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Jennifer Tebbe-Grossman. "Medicine’s Motion Pictures." Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies 39, no. 1 (2009): 98–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/flm.0.0076.

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Heinemann, Julia. "Motion Pictures of the Royal Family." French Historical Studies 44, no. 2 (April 1, 2021): 191–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00161071-8806426.

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Abstract This article explores the role of letter writing in the political practice of the French royal family. By focusing on the use of letters exchanged by Henri III, François d'Anjou, and Catherine de’ Medici between 1574 and 1584, it analyzes how both kinship relations and notions of royal authority were negotiated and intertwined by letter. In a dynamic communication process, the correspondents discussed and framed familial relationships and political concepts. The letters were read, seen, and heard by a broader audience at court, thus transcending modern categories such as public and private, formal and informal, or intimate and official. The article argues that the correspondence produced specific, sometimes opposing pictures of the royal family that were supposed to be visible. This use of letters shaped social relations and political processes during the Wars of Religion in early modern France. Cet article traite du rôle de la correspondance dans les pratiques politiques de la famille royale française. En me concentrant sur l'usage des lettres par Henri III, François d'Anjou et leur mère Catherine de Médicis dans les années 1574–84, j'analyse comment les correspondants négocient ensemble les relations de parenté et les concepts politiques. La discussion et la modélisation de cette conception familiale de l'autorité royale par les lettres sont partie prenante d'un processus de communication dynamique. La fonction de ces lettres est d’être lues, vues et entendues à la cour. Ce faisant, cette communication outrepasse les divisions « modernes » entre le privé et le public, le formel et l'informel ou encore l'intime et l'officiel. Cet usage de l’écrit est spécifique aux relations sociales et aux processus politiques pendant les guerres de Religion à l’époque moderne.
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Jóźwiak, Marek, Brian Po-Jung Chen, Bartosz Musielak, Jacek Fabiszak, and Andrzej Grzegorzewski. "Social Attitudes toward Cerebral Palsy and Potential Uses in Medical Education Based on the Analysis of Motion Pictures." Behavioural Neurology 2015 (2015): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/341023.

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This study presents how motion pictures illustrate a person with cerebral palsy (CP), the social impact from the media, and the possibility of cerebral palsy education by using motion pictures. 937 motion pictures were reviewed in this study. With the criteria of nondocumentary movies, possibility of disability classification, and availability, the total number of motion pictures about CP was reduced to 34. The geographical distribution of movie number ever produced is as follows: North America 12, Europe 11, India 2, East Asia 6, and Australia 3. The CP incidences of different motor types in real world and in movies, respectively, are 78–86%, 65% (Spastic); 1.5–6%, 9% (Dyskinetic); 6.5–9%, 26% (Mixed); 3%, 0% (Ataxic); 3-4%, 0% (Hypotonic). The CP incidences of different Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS) levels in real world and in movies, respectively, are 40–51%, 47% (Level I + II); 14–19%, 12% (Level III); 34–41%, 41% (Level IV + V). Comparisons of incidence between the real world and the movies are surprisingly matching. Motion pictures honestly reflect the general public’s point of view to CP patients in our real world. With precise selection and medical professional explanations, motion pictures can play the suitable role making CP understood more clearly.
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Swartz, Mark E. "Motion Pictures on the Move." Journal of American Culture 9, no. 4 (December 1986): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1542-734x.1986.0904_1.x.

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Oliver, Willard M. "Crime, History, and Hollywood: Learning Criminal Justice History through Major Motion Pictures." Journal of Criminal Justice Education 22, no. 3 (September 2011): 420–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10511253.2010.519892.

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Dym, Jeffrey A. "Benshi and the Introduction of Motion Pictures to Japan." Monumenta Nipponica 55, no. 4 (2000): 509. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2668250.

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Ayers, Lee. "Book Review: Crime, history, and Hollywood: Learning criminal justice history throughmajor motion pictures." Criminal Justice Review 39, no. 4 (June 25, 2014): 459–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0734016814540302.

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Eckardt, Michael. "South African film history vs the history of motion pictures in South Africa." South African Theatre Journal 25, no. 1 (March 2011): 72–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10137548.2011.626961.

