Gary R. Edgerton

The Teacher-Scholar in Film and Television

ultural historians generally acC knowledge that a time lag occurs between the moment when a new medium is invented and the age when a literate community finally emerges to create a more complete understanding of that technology’s full potential. From the early to the high Renaissance, for example, literary expertise and training were the domain of clergy and nobility, until the long-range impact of the printing press eventually gave rise to a more public and universal conception of oral, written, and reading literacy that continues to flourish worldwide even today (Marvin). Branching out beyond print to include all forms of mechanical and electronic communication, media literacy first surfaced as a concept-inprogress during the first few decades of the twentieth century in the film theories of such artists and scholars as Vachel Lindsay and Hugo Miinsterberg, along with the above-quoted Rudolf Arnheim, who applied his training in gestalt psychology to art, motion pictures, and even TV while this experimental medium was still largely confined to the laboratory.

An Interview with Martin Sheen

Abstract: This article presents an interview with Martin Sheen conducted in New Orleans on April 1, 2015, by Journal of Popular Film & Television editors Michael T. Marsden and Gary R. Edgerton.