defining performances. Film is one of the most impactful medias of all time; filling our worlds with unthinkable thoughts‚ inconceivable worlds and generally taking us away from the harsh realities of daily life‚ Giving us a great escape to the stuff of dreams. However‚ beyond the glittering lights and propaganda‚ women face inequality in the film industry; both in general‚ both in unrealistic beauty standards and lack of females in the industry. Since the first flicker of film‚ women have been second
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original scores during the silent film era and cites specific examples from The Birth of a Nation. (10 points) Music is an important form of art; it has always been utilized by each and every culture for entertainment purpose. Earlier in the silent film era‚ music was generally not included in the films but played in the beginning or at the end to entertain the audience. Later music was used in the form of background score to provide strength to the scenes of the film. There were three types of original
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Plays and dances had elements common to films- scripts‚ sets‚ lighting‚ costumes‚ production‚ direction‚ actors‚ audiences‚ storyboards‚ and scores. They preceded film by thousands of years. Much terminology later used in film theory and criticism applied‚ such as mise en scène. Moving visual images and sounds were not recorded for replaying as in film. The camera obscura was pioneered by Alhazen in his Book of Optics (1021)‚[2][3][4] and was later perfected near the year 1600 by Giambattista
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these cultures idolize. These heroes not just appear in daily life‚ but these heroes were also carried over to their religious beliefs. The filmmakers did a great job of composing four stories from India‚ Indonesia‚ Korea and Japan. They break the film up into four parts were they use the art masterpieces and performances inspired by these tales. The first‚ “The Ramayana‚” tells the adventures of India’s legendary hero. Here we see Indian paintings‚ Indonesian sculpture and Japanese shadow play.
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very interesting name that just screams military film. Based on the name‚ I did not think that it would be a documentary but I am very glad I went to class to view this particular film. Robert McNamara‚ is probably one of the most interesting men that I have watched on a documentary. 85 years old and answering every question he was asked with wit and with a charisma that no other man I have seen ever do with such ease. The perspective of the film regarding the reality of war was rational (at least
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ADAPTATION AS INTERPRETATION The debate on cinematic adaptations of literary works was for many years dominated by the questions of fidelity to the source and by the tendencies to prioritize the literary originals over their film versions. (Whelehan:2006) Adaptations were seen by most critics as inferior to the adapted texts‚ as “minor”‚ “subsidiary”‚ “derivative” or “secondary” products‚ lacking the symbolic richness of the books and missing their “spirit”. (Hutcheon:2006) Critics could not forgive
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the ways in which film has been used for war propaganda by concentrating on post 9/11 war films. I will first offer a look into the history of film propaganda by giving early examples and why film is a useful tool when it comes to propaganda. First I will start by offering the definition of ‘propaganda’: “information‚ ideas‚ or rumours deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person‚ group‚ movement‚ institution‚ nation‚ etc.” (“The Definition of Propaganda”) Propaganda films are used to convince
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course is a theoretical approach to study films as a text. It will include an extended study of film form and provide necessary vocabulary to analyse films. There will also be an additional section on Indian cinema. 2. Text Book: David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson. Film Art: An Introduction. SEVENTH EDITION. New York: McGraw-Hill Inc.‚ 2004. 3. Reference Book: 1. Richard Maltby Hollywood Cinema Blackwell Publishing‚ 2003 2. Ed. R L Rutsky‚ Jeffrey Gieger Film Analysis: A Norton Reader Norton Publishing
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In what ways are Malaysian-made feature films important? Compare and contrast the potential impact foreign-made and locally-made films have on Malaysian audiences. According to the Oxford Dictionary‚ Films are a story or event recorded by a camera as a set of moving images and shown in a cinema or on television. Films from the first world countries which is the western countries like the United States‚ Europe countries to the Eastern countries such as the Republic of China to now the South East
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Film Reaction Idiocracy Watching this film was entertaining. I’ve seen it before on Comedy Central and thought it was funny to see how the U.S. was like hundreds of years later. I was excited to know that this film was on the list for doing this paper because I have seen it. This movie was right up my alley because the writer and director of the film is none other than Mike Judge. Of course‚ I’m a fan of his shows‚ especially “Beavis and ButtHead”. Anyway‚ the movie was about two main characters
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