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Martin L. Johnson. "Motion Pictures: A Problem to Be Co-operatively Solved." Film History 29, no. 4 (2017): 157. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/filmhistory.29.4.07.

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Berman, Aaron, and Charles Lawrence Gellert. "The Holocaust, Israel, and the Jews: Motion Pictures in the National Archives." Journal of American History 77, no. 4 (March 1991): 1457. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2078427.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Motion pictures – Australia – History"

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Emerson, John. "The representation of the colonial past in French and Australian cinema, from 1970 to 2000 /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2002. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phe536.pdf.

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Smith, Keith. "Kodak's worst nightmare Super 8 in the digital age: A cultural history of Super 8 filmmaking in Australia 1965-2003." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2004. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1612.

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This project charts the extraordinary history of the Super 8 film medium, a popular amateur home movie format first introduced in 1965 and largely assumed to have disappeared with the advent of home video technologies in the early 1980's. Kodak's Worst Nightmare investigates the cultural history of the Super 8 medium with an emphasis on its (secret) life since 1986. lt asks how (and why) an apparently obsolete consumer technology has survived some 35 years into a digital future despite the emergence of technologically-advanced domestic video formats and Eastman Kodak's sustained attempts since the mid-80s to suppress, what is for it, a patently unprofitable product line. Informed by the work of Heath (1900), Zimmermann (1995), and Carroll (1996), this project takes the unusual step of isolating a specific amateur film medium as its object of study at the centre of a classic 'nature vs. nurture' debate. Arguing against a popular essentialist position which attributes the longevity of Super 8 to its unique, irreplaceable aesthetic, Kodak's Worst Nightmare proposes that Super 8 film has been a contested site in a social, cultural, political, and economic nexus where different agencies have appropriated the medium through the construction of discourses which have imposed their own meanings on the use and consumption of this cultural product. In an extraordinary cycle of subjugation, resistance and incorporation, this project finds that the meanings and potentials of Super 8 have been progressively colonised by differing institutions - firstly by Eastman Kodak ('domestic' Super 8), secondly by the alternative,independent film movement ('oppositional' Super 8 and 'indie' Super 8), and finally by the mainstream film and television industry ('professional' Super 8"). In an amazing contradiction, it is argued that Super 8 in its current incarnation has emerged as the exact opposite of Kodak's original discursive construction of its amateur status - it has become a professional medium for commercial production. Drawing together related work in the histories of domestic photography and communications technologies, and the cultural practice of everyday life, this project contributes to an area which is seriously undertheorised in the literature of film theory and cultural studies- the social, political and cultural role of amateur film technologies.
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Cork, Kevin James, of Western Sydney Nepean University, and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. "Twenty-four miles around Nelungaloo : the history and importance of cinema exhibition in pre-television times to a country area of central-western New South Wales." THESIS_FHSS_XXX_Cork_K.xml, 1994. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/684.

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Little research into historical, architectural and social significance of the picture theatre in pre-television rural Australian society has been undertaken. Taking a New South Wales country area (to represent a microcosm), this thesis records the picture venues and qualitative research material from past patrons and theatre staff. The study 1/. establishes the environment created by a picture theatre 2/. shows that New South Wales was typical of Australia in film attendance before the 1960s 3/. introduces the Central-West subject area, and describes how data was gathered from available records 4/. shows the development of the picture venues within the subject areas 5/. gives 'life' to the occasion formerly associated with going to the pictures 6/. suggests the success ot the rural picture shows was a happy co-incidence: the exhibitors' desire to make money and the patrons' desire for a social experience (and entertainment). A recommendation is made that one of the venues discovered during the course of research should be investigated for heritage listing. It is important that we should acknowledge the vital part that going to the pictures once played in pre-television days, especially in rural areas
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Barnett, Vanessa. "Tasha: A practice-based problematisation of Australian comedy cinema’s representation of gender, family and nationhood." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2014. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1411.

