In October 1927‚ the first feature film was presented as a silent film‚ The Jazz Singer. Made with a Vitaphone‚ “an instrument that synchronizes motion pictures and sound perfectly‚” it was a major hit to the general public (Eyman). After years of silence‚ someone finally decided to change the disc on the Vitaphone to film‚ introducing audible movies. Since then the introduction of Technicolor‚ Cinemascope‚ and Aromascope used first by the 1960 film‚ Scent of Mystery. All of these new cinematic
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Tania Modleski’s "Cinema and the Dark Continent: Race and Gender in Popular Film‚" discusses how popular film perpetuates stereotypes of black women. Some controlling images of black women include: the mammy‚ the jezebel‚ and the sapphire. While Modelski doesn’t analyze the sapphire stereotype‚ she does use Whoppi Goldberg’s past film roles as examples of the nurturing and maternal mammy and the over- sexualized jezebel. While I could clearly see Modelski’s comparison of Goldberg’s
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Mrs. Grinnell English 12 1st May 2005 Film and Video Production: Becoming the Future of the Silver Screen Every so often a movie is released with such tense anticipation and glamorous visual art that the public is drawn to this dramatic rendition of life in the theatre. For even just two hours or so‚ you are put into a different lifestyle. Action‚ drama
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The Film Piracy Problem The Film Piracy Problem Teacher Overview Film piracy is the illegal copying and distribution of movies in print‚ videos‚ DVDs or electronic files. New developments in digital technology make server-based or peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing on the Internet convenient and relatively fast. A negative consequence of this new technology‚ however‚ is online theft of copyrighted material. This lesson introduces students to the problem of film piracy‚ focusing specifically on Internet
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In the film‚ the trial of Pansette is a large‚ public affair. The townspeople are all transported to the trial and get to openly participate in the spectacle. Often‚ they went from standing on the sidelines listening intently to the goings on of the trial to being
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The film‚ directed by Arthur Penn and produced by Warren Beatty was about the real life depression era bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. The screenplay was written by David Newman and Robert Benton‚ with additional help from Robert Towne. After Warner watched the film‚ he proceeded to tell Beatty and Penn how much of a failure it
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November 2013 The Basement When most of us were little‚ we were afraid of the basement‚ right? You know‚ that room‚ in your house. The intense and shadowy room. Well when I was little‚ I wasn’t afraid of the basement. I watched tons of horror movies‚ so the basement wasn’t very scary to me... I had a family once‚ my parents and a little sister. I was the oldest child. We bought a new house. That house had a authentic frightening basement. When I walked downstairs‚ the old wooden stairs
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Advocates of original-language versions still consider dubbing to be nothing more than an aid or a stopgap measure to increase turnover in the film industry. Critics do see dubbing today as a "bridge between nations and educational classes"‚ according to the film historian Martin Koerber during a colloquium held on the subject at the Berlin Film Museum in July 2004. But they also see the danger that the content and intention of the original versions may be distorted. Pros and cons of dubbing
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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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Rosemary’s Baby Originally pre-1960 Hollywood horror cinema consisted of stories of legendary figures gone rogue and classic horror tales. None represented evil. Evil is what makes human society imperfect‚ and through Ira Levin’s Rosemary’s Baby‚ we were able to face evil first hand‚ in both a bestseller novel and critically acclaimed film adaptation. This novel redefined horror at its finest; satanic cults‚ scary hotels‚ and even mysterious herbs. It had it all‚ which made readers even more
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