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Don't believe it
Follows a documentary filmmaker and crusading journalist, Sidney Ryan, who has exonerated several inmates convicted of murder ... Sidney agrees to take up the case of medical school graduate Grace Sebold, who has been in a St. Lucian prison for ten years since the murder of her boyfriend, Julian, who plunged to his death during spring break at a beach resort. Sidney finds more suspects, new evidence, and holes in the original investigation, leading authorities to reopen the probe. As her television series, \"The Girl of Sugar Beach,\" draws to its end and Grace gets released, Sidney discovers she might have been played, and could be in serious danger.
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SENTIMENTAL SOLIDARITIES
Film Quarterly columnist Rebecca Wanzo surveys the history of fictional treatments of labor in US television and film and examines the frequently overlooked role played by sentimentality in media representations of labor and union organizing. Noting that sentimentality has been criticized for its deployment of suffering bodies as “other” objects for voyeuristic tears as well as for sometimes collapsing difference in an effort to construct empathy, Wanzo observes that documentary has often been a more welcoming space for the telling of sympathetic narratives about unions than Hollywood fiction films and television. This makes the depiction of labor and union organizing in Wanzo’s two case studies—the sitcom Superstore (NBC, 2015–21) and the primetime soap Homefront (ABC, 1991–93)—all the more exceptional. At a moment when labor issues are more relevant than ever, Superstore shows people why labor loses, but Homefront reminds people why labor won.
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You don't own me
Laurie Moran has \"recently become engaged to her show's former host, Alex Buckley. Since then, the two have been happily planning a summer wedding and honeymoon, preparing for Alex's confirmation to a federal judicial appointment, and searching for the perfect New York City home ... But then Laurie is approached by Robert and Cynthia Bell, parents of Dr. Martin Bell, a ... physician who was shot dead as he pulled into the driveway of his Greenwich Village carriage house ... The Bells are sure that Martin's disgraced and erratic wife Kendra carried out the murder. Determined to prove Kendra's guilt and win custody over their grandchildren, they plead with Laurie to feature their son's case on 'Under Suspicion'\"--Provided by publisher.
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Anonymous club
Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Courtney Barnett allows rare access to her life on tour and artistic process in this intimate 16mm documentary for devotees and new fans alike.
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American experience. American Oz
Explore the life and times of author L. Frank Baum, the creator of one of the most beloved, enduring and classic American narratives. By 1900, when The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published, Baum was 44 years old and had spent much of his life in restless pursuit of success. With mixed results he dove into a string of jobs - chicken breeder, actor, marketer of petroleum products, shopkeeper, newspaperman and traveling salesman - Baum continued to reinvent himself, reflecting a uniquely American brand of confidence, imagination and innovation. During his travels to the Great Plains and on to Chicago during the American frontier's final days, he witnessed a nation coming to terms with the economic uncertainty of the Gilded Age. But he never lost his childlike sense of wonder and eventually crafted his observations into a magical tale of survival, adventure and self-discovery, reinterpreted through the generations in films, books and musicals.
