Everywhere we look, it seems like we're constantly told what films we should love. Visit a bookshop, and there will be at least half a dozen brick-sized tomes purporting to be the definitive guide of the Quintessential Films That You Should See In Your Next 50 Lifetimes. Not only that, but TV channels are also getting in on the act by listing the Top 100 Films Of All Time, during which the likes of Paul Ross or Nikki from Big Brother 7 chat inanely about the first time that they saw The Phantom Menace or some other movie “classic”.
Why bother with all that though? Both lists would take a good few hours to wade through, so instead, how's about tracking down a copy of season 24 closer, Dragonfire?
Yes, really. Dragonfire has so many visual and textual references to past classic films that you half expect Barry Norman to have penned the story.
Why bother with all that though? Both lists would take a good few hours to wade through, so instead, how's about tracking down a copy of season 24 closer, Dragonfire?
Yes, really. Dragonfire has so many visual and textual references to past classic films that you half expect Barry Norman to have penned the story.
- 3/28/2011
- Shadowlocked
He was a key figure in the development of media education
Manuel Alvarado, who has died aged 62 after an operation, was a major figure in the development of media education in Britain and beyond. In the 1970s he was one of a small group of highly motivated teachers who were working to combat the general prejudice against the serious study of the media. Although film studies was beginning to creep into the academic curriculum, the systematic and informed study of television was regarded with suspicion. Becoming the secretary of the Society for Education in Film and Television, and the editor of Screen Education, Manuel was at the centre of a movement that propelled the study of media from being a fringe subject to occupying a solid place in both school and university curriculums.
As the editor of Screen Education, Manuel promoted and pioneered work on the education system (he was...
Manuel Alvarado, who has died aged 62 after an operation, was a major figure in the development of media education in Britain and beyond. In the 1970s he was one of a small group of highly motivated teachers who were working to combat the general prejudice against the serious study of the media. Although film studies was beginning to creep into the academic curriculum, the systematic and informed study of television was regarded with suspicion. Becoming the secretary of the Society for Education in Film and Television, and the editor of Screen Education, Manuel was at the centre of a movement that propelled the study of media from being a fringe subject to occupying a solid place in both school and university curriculums.
As the editor of Screen Education, Manuel promoted and pioneered work on the education system (he was...
- 6/1/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
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