cinema - its uses and abusesNothing is so popular nowadays like cinema. People easily miss meals but they hardly miss the premier show of a film in which their favourite hero or heroine is acting. It has greatly influenced the youths of our country and there is no exaggeration if say that they have become prey to it in a way. Cinema has both the aspects. It is good as well as bad. It is a source of entertainment‚ according to the common concept but we can’t deny the fact that it also diverts the
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Before Cinema In the late eighteenth century most consumers enjoyed their entertainment in an informal‚ haphazard and often non-commercial way. When making a trip they could suddenly meet a roadside entertainer‚ and their villages were often visited by traveling showmen‚ clowns and troubadours. Seasonal fairs attracted a large variety of musicians‚ magicians‚ dancers‚ fortune-tellers and sword-swallowers. Only a few large cities harbored legitimate theaters‚ strictly regulated by the local and national
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French-New Wave Introduction This essay is about the influence of the French-New Wave on contemporary cinema. It begins by the brief introduction to French-New Wave‚ of which the influence on will emerge without strain in the process of analysis. Arising From time to time‚ filmmakers‚ film critics‚ and film buffs will make references to a period in film history known as the French New Wave. For some people this is a term to throw out just to sound impressive‚ while for others it carries
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Paloma Chamarro Gonzalez. Test 2 The cinema‚ one of the largest industry of entertainment which lures masses of people around the world‚ may be loosing is magical power to gather viewers‚ though‚ favoring economic profit rather than quality. The first text makes reference to the believe that people go to the cinema to make sense of their routine lifes and in doing so movies can have a greater effect on their attitudes or behaviour. While it is true that films themes deal
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1. DISCIPLINE JOURNAL : 1.1: Editing theorists Research (Assignment 2.16) Research the editing rules and theory of EISENSTEIN. Summarize findings in your learning journal. DUE: 8 May 1. WORKSHOP PRACTICALS: FCP FCP Tool Set: Complete all tutorial practical edits for workshops. 2.1 Subclips : (Assignment 2.17) Edit "Chases & fights” Michael Wohl’s “The craft of Editing with Final Cut Pro 6” 15 May 2.2 Exporting to MPEG-2. (Assignment 2.22) In class‚ students will export
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The U.S. Cinema Industry ESCP-EUROPE 2013-II GARCIA RUIZ‚ Gabriela ESSAY Final EXAM PART I: Choose one element that particularly struck you‚ briefly analyze it justifying your choice (10 pts.) 1. Citizen Kane: Rosebud I chose “Rosebud” because this word evolves the main sense of the whole movie. From the beginning with the scene of Kane dropping a crystal snowball before dying and whispering “Rosebud” to the end when the last scene shows us the image of a chair burning in which back
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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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Claire Johnson’s essay‚ Women Cinema as Counter Cinema‚ explores the ways in which female stereotypes in films came to be and how feminist filmmakers can go about subverting the damage that decades of problematic portrayals of women have caused. Johnson spends a great deal of time talking about the idea of the woman as an “icon”—merely a symbol meant to represent a separate idea or ideal. This type of iconography has turned women in films into rough caricatures that audience members are able to categorize
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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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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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