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Why does the cinema have the power to move the heart, stimulate the mind, and dazzle the imagination? How did the art of film develop from its origins to the present day? This course covers the history and aesthetics of the movies. It traces the experiments and innovations that gave rise to the modern cinema, developing a vocabulary that helps explain the variety of choices filmmakers make when they construct shots and edit them together.

The Understanding British Portraits Podcast is a series that explores current ideas and debates around the power of portraiture. The series investigates who gets to be depicted in portraiture, how we should display and talk about portraiture and how portraits can help us tell the stories of people underrepresented in the arts. The episodes are curated and presented by guest hosts who come from a wide range of backgrounds in the art history, heritage and museum worlds. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Western art, with its lineage from the ancient world to the present, has given us works of genius by the likes of Phidias, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Monet, Van Gogh, and many more. In the 25 engrossing lectures of Understanding Western Art: Stories, Styles, and Masterworks, you’ll explore the larger themes, principles, and expressive currents that tell the story of Western art, and which shed light on its deeper meanings.

We launched this podcast in late 2020 to share OSU’s knowledge and expertise with the world, and to help us stay in touch with our own community of scholarship in and outside of OSU. We hope the information will unlock many of the common terms and ideas you hear in news about the Middle East straight from Ohio State’s in-house experts. Get insider information on their current projects, the courses they offer, library materials, opportunities to experience the Middle East, and so on. Please also check out our e-book of the same name! The podcast is brought to you by the Middle East Studies ...