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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Forget it ! It’s more like empire with different levels of popularity. If you can’t figure out who’s who‚ you’ll never survive school. Keep your eyes open because this is your survival guide. Let’s start with the basics. The Popularities The movie “Mean Girls” feature a group of popular girls called plastics. The cliques or the league or whatever you call it are the highest of the high. They rule the school and maintain all the popularity. The popular kids look pretty or handsome. That’s how they
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Popularity of Reality Shows Cause and effect essay Television tends to influence people’s life more than they actually think. Some television shows appear to be “real” ‚such as soap operas and daytime dramas‚ altering the viewers’ perception of reality by making them blend in fantasy and fiction‚ but one kind of show has taken over the public attention in the past decade‚ the reality shows. Reality television is overtaking the networks and polluting the viewers’ minds with distorted pictures
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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 has passed and he returns home as a famous director after receiving
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disputing that finally Bollywood has arrived and its stars are shining bright. It doesn’t matter which part of the globe you live in anymore. Bollywood movies and their stars are gaining grounds everywhere. All over the world America‚ Europe‚ Australia‚ the Persian Gulf and other parts of Asia as well Bollywood movies are being watched and Bollywood stars are creating the kind of madness associated with only Hollywood stars before. Proof of the worldwide popularity of Bollywood stars is the fact that
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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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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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there is a £1.50 benefit to the economy." . Cinema has become a powerful vehicle for culture‚ education‚ leisure and propaganda. In a 1963 report for the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization looking at Indian Cinema and Culture‚ the author (Baldoon Dhingra) quoted a speech by Prime Minister Nehru who stated‚ "...the influence in India of films is greater than newspapers and books combined." Even at this early stage in cinema‚ the Indian film-market catered for over 25 million
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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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to recognize ourselves in a movie character or a scene is incredibly useful for helping us reflect and analyse our biggest problems and fears. Cinematherapy has emerged precisely in order to make the most of those personal introspective moments offered by a series or film. It is a technique that uses the multiple psychological benefits of cinema together with cognitive therapy. It’s objective? To use audiovisual material as a tool to help ourselves overcome all kinds of psychological disorders. With
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