African American Experience Film: Moonlight Description: Moonlight is a 2016 movie that follows the childhood‚ teenagehood and adulthood of Chiron Harris‚ a gay African-American. It starts with Chiron as a shy and vulnerable kid growing up in Miami. Chiron is an only child and lives with his mother‚ who happens to be a drug addict‚ his father is absent in the story. One day when he is trying to escape from bullies‚ he is found by Juan‚ a man that will get close to him and will serve as a father
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The Village is a Verbatim theatre production staged by La Boite Theatre Company‚ directed by Todd MacDonald. The Village explores the true experiences of five refugees and a second-hand re-telling of a woman’s parents experience of fleeing from their country of origin. Showcasing the “cultural diversity of Australia” and honouring the “courage‚ strength and determination” of the performers (La Boite Theatre Company‚ 2017)‚ La Boite confronts this prevalent subject in a manner that engages the audience
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Storytelling is more important to me than anything else‚ and I believe film is one of the most rewarding and honest forms of storytelling. Ever since I was a little kid I have been in love with movies. When I was nine I got a camcorder for Christmas‚ and I would make my friends help me remake scenes from my favorite movies‚ and when they said the lines wrong I would yell at them and make them do it over and over until they got it right or got so annoyed with me that they went home. As I got older
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The movie is themed with an old environment around 1950s or 1960s. It is associated with drugs and sex. It is about a person who is passionate on writing. His name is Sal Paradise. He had his friends namely‚ Carlo Marx and Dean Moriarty. Dean Moriarty had a wife named‚ Marylou. They enjoyed being together. They get drunk and smoked marijuana and sometimes they are having sex. Sal and Carlo are great aspiring writers. They are writing a book‚ poem and stories. One day‚ Dean and Carlo left for Denver
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John Ford’s Directing Techniques in the Film Stagecoach By Bob For Cine 121 (01) John Ford’s film “Stagecoach” from 1939 had several important hidden messages tucked away inside it. The film has everything from social injustice to alcoholism‚ prostitution‚ gambling‚ and even working class people in general. This paper’s aim is to bring to light some of these messages that are expressed through Ford’s use of mise-en-scène and cinematography. In the scene when Ford introduces Dallas‚ it is
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“I would argue that feminist film studies is not only still alive and well‚ but has‚ in fact‚ become much more heterogeneous‚ dynamic‚ and open in its scope‚ encompassing not just film analysis but also television and new media studies…” says Karen Hollinger from Feminist Film Studies (Hollinger 19). Film’s have definitely grown and expanded from the years pass. Women are now starting to be given roles other than those to please the male eye such as the girlfriend‚ secretary‚ receptionist‚ or mother
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My Best Friend’s Wedding Courtney-Anthony-Br English 225 Introduction to Film Instructor: Hazar Shehadeh May 9‚ 2013 “My Best Friend’s Wedding” is a romantic comedy that hit the movie scene in 1997 about a 27 year old woman who made a pact with her best friend and former lover that by age 28 if neither was married that they would marry each other. Four days before her 28th birthday her best friend calls with news of him getting married. Now she has to decipher whether she wants to be
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Film noir is generally associated with a ‘dark’ type of film in the era following WWII. Film’s that are categorized in this genre are marked by a style that generally contains certain distinguishing elements – dark rooms with Venetian blinds‚ dark alleys‚ rain-slicked streets‚ dark offices and low key lighting. The plot usually deals with the dark aspects of humanity-greed‚ murder‚ deceit and paranoia. There are also distinguishing characters‚ the main character a detective or an investigator usually
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Film analysis of the opening scene in the film Laura (1944). In the opening scene of the film Laura‚ there is much to analyse. Be it from unusual casting options‚ to the cinematography‚ it seems that the director Otto Preminger knew exactly how to make the audience to think when making Laura. Casting is of a big importance when analysing the film Laura. What is interesting about Premingers work is how he makes unusual casting decisions‚ that always seem to make the feature a success. It seems
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Introduction Superhero films as a popular culture are a phenomenon that has experienced fluctuating amounts of success and change throughout its long history‚ spanning over seventy years. With origins in comic book lore‚ the mythology of superheroes emerged in 1940s films and has ultimately become a multibillion dollar empire. Over the last century‚ the heroes and mythology within superhero films drawn from various comic book universes have established an unrivalled relationship with audiences‚ who
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