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Charles Henry Harpole is a šcholar of cinema and mass communications and a filmmaker. He received his doctorate from
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and has taught at the
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, New York University, the New School, Southern Illinois University, the University of Texas at Dallas,
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, the
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, 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
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by shooting in India, Nepal, Tibet (China), Bhutan, Thailand, Laos and the USA. He has made programming for the
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(''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
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operator; his call sign is K4VUD.


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Unchained Heart productions website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Harpole, Charles Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American non-fiction writers Tisch School of the Arts alumni University of Central Florida faculty Ohio State University faculty University of Texas at Dallas faculty Southern Illinois University faculty The New School faculty New York University faculty University of Georgia faculty