“From Construction to Perspective: Interpreting Reality‚ Interpreting Films” Based on what I read‚ Friedrich Nietzsche has many different views about perspectivism. Perspective is determined by communication‚ the world of “phenomena”‚ the antithesis of this phenomenal world‚ and questions. The communication is necessary. The world of “phenomena” is for it to be real. The antithesis of phenomenal world is called the “true world” according to Nietzsche. Last but not least‚ questions for our understanding
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Filmic Techniques Establishing shot • An establishing shot is usually the first shot of a new scene‚ designed to show the audience where the action is taking place. It is usually a very wide shot or extreme wide shot. • To orientate the viewer to the flow of the narrative by alerting the audience to the beginning of a new sequence‚ but does not itself carry narrative information. Effect: When the director wants the responder (us) to understand the emotion being experienced by the character
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Homosexuality in Film When sultry‚ womanly JoAnn steps into the five and dime‚ rarely would a viewer automatically leap to the conclusion that twenty years prior‚ that gorgeous she had been a he. Ed Graczyk and Robert Altman pushed the envelope when they so blatantly portrayed homosexuality and trans-genderedness in a movie in 1982. They were not‚ however the first to choose to display homosexuality in movies. "In fact‚ homosexuality‚ or the idea of it‚ has been with [the viewer] since movies
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Popular culture can sometimes be used as an instrument to analyze a particular ideology of a time period. One example of popular culture is seen in blaxploitation films. Blaxploitation films were crafted in the seventies and were mainly focused on "black social identities" (Porter 51). The nineteen seventies was a decade that put an enormous amount of emphasis on "the importance of racial and ethnic identities" (Porter 54). The Black Panthers were not a novel organization‚ getting their start
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men sitting opposite to each other in a jungle. One who was named as Ahankar who is the Story Maker and second one the Kahankar who was the story taker. During that‚ the visuals slowly entered into the world of Warli accompanying with voice over. The film went on by holding their traditional paintings and with the support of a rat story. A rat that had caught a thorn in his tail went to a lady to remove it. But accidently she cut his tail along with the thorn. The irritated rat asked the lady to return
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How did the culturalist school understand audience‚ what was he aim of their argument and research and how convincing is their approach and its conclusion. In today’s world‚ communication is very important and necessary in how lives so as technology is to us‚ the world is becoming more civilised and man is working so hard to bring perfection in all they do. We now live a modern life where mass media and technology is what we live for‚ we build the media
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Film Analysis: “MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING” Introduction to Sociology “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”‚ is a wonderful movie all about the Greek sub-culture in Chicago. This movie explores‚ and demonstrates many sociological points. This movie is exceptional because‚ this movie also shows the values of Greek immigrants living in America. Furthermore‚ the American Greeks in this movie promotes three traditional values - marry a Greek boy or girl‚ have Greek babies‚ and feed everyone. This is a value that
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“Disturbing New Pathways”). The legacy of Psycho (1960) by Alfred Hitchcock‚ renowned American movie director‚ inspired countless movies and created a new sub-genre in horror‚ known as “slashers”. According to Carol Clover‚ an American professor of film studies‚ the slasher movie is characterized as following the story of a psychotic killer who brutally victimizes a group of young attractive women with a phallic sharp object‚ until he is eventually overpowered or killed by the one “final girl” who
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Jett Palframan Ms. Nicolson Film Studies Connected This short drama film follows two protagonists and their struggles with bullying‚ social media and trust. The “popular” girl Abby Hull is beautiful‚ seemingly confident and can be very mean when she wants to be. Although she has no trouble being a bully in the really world‚ Abby prefers to do it behind the protection of her computer. Abby picks on numerous girls over social media because of dark issues that reside inside her due to her everyday
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won’t say a word.” “Watching you win those races while I was fighting for my life‚ you were equally responsible for getting me back in the car.” INTRODUCTION The film ‘Rush’‚ directed by Ron Howard‚ is about the intense rivalry between Niki Lauda and James Hunt in the 1976 Formula One racing season. A key relationship in the film is the rivalry between Lauda and Hunt. Conflict between the two is established from the very beginning of their relationship‚ the relationship comes to a head when
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