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    The necessity of water and time The dominance of power in society can be illustrated by using a pyramid. People with the possession of real power‚ we find at the very top and narrowest part. At the bottom‚ and widest part‚ we find everything and everyone else. Like the people of Dimock‚ in the documentary Gasland‚ they put their trust and faith into the hands of the controlling minority part‚ thinking that they would act in their best interest. However‚ in many cases just like theirs‚ megalomaniacal

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    Biyaya ng Lupa The movie showed how Filipino Families lived in the past. The main charaters‚ Jose and Maria‚ got married and started a life together‚ having four children. They were extremely conservative in how they ran their family; with the couple talking about how they shouldn’t fight too much because it would cause the downfall of their marriage. I like the movie because it shows how old Filipino films were at that time. It also showed how beautiful Rosa Rosal (playing Maria) was when she

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    In India Cinema has been a very important means of entertainment. Here‚ cinema has seen a century of growth‚ and it has gone very far in the heights of progress. Originally‚ in India the cinema was a movie only and it was called because we could only see the stars acting‚ and there was no sound‚ no talking‚ no dialogue and no songs. The audiences could only see action. As time passed by‚ these movies got converted into talkies and‚ at that time dialogues got introduced in the pictures. This made

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    at because they know the damaging effect these photos could have on people. In her article “Regarding the Pain of Others‚” Sontag uses ethical and logical appeals to show that disturbing photographs are highly impactful.

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    on Cinema Cinema is a relatively new alternative to the theatre and other performance-based entertainments. Cinematography‚ however‚ has much longer history and has already evolved a lot during the last fifty years. The history of movies goes back to centuries from today. It started with motion pictures and‚ mostly as a part of social gatherings‚ such as carnivals and festivals‚ slowly started to gain its importance in the world of communication and entertainment. The twenty first century gave

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    History of Cinema

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    Katrina Farmer Pd.2 History Of Cinema What is cinema? Cinema is a film‚ a story captured as a set of moving pictures to be shown on a screen in a movie theatre or on television. It is a passage of expression and modern science. Cinema is the most tried and true form of storytelling. Cinema is a sequence of moments captured in time‚ to make you feel‚ to make you see and to make you understand. Cinema is theatre made more intimate‚ passion in motion. Cinema built everything that we see on televisions

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    Cinema: Films

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    he needs some sort of entertainment and relaxation. Cinema has proved a wonderful and forceful means of entertainment and amusement. A young man of today can go without food but not without a film. The cinema is the cheapest and the most popular form of amusement. Laborers can afford to miss their evening meal‚ not their evening show. Students prefer films to reading books. Thus‚ cinema exercises a very powerful effect on society. Cinema is a universal teacher. It educates the people in different

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    National Cinema

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    Is the label “national cinema” still a useful one? Critically evaluate the usefulness of the term in relation to at least two films from this course. 1. floating life 2. chunking express 3. my blueberry night Like different countries have different culture‚ customs and give people different feeling‚ as an important part of one’s culture industry‚ movies from different places gives people different sense of feeling. That’s the magic of National cinema. But under the big trend of globalisation

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    Digital Cinema

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    IMPACT AESTHETICS: BACK TO THE FUTURE IN DIGITAL CINEMA? Scott McQuire Millennial fantasies As anyone interested in film culture knows‚ the last decade has witnessed an explosion of pronouncements concerning the future of cinema. Many are fuelled by naked technological determinism‚ resulting in apocalyptic scenarios in which cinema either undergoes digital rebirth to emerge more powerful than ever in the new millennium‚ or is marginalised by a range of ‘new media’ which inevitably include some

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    This essay will discuss both the Cinema of Attractions and Narrative Cinema and their origins in order to better understand the differences found between them in regards to the criteria to follow. This essay will highlight the role that the spectator plays‚ and the temporality that both the Cinema of Attractions and Narrative Cinema exhibit. Tom Gunning proposed the Continuity Model in order to better understand the beginning of film and the making of film. Gunning proposes the following assumptions:

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