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Between 2007 and 2012, 140 fictional feature films were financed with the assistance of Australian film funding bodies. Of these 140 films, only 31 featured female protagonists and of these 31 films, only 8 were comedies (see Appendix B). These figures show statistically, Tasha, the creative film component of this research project, is not a typical Australian comedy film; it is the story of Tasha, an unemployed girl from Girrawheen in her early twenties, who has lost her sense of identity. As Australian films such as Little Fish¸ Candy, Jedda and Muriel’s Wedding would suggest, this is certainly not an uncommon premise in Australian national cinema. However, this is not all there is to know about Tasha; she is preoccupied, not by a love interest or by a drug addiction, but by ninjutsu, and vigilantism. This is where Tasha finds its unique approach to Australian cinema’s historic treatment of the woman-centred narrative. That said, beneath Tasha’s unconventional surface arguably lies a truly Australian comedy film. The exegesis component of this project re-interprets Bazin’s question, “Qu'est-ce que le cinéma?” (What is cinema?), with a theoretical framework inspired by Australian film theorist Tom O’Regan’s influential text, Australian National Cinema. The exegesis begins by looking at Australian national cinema as a whole, then narrowing the focus to Australian comedy cinema. O’Regan (1996) describes Australian cinema as a national cinema; a cinema that embodies Australian culture, society and history. The focus is on Australian comedy film texts, and their social, political and cultural contexts. Tasha, the creative film project, is what O’Regan would term a “problematisation” of Australian comedy cinema. The key argument of this project is that Australian national comedy films are uniquely Australian, cinematic explorations of individual identity, socio-cultural identity, landscape and family. Australia laughs about what it knows best, these four narrative and aesthetic preoccupations being central to Australian socio-cultural values and attitudes, to understanding the concept of Australianness. Australian comedy cinema is a problematic genre unto itself. The theoretical component of this project is a profile of Australian comedy cinema’s homogenised representation of Australianness. Tasha is then presented as an alternative. This investigation aims to both improve, and demonstrate an understanding of Australian comedy cinema as a problematisation of gender, culture, landscape, family and identity. Tasha responds to the research question, “What is Australian comedy cinema?” by revealing that even an Australian action comedy with exciting stunts and fight scenes, is still a story of an individual’s sense of identity, family, and place. Such stories are arguably the hallmark of Australian comedy cinema; this carries a uniquely Australian sense of quirkiness. It remains the domain of the underdog: the battlers, larrikins, and of course the ockers. It still carries the same messages; never forget who you are, who your friends and family are, or where you came from. Despite its unconventional narrative, subject matter, soundtrack and aesthetics, Tasha proves to be no exception; it is still easily identified as a truly Australian comedy film.
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Galt, Rosalind. "Redrawing the map of Europe space, history and spectacle in new European cinema /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2002. http://books.google.com/books?id=kV9ZAAAAMAAJ.

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Williams, Danielle E. Winn J. Emmett. "Local motion picture exhibition in Auburn, for 1894-1928 a cultural history from a communication perspective /." Auburn, Ala., 2004. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/EtdRoot/2004/SUMMER/Communication_and_Journalism/Thesis/willide_31_Williams.pdf.

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Peach, Ricardo. "Queer cinema as a fifth cinema in South Africa and Australia." University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2100/425.

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Australia had the world’s first gay film festival at the Sydney Filmmakers Co-op in June 1976, part of a larger commemoration of the Stonewall Riots in New York City of 1969. In 1994, South Africa became the first country in the world to prohibit discrimination in its constitution on the basis of sexual orientation, whilst allowing for positive discrimination to benefit persons disadvantaged by unfair discrimination. South Africa and Australia, both ex-British colonies, are used in this analysis to explore the way local Queer Cinematic Cultures have negotiated and continue to negotiate dominant social forces in post-colonial settings. It is rare to have analyses of Queer Cinematic Cultures and even rarer to have texts dealing with cultures outside those of Euro-America. This study offers a unique window into the formations of Queer Cinematic Cultures of two nations of the ‘South’. It reveals important new information on how sexual minorities from nations outside the Euro-American sphere have dealt with and continue to deal with longstanding Queer cinematic oppressions. A pro-active relationship between Queer representation in film and social-political action is considered by academics such as Dennis Altman to be essential for significant social and judicial change. The existence of Queer and other independent films in Sydney from the 1960s onward, impacted directly on sexuality, race and gender activism. In South Africa, the first major Queer film festival, The Out In Africa Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in 1994, was instrumental in developing and maintaining a post-Apartheid Queer public sphere which fostered further legal change. Given the significant histories of activism through Queer Cinematic Cultures in both Australia and South Africa, I propose in this thesis the existence of a new genus of cinema, which I term Fifth Cinema. Fifth Cinema includes Feminist Cinema, Queer Cinema and Immigrant/Multicultural Cinema and deals with the oppressions which cultures engage with within their own cultural boundaries. It can be informed by First Cinema (classical, Hollywood), Second Cinema (Art House or dual national cinemas), Third and Fourth Cinema (cinemas dealing with the decolonisation of Third World and Fourth World people), but it develops its unique characteristics by countering internal cultural colonisation. Fifth Cinema functions as a heterognosis, where multi-dimensional representations around sexuality, race and gender are used to assist in broader cultural liberation.
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Haywood, Keene McDonald. "Beyond Words: The Use of the Non-Verbal Genre in Natural History Filmmaking." Thesis, Montana State University, 2007. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2007/haywood/HaywoodK0807.pdf.

