Bollywood‚ the greatest dream factory on the Indian subcontinent‚ is the most productive film industry in the world. It makes up to eight hundreds films a year‚ twice as many as Hollywood‚ and about fourteen million Indian people go to the cinema everyday. Films are made so fast that sometimes actors on set shoot scenes for four different films at a time‚ using the same backgrounds and the same storylines. III. What makes Bollywood films unusual ? Like any film industry
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Film as a social medium is expected to narrative the narratives that emanate from within the environment we live in. Film has indeed been dedicated to telling the tale of man since it was born in 1895. The film Blood Diamond endeavours to tell to the world the story of post colonial Africa to highlight as it were the challenges that bedevil Africa. Many critics have complained that the world cinema is unfair to Africa because more often than not it portrays Africa negatively. On eighth December
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Originality and Repetition in Contemporary Cinema It seems that the innovation of Contemporary Cinema has come to a stand still. Audiences are becoming more and more difficult to please‚ as films endure the comments of "seen that!" or "that’s been done before!" leaving filmmakers struggling to break away from the rigid structure of genre to produce somethings fresh and new for contemporary audiences. Hollywood‚ in particular‚ is being seen as producing films that are "commercial‚ aimed at a mass
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Jan 11 2004 Hyderbad‚ India Sex and violence in films is no child’s play. Actress Raveena Tandon realised that to her discomfort at the inaugural function of the 13th International Children’s Film Festival recently. There were reportedly a lot of red faces in Hyderabad when some children sang and danced to the tune of raunchy film numbers during the opening festivities. While both Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu and Union I&B Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad expressed
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influence decisions made by me in the work and home environments. Microeconomics is the study of decisions that people and organizations make regarding the allocation of scarce resources and prices of goods and services (Perloff‚ 2007). Microeconomics focuses on the patterns of supply and demand and the determination of price and also output in individual markets. These decisions are also influenced by government. It is the smaller or micro picture of economics at the individual‚ household
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exploitation of natural resources. In turn‚ the conventional sources of energy we use today cause pollution‚ so economic growth is almost inevitably associated with environmental damage. One of the aspects of economic growth which affects the environment most of all is that‚ in order to produce more goods and products‚ at a faster rate‚ the construction of large industrial plants is required. These enterprises generate a lot of waste in the form of liquid waste and gaseous fumes. The liquid waste
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Marketing Environment Firms are affected by lots of different things; a firm’s marketing environment is made up of all of the things that affect the way it operates. Some of the factors in a firm’s marketing environment can be controlled by the firm but some are uncontrollable. Firms need to understand their marketing environment so that they can make the most of positive factors and manage the impact of negative factors. The market environment is a marketing term and refers to factors and forces
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too many fatalities on our roads and highways. The Dangerous State of Micro-Sleep Is it possible to force yourself to stay awake by continually drinking coffee‚ playing loud music‚ and using truck driver tricks such as chewing gum? While you may succeed at sitting in an upright position and doing some amount of driving this way‚ parts of your brain will start taking short naps lasting a few seconds. Scientists call this micro-sleep. When this
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concerns and conflicts have surfaced throughout human history‚ from the earliest settlements to the latest headlines. This comes as a surprise to many people because our emphasis in history has all too often been on war and politics‚ rather than environment‚ culture and development. The evidence for a longstanding concern for environmental issues has been readily available in manuscripts‚ publications and historical archives. It can be found under labels like conservation‚ public health‚ preservation
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minority‚ shifted the emphasis from skilful work to credit-worthy consumption. The work is now done by automated processes at home in the domestic market and elsewhere in the global free-market via the intensified exploitation of people and their environment. Capitalists need consumers to buy products. To ensure that this facet of capitalism exists‚ social structures and processes have evolved which support and stimulate acquisitiveness in a specific social culture called the "consumer society" (Jones
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