Adaptation study is a sub-branch of comparative literature that makes the bond between and cinema. Both cinema are two different media each has its own language to convey meaning. This article studies African techniques film adaptation from novels such as Half Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Biyi Bandele’s in 2013 with same title. With advancement technology, people gradually shif...

This communication aims to analyze the documentary made by Brazilian filmmaker Eliana Caffé, The Cambridge Squatter, in 2016, from point of view reality and fiction, hybridization genres proposed filmmaker. Caffé his feature film mixes professional social actors intertwining stories migrants refugees who find themselves living what was once a luxury hotel downtown area São Paulo, Hotel Cambridg...

The Trash Trout Motion Picture Show is a collaborative creative placemaking project that employs the power of arts to help protect freshwater ecosystems in Appalachian Mountains. Filmmaker Tom Hansell, musician Trevor McKenzie, and musician/dancer Julie
 Shepherd-Powell shares multimedia performance they developed collaboration with local civic organizations.
 

Fans of TV science programs were likely captivated by the documentary about human evolution that premiered on PBS stations in 2014. ‘‘Your Inner Fish’’ provided a guided tour of the human body and where its many features came from— color vision and brain anatomy from primates, teeth and skin and hair from ancient reptiles, necks and fingers and eyes from primordial fish. The three-part series c...

In describing Humphrey Jennings’ wartime documentary propaganda film, Listen to Britain (1942), a film with an overtly poetic sensibility and dominantly musical soundtrack, John Corner asserts that ‘through listening to Britain, we are enabled to properly look at it’ (2002: 306). This idea of sound leading our attention to the images has underpinned much of the collaborative work between compos...

h—This study looks at Spike Lee’s Malcolm X as an important text in understanding Afrocentric perspectives that challenge the ideological stereotypes of mainstream Hollywood film. Malcolm X intervenes between Lee, the filmmaker, and the powerful media industry and is emblematic of the larger discussion of hegemonic and counter-hegemonic views in media culture. This film is not only an interesti...