The film‚ “Love Ltd” directed by‚ Jennifer Phang is unique story that focuses on a loveable lesbian couple dealing with the issue of coming out about their sexual identity. This Asian-American Short film shows that director Jennifer Phang understands the issues surrounding sexual identity and how difficult it can be to come out to family members. The film begins with an introduction to Hellen and her lover‚ Angela. The movie focuses on the congