Vincent Staples is a guy who most people do not know about‚ however his path to success is almost a miracle in itself. Vincent Staples was born in Long Beach California where he lived his childhood with his mother and father in the hood of Northern Long Beach. He grew up wanting to defy all odds and this task was even more challenging with his father in and out of the house constantly and his mother being emotionally unstable. At a young age Staples decided that he did not want to be like his father
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Built Spaces. The Cultural Shaping of Architectural and Urban Spaces | ___Gül Kaçmaz Erk Amsterdam / Istanbul | | Architecture as Symbol: Space in Wim Wenders’ Cinema | | | The relation between architecture and cinema began more than a century ago with the production of the very first films. There is architecture in almost every film. Consciously or not‚ architecture takes its position as an effective element in films; architectural space influences what is
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Shakespeare’s Cultural Capital in Popular Cinema: Chinese Filmic Spinoffs of Hamlet Lingui Yang Year 2006 saw two made-in-China films based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet—Feng Xiaogang’s Madarin Yeyan (The Banquet) and Sherwood Hu’s Tibetan Ximalaya wangzi (The Prince of the Himalayas). For their Shakespearean components‚ the films join their counterparts elsewhere around the globe that interpret‚ appropriate‚ dissemble‚ and reconstruct Shakespeare’s canonical text. To be sure‚ they have in their own
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THEATER 120A – Acting and Performance in Film‚ Part I (5 units) Professor Joe Olivieri UCLA Department of Theater Vice Chair‚ UCLA Undergraduate Acting Program THIS SYLLABUS IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE. REQUIRED AND RECOMMENDED FILMS ARE REPRESENTATIVE SUGGESTIONS. Class Website: http://online.tft.ucla.edu Objectives The purpose of this class is to specifically define the terms “acting” and “performance.” Students explore the works of a wide range
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From 1994 is a short film directed by Danielle Krieger and Casey Warren. The film is a little over four minutes in length and takes place in both the years 1994 and 1999. Based off the true experiences of Casey Warren‚ the log line is “What would you say to a loved one if you only had one chance to say it all?” The film opens with a wide truck to the right‚ revealing a child’s bedroom which contains a telescope‚ legos‚ and other items which would make sense to belong there. We then cut to a shot
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The film that I am focusing my comparative historical analysis to is‚ Underworld. Directed by Len Weisman and written by Danny McBride. Underworld’s relationship between history and the filmmaking process are cohesive in reference to this European and American film. The film was made in 2003. Long ago and in a land far away‚ their were meadows that were stalked by wolves. “The first known stories about vampires come from England around 1190. During the Middle Ages‚ 30‚000 people were condemned as
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create new hybrid or subgenres with their own specific subject matter‚ style‚ formulas‚ and iconography. Such as spaghetti western‚ disaster film‚ sports film‚ biographical films etc. Genre mixing has been common practice throughout the history of filmmaking. Some films are formulaic and follow the predictable path of the genre. Other films have elements of the genre‚ but also introduce new ideas. Main genres
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Katie Bruner Block 3 Cold War Outline 1. 1945-A Critical Year- a) Roosevelt met with Stalin and Churchill at Yalta to work out the future of Germany and Poland. They agreed on the division of Germany into American‚ British‚ French‚ and Soviet occupation zones. b) The League of Nations‚ founded at after WW1‚ had failed largely because the United States refused to join. This time‚ policymakers got congressional support for the UN. 2. Conflicting Postwar Goals- a) Tensions over Poland
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Rear Window Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: James Stewart‚ Grace Kelley‚ Wendell Corey‚ Thelma Ritter‚ Raymond Burr Screenplay: John Michael Hayes based on a short story “It Had to be Murder” by Cornell Woolrich published 1942 Cinematography: Robert Burks Music: Franz Waxman Paramount Pictures Use of Subjective point of view. Someone said there are two kinds of people in the world‚ there are people who
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system was a means of film production and distribution dominant in Hollywood from the early 1920s through the early 1950s. The term studio system refers to the practice of large motion picture studios (a) producing movies primarily on their own filmmaking lots with creative personnel under often long-term contract and (b) pursuing vertical integration through ownership or effective control of distributors and movie theaters‚ guaranteeing additional sales of films through manipulative booking techniques
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