1. A static character is a character which does not change during the course of a story. Sam Spade is a static character because by the end of the book The Maltese Falcon‚ Spade still seeks his own type of justice and he still retains within him a detachment to the world as seen when he has the police take Brigid away at the end. Another character that can be viewed as static is Stevens from Remains of the Day. Although towards the middle and end of the book‚ Stevens appears to start regretting
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FILM NOIR’S PROGRESSIVE PORTRAYAL OF WOMEN The quintessential femme fatale of film noir uses her sexual attractiveness and ruthless cunning to manipulate men in order to gain power‚ independence‚ money‚ or all three at once. She rejects the conventional roles of devoted wife and loving mother that mainstream society prescribes for women‚ and in the end her transgression of social norms leads to her own destruction and the destruction of the men who are attracted to her. Film noir’s portrayal of
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been made are about war and not even single one movie about against the war or from different perspectives. I wondered if the people in Hollywood did not all get together in a room and decide that they willing to do just this kind of film and not other kind of film. Leon Trotsky once used an expression to describe events that are not accidents‚ and not planned consciously‚ but are something in between; and he called this “natural selection of accidents‚” in which‚ if there is a certain structure
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According to Film Art‚ film actor’s performance style is most affected by A) the microphone placement. B) the camera distance. C) the aspect ratio. D) the lighting. 6. "Frontality" of staging means that A) a character is placed in the extreme foreground of the shot. B) a character is facing toward the camera. C) one character blocks our view of another. D) a character is moving toward the foreground. 7. Georges Méliès was A) an early director of fantasy films. B) an important
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Notes from film: What is Cinema January-10-13 8:13 PM • An art form‚ an artistic spectacle‚ an aesthetic language with its own grammar and style‚ a ‚medium of communication and expression • A series of still image on a strip of plastic which‚ wen run through a projector shown on a screen‚ creates the illusion of moving images. • Form ( film language) and content ( message) are linked. The message is understood through its form or language by exploring how it uses
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There were many changes in marketing and distribution of films from end of the silent period to the modern digital period. There was a studio system that existed at the end of the silent period and collapsed in 1949 with a court ruling. During this same time a sales era of marketing existed. After the Second World War the sales era was replaced with a new way of thinking and sales and marketing were not synonymous anymore. Marketing after World War II meant finding out what consumers’ needs and wants
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many stylistics and thematic elements in both films the Killer and Internal Affairs. The theme of honor and friendship is present throughout both films. The structure of both films follows two men on opposite sides of the law who find a relation to each other in their opposition to a greater evil being a triad boss‚ who playing both sides. Both films have the elements of trust and betrayal‚ extreme moments of violence‚ and dark humor. The plot in both films were also somewhat similar because you have
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Exploitation films have been produced since the beginning of film‚ but once the Production Code was no longer in effect‚ more these films could be produced and at a faster rate. One genre of exploitation cinema is the drug crime film. Starting as early as the 1930s‚ filmmakers made movies about the dangers of doing drugs. These films were often cheaply made and aimed at a small audience (Clark 4). They were theatrically simple‚ with an uncomplicated narrative: “these are films whose entire function
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context”. Although it doesn’t follow every guideline for a classic film noir film Chinatown is an example of the genre. The film simply takes place in modern times (when it came out). The 1970’s even provides a similar backdrop for the film to that of 1940’s film noir‚ a major war affecting the country. The film itself contains many key characteristics that noir will always be known for. Some of the characteristics include the style of the film‚ the femme fatale‚ and the emphasis of fatalism. I believe that
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In his Book Black Film‚ White Money‚ Jesse Algeron Rhimes makes an interesting parallel. He declares “Edison initiated mass film viewing with the introduction of the large-screen projector in New York City on April 23‚ 1896. Less than one month later‚ on May 18‚ the U.S Supreme Court formally sanctioned “Jim Crow” segregation by formulating its anti-Black “separate but equal” doctrine in Plessy v. Ferguson”. He adds‚ “ Racial segregation and mass film viewing are siblings‚ if not forever squabbling
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