Moving Pictures and Renaissance Art History

Film, like the printed imagery inaugurated during the Renaissance, spread ideas---not least the idea of the power of visual art---across not only geographical and political divides but also strata of class and gender. Moving Pictures and Renaissance Art History examines the early flourishing of film, 1920s-mid-60s, as partly reprising the introduction of mass media in the Renaissance, allowing for innovation that reflected an art free of the control of a patron though required to attract a broad public. Rivalry between word and image, narrative and visual composition shifted in both cases toward acknowledging the compelling nature of the visual. The twentieth century also saw the development of the discipline of art history; transfusions between cinematic practice and art historical postulates and preoccupations are part of the story told here.

Visual Criminology in International and Comparative Context

Visual criminology concerns itself with how crimes and society’s reaction to crime appear visually and how such representations are perceived. In a Durkheimian view, individuals look out for signs that the social order is upheld or undermined by crime. In doing so, visual criminology observes, they react to visual cues such as the appearance of their environment, photos in news media, and the combination of moving pictures and sound on TV and social media. Attempts to reduce harm and to change structures also often express themselves visually. Sight and sound often go together, and sometimes further sensual impressions are impacting on the recipient. In a society ever more saturated by visual and audio-visual media, criminology has to engage with the visual. Therefore, visual criminology will be of use to researchers from all the different strands within criminology, even if up until now most of the contributions come from anglophone countries. As varied as the visual manifestations of crime and the response to crime are the research methods employed by visual criminology. They include making respondents react to the stimulus provided by photos, the interpretation of “found” pictures and even criminologists involving themselves in the production of audio-visual media, like TV shows or films. In this way, visual criminologists have arrived at insights that they would not have gained otherwise. Visual criminology will form an important addition to the work of criminologists, especially those who wish to engage with the new ways in which people communicate about crime, and across the globe.

Character Education Values Used in the Avengers: Endgame Movie

This research was aimed to describe the character education values used in the Avengers: End Game Movie. Movie is described as the series of moving pictures combined with sound effects. Character education values .This study applied library research as it described the results of study. The data of this study were the phenomena and facts classified into the character education values. The source of data were the facts or phenomena shown in the movie scenes and the movie transcription of Avengers: Endgame. This study used two instruments called: the researcher himself and the documentation. The object of this study was a movie entitled “Avengers: Endgame”. In collecting the data of this research, the researcher used documentary technique including watching the movie, reading the movie’s screenplay and taking a note. The researcher used the theory of content analysis (Ary, 2010) to analyze the data. Based on the results of the study, the researcher found nine types of character education values covering responsible, love and affection, honesty, hardworking, tolerant, curious, patriotic, creative, and communicative.

The Future

Some past predictions of the future are discussed, how both in Britain and in France during the nineteenth century illustrated newspapers predicted that by the year 2000 communications between people would involve sending moving pictures from faraway places. A few major technical innovations are envisaged. Most things will just be improved, e.g. full movies will be downloadable in seconds. In the political sphere it is emphasized that apart from a small elite, interest in politics will decline. In most parts of the world people will be happy to accept the word of authorities on any subject. Education will sink to its lowest common denominator.

The Notorious Ben Hecht: Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist, Julien Gorbach (2019)

Review of: The Notorious Ben Hecht: Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist, Julien Gorbach (2019) West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 504 pp., ISBN 978-1-55753-865-9, h/bk, $32.95 Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures (Jewish Lives), Adina Hoffman (2019) New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 264 pp., ISBN 978-0-30018-042-8, h/bk, $26