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ALMAR MATERS: from Keele, The London Film School, The University of Oxford, London to Mainz...
KINO COURSES - Oxfordshire, Mainz, Sofia, Berlin
2005 Book Publication: "We, the media...". 2006 Extracts & 2007 Reviews
WTM: UPDATED TITLES
2006 Publication: Book Editor: HEALTHYWORDS
2007 Book Publication: Jacobean Visions: Webster, Hitchcock and Google Culture
AUTHOR'S ROADSHOW
KINOWORDS & MEDIA EDUCATION ACROSS THE CURRICULUM, Berlin
KINOWORDS IN SOFIA: Lights, Camera..Talk!
2005: PUBLIC SPEAKER - Sofia
2007-2008:On Line Journalism
Representative in Germany: Cinemasports 2004-2007
KINOWORDS ESTABLISHES SCREENWRITING PROGRAMMES: Fast-Forward & The Script Lab 5, Frankfurt to Berlin...
KINOWORDS research, "We, the media..."
SAMPLE Research Projects
2006: SCRIPT ADAPTATIONS
KINOWORDS- Goes Full Length
FROM THE BASEMENT - Course Materials, U.K, Germany & Bulgaria.
Sample Projects & Collaborations
SHORT-SHOTS:
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University Courses, Active Workshops, Global Initiatives, Publications and Research in Cinema Studies, Screenwriting & Media Education
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| Thanks/Danke for tuning in to this webblog, which provides a detailed overview of what it's like to have a vocation...including teaching histories, international projects, research, publications and collaborations from the UK, to Germany and Eastern Europe... | |||
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| A quick breakdown of academic credentials and places of research, Germany & UK. | |||
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6/29/2005:
Dr.phil: The Johannes Gutenber
- So, what better place to do research in than Mr Gu
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6/29/2005:
MA: The University of London,I
- The MA was in Media Education with Professor David
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6/29/2005:
PGCE: The University of Oxford
- The Oxford Internship Scheme
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6/29/2005:
Diploma: The London Film Schoo
- Entry into the film school coincided with a short
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6/29/2005:
BA, Joint Hons: American Studi
- "Keele pioneered the development of American Studi
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| The range of courses taught at university level in Cinema Studies, Screenwriting & Media Production... | |||
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4/16/2008:
JFK-I Spring 2008
- Course Description. The practical and ideological role of A
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9/19/2007:
JFK-I, F.U Berlin, Fall 07-08
- Alan returns to the John F. Kennedy for the Fall T
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3/2/2007:
The J.F.Kennedy Institute, Ber
- The advanced MA Film/Media course (hauptsem
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6/29/2005:
The Oxford & Cherwell Valley C
- Media Production, Film Studies & Media Studies
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6/29/2005:
The New Bulgarian University i
- 2004 SOfia Workshops in Hollywood History, Genre,
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| George Clooney’s independent “Good Night and Good Luck” (2005) takes its important place in an established genre lineage that, since the 1970s, has concerned the developments in U.S. commercial news broadcasting. The film’s focused insight into the strident protests of renowned Edward E. Murrow against the dubious operations of the profiteering networks in the 1950s clearly alludes, as well, to contemporary concerns over the quality and direction of U.S. commercial news operations ...Read More | |||
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3/5/2007:
2007 WTM: Peer Review
- Art Silverblatt, Professor of Communications and Journalis
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8/15/2005:
Full Preface & Edited Intro: 2
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8/15/2005:
Ch 1. Film & Media Education -
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8/15/2005:
Ch 2. 1920s-1940s - Hoover, Ma
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8/15/2005:
Ch 3. 1950s-1960s - NBC, CBS,
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| 2006/7: In Progress...Supplementary Film Titles on "We, the media...". With the publication of the book in 2005, and sales exceeding expectations, preparations are already underway for the second edition. Towards that goal, further film analyses on related films that consider the representation of television and rival media outlets will be published here in both PDF and free-page formats. 1. A Short Critical Detour on “The Road Guantanamo” (2006) 2. I've On...Read More | |||
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10/31/2007:
Lions for Lambs
- Berlin, October 2007:"The Kino International Berlin on the
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9/10/2006:
To Come: Hollywoodland (2006)
- Superman on TV...
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8/26/2006:
Logged: War of the Worlds (200
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6/5/2006:
To Come: American Dreamz (2006
- Satire, Literacy, Ownership
TAGLINE: "Imagine a
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6/3/2006:
Logged: "Good Night and Good L
- News Production, Representation & Ownership..