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Natural history filmmaking has a history that begins with the advent of cinematography as a form of artistic and documentary expression. Natural history filmmaking has increasingly used techniques of fiction, drama and anthropomorphizing to represent the natural world in storytelling. This paper will examine the use of the nonverbal form of filmmaking as an alternative style that can be used to effectively document natural history using a more lyrical, poetic and often more thoughtful style. This work examines previous works in the non-verbal genre and discusses how this style compares with historically more traditional natural history films and why this alternative style is used for the thesis film. Additionally, works from the disciplines of geography and natural history writing are examined for relevance to the non-verbal natural history filmmaking genre.
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Pang, Lai Kwan. "China's left-wing cinema movement, 1932-1937 history, aesthetics, and ideology /." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium access full-text, 1997. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?9807778.

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Chan, Shuen-yan. "History and memory in Hou Hsiao-hsien's A City of Sadness and Tian Zhuangzhuang's The Blue Kite." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21241065.

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Books on the topic "Motion pictures – Australia – History"

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Simone, Simonazzi, and Zanetti Alberto, eds. Mille volte Australia: Cento anni di cinema australiano. Parma: Edicta, 2001.

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Australian cinema. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.

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Australian cinema, 1970-1985. London: Secker & Warburg, 1987.

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Celluloid heroes down under: Australian film, 1970-2000. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2002.

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Contemporary Australian cinema: An introduction. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000.

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Giannoudēs, Panagiōtēs M. Me ton Hellēniko kinēmatographo stēn Australia: Pisō apo tis provoles. Lemesos: Aphē, 2009.

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Giannoudēs, Panagiōtēs M. Me ton Hellēniko kinēmatographo stēn Australia: Pisō apo tis provoles. Lemesos: Aphē, 2009.

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Wilson, Jake. Mad dog morgan. Strawberry Hills, NSW: Currency Press, 2015.

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Hodson, Barrett. Straight roads and crossed lines: The quest for film culture in Australia from the 1960s? [sic]. Edited by Mudie Peter. Shenton Park, W.A: Bernt Porridge Group, 2001.

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1934-, McFarlane Brian, Mayer Geoff, and Bertrand Ina 1939-, eds. The Oxford companion to Australian film. Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Book chapters on the topic "Motion pictures – Australia – History"

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Czitrom, Daniel. "Early Motion Pictures." In Communication in History, 175–83. Seventh edition. | New York : Routledge, 2018.: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315189840-26.

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Molenda, Michael H. "History and Development of Instructional Design and Technology." In Handbook of Open, Distance and Digital Education, 1–18. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0351-9_4-1.

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AbstractThe origins and evolution of instructional technology and instructional design are treated in this chapter as separate concepts, although having intertwined histories. As with other technologies, their origins can be traced to the scientific discoveries on which they are based. Early in the twentieth century, new discoveries in optics and electricity stimulated educators to the adoption of technological innovations such as projected still pictures, motion pictures, and audio recording. Individuals and, later, groups of affiliated professionals promoted enriching learning by adding visual and, later, audiovisual resources where verbal presentations previously dominated. As radio broadcasting grew in the 1930s and then television in the 1950s, these mass media were perceived as ways to reach audiences, in and out of school, with educative audiovisual programs. In the 1960s, the wave of interest in teaching machines incorporating behaviorist psychological technology engendered a shift in identity from audiovisual technologies to all technologies, including psychological ones. As computers became ubiquitous in the 1990s, they became the dominant delivery system, due to their interactive capabilities. With the global spread of the World Wide Web after 1995, networked computers took on communication functions as well as storage and processing functions, giving new momentum to distance education. Meanwhile, research during and after World War II prompted a technology of planning – systems analysis. In the 1960s, educators adapted the systems approach to instructional planning, starting the development of instructional systems design (ISD). Since the 1980s, ISD has been the reigning paradigm for instructional design, while instructional design has become the central activity of instructional technology professionals.
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Molenda, Michael H. "History and Development of Instructional Design and Technology." In Handbook of Open, Distance and Digital Education, 57–74. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2080-6_4.

