The necessity of water and time The dominance of power in society can be illustrated by using a pyramid. People with the possession of real power‚ we find at the very top and narrowest part. At the bottom‚ and widest part‚ we find everything and everyone else. Like the people of Dimock‚ in the documentary Gasland‚ they put their trust and faith into the hands of the controlling minority part‚ thinking that they would act in their best interest. However‚ in many cases just like theirs‚ megalomaniacal
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Biyaya ng Lupa The movie showed how Filipino Families lived in the past. The main charaters‚ Jose and Maria‚ got married and started a life together‚ having four children. They were extremely conservative in how they ran their family; with the couple talking about how they shouldn’t fight too much because it would cause the downfall of their marriage. I like the movie because it shows how old Filipino films were at that time. It also showed how beautiful Rosa Rosal (playing Maria) was when she
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Americans. This movie is extraordinary it makes you feel like 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
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Italian Neo realism; Pure Cinema 1. Ladri de Biccilette [Bicycle Thieves] (Vittorio De Sica) Do you agree with Andre Bazin that Ladri de Biccilette is an example of ‘pure cinema’? (Bazin [1971] p.60). To what extent is such a pure cinema possible and‚ in your opinion‚ which Italian Neo-realist film screened on the unit comes closest to it? Explain your reasoning. This essay will address the characteristics of ‘pure cinema’ and the extent of its practical nature. It also seeks to analyse
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Katrina Farmer Pd.2 History Of Cinema What is cinema? Cinema is a film‚ a story captured as a set of moving pictures to be shown on a screen in a movie theatre or on television. It is a passage of expression and modern science. Cinema is the most tried and true form of storytelling. Cinema is a sequence of moments captured in time‚ to make you feel‚ to make you see and to make you understand. Cinema is theatre made more intimate‚ passion in motion. Cinema built everything that we see on televisions
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Is the label “national cinema” still a useful one? Critically evaluate the usefulness of the term in relation to at least two films from this course. 1. floating life 2. chunking express 3. my blueberry night Like different countries have different culture‚ customs and give people different feeling‚ as an important part of one’s culture industry‚ movies from different places gives people different sense of feeling. That’s the magic of National cinema. But under the big trend of globalisation
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The Metamorphosis of Humanist Italy The Italian Renaissance‚ beginning around 1360 was a period of great growth. Specific social and political conditions spurred development in trade‚ travel‚ warfare‚ scholarly expansion and education. Inevitably Italians began to reflect differently on the world around them and how they interacted with it. Changing ideas caused a definite shift from medieval values: piety and social seclusion‚ to humanist values: material and scholarly gain. Time spent in monasteries
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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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Italy is a country that has gone through many changes throughout its history. It has faced many obstacles but has remained nationalistic and eager for unification. The political history of Italy is quite extensive. The Greeks were the first to settle in Italy and established colonies in the southern part of the country and in Sicily. There was not a sense of political reality as much as there was a civilization (Windows on Italy- History). While the Greeks controlled the south the Gauls‚ or
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This essay will discuss both the Cinema of Attractions and Narrative Cinema and their origins in order to better understand the differences found between them in regards to the criteria to follow. This essay will highlight the role that the spectator plays‚ and the temporality that both the Cinema of Attractions and Narrative Cinema exhibit. Tom Gunning proposed the Continuity Model in order to better understand the beginning of film and the making of film. Gunning proposes the following assumptions:
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