Julie Selbo has described the importance of narrative to the screenwriter‚ film executives and the audience. However‚ if a genre does not follow the expected formula this can be stimulating for the audience. Though for the change to be interesting‚ the audience first needs to know the conventions of the genre that have been transformed. Mixing genres gives the screenwriter the opportunity to vary the narrative in‚ for example‚ surprising or novel ways. There is also the choice for the screenwriter
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The film Metropolis‚ Fritz Lang adopts the same way of thinking as Eliot. Lang depicts the fragmented society through social stratification. He depicts the bourgeois as people who lead a callous and monotonous life in order to serve the wealthy upper class. The crescendo in the non-diegetic music with the addition of wavering vector lines in the beginning of the film forebodes the exploitation of the working class and creates a sense of chaos. The centralisation of the clock indicates that the workers
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The temporary transvestite films have offered a different perspective for a mass audience that isn’t used to these different gender constructions. In the movie I watched‚ Some Like it Hot‚ they did a very good job by making the whole disguise thing very funny and easy to follow once you get into it. It wasn’t normal at all back in the 50s for any one sex to dress like another. There was a very large audience that wanted to see these transvestites dressed in different situations‚ getting away from
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Cisneros Film Noir Assignment 1--How is the mood of Sunset Boulevard representative of the Film Noir style? The mood of the film is immediately established as decadent and decaying by the posthumous narrator - a dead man floating face-down in a swimming pool in Beverly Hills. As we fade backward into the story‚ we quickly come to understand that this film is about "behind the scenes" Hollywood‚ self-deceit‚ spiritual and spatial emptiness‚ and the price of fame‚ greed‚ narcissism‚ and ambition
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Film is an important part of culture‚ because it combines aspects such as song‚ story-telling‚ art and expression. The scenes of a film come together to create harmony and to express an idea. The Shining is a film that expressed Stephen King’s novel in a cinematic way. In every scene from this film there are indications of formalist techniques‚ when viewed all together as a movie‚ the idea of this movie being formalist is ensured. The movement of the camera when we follow Danny down the hallways
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In this analysis paper‚ I will be looking at the animated film “The Cameraman’s Revenge” by Ladislaw Starewicz. While the majority of animators during and before his time worked on two dimensional animated films‚ Starewicz stepped off the beaten path and instead chose to implement his taxidermied insects in his animations; that alone made this film unique and fascinating for me to watch. Watching the film was a surreal experience with my knowledge of how innovative this form of animation was for
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2 Since the development of television and film‚ society has utilized the art form‚ specifically the plots of crime films‚ as a mechanism that draws on widespread attitudes toward crime‚ victims‚ law‚ and punishment prevalent at the time of the films making. The capacity to understand film history allows one to see more effectively underlying assumptions regarding the nature of crime in America as well as international society as a whole. The Silent Film Era (1897-1927) often reflected empathy for
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China National Film Museum A museum is the ideal place to get a crash course on a country’s history and culture. This time is about the Chinese cinema; China National Film Museum ( CNFM ). China National Film Museum ( CNFM ) is the world’s largest proffesional film museum. This museum was founded in 2005 to celebrate 100 years of Chinese cinema and opened to the public on February 10‚ 2007. The building’s design reflects the concept of finding balance between film and architecture. The grand exterior
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A true film genre relies on shared iconography‚ formalistic themes and similar narrative structures and content. ‘What genre does is recognize that the audience any one film within a context of other films‚ both those they have personally seen and those they have heard about or seen represented in other media outlets. …In general‚ the function of genre is to make films comprehensible and more or less familiar. (turner 97)’. Action/adventure‚ the Western‚ Gangster/Crime‚ Detective/Film Noir‚ Comedy
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Art and Business of Film Making The film industry is the most important form of entertainment of our time. The audiences in which films reach span from young to old‚ and the business side of the industry is driving force behind the wide appeal that the movie industry has today. Motivation of actors‚ actresses‚ and directors are exposed as they decide whether to do a movie for the business side with the box office‚ or do it for art side through gaining critical approval and awards. Whichever
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