The theme of WACC’s annual report for 2020 is “Truthful Voices Matter”. What appears to be self-evident reflects a growing perception that public interest media need to rebuild trust in their news content and opinions: by demonstrating impartiality, balance, and transparency. Why is trust eroding, how...
March, the month set aside to honour women's contributions to American history is today commemorated worldwide as "Women's history month". Achieving an equal future in a Covid-19 world is the theme of International Women's Day March 8. If there's anything that a quarter century of media monitoring...
[caption id="attachment_34179" align="alignleft" width="190"] MD 2021/1[/caption] Media Development 2021-1 Coming To A Screen Near You: The Future of Cinema Why do we need cinema? Is it simply a form of escapism from the day-to-day problems that beset us – personal, familial, financial, moral, spiritual? Articles explore different aspects of...
By Philip Lee
It’s a difficult question. Why do people need cinema? Is it merely to take us out of ourselves, to relieve ourselves temporarily of the burdens of life? Is it simply a form of escapism from the day-to-day problems that beset us – personal, familial, financial, moral, spiritual?
By Heidi Ippolito
2020 has been a year of apocalyptic revelations in the U.S., uncovering national failings and imaginative alternatives amidst turbulent times. An inadequate national response to a global pandemic, raging environmental disasters, a chaotic presidential election, and an ongoing reckoning for racial inequity and police violence.
By John P. Ferré
The last decade has been a strong one for critically acclaimed movies about faith. With the exception of Spotlight, the $20 million Universal Studios release about the Boston Globe’s investigation of paedophile priests that won Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, movies about faith have been independent productions made with modest budgets.
By Gabriella Lettini
The early days of filmmaking led scholars, artists, and intellectuals of the era to engage in heated discussions on whether cinema was an artistic expression at all or merely a new form of technology and on how cinema was different from any other art.
Por Carlos A. Valle
El secreto de las películas es que son una ilusión. (George Lucas)
Este es un mundo absorbido por un océano de desarrollo tecnológico del que dependen cada vez más los estados para su funcionamiento como las empresas mismas y la economía mundial para sus transacciones, sin entrar a detallar como ha ido modelando la vida privada. El celular, la computadora, los juegos electrónicos habitan permanentemente en una gran franja de la sociedad moderna, como si fuera una extensión más del mismo ser humano.