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AbstractThe origins and evolution of instructional technology and instructional design are treated in this chapter as separate concepts, although having intertwined histories. As with other technologies, their origins can be traced to the scientific discoveries on which they are based. Early in the twentieth century, new discoveries in optics and electricity stimulated educators to the adoption of technological innovations such as projected still pictures, motion pictures, and audio recording. Individuals and, later, groups of affiliated professionals promoted enriching learning by adding visual and, later, audiovisual resources where verbal presentations previously dominated. As radio broadcasting grew in the 1930s and then television in the 1950s, these mass media were perceived as ways to reach audiences, in and out of school, with educative audiovisual programs. In the 1960s, the wave of interest in teaching machines incorporating behaviorist psychological technology engendered a shift in identity from audiovisual technologies to all technologies, including psychological ones. As computers became ubiquitous in the 1990s, they became the dominant delivery system, due to their interactive capabilities. With the global spread of the World Wide Web after 1995, networked computers took on communication functions as well as storage and processing functions, giving new momentum to distance education. Meanwhile, research during and after World War II prompted a technology of planning – systems analysis. In the 1960s, educators adapted the systems approach to instructional planning, starting the development of instructional systems design (ISD). Since the 1980s, ISD has been the reigning paradigm for instructional design, while instructional design has become the central activity of instructional technology professionals.
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"Early Motion Pictures, Daniel Czitrom." In Communication in History, 175–82. Routledge, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315664538-32.

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Lethem, Jonathan. "1888 The introduction of motion pictures." In A New Literary History of America, 406–10. Harvard University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4159/9780674054219-087.

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Abel, Richard, and Amy Rodgers. "Early Motion Pictures and Popular Print Culture." In The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, 191–210. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199234066.003.0010.

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Powers, Stephen, David J. Rothman, and Stanley Rothman. "Hollywood's History and the Politics of Motion Pictures." In Hollywood's America, 14–39. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429493720-2.

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"A History Long Overdue: The Public Library and Motion Pictures." In Useful Cinema, 149–77. Duke University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780822394167-009.

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"D-Day in Hollywood motion pictures: a brief history of changing perceptions of war." In The Normandy Campaign 1944, 225–35. Routledge, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203028889-24.

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Costanzo, William V. "Comedy, History, and Culture." In When the World Laughs, 69–86. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190924997.003.0005.

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How has comedy evolved around the globe from earliest times to today? Chapter 4 offers a chronology of comedy. Distinguishing among laughter, comedy, and humor, it finds evidence of humor in ancient texts and imagery, tracing the evolution of comic genres through classical Greek drama, Sanskrit poetry, early China, medieval Europe, and feudal Japan. The chronology continues with an account of popular festivals of laughter, comedic stage performances, and precursors of the comic novel, showing how they led to modern literary and cinematic forms as well as televised sitcoms and live standup. Motion pictures borrowed silent gags and witty wordplay from vaudeville, channeled the freewheeling energy of picaresque stories into episodic road movies, adapted the amatory impulses of Shakespeare’s romantic comedies to the screen, and turned the Carnivalesque spirit into scenes of cinematic mischief and mayhem.
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Conference papers on the topic "Motion pictures – Australia – History"

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Balli, Mardick. "Fluorescent Lighting Systems for Television and Motion Pictures." In SMPTE Australia Conference. IEEE, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.5594/m001128.

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Mathias, Yehoshua. "USING MOTION PICTURES TO FOSTER HISTORICAL THINKING: A PROPOSAL FOR HISTORY TEACHERS' EDUCATION." In 15th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation. IATED, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2022.1817.

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