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Reality frictions
Reality Frictions explores the intersection of fact and fiction on the screens of Hollywood, highlighting moments when images, people or events from the real world intrude on the cinematic one. In an age when generative AI and synthetic imaging provoke anxieties about our ability to tell the difference between real and fake, Reality Frictions demonstrates that spectators have long traversed the boundaries of believability, developing nuanced skills for navigating the pleasures and paradoxes that emerge when reality and fiction collide. Richly illustrated with clips from more than 100 movies and TV shows, Reality Frictions is an entertaining, but also serious, investigation of media's role in revealing truth and making history. Set against the historical backdrop of the current fascination with machine learning and generative AI, Reality Frictions also touches on the phenomena of deepfake videos, \"latent histories\" and image synthesis that reveal the reciprocal relationship of human and machine vision. Reality Frictions takes a self-reflexive look at the strategies used by filmmakers to strengthen -- or sometime challenge - their own truth claims. From background appearances by real people in the stories of their own lives to historical reenactments, Reality Frictions will forever change your perception of films that are \"based on a true story.\"
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No other way to tell it
This second edition of No other Way To Tell It defines the form, analyses its codes and conventions, and reviews contrasting histories in America and British practice - taking into account new developments since the first edition. These include television’s radically new ecology; with factual formats a growth area. Docudrama in film has also burgeoned recently, partly because the industries themselves have grown closer and partly because of continued interest in the lives of the famous and of those in the news. International co-production now exploits many different screening opportunities and possibilities, with the result that docudrama and become a cinematic as well as televisual staple. Docudrama is not only popular with audiences; it also causes constant flurries of commentary and controversy. Concerns about ‘borders’ and ‘boundaries’, a questioning of documentary’s claim to represent the real, doubts about the popular audience’s ability to cope with new approaches to the ideas of witness, testimony and confession, authenticity and truth - all fuel the debate. This new edition situates docudrama and its ongoing debates within a newly vibrant and still highly contentious field of practice. This book will interest readers - academic and general - with an interest in fact-based drama in film, theatre and television
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“I did as others did and as others had me do”: Postcolonial (Mis)Representations and Perpetrator Trauma in Season 1 of Taboo (2017-)
Neo-Victorian fiction has been concerned with historically oppressed and traumatised characters from the 1990s onwards (Llewellyn 2008). More recently, neo-Victorianism on screen has shifted its attention to the figure of the perpetrator and their unresolved guilt, as in the TV series Penny Dreadful (Logan 2014-2016) or Taboo (Knight, Hardy and Hardy 2017-present). However, perpetrator trauma is an under-theorised field in the humanities (Morag 2018), neo-Victorian studies included. This article analyses Taboo as a neo-Victorian postcolonial text that explores the trauma of its protagonist James Delaney, an imperial perpetrator who transported and sold African slaves in the Middle Passage for the East India Company. Although the series is not set in the Victorian period, neo-Victorianism is here understood as fiction expanding beyond the historical boundaries of the Victorian era and that presents the long nineteenth century as synonymous with the empire (Ho 2012: 4). Thus, I argue that postcolonial texts like Taboo should be considered neo-Victorian since they are set in the nineteenth century to respond to and contest (neo-)imperial practices. However, neo-Victorian postcolonialism offers ambivalent representations of the British Empire, as it simultaneously critiques and reproduces its ideologies (Ho 2012; Primorac 2018). This article examines the ways in which Taboo follows this contradictory pattern, since it seemingly denounces the imperial atrocity of the slave trade through Delaney’s perpetrator trauma, while simultaneously perpetuating it through his future colonizing trip to the Americas. Hence, Delaney is portrayed as an anti-hero in the series, given that he is both the enemy and the very product of the British Empire.
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Legal Considerations for Offering Mela verse-Based Education
Although the metaverse is still in its early stages, those emerging metaverse platforms such as Roblox and Fortnite have over 400 million monthly active users, the majority of which are 13 or younger. A generation of learners and future citizens are emerging from a future that is not evenly distributed or well understood by the parents, educators, and policy makers who provide resources and establish educational policy. This article identifies key considerations that must be addressed to anticipate and shape primary, secondary, and post-secondary education using \"the educational metaverse,\" a range of virtual reality, augmented reality, and similar technologies. The article first explores the intersection of recent First Amendment jurisprudence involving non-classroom speech in the context of virtual reality platforms as well as identifying the potential ways in which the metaverse as a medium has its own influence on the speech and messaging it encompasses. The article then turns to the various legal, ethical, and societal implications of shifting experiences and even institutions into the metaverse environment. Specifically, the article addresses the consequences of the digital divide on access to low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities, concerns regarding online harassment, and the importance universal access and equity in the provision of technology. The article also addresses the obligations under various educational and privacy laws, including FERPA, COPP A, ADA, and the Rehabilitation Act to provide each student in the educational metaverse a quality educational program. Finally, the article looks to the contractual practices used by vendors in the metaverse to identify important practices for educational institutions to assure that students' creative rights are respected and the use of private contractual terms of service do not interfere with the fundamental rights of the students, teachers, and families involved in the ever-expanding use of pervasive technology to mediate learning.
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\Our Common Community\: Third Way Cultural Work in Pleasantville and October Sky
This article argues that Pleasantville and October Sky perform the cultural work of the Clinton administration’s Third Way politics. Examining Clinton’s neoliberal policy work as well as the expansion of the memory industry in the 1990s, it contends that each film’s depiction of the past reveals more about the dominant ideology within the 90s.
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