American Independent Cinema: Representational Analysis of Women Throughout the years women have had a very hard time making their presence known in the male-dominated film industry. Since the very beginning females have been overlooked in the film and television industries. In the competitive harsh world of cinema women have been represented in numerous ways. They have been traditionally viewed in an over-sexualized manner‚ as objects‚ or as secondary characters supporting a male
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American Cinema Imagine a film opens with a shot of immensely vast blue eyes. The shot slowly expands to show a nose and red blushed cheeks. The shot continuously expands to show lips drowned by red lipstick‚ a slender neck‚ the cleavage of breast‚ flat stomach‚ and eventually slender long legs. This opening could very well be used in many films for the reason that it invites the viewer to see the woman as parts of a whole object. This camera expansion‚ in different variations‚ has been used
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How Indian cinema evolved over the years A hundred years ago on this date‚ India’s first film Raja Harishchandra was released. Over the past hundred years‚ our cinema and its facets have evolved and how!! The hero From mooch to macho From a bulky mustached Raj Kapoor in the 40s to a six-pack flaunting‚ butt-baring John Abraham now‚ the Bollywood hero has had quite a makeover. The 50s was the era of method-acting with the likes of Dilip Kumar‚ while in the 60s‚ Rajesh Khanna and Dev Anand
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Elizabeth Ramsy states that the child figure thus occupies an ambiguous liminal space “that threatens as it unites ideas of domesticity” (Olson 6). ] Wetmore in his article‚ “Psycho without a cause: Norman Bates and Juvenile Delinquency Cinema” compellingly argues that Psycho has many tropes common/characteristic of a juvenile delinquency or JD film. Hitchcock’s films abound with “dangerous children” (Wetmore 219) masquerading
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Leisure: Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s “Although music‚ radio‚ books‚ magazines‚ comics‚ sports‚ and other forms of mass entertainment were all significant in the thirties‚ nothing else was a central to American popular culture in that decade as motion pictures‚” (McElvaine‚ 208). Consumer and popular culture is present in the motion picture industry after World War I. A large percentage of Americans went to the movies each week during the 1920s. Surprisingly‚ that number increased during the
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Violent Content in Cinema and its Effects on Audiences A persistent debate has harassed at motion picture decades. This debate regards sexual and violence content in film and whether they can have a damaging effect on audiences and society. In this assignment I shall research current thinking and draw up my own conclusion from my findings. Public opinion currently holds the belief that violence and sex as portrayed in the media has led to a decline of moral values and has contributed to violent
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She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy play written by Oliver Goldsmith. It has been loved since it was written. When it was first performed‚ some people did not approve of it as it attacked the normal sort of play style at the time‚ which was sentimental comedy. Personally I think the play is very whimsical and funny both on stage acted and just the words used. <br> <br>Sentimental comedy involved characters to be very typical‚ for example‚ the heroine was shy and romantic‚ the hero was brave and bold
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HITCHCOCK BLONDES RESEARCH PAPER Hitchcock‚ Blondes and Cinema: Bermuda Hell Triangle Submitted by Mirac Ethem Özdağ ID# : 20700401 DPT: MAN ENG102-94 Submitted to Bengisu T. Akalın SPRING 2008 HITCHCOCK‚ BLONDES and CINEMA: HELL TRAINGLE There are thousands of topics and articles written about Hitchcock films‚ because of his being undoubtedly one of the greatest directors in our decade. In today’s cinema world‚ many directors do not hesitate to admit that they are inspired
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“The Earth has a fever‚ and the fever is rising… We are what is wrong‚ and we must make it right” (Al Gore‚ 2007). In the context of global warming‚ discuss the extent to which you agree with this statement. For the last 2.5 million years‚ global temperature has shifted between cold glacial periods that last for around 100 000 years‚ and warmer interglacial periods that last for around 10 000 years. Right now we are in an interglacial period. 20 000 years ago the Earth was cold. Around 15000 years
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in a safe and controlled environment. Truly‚ the importance of sex education in school must be increased in regards to the problems that are occurring within the society. A lot of problems that we can prevent if students have a sexual orientation in their schools‚ since in their families sex talk is conventional. Teenage pregnancy is one of the problems that we can prevent if sex education increased in school. Teenage girls are more likely get pregnant because they do not have sufficient information
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