The Power of Film Living in a society where media permeates every realm of our lives‚ one can see the importance of film in the modern world. Often times‚ we only see films as source of entertainment‚ or an escape from reality. But sometimes‚ films can tell a story of reality in a way that makes you open your eyes to a world unbeknownst to you prior watching the film. A film can disseminate information faster and broader‚ thus‚ a wider audience is able to be educated about certain issues and
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Textual Analysis and Genres Auteur theory holds that a director’s film reflects the director’s personal creative vision‚ as if they were the primary "auteur" the French word for author. In spite of—and sometimes even because of—the production of the film as part of an industrial process‚ the auteur’s creative voice is distinct enough to shine through all kinds of studio interference and through the collective process. In law‚ the film is treated as a work of art‚ and the auteur‚ as the creator
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Cited: Andersen‚ Liselotte. Baroque and Rococo Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams‚ INC‚ 1969. Bazin‚ Germain. Baroque and Rococo Art. New York: Frederick A. Praeger‚ INC‚ 1964. "History and Appreciation of Art". (Online)Available http://dl.ccc.cccd.edu/classes/internet/art101/module6 .htm#top‚ March 27‚ 2005. Stokstad‚ Marilyn. Art History. New
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To what extent can the auteur theory be applied successfully to the work of Peter Jackson? Is there evidence of a characteristic authorial signature and if so what is it? To apply the term ‘auteur’ to a director who has openly claimed “I don’t quite know what an auteur is.” may seem nonsensical‚ but there is no denying that the work of Peter Jackson has proven him to be deemed an auteur. From his origins in amateur ‘splatstick’‚ Jackson’s stylistic and thematic traits have remained a constant in
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Vittorio De Sica’s The Bicycle Thieves is a simple story set amidst a post-war Rome. It is a neorealist film characterized by setting the story amongst the poor and working class. The film surrounds the difficult economical and moral conditions of post WWII Italy‚ reflecting the conditions of everyday life: Poverty and desperation‚ with the implicit message that in a better society‚ wealth would be more evenly distributed. The plot is simple‚ surrounding a man‚ his son and a bicycle. The film tells
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In the example scenes from True Detective (Cary Joji Fukunaga‚ 2012) analyse and discuss an ontological shift from movie theatres to home-based cinema ‘screens.’ “The Golden Age of Television” is a phrase often used to describe today’s entertainment landscape‚ with successful shows such as ‘Breaking Bad’‚ ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘House of Cards’ getting huge viewing figures underpinned by undeniably high quality content. This shift in the quality and ambition of television marks a change in its ontology
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The film theoretician and founder of Cahiers du Cinema‚ explained that; ‘Auteur Theory was a way of choosing the personal factor in artistic creation as a standard of reference and then assuming that it continues or even progresses to the next.” (André Bazin). However there are some problems in relation to the theory as some feel that the theory diminishes the roles others play in the creation of a film. The focus lies on the authorial role of the director. Screenwriters especially‚ have balked
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CHAPTER 19 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ART CINBMA AND THB IDBA OF AUTHORSHIP I ndividuals and institutions affect history‚ but so do ideas. One of the most influential ideas in cinema history is the belief that a director is most centrally responsible for a film’s form‚ style‚ and meanings. Most historians have made this assumption since at least the 1920s‚ but it was examined and articulated with particular force in postwar European film
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pleasure but also for knowledge to solve problems in our life. Furthermore‚ literature can be classified into songs‚ films‚ plays‚ poems‚ short stories and novels. In this thesis the writer chooses one of the literary works that is film. According to Bazin (in Colman‚ 2009: 17)‚ Film is a combination of quite disparate parts‚ expressions‚ technologies and events and produce a whole unit. From this statement the writer chooses film as the subject of the study for some reasons. First‚ the expressions
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Use a range of auteur theories to examine the work of two significant directors you have studied on this module. One director should have produced the majority of their work prior to 1960 and the other should have produced it from the 1970s onwards. Discuss the origins and main developments of auteur theory then examine the works of Howard Hawks and Martin Scorsese with relevance to their status as auteur directors. In having their films examined as auteurs of the cinema‚ both Howard Hawks
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