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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WGST 300—BLACK CINEMA Option A: Select two or more films from this course and compare and/or contrast them‚ using one or more of the above criteria (shared themes‚ etc.). SUPERFLY and DUTCHMAN “Lights‚ camera‚ and action!!” A popular phrase noted throughout the film and cinematic industry‚ but to directors‚ actors‚ and viewers of African American or Black Cinema this famous phrase helped jumpstart a movement throughout the black culture. Starting with radical movies that explained racial undertones
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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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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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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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Through their eyes Cinema of unease is a genre viewers often find ‘Awkward’ to watch. This is because of the atypical behaviour that viewers are not use to viewing. In the films ‘In My father’s den’ directed by Brad McGann and ‘Heavenly Creatures’ directed by peter Jackson the audience are drawn into this film genre ‘cinema of unease’ it maybe that the unusual behaviour we find rather attention-grabbing. Both films are directed by New Zealanders showing the same effect of brooding and dark themes
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Medieval Technology and Social Change By: Melisa R. Marion E-mail: missa_girl@yahoo.com Medieval Technology and Social Change Oxford University Press first published Medieval Technology and Social Change in 1962. It discusses the technological advances during the medieval times and how these changes affected society. The book’s author‚ Lynn White‚ Jr.‚ was born in San Francisco in 1907. Educated at Stanford‚ Union Theological‚ and Princeton‚ White taught at Princeton and the University of
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Riding and Surviving Technology Changes The famous saying ‘Change is the only thing that does not change’ applies more to the modern information technologies than anything else. Technologies just come and go; by that time a company is ready to release a product‚ the underlying platform is already outdated; the birth and death cycle is getting shorter and shorter! Countless energy and time has been spent in meddling and muddling with the technology stacks than solving the actual business problems
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something such as organizational change and technology’s role in this proccess‚ is very important as it provides knowledge into what their position is and their point of focus. As it is stated in Oxford Dictionaries‚ technology can be deffined as: the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes‚ especially in industry - machinery and devices developed from scientific knowledge. Regarding the role of technology in relation to organizational change give rise to the next questions which
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