Cinema Film Essays and Term Papers
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Ethnic Notions: Film Response
Ethnic Notions: Film Response The 1987 film documentary Ethnic Notions directed by Marlon Riggs, identifies the evolution of African American cultural depictions through ethnic stereotypes and caricatures in American culture. I feel Ethnic Notions exposes the roots of false generalization from the beginning and presents a series of classifications for racial depictions that still are noticeable in today’s society. These racial depictions identified with in this film begin in the mid 1800's and continue
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Film Noir
Unit 1 Interactive Assignment 1: Reading Discussion Definitions are as difficult as they are necessary. In the case of "film noir" we always begin with the question: What is it? But this is perhaps the wrong question. Perhaps we should ask a deeper question: Is it? In other words, is the word empty of meaning, that is, so general that in practice it is useless? Let us begin, then, not with what it is or
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Film Prioritization
In this scenario, a large film making conglomerate wishes to examine a number of potential film making projects. Each project is to be ranked according to its feasibility, measured by the ability to adhere to a number of corporate objectives. There are seven proposed movies to be judged and the conglomerate will produce four to six each year. First is to examine each of those projects to the corporate objectives, compare and contrasting project selection
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Teenage Film Essay
Teenage films are a type of film made to attract an adolescent audience. The main ways that film makers try to attract teens to a teenage film are to create an unreal adolescent world, to make the teenager the hero, the adults stupid and incompetent and to use stereotypes that teens can relate to. By doing all this they can manipulate the teen audience and suck them in to the film, making it an affective
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Film:analysis: The Life of David Gale
The debate about whether capital punishment should be used has raged incessantly since it was reinstituted in the Democratic United States in 1976. The latest statistics on the death penalty reveal that 71% of Americans favor it for citizens convicted of murder, while 26% oppose it. Although the United States doesn’t lead the world in total numbers of executions per year, it is within the top five. Of all the 38 states that still have
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Ten Best Performances in English Films
In any movie, the hardest job is probably that of the actor. He not only has to give his character an air of believability but also must bond with the viewer emotionally. As always, a few things first, • In compiling this list I have tried to focus on what in my opinion should be the best performances in English films. However when speaking of performances, it is impossible to keep one’s personal choices
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The Place of an Auteur Director in the Nigerian Video Film Industry
Introduction Films are the product of many individuals working together. This is evident in the credits that are scrolled at the end of each finished work. I could easily say that it takes a village to make a movie. Consequent upon the above stated, it becomes shocking to find out that there is a significant tendency among film scholars to treat films as the product of a single individual. To toe this line of interpretation
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Analyse Shane with Specific Reference to the Films Visual Style and Western Themes
‘ Analyse Shane with specific reference to the films visual style and western themes.’ By analysing ‘Shane’ (1953) in conjunction with its visual style and western themes, it will clearly show what aspects of western culture are apparent in the film. By looking at the visual style, this will show how the mise-en-scene informs the audience that ‘Shane’ is placed in the western genre. Firstly I will analyse the western themes that are visible in
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Film Analysis of the Movie
The movie begins with the screen displaying the words of Isaiah 53:5 which reads “He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.” I think the director is giving us a introduction of the movie. A close-up shot of the full moon appears and then a long shot showing us the entire sky. The camera moves
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Chinatown: Above the Film Noir Genre
The viewer sees a private eye and beautiful client. First thought, “It’s definitely another Hollywood crime drama.” On the surface, Chinatown has all the elements of a film noir: the presence of a beautiful but dangerous woman, otherwise known as the femme fatale, a gritty urban setting, compositional tension (highly contrasting light and dark colors or oblique camera angles), and themes of moral ambiguity and alienation. Chinatown, however, is different. Polanski shot Chinatown with color
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The Film Metropolis Film Shots
The film Metropolis is a unique film. If one thinks about the time in which the film was made and then thinks of how little technology was available to the film industry, they would see how awesome the film truly is. A specific scene that had two camera angles involved in it was when Maria was saving all the children from the flooding. It was filmed with a crane, but it also moved around her
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Fear and Trembling Film Anaysis
Fear and Trembling Film Analysis Paul Regallis Intercultural Communication 35852 Dr. Mei-Chen Lin November 28, 2007 Abstract The movie Fear and Trembling shows many examples of intercultural communication. Amйlie, one of the main characters in the movie, encounters different kinds of intercultural adaption difficulties. A few examples of these are making friends, cultural knowledge and appreciation and pressure to conform. Some of Amйlie’s experiences have her going through some aspects of culture shock such as
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Film Studies
People’s lives cross with other people’s every day. Strangers become a vital part of our lives, often in ways we don’t ever recognize. Crash is an ensemble piece about a circle of strangers whose lives all touch. Director Paul Haggis successfully conveys this through epiphanies that burrow deep into the truth about racism, and its manifestations. Haggis forces the audience to examine their own motives, raise questions, and scrutinize the ugly side of ourselves through
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Femme Fatale in Film Noir
The term film noir was coined by French critics for 1940s-50s American films that shared a dark sensibility and a dark lighting style, such as Double Indemnity (1944), Out of the Past (1947), and The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946). Many theorists related the common noir attributes and aesthetic elements to a post war society characterised by insecurity about gender roles, the economy, changing definitions of race, and nuclear technology. One of the cultural problems
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Documentary Films Have Played an Important Part in Determining the Way We Construct History and Memory. in What Ways Do Documentary Films Dealing with the Holocaust Determine Contemporary Understandings of That Historical Event?
