1. What Is Cinema: or When is a Movie More Than Just a Movie Gary Handman Director Media Resources Center Moffitt Library

2. What Kinds of Images Move? Cinema aka THE MOVIESCinema aka THE MOVIES: 1886-- Nationality Genres: Sci Fi, Gangster, Film Noir, Musicals, Westerns, pornography…etc. Eras Styles Directors Actors Audiences

3. What Kinds of Images Move? Documentaries Slick and produced - rough/cinema verité Educational / Instructional films/video Promotional films (selling/explaining a program, product, institution, etc.) Newsreels Propaganda Primary Source Materials: raw footage; reality footage Amateur films (home movies)

4. TV: Network, Cable Programming (from sitcoms to sports to MTV) News Commercials/Infomercials What Kinds of Images Move?

5. Cinema aka THE MOVIES: What Is Cinema? Entertainment and Big BusinessEntertainment and Big Business Art FormArt Form HistoryHistory Movies as History; History & the MoviesMovies as History; History & the Movies Movies as snapshotMovies as snapshot Movie as Mirror -- as social & psychological “text”Movie as Mirror -- as social & psychological “text”

6. Non-theatrical Film and Video Documentaries Primary Source Materials Amateur films The Camera is NEVER totally Objective! No Matter How Subtle or Artfully Concealed: There is ALWAYS a Point of View

7. Examples: Cinema & TV as Social Text The Movies and TV as witting or unwitting mirrors of ideas about race, gender, ethnicity,class The Movies and TV as social or political expression

8. Non-Theatrical Film & Video: Documenting the Present and Past Film as Weapon: Propaganda Film as Chronicle Newsreels Broadcast News Primary Source Footage Amateur Film/Video TV as Chronicle