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    Film Critique

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    My Best Friend’s Wedding Courtney-Anthony-Br English 225 Introduction to Film Instructor: Hazar Shehadeh May 9‚ 2013 “My Best Friend’s Wedding” is a romantic comedy that hit the movie scene in 1997 about a 27 year old woman who made a pact with her best friend and former lover that by age 28 if neither was married that they would marry each other. Four days before her 28th birthday her best friend calls with news of him getting married. Now she has to decipher whether she wants to be

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    Introduction to Film

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    Introduction to film Understanding Movies Film Analysis: All Quiet on the Western Front Introduction Lewis Milestone’s All Quiet on the Western Front was one of the first realistic war films of its time. This film works to make a powerful statement about the misconceptions of war and fighting. Its message is one that anyone who has seen war close up can attest to. Regardless of time‚ location‚ or people‚ these

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    Women in Film

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    central to the film industry since its inception in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Female stardom was an essential component of the rise of the industry‚ though many of these women were celebrated more for their appearances than for their acting ability. While the popularity of certain female stars offered them legendary status‚ the kinds of roles they were asked to play often reinforced traditional gender roles. Women actually played a powerful role in shaping the early film industry. As

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    POSTMODERN FILM

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    Open Rubric “Postmodernism has enriched film theory and its analysis by calling attenti0n to a stylistic shift toward a media conscious cinema” (Gonarkar 2012)  Postmodenism can be characterised by various aspects including:  Pastiche  Nostalgia  Disjointed narratives  Emotional detachment  Self-referentialism  Time bending  Altered realities  ‘Quoting’ from different film genres and film     movements/periods as well as from other visual media and actual historical periods

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    The story and film “Monkey’s Paw” is about three wishes given to the White family. The family has all they ever wanted until the son‚ Herbert‚ has the idea to wish for 200 pounds to pay off their house. When Mr. White wishes for it‚ they receive it‚ but lose something more significant. They are later informed that their son‚ Herbert‚ has died in a machinery accident. Mrs. White then thinks to wish him back to life which results in a mysterious creature at their front door. Fearfully‚ Mr White finds

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    Evolution of Film

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    blockbusters with multi-million dollar superstars. Beginning with short silent films‚ movies have evolved over the years in different stages including: the Golden Age‚ the political era‚ sequels‚ and what is now the age of special effects and high budget films. The industry today that creates movies costing unimaginable amounts of money began with the simplistic‚ silent film. Although many are forgotten today‚ these short films were a key part in developing motion pictures created over the ages. Beginning

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    Film Techniques

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    Film Techniques Folio Defining what you need to know about film ______________________________________________________________ What do you know about film? ( How did they do that? ( Why did they put that in? ( What was the point of that? ( Why did that character do that? ( What’s this film really about? These are just some of the questions which might arouse you when you are viewing‚ or studying‚ a film. And‚ clearly‚ your

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    Film review

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    Film review: Captain Philips “Captain Philips‚ can you hear me‚ Captain Philips can you hear me?” The walkie talkie sounded in the midst of pirates‚ as Captain Philips reached to take the walkie talkie…… This is from an awesome called Captain Philips. Captain Philips was released on October 26th 2013‚ the director is Paul Greengrass‚ and major actor is Tom hanks as Captain Richard Philips. This film is rated 8.1 on imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1535109/)‚ 8.3 on rotten tomato (http://www

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    negative stories about how they have been killed or killed someone. African-Americans are also portrayed in negative ways and they most often are seen in the media regarding death‚ stealing‚ or murder. Therefore‚ the pit bull represents the negativity that is associated with African-Americans and it was as if Oscar realised this which is why he spends the dog’s last moments holding him because he can emphasise and almost relate to him. There is a lot of times throughout the film that show a

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    Racism In Film

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    multiracial has existed within the film for decades‚ starting back to the gangster movies in the 1920 and 1930’s. Beltran (2005) illustrates on page 3 that the intent of these films was to reinforced dominance of race‚ ethnicity‚ and class tied to housing and apparent safety. The race is a social assembly and can create real consequences and effects on certain groups within society and how we depict them. Depending upon the setting of the film and the films intent‚ the film can illustrate

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