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| By Dr. Diana A. Taylor: Towards the Betterment of Communications Across the Drugs Industry, pp. 187, Tectum-Verlag. | |||
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8/2/2006:
Alan Taylor Book Editor
- In anticipation of Michael Moore's next film on the US
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| ...the new publication, from Alan Taylor is now complete and due for Spring publication, again through the European University Studies division of Peter Lang Frankfurt/NewYork ( http://jacobeanvisions.edublogs.org ). The study underscores the interdisciplinary thematic concerns between Renaissance Drama, the cinema of Alfred Hitchcock and contemporary digital culture. The book is an update of initial research at the Institute of Education, Universtiy of London. More deta...Read More | |||
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5/23/2007:
At Clu Napoca
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3/3/2007:
2007 Jacobean Visions
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| Beginning in Sofia, July 2005... | |||
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10/30/2006:
The WTM Blog Updates...
- As of November 2006, the WTM profile has widened to inc
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3/5/2006:
KINOWORDS Guardian Film Review
- George Clooney's "Good Night, Good Luck", 2005..."
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6/29/2005:
On The Road...I-Space, Sofia
- JULY 2005 - Sofia
...heading for Sofia in July to g
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6/29/2005:
Book Overview & Ordering
- With Andrea Kluska at the Peter Lang offices in Frankfur
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| Spring 2007: KINOWORDS has been invited by Armin Hottman (MA, Media Education, London) of Media Across the Curriculum to lead a workshop in screenwriting and digital filmmaking for teaching colleagues from 10 European countries during their one-week conference in Berlin. As with previous programmes in the UK, Germany and Sofia, the KINOWORDS programme is intended to actively engage participants in the creative, technical then theoretical challenges of media product...Read More | |||
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6/19/2007:
References/Zeugnis
- In English & German, from Armin Hottmann, Programme Organizer
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4/24/2007:
Our Day
- From Estonia, Portugal, Turkey, Cyprus, Sweden, Poland, Spain, Greece, R
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3/17/2007:
Berlin, April 2007
- The programme & materials...
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| Under the Spotlight...it was during Alan's trip to Sofia in July 2005 that he found himself the subject of media interest as he was invited to be interviewed on the Bulgarian National Television network during the prime-time morning programme as anchored by Julia Manolova. | |||
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8/23/2005:
We the media, in the Media...
- Further interviews included an extended live interv
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| Here are the two PowerPoint presentations covering 19 & 26 July 2005 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Alan spoke to a public audience of journalists, family, friends, academics and students at the Centre of the Bulgarian Filmmakers on the subject of U.S. mainstream and news broadcasting histories. His talks were supported by colleagues - and technicians - from the Inter-Space Arts Centre, Sofia:- 2005-07-18 16:10 "The English film and media lecturer Dr. Alan Taylor will present his latest research on...Read More | |||
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2/22/2006:
Sofia Pics
- So, fun days. It was organized by Maya Ivanova of Inter-Space, a quiet
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8/5/2005:
Sofia Specials July 2005
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2005-07-18 16:10
"The English film and media lectu
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| EuropeFront, AmericaFront, ChinaFront & Weltexpress, Berlin. Collated articles 2007-2008, are here : http://www.freewebs.com/thenewsmix/ For Alan Journalist Profile: http://www.journalistid.com/?id=542&name=alan_taylor Editor, Writer, Weltexpress: http://www.weltexpress.info/index.php?rubrik=12&lan=en Writer: http://www.europefront.com ...Read More | |||
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2/20/2008:
At Talent Campus, Berlinale 20
- The Show Starts Here: Behind the Curtain on T
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1/31/2008:
2008: Berlinale TV Team
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1/12/2008:
Overview
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| USA & Europe: 4 ingredients, one film,in 9 hours...A global network on independent digital filmmkers based in San Francisco and extending across the USA to Europe (Los Angeles, London, Frankfurt, Sofia...). With Alexander Scherer, we were City Producers in Frankfurt on April 23rd(22 films) and introduced the programme to our colleagues in Sofia in January 2005. Recently, a cluster of films from Sofia and Frankfurt were presented on the first day of the eDIT Film Festival in Frankfurt (October ...Read More | |||
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5/25/2007:
Berlin: 07.07.007
- ...another European Captial City...details to follow...
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3/26/2007:
Berlin, 2007
- Preparing the CS network in the German Capital....more to follow...
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3/2/2006:
Marketing Material
- Fliers, Translations, Press Reports, PowerPoint Presentations.
