There was a time in American culture when watching stars dance was as easy as going to the local movie theater and seeing Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh do the Virginia reel.
Author Archives: Steve Greene
Endangered Series: _Fox’s new show 'Breaking In,' featuring college-aged characters, has comedic perks despite some problematic elements_
High school is familiar territory with TV audiences. “Glee” is immensely popular, and many of the subplots in family dramas or comedies revolve around the exploits of children who are of high school age.
Post-screen reality
As veterans of reality television will tell you, editing is a tricky thing.
Endangered Series: _Detective show 'The Killing' is consistent with AMC's high standards, viewership_
The cable channel AMC has what casual baseball fans like to refer to as a “good batting average.” Since taking a chance on a little show called “Mad Men,” the network has given birth to five original dramas.
Alumnus Derek Taylor Kent to release young adult novels “Scary School”
Children aren’t always easy to entertain. But alumnus Derek Taylor Kent has had years of practice.
Endangered Series: _Online show 'The Confession,' hosted by Hulu, lacks special TV elements_
It’s amusing to think that if smartphones had existed in the 1950s, people probably would have used them to watch “I Love Lucy.”
Seminar to explore film editing process at Egyptian Theatre
Shower. Knife. Scream. Knife. Drain.
It wasn’t conventional filmmaking in 1960, but it became the recipe for one of the most iconic film scenes in history.
But while it was that infamous sequence from “Psycho” that made audiences afraid in their own bathrooms, it’s still being used as a valuable teaching tool for film students and aficionados the world over.
It’s scenes like this that will be on display Wednesday night at the Egyptian Theatre, as film consultant Thomas Ethan Harris hosts “In the Cut: Employing the Art of Editing.” This is one in a series of “visual communication seminars,” as Harris refers to them, that offer a communal atmosphere to talk about key elements in the filmmaking process.