Film Studies 101: A Film Buff's Guide To Movie Movements

Scaling the heady peaks of auteurship and sliding down the scree slopes of wanton hackery, Empire’s Film Studies 101 has tackled everything from the birth of cinema to the technical wizardy of great cinematographers.

We’ve explained what a key grip does and revealed why an on-set honeywagon is a really terrible place to look for a snack. Now it’s time for things get real – neoreal, even – with a guide to the key movements that have defined cinema from the silent era to the present day. Don your brainiest specs and follow us on a journey. A journey through time.For more:

http://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/film-studies-101-movie-movements/

EARLY SILENT DOCUMENTARIES: REAL-LIFE ADVENTURE CINEMA

Since the dawn of cinema, cameras have been taken around the world to capture unique and exotic sights previously available to audiences only in still photographs.

Motion picture pioneers the Lumiere brothers sent their cameras to get scenic shots of foreign landscapes and cultures, and rivals (such as Britain’s Mitchell and Kenyon) followed suit, creating programs that took audiences to faraway places. Mitchell and Kenyon narrated their presentations, turning the shows into events, while on the lecture circuit, explorers started using movie cameras to supplement their slide shows with moving picture footage.

These pre-documentary forays inspired filmmakers and explorers to take their cameras into more remote and inhospitable locations.

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http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/early-silent-documentaries-real-life-adventure-cinema/

Understanding ASEAN: Seven things you need to know

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China remains the Goliath of emerging markets, with every fluctuation in its GDP making headlines around the globe. But investors and multinationals are increasingly turning their gaze southward to the ten dynamic markets that make up the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Founded in 1967, ASEAN today encompasses Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam—economies at vastly different stages of development but all sharing immense growth potential. ASEAN is a major global hub of manufacturing and trade, as well as one of the fastest-growing consumer markets in the world. As the region seeks to deepen its ties and capture an even greater share of global trade, its economic profile is rising—and it is crucial for those outside the region to understand its complexities and contradictions. The seven insights below offer a snapshot of one of the world’s most diverse, fast-moving, and competitive regions.

1. Together, ASEAN’s ten member states form an economic powerhouse.

If ASEAN were a single country, it would already be the seventh-largest economy in the world, with a combined GDP of $2.4 trillion in 2013 (Exhibit 1). It is projected to rank as the fourth-largest economy by 2050.¹

Labor-force expansion and productivity improvements drive GDP growth—and ASEAN is making impressive strides in both areas. Home to more than 600 million people, it has a larger population than the European Union or North America. ASEAN has the third-largest labor force in the world, behind China and India; its youthful population is producing a demographic dividend. Perhaps most important, almost 60 percent of total growth since 1990 has come from productivity gains, as sectors such as manufacturing, retail, telecommunications, and transportation grow more efficient.

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