a lively and provoking introduction to film theory. It is suitable for students from any discipline but is particularly aimed at students studying film and literature as it examines issues common to both subjects such as realism, illusionism, narration, point of view, style, semiotics, psychoanalysis and multiculturalism. It also includes coverage of theorists common to both, Barthes, Lacan and Bakhtin among others.Robert Stam, renowned for his clarity of writing, will...

The essay—with its emphasis on the provisional and explorative rather than on definitive statements—has evolved from its literary beginnings and is now found in all mediums, including film. Today, the essay film is, arguably, one of the most widely acclaimed and critically discussed forms of filmmaking around the world, with practitioners such as Chris Marker, Hito Steyerl, Errol Morris, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and Rithy Panh. Characteristics of the essay film include the blending of fact and fi...

In Still Moving noted artists, filmmakers, art historians, and film scholars explore the boundary between cinema and photography. The interconnectedness of the two media has emerged as a critical concern for scholars in the field of cinema studies responding to new media technologies, and for those in the field of art history confronting the ubiquity of film, video, and the projected image in contemporary art practice. Engaging still, moving, and ambiguous images from a wide range...