Ice Castles (Wrye, 1978 USA)
Vision Quest (Becker, 1985 USA)
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
The Sports Film: Basketball
Hoosiers (Anspaugh, 1986 USA)
White Men Can't Jump (Shelton, 1992 USA)
Semi-Pro (Alterman, 2008 USA)
More Than a Game (Belman, 2009 USA)
White Men Can't Jump (Shelton, 1992 USA)
Semi-Pro (Alterman, 2008 USA)
More Than a Game (Belman, 2009 USA)
The Sports Film: Cheerleading
Just One Of The Girls (AKA Anything for Love) (Keusch, 1993 USA)
But I'm a Cheerleader (Babbit, 1999 USA)
Bring It On (Reed, 2000 USA)
Fired Up! (Gluck, 2009 USA)
But I'm a Cheerleader (Babbit, 1999 USA)
Bring It On (Reed, 2000 USA)
Fired Up! (Gluck, 2009 USA)
The Sports Film: Football
Brown of Harvard (Conway, 1926 USA)
The Longest Yard (Aldrich, 1974 USA)
All the Right Moves (Chapman, 1983 USA)
Any Given Sunday (Stone, 1999 USA)
The Longest Yard (Aldrich, 1974 USA)
All the Right Moves (Chapman, 1983 USA)
Any Given Sunday (Stone, 1999 USA)
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Tax Incentive to Cut Gay TV, Film Characters
A proposed tax incentive to attract the film and television industry to Florida would not apply to productions that showcase "nontraditional family values," says the Republican house member sponsoring the jobs stimulus measure.By Julie Bolcer, The Advocate
March 09, 2010
Films and television shows with gay characters could be ineligible for a “family-friendly” tax credit, part of a $75 million incentive package that Florida house Republicans hope will attract entertainment jobs to their state.
According to the Palm Peach Post, “The bill would prohibit productions with ‘nontraditional family values’ from receiving a so-called family-friendly tax credit. But it doesn't define what ‘nontraditional family values’ are, something the bill's sponsor had a hard time doing, too.”
When pressed on whether shows with gay characters should get the tax credit, state representative Stephen Precourt, a Republican from Orlando who is sponsoring the bill, said, "That would not be the kind of thing I'd say that we want to invest public dollars in."
Currently, a state law that gives tax credits to “family-friendly” films defines the content as suitable for a 5-year-old, according to the Post: “Smoking, sex, nudity and profane language are prohibited, as are ‘obscene’ productions as defined by the state's sex crime laws.”
“Precourt's proposal would boost the credit from 2% to 5% and expand the list of taboos to include any ‘exhibit or implied act’ of nontraditional family values and gratuitous violence,” reports the Post.
Precourt represents the district that includes Walt Disney World.
The Republican house leadership is prioritizing the bill as a means to advance its agenda of job creation.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Week 6: Sports Films
TERENCE
Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa
for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your
driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it.
They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children,
longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look
around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass
over the money without even thinking about it: for
it is money they have and peace they lack. And they'll
walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect
afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere
along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were
children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the
game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic
waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush
them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one
constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball.
America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has
been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But
baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of
our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good
and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will
most definitely come.
Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa
for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your
driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it.
They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children,
longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look
around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass
over the money without even thinking about it: for
it is money they have and peace they lack. And they'll
walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect
afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere
along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were
children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the
game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic
waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush
them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one
constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball.
America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has
been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But
baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of
our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good
and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will
most definitely come.
—James Earl Jones as Terence Mann
in Field of Dreams (Robinson, 1989 USA)
in Field of Dreams (Robinson, 1989 USA)
M 3.8/W 3.10: Sports Films
In-class: “An Introduction to Sports on Film, Pt. II”
Screening: The Wrestler (Aronofsky, 2008 USA)
Due: OSR 3 (1960-1979)
Upcoming:
M 3.15/W 3.17: Musicals
In-class: “Musicals—An Overview, Pt. I”
Screening: Moulin Rouge! (Luhrmann, 2001 USA/Australia)
In-class: “An Introduction to Sports on Film, Pt. II”
Screening: The Wrestler (Aronofsky, 2008 USA)
Due: OSR 3 (1960-1979)
Upcoming:
M 3.15/W 3.17: Musicals
In-class: “Musicals—An Overview, Pt. I”
Screening: Moulin Rouge! (Luhrmann, 2001 USA/Australia)
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