romance genre of Hollywood films has evolved throughout the decades to match the societal norms in which they were created. American society’s ideologies of romance and love the time in which seen through the film’s narrative structure‚ plot‚ the protagonists‚ and costumes. All of which are enhanced‚ in some way‚ by the setting of the scene and film technologies used to tell the narrative. A contrast can be seen in the way romance‚ love and sexual relations are depicted in films during the time of the
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Culture in Horror Films Final Paper The Atomic Bomb‚ Mutations‚ and Aliens in Horror Films Horror films prey upon the mass’s deepest darkest and most vulnerable fears. Horror films can be broken down into an array of subgenres that prey upon different fears of society. From 1945 onward an explosion of mutations‚ aliens‚ and monsters have dominated aspects of horror culture that prey upon peoples fears of nuclear power and its consequences. The fear of nuclear power is the fear of the unknown
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ELLIOT The film Billy Elliot emphasizes the notion of ‘Into the world’ by describing concepts of growth‚ transition and change. Whether this change is physical‚ emotional or intellectual‚ there is a transition by the individual from one stage to another. The individuals had to face many barriers and obstacles which needed to be overcome. Billy overcame stereotypes as did other characters in the film. The themes of emotional growth and stereotypes are constantly explored in this film and emphasized
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Shaffer DAN 180 Darryl Clark 7 March 2013 Dance on Film Writing Assignment Pina The film Pina introduced a very famous dancer from blank who had many blank blank blankity blank. There were many different dances featured in the film. Each one had a very specific theme. Although there were no words during the dances‚ the movement was so vivid and explicit that it practically told a story. Some of the things that took place in the film were hard to interperet. These dances almost seemed like
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Fenicia Stephens Elements of Design ENG 225 Jonathan Beller July 15‚ 2013 “Marvel Studios delivers the ultimate comic-book film “The Avengers”‚ which ties together such characters as Iron Man which was played by Robert Downey Jr.‚ Captain America who was played by Chris Evans‚ The Hulk played by Mark Ruffalo‚ and Thor who was played by Chris Hemsworth for a big-screen franchise team-up like no other. Taking center stage this time is Nick Fury played once again by the note-perfect Samuel L
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and On the Waterfront seem two structurally independent and unrelated movies that only share some basic theme elements in their plot. However‚ analyzing both‚ side by side and frame by frame‚ can give us a more profound understanding of the American film industry‚ Hollywood in particular‚ and its relation to the McCarthyism in 1950s‚ a dark chapter in the US history. Salt of the Earth‚ directed by Herbert Biberman‚ is a 1954 blacklisted movie based on a true story about the struggles of Mexican
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“Mabuse’s claim to be a state within a state not only expresses his megalomania but acknowledges the fragmentation of power‚ especially the control of force and violence in Germany after the Great War.” (p. 138) Drawing specific examples from the film(s)‚ demonstrate how Lang’s Mabuse illustrates the chaos of the Weimar era. How does the struggle between Mabuse and Von Wenk articulate the larger struggle within Germany? Throughout the hardship that Germany faced during the Weimar Era‚ their power
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3:30-4:50 Films: Available in the format of E-screening Instructor: Prof. Ping-hui Liao (Chuan Lyu Endowed Chair) Reader: TBA Office hours: T /Th 2:00-3:00pm‚ and by appointment Email: piliao@ucsd.edu Office: Literature Building Room 443 Objective/Requirements: The class is an introduction to Taiwan cinema‚ regarding its rise in the local‚ regional‚ national‚ and international stage. We will examine the multifaceted dimensions of aesthetics and politics as revealed in the films from the
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Allen’s film‚ Crimes and Misdemeanors‚ explores the different ways that philosophy play in the inner workings of the human mind. Throughout the film‚ the audience witnesses the roles that ethics play in the lives of five different men: Judah Rosenthal‚ a successful ophthalmologist; Clifford Stern‚ a struggling documentary filmographer; Lester‚ a famous producer; Ben‚ a rabbi whose sense of sight is beginning to fail; and Louis Levy‚ a philosophical theorist. By the end of the film‚ each
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Film Critique Intro to Mass Media July Term 2012 Taylor S. Haynes Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has been a subject of musical‚ artistic‚ and even psychological curiosity for centuries. In the screenplay‚ Amadeus‚ Peter Shaffer not only sheds light into the charmed and mentally pained life of the composer‚ but also uses a great amount of artistic license to embellish details concerning events during the period. By 1984‚ the film was adapted from the screenplay and Shaffer oversaw the project under
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