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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Introduction Indian Cinema is very powerful medium to communicate with Viewers. Films are not only the popular medium of Entertainment but it is also the powerful medium of Education. Cinema means a creative expressions ; it performs the functions of Mass Media ‚ such as Education & Transmission of culture. Films are widely popular and thus Audio Visual nature provides people a pervasive power of social influence. It works as a catalyst for social change. Today Cinema Commands the respect accorded
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The Origins of Direct Cinema: Cinema Vérité Before submerging into the realm of Direct Cinema‚ it is essential to understand where it is originated from. Although today the notions of Direct Cinema and Cinema Vérité are often confused‚ overlapped and substituted with one another‚ they must be differentiated on the basis of two main characteristics: the time period in which they came about‚ and their specific approach concerning the radical change they intend to implement The very
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WGST 300—BLACK CINEMA Option A: Select two or more films from this course and compare and/or contrast them‚ using one or more of the above criteria (shared themes‚ etc.). SUPERFLY and DUTCHMAN “Lights‚ camera‚ and action!!” A popular phrase noted throughout the film and cinematic industry‚ but to directors‚ actors‚ and viewers of African American or Black Cinema this famous phrase helped jumpstart a movement throughout the black culture. Starting with radical movies that explained racial undertones
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your at Italy‚ it like reviving Italy’s film industry. If you are thinking‚ what Im thinking. Then you guess right. Im talking about Cinema Paradiso. Released in 1988 this Italian drama film written and directed by Guiseppe Tornatore will have you so entertained‚ that you wouldn’t mind having a crying baby next your seat. Just kidding. Cutting to the chase‚ Cinema Paradiso is about a young boy named Salvatore but people called him Toto‚ who grew up in a native Sicilian Village. However‚ 30 years
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In the early 1900s Italy was the first to start a new advangarde movement in the cinema production‚ thanks to the art movement Futurism. The Manifesto of Futuristic Cinematography dates back to as early as 1916 some sources even started earlier. To the futurists‚ the cinema was an ideal form of art for their "wonderful plays"‚ being the start of a new artistic medium. As film had with no past and able to be manipulated by editing and simple special effects it became a new creative and subversive
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Cinema as a Language Silence film had reached its artistic peak by 1928. It seemed like cinema had developed into an art most perfectly with silence. The realism that sound would bring could only be seen as chaos. However‚ the sound proved that it didn’t come to destroy; on the contrary‚ it had a responsibility and it came to fulfill its mission to the cinema. The point is whether the technical revolution formed by sound track actually the aesthetic revolution. Considering editing‚ we cannot
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INDIA’S LARGEST CINEMA CHAIN.. It all started as a dream in the year 1997‚ and within a decade‚ we have turned the same into a 70 mm reality. Like the credits of a movie‚ we would like to share with you our achievements... Setting up the very FIRST multiplex in the country - Setting up a movie haven for filmgoers in the form of the eleven screener: PVR Bangalore‚ India’s largest ever multiplex - Delighting not one‚ not two but more than 11 million patrons last year. We now have an unmatched
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Cinema Paradiso is set shortly after World War II in Salvatore Di Vita’s hometown of Sicily. Salvatore‚ nicknamed Toto‚ is a small child with a love for film who creates a close friendship with Alfredo‚ the cinema’s projectionist. Youth‚ the first theme we will discuss involves the trials and tribulations Toto goes through at the start of the movie. Toto has lived at least a few years without a father figure as his father went away to fight in World War II. After the war‚ however‚ his father does
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Third Cinema Updated: Exploration of Nomadic Aesthetics & Narrative Communities The notion of Third Cinema first arose in the charged political climate of the 1960s. The original ideas of Third Cinema‚ as with all such political and aesthetic movements‚ were a product of both the social and historical conditions of the time‚ particularly those prevailing in the “Third World.” Poverty‚ government corruption‚ fraud “democracies‚” economic and cultural neo-imperialisms‚ and brutal oppression affected
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