After the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, JSTOR offered a week-long celebration of the new film, including highlights ranging from speculations over the existence of Tatooine to a medical opinion on the condition of Jar Jar Binks’ skin.
Tag: films
Creative Arts Book of the Week 07/12/15
The making of Avatar by Jody Duncan & Lisa Fitzpatrick This week’s Book of the Week is about one of the most famous films of the past few years. In 1995, James Cameron began working on a story that would,…
Posted in Reviews, Subjects: Creative Arts, Subjects: Technology Tagged with: books, databases, design, films, technology, websites
Creative Arts Book of the Week 26/10/15
Designs on Film: A Century of Hollywood Art Direction by Cathy Whitlock and The Art Directors Guild Any book that has a film still from The Wizard of Oz is fine by me. Being a child at heart I am…
The Future is NOW!
It probably won’t have escaped your notice that today has special significance in popular culture. Yes, today is The Future! While it’s true that we don’t have flying cars, hoverboards or 18 installments of the Jaws franchise to watch on…
Creative Arts Book of the Week 28/09/15
Channel 4 and British film culture It’s always satisfying to review a title produced by ‘one of our own’ so here’s a a collection of academic journal articles printed in book form and co-edited by Justin Smith. Those of you…
New Film Industry Data (Film ID) resource
It seems to me that every new blockbuster film “breaks box office records” during its opening weekend and I sometimes wonder where this information comes from. Well, now I know. Film Industry Data (or Film ID) is a resource which…
The Martian
A year or two back we stumbled across Andy Weir’s spellbinding novel The Martian. One of few books that really is unputdownable once it has you in its grip. It’s coming out as a film soon and we’ve just seen…
Posted in Subjects: Sciences, Subjects: Technology Tagged with: books, films, scinews, space missions
Creative Arts Film Review: Student Shorts at No. 6 on Thursday 28th May
Last night was a first for some of our Film Studies and Creative Writing final year students who saw five of their completed projects on the big screen at No. 6 Cinema in the Historic Dockyard. Three films explored the…
Creative Arts Book of the Week 18/05/15
I have to confess that I’m an infrequent cinema goer; the smell of popcorn and nachos is not for me. However, I did make it to my local Cineworld to see The Grand Budapest Hotel, directed by Wes Anderson. What…
New e-resources for you this Spring – arts
Some of the more important information resources arriving for the arts include archives for art, architecture, fashion, and film.
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