Film and Digital Media @ Messiah

Japanese feel free and creative within the confines of a controlled environment. For hundreds of years we painted and mass-printed images, but we always drew the lines first and then colored between them, which is exactly how animation is made in this country. Japan is the world leader in manga and anime because we love […]

Benedetto Croce was one of the last of the third wave of Hegelians who struggled to develop a renewed approach to history and practice in the face of Marx’s hijacking of the dialectical enterprise. He is not often read these days since his writings were pre-Gramscian and pre-Eco Italian philosophy, often disrespected by Northern […]

Yes, I know you’re all tired of reading stuff about Pullman. No one’s that interested really. We know this since “The Golden Compass” is not faring as well as expected at the box office.
However, I can’t resist posting some of the recent review of the film in L’Osservatore Romano, they are so spot-on IMHO:

“It’s […]

I don’t generally read the Huffington Post blog site, and even more rarely recommend it, but there’s a very good OP-ED peice on who benefits from the WGA strike, and it’s not only the writers! Susan Savage, SAG member, writes in response to a friend’s gripe against the strike:
“Very few (below the line) people […]

This year we’ve been able to do a small production of a film in my COM 224 Preproduction class, Homecoming. Here’s a still from a break in shooting on location:

From Left: Amanda Chopas, Justin Johnson and Brian Smith

It’s a story of one family’s loss of their only son, Ryan, in the Iraq War. The […]

The film Bella won the Toronto Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award in 2007. It was shown in the Harrisburg area at a private showing on Sunday, September 30th, 2007 in the Cardinal Keeler Center.
An excellent dramatic and theological discussion of the film can be found here:
A Decidedly Unsappy Bella

I recommend seeing it when […]

According to WGAw, 4,434 of its working film and television members earned a combined $905.8 million in 2006. The average member earned $204,295 and over half earned at least $104,750. The WGA noted that these numbers are based on earnings reported for dues purposes and thus do not fully reflect above-scale payments. According to studies, […]

Early today, the WGA completely withdrew its DVD proposal, which the Companies said was a stumbling block. Yet, the Companies still insisted on the following:
• No jurisdiction for most of new media writing.
• No economic proposal for the part of new media writing where they do propose to give coverage.
• Internet downloads at the DVD rate.
• No residual for […]

Well, the Writers Guilds of both West and East coasts voted to strike today. The strike actually begins Monday, Nov. 5, at 12:01 AM. According to the BBC,

Writers are demanding an increase in the fees they receive when their work is reproduced on DVDs, the internet, mobile phones and other electronic devices.
Producers reject […]