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University-at-Large
United States
Приєднався 4 чер 2014
The purpose of the University-at-Large is to make films with the great minds of our time on subjects for which they have won renown. Each department has a chairman who is a leading scholar in his field, and who is responsible for organizing the course structure in the department.
It is the central concern of the University-at-Large (UAL) to create films that will serve not merely as aids but as tools for a particular discipline. Each department has a program concept in which the films are part of a subject development. The films are similarly conceived so that they may be integrated into the entire UAL program. Thus, each film in each department is designed to relate to the films of other departments. Films in the Department of American History will complement those in the Department of American Literature, as will films in the Economics Department complement those in the Sociology Department.
It is the central concern of the University-at-Large (UAL) to create films that will serve not merely as aids but as tools for a particular discipline. Each department has a program concept in which the films are part of a subject development. The films are similarly conceived so that they may be integrated into the entire UAL program. Thus, each film in each department is designed to relate to the films of other departments. Films in the Department of American History will complement those in the Department of American Literature, as will films in the Economics Department complement those in the Sociology Department.
Відео
Writer and the City - with Alfred Kazin
Переглядів 425 місяців тому
Critic and author Alfred Kazin examines the importance of the city as an aesthetic force, a presence and an inspiration for American literature from Walt Whitman and Herman Melville through Norman Mailer. The film shows that as the megalopolis came of age, so too did modern literature. New literary themes came to be born out of the urban context. THE WRITER AND THE CITY is a recreation of this ...
Marshall McLuhan - Prophet of the Electronic Age
Переглядів 365 місяців тому
“Prophet of the Electronic Age” For Marshall McLuhan the highest state of grace imaginable is “Total Awareness.” He pursued this grail with such agile dedication that he managed to give his name to an age and its manners McLuhanism. McLuhan himself, by style and preference, was essentially a scholar of orthodox intellectual traditions who used art and literature as the source of his electronic ...
Theater - with Harold Clurman
Переглядів 505 місяців тому
Harold Clurman noted producer, director, lecturer and critic explores the predominant forces in modern theater. Ideas on the Theatre goes beyond the contemporary. It begins with the origins of the theater in tribal ritual, which had great significance to the community, explores the success of the theater when it is in accord with the forces of the community, explains the failure of the theater ...
Cold War Roots - with Arthur Schlesinger, Jr
Переглядів 425 місяців тому
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. takes a long and profound look at the Cold War and places it in the perspective which helps make that generation of American history understandable. The film explores the formation of policies that have become the basis for contemporary international relations. Schlesinger underlines the chaotic and twisted history that has transpired to ...
Buckminster Fuller - Primer of the Universe
Переглядів 3415 місяців тому
This well-known architectural pioneer, inventor, and philosopher of science and technology provides a fascinating presentation of his theories of the universe and man's place in it. Inventor of the Geodesic Dome, the Dymaxion Car, and many other breakthrough structural designs. To Fuller a designer should be “... an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolu...
Pele' - Santos FC vs Inter Milan
Переглядів 3,4 тис.5 місяців тому
Pele - a name known to every soccer and sports fan throughout the world! Pele - named "Athlete of the Century" in 1999 by the IOC! Pele - the world's greatest soccer player. Wars were suspended on more than one occasion so that he and his teammates could travel safely between countries. The world's greatest, the man who scored the most goals - but how many people have actually seen him play - a...
John Kenneth Galbraith - Idea of the City
Переглядів 155 місяців тому
Shooting of much of THE IDEA OF THE CITY took place on location at Northwestern University, in Professor Galbraith's study in Cambridge, in New York and in Washington over several weeks. THE IDEA OF THE CITY is both anti-documentary and anti-lecture. Tracing the historical transition from the pre-industrial to the industrial city, Professor Galbraith explores the nature and the consequence of c...