Charles Harpole

Charles Henry Harpole is a šcholar of cinema and mass communications and a filmmaker. He received his doctorate from

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the ...

and has taught at the

University of Georgia , mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things." , establ ...

, New York University, the New School, Southern Illinois University, the University of Texas at Dallas,

Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ ...

, the

University of Central Florida The University of Central Florida (UCF) is a public research university whose main campus is in unincorporated Orange County, Florida. UCF also has nine smaller regional campuses throughout central Florida. It is part of the State University ...

, and

Mahidol University Mahidol University (Mahidol), an autonomous research institution in Thailand, had its origin in the establishment of Siriraj Hospital in 1888. Mahidol had an acceptance rate for Medicine of 0.4% as of the 2016 academic year. Becoming the Univers ...

. He was chairperson of the Cinema and Photography Department at Ohio State and was founding Head of the Film School at U. C. F. He was recruited to Thailand to start the film, television, and animation B.A. program at Mahidol University (co-sponsored by Kantana studios). Harpole retired from Mahidol University in September 2011. Harpole founded and led the Cinema History Project which created a ten-volume "History of American Cinema" book series, published by Charles Scribner Sons and by the

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, and held in over 600 WorldCat libraries. He is the author of ''Gradients of Depth in the Cinema Image'', published by Arno Press, and producer, director, writer and editor of documentary videos, primarily about Tibetan

Buddhism Buddhism ( , ), also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya (), is an Indian religion or philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha. It originated in northern India as a -movement in the 5th century BCE, and gra ...

by shooting in India, Nepal, Tibet (China), Bhutan, Thailand, Laos and the USA. He has made programming for the

Children's Television Workshop Sesame Workshop (SW), originally known as the Children's Television Workshop (CTW), is an American nonprofit organization that has been responsible for the production of several educational children's programs—including its first and best-know ...

(''Sesame Street'') and has contributed to MSNBC, BBC, CNN and PBS. His students include Frederick Marx and Steve James ('' Hoop Dreams''),

Milčo Mančevski Milcho Manchevski ( mk, Милчо Манчевски, )"Milcho Manchevski: Full Biography"

('' Before the Rain''), and the creatives who made '' The Blair Witch Project'' (including Eduardo Sánchez). Harpole has taught over 11,000 students in his 30+ teaching career. His documentary and entertainment videos are on his YouTube channel, k4vud, including video testimony of Red Chinese atrocities on Tibetans. Harpole is an
amateur radio Amateur radio, also known as ham radio, is the use of the radio frequency spectrum for purposes of non-commercial exchange of messages, wireless experimentation, self-training, private recreation, radiosport, contesting, and emergency communic ...
operator; his call sign is K4VUD.

References

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Unchained Heart productions website
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