Documentary films and their representations of the Holocaust have served not only to speak their ‘truth’ of the atrocities but also to document changing paradigms of social thought concerning Holocaust ‘truth’. Holocaust History and its documentation: Theodor Adorno’s famous 1949 injunction that ‘to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric’ is indicative of the initial approaches of documentary to the subject matter. The first documentary footage of the Holocaust was shot as Allied troops entered the
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The Art of Advertising: Selling Products Through Film
The Art of Advertising: Selling Products through Film When thinking randomly about ads on television or at the theatres, as long as it is presented in some form of film, a few successful ones voluntarily emerge in our minds. Whether they have conquered their places in our memory by means of violence, comedy or any other possible way is a subjective matter. The unquestionable truth is that all of these vending tools have auspiciously achieved
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A Dsm-Iv Diagnosis as Applied to the Portrayed Character John Nash in the Film
A DSM-IV Diagnosis as applied to the portrayed character John Nash in the film “A Beautiful Mind” In the movie, “A Beautiful Mind”, John Nash displays classic positive symptoms of a schizophrenic. This movie does a fair job in portraying the personality and daily suffering of someone who is affected by the disease, although the film does not give a completely historically accurate account. In the film, John Nash would fall into the category of
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Beowulf Film Comparison
1) The film character Beowulf is much older and alone in this story because he is described as some kind of immortal. Rather than just being a warrior with a great reputation from another kingdom as he was in the original text, in the film he is the son of some kind of god. Beowulf relates the story of his conception to Kyra in the film, saying that his mother had been drawn to
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Aboriginal People, Film and the Media
Aboriginal people, film and the media Discuss some examples of both positive and negative representations of Aboriginal people and culture. How do such representations of Aboriginal people within the media impact upon Aboriginal subjectivity? Like every citizen around the world, Australians use the media to get information about the world around them. The media not only provides information about international events but also about national, regional and local events. The events that happen and that
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Classical and Post-Classical Hollywood Cinema
Film Studies Assignment 1 Classical and Post-Classical Hollywood Cinema Table of contents INTRODUCTION--------------------------------------------- 3 CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD------------------------------- 4 Classical Gender Representation-------------------------------------- 4 Classical Style, form and content-------------------------------------- 5 GENRE TRANSFORMATION AND POST-CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD------------------------------- 5 REFERENCES 8 BIBLIOGRAPHY 9 FILMOGRAPHY 10 INTRODUCTION During the course of this essay it is my intention to discuss the differences between Classical Hollywood and post-Classical Hollywood. Although these terms refer to theoretical movements of which they are not definitive it is
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Archetypes in Horror Films
In his essay, “The Personal and the Collective Unconscious,” Carl Jung interprets the unconscious mind through the analyzing of dreams. Jung agrees with Freud that a certain part of the unconscious is reserved for forgotten or repressed memories, which he refers to as the “personal unconscious” (494). All contents of the personal unconscious derive from personal experience in the conscious mind. However, Jung suggests that the personal unconscious is not the deepest (or most important)
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Cinema of Japan
Cinema Of Japan World cinema is a vast ocean of different beliefs. It is defined as �The films and cinema industries of non-English speaking countries’. Because the U.S film industry has been the dominant cinema in the world; it has had the spotlight for many years, meaning international cinema has been largely overlooked. Australians have grouped world cinema, with Art House films & Independent films therefore are aimed at a particular group. They are referred
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Mischief, Mayhem, in Tyler We Trust: A Textual Analysis of Personality Disorders as Depicted in the Film Fight Club
Psychological disorders are widely represented in films, as well as in other media texts such as novels, television shows, etc. One film that portrays more than one example of a psychological disorder is Fight Club, a Twentieth Century Fox movie released with an R rating in 1999. Directed by David Fincher; and produced by Art Linson, Cean Chaffin, and Ross Grayson Bell, the movie mainly introduces Dissociative Identity Disorders (also known as Multiple Personality Disorders),
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Originality and Repetition in Contemporary Cinema
Originality and Repetition in Contemporary Cinema It seems that the innovation of Contemporary Cinema has come to a stand still. Audiences are becoming more and more difficult to please, as films endure the comments of "seen that!" or "that's been done before!" leaving filmmakers struggling to break away from the rigid structure of genre to produce somethings fresh and new for contemporary audiences. Hollywood, in particular, is being seen as producing films that are "commercial,
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Romeo and Juliet Film Comparison
Comparisons of Films From watching the older and more modern version of the killing of Mercutio and Tybalt there are obvious differences, as well as hidden ones. The comparison is between the Zeffirelli version and the more modern version. Watching these movies, paying close attention is important because it is not just the scenery and which characters are played by whom, but what the director was trying to portray in this scene. Both these versions
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