David Kennedy Foundations of Cinema Final Project What is Cinema? 3/10/13 What is Cinema? Life is dynamic. It provides memories of the past and dreams of the future. However‚ it is unfortunate that life is not everlasting in this world. Memories can be passed down through photos and storytelling‚ but the livid dreams we have are hard to express fully and hand down through generations. Writing can help pass these thoughts and ideas down‚ but the reader may not develop the exact image in their
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Industry Analysis Industry Overview The cinema industry is primarily engaged in operating movie theatres and/or exhibiting videos at film festivals. The major products and services in this industry in the UK are single screen theatres‚ multiplex theatres (8 to 15 screens) and megaplex theatres (more than 16 screens). Cinemas in the UK typically operated at 20% capacity. Admissions in 2001 were at the highest level in decades – 156 million admissions generated £974 million in ticket sales –
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The Philippine cinema is the youngest of the Philippine arts‚ and still is considered as one of the popular forms of entertainment among the Filipinos. It directly employs some 260‚000 Filipinos and generates around PHP 1.5 billion revenues annually.[1] Contents [hide] 1 Overview 2 History 2.1 Origins 2.2 American period 2.3 World War II and Japanese occupation 2.4 1950s 2.5 1960s 2.6 1970s to early 1980s 2.7 Contemporary period 2.7.1 Late 1980s to 1990s 2.7.2 2000 and beyond 3 See also
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and scaling of variables 10 Sample design 16 Data analysis plan 17 Main objective of the study The main objective of our research is to find out how to improve the ticket sales of Big Cinemas. For this purpose we analyzed both internal and external environment of big cinema. We also determined the strength and weakness of it in comparison to its competitors. We have considered various factors to find out whether ticket sales can be increased or not. Some of the factors
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LITERATURE AND CINEMA FANTASY IN FILMS Life is a Theme of Literature‚ Literature is the expression of Life. Life fashions Literature and Literature moulds Life. The intimate relation between Literature and Cinema is one of the common place truths which have been illustrated again and again‚ both Social and literary life history. Literature is the most fascinating creation of a literary artist based on the style and stategy of life. Life and reality are the basics
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from its various advantages‚ Cinema is not free from its evil effects. Film artistry is‚ unfortunately‚ compelled to compromise with people’s popular taste and appeal to their lower instincts. Too many films dealing with sex problems and with the ways of the criminals are now shown‚ f These are apt to affect public morality. The substandard catering of music I and recreation is likely to injure public taste and outlook and is not ultimately good for the art. The Cinema has far reaching effect upon
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Elements of the cinema TIME * Since the images of moving pictures move in time‚ time is the most important element of the cinema. In the cinema it is subject to contraction‚ expansion‚ breaks or leaps through the manipulation of the director. The three aspects of the time 1. Physical time is the time taken by an action as it is being filmed and as it is being projected on the screen. A film may actually show what is happening in real life. * Physical time in the cinema can be distorted
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When one contemplates the concepts of cinema and attractions‚ the ideas of the modern day blockbuster film might come to mind. World disasters‚ car chases‚ and high profile police investigations are just some of the story lines that attract people to theatres year round. The term "cinema of attraction" introduced by Tom Gunning into the study of film is defined more precisely. To quote Gunning‚ a cinema of attraction: "directly solicits spectator attention‚ inciting visual curiosity‚ and supplying
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"Cinema Paradiso" is a movie about growing up‚ love‚ leaving and returning home‚ loss and success. Its first part illustrates a flashback of Salvatore’s life in Sicily‚ how he fell in love with movies with Alfredo’s guidance‚ and how he and his beloved Elena started a romance that ended bitterly. The latter part shows his return from Rome to his hometown for Alfredo’s funeral and some revelations of past events that caused him to live a nostalgic life for thirty years though he had been successful
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used to refer to the whole of Hindi cinema. Bollywood is only a part of the Bhartiya film industry. The name is a portmanteau of Bombay (the former name for Mumbai) and Hollywood‚ the center of the American film industry. Though some deplore the name‚ arguing that it makes the industry look like a poor cousin to Hollywood‚ it seems likely to persist and now has its own entry in the Oxford English Dictionary. Bollywood is commonly referred to as Hindi cinema‚ even though Hindustani‚ the substratum
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