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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Throughout the twelfth and sixteenth centuries‚ Japan was being ruled by Shogunates‚ which were established and decentralized military governments. It was during this time that Japan was finally brought to peace from the internal warfare from within the country due to the efforts of three leaders. One of those leaders was a merciless man when it came to warfare named Oda Nobunga. During his reign he wiped out most of the Ashikaga shoguns and daimyos while also slaughtering Buddhist monks at the Mount
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The cinema of attraction. ‘A matter of making images seen.’ This is what Fernand Léger was writing in 1902 about the new art‚ trying to describe the possible changes in cinema‚ by emphasizing the fact that imitating the movements of nature is not necessarily the best way of defining cinema’s essence. This is only one of the writings concerning this topic which influenced Tom Gunning in characterizing the cinematic period before 1906 as that of the ‘cinema of attractions’. In this essay I am
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Essay on Cinema Cinema is a relatively new alternative to the theatre and other performance-based entertainments. Cinematography‚ however‚ has much longer history and has already evolved a lot during the last fifty years. The history of movies goes back to centuries from today. It started with motion pictures and‚ mostly as a part of social gatherings‚ such as carnivals and festivals‚ slowly started to gain its importance in the world of communication and entertainment. The twenty first century
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followers believe that one of the gods is the true god • Therefore‚ everyone should follow the moral code - it would produce a more just‚ humane‚ and peaceful society. Christians follow the moral code for that reason and also out of gratitude for what God has done for them in Jesus Christ. Obedience is a way of saying "Thank you" to God - it does not earn God’s love but shows that you are grateful for that gif God is the One True God. • He guides us‚ but lets us make our own decisions. • Jesus
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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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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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Film and Culture 27 September 2010 Cinema Paradiso: Feeling the Love Through Music and Sound Cinema Paradiso was made in 1988‚ and was written and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. It won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1989. Cinema Paradiso follows the life of Salvatore Di Vita from the time he was a boy to his successful career as a film director. Love truly is what the movie is about. Whether it is to have a love of film‚ love of someone else‚ or having a love for what you do‚ it is
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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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