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12/13/2005:
CS: April 23rd 2005 Frankfurt
- A series of pics showing two of our 22 teams at two
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8/31/2005:
Mainz Nov.13th 2005
- Into the Winter. Mainz & San Francsico...it was a great dawn
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| `Fast-Forward', as it suggests, is a quick-fire weekend programme designed to test the skills and competences - in team writing, script reading, genre understanding, and writing to deadlines - for those eager to refine their screenwriting experience. 'The Script Lab 5' is a more ambitious programme of five stages across nine months designed to create a first draft film screenplay from first ideas. Across the five stages, participants are introduced to modules in plot construction, character developm...Read More | |||
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7/7/2006:
Fast Forward - in Deutsche
- 2003 Seminar: Theorie im Kreativen Drehbuchschreiben
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3/22/2006:
Corina Appel...SL5/2 Participa
- Corina went on to direct and produce this film in
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3/22/2006:
Script Lab 5: Secrets from Age
- 100 Hours, Five Weekends, Nine Months, to one b
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3/22/2006:
At the Script Forum Berlin, 20
- The Script Lab 5 team represented the Frankfurt Fi
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| Links to US media, film, television,journalism, media education... | |||
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5/5/2006:
WeMedia Conference, May 2006
- New media impacts, blogs, conference, blogs, worksho
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3/26/2006:
Monster, by John G. Dunne:
- Screenwriters struggles at the Disney table...eight ye
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3/26/2006:
Book Cover Lithograph
- From the Library of Congress in Washington D.C
Currier and
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3/26/2006:
Media, Culture & Society:
- A wealth of insights, essays and references...
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3/26/2006:
The Corporation: 2004:
- film & book on corporate culture by Joel Bakan...
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| Four 2006 research projects: 1. Radio is Film is TV: how and why sound came to Hollywood via the radio broadcasters. 2. Risky Business: applying risk management principles to production and narratives. 3. Oxford, Balliol to Keele: People & Principles Over Time 4. Revising 1990 research on "Heaven's Gate" (1980) following the restoration and showing of the full-length version in 2005. | |||
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3/11/2006:
Heaven's Gate - Revisions on t
- A return to original research undertaken at the Lo
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2/27/2006:
Oxford, Balliol to Keele Unive
- Connecting People and Principles. On going researc
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2/23/2006:
When GE Went to Hollywood: How
- Signal Corps, GE, NBC, RCA, ERPI, FCC, NTSE, RKO..
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2/22/2006:
2006: Risky Business - Theory
- Applying the Key Principles of Risk Management for
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| The Adapt Writing Studio:Collections of adaptations of short stories, beginning with U.S classics from Hawthorne to Amy Tan. | |||
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1/11/2006:
General Introduction - Story S
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1/3/2006:
Amy Tan - "Two Kinds"
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1/3/2006:
Ann Mason
- "Big Bertha Stories"
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1/3/2006:
Bernard Malamud
- "My Son, The Murderer", 1968
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1/3/2006:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Adapted from "A Patriotic Short" & "Two Old Timers", 1940
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| Two proposed 90 min television projects... | |||
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3/26/2006:
SUMMER WAVES - 90 min treatmen
- from Berlin to Mallorca...a family in trouble...
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3/25/2006:
KLEINSTADT - 90 min TV...
- from Frankfurt to Bayern...script trailer for the full-
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| Course materials: Mainz, Sofia, JFK-I, Berlin & Frankfurt. *Uploads will emerge over the next few weeks (Spring 2007) from the J.F.K -I course on Film Studies, Free University of Berlin (Powerpoints & PDFS). | |||
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4/23/2007:
2007: J.F.K.- I, FU Berlin
- Powerpoints are now being uploaded covering the 14-
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2/21/2006:
2004: NBU Sofia
- A programme of seminars on Hollywood film industry and screenwrit
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1/26/2006:
Sample PowerPoint Course PDF
- British Cinema since the 1920s, industry, style, rep
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7/1/2005:
CV Updates
- - as of Spring 2007. One page CV, University teaching reference, book
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6/29/2005:
References - D'land
- From colleagues, workshop particpants & universities...
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| Where KINOWORDS has a Presence | |||
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11/13/2007:
JournalistID
- Europe Front News International...
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10/31/2007:
Weltexpress, Berlin, Vienna, N
- Editor & Writer Cultural Affairs...film, media
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3/2/2007:
The University of Oxford...
- Careers Network. Alan is pleased to be listed as a vo
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3/2/2007:
Media Across the Curriculum
- Teaching the Teachers: Alan has been invited to lea
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6/10/2006:
Charter for European Media Lit
- "...exists to support the establishment of media l
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| Sprints in Screenwriting: Serious fun in getting it right... | |||
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3/9/2006:
Aristotle's Plot Point
- Pedagogic Troubles with a Future Global Conqueror
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8/23/2005:
The Rolling Stones..
- A short script tribute to a long-play career...
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8/10/2005:
From Budapest to Baghdad...
- A number of short scripts on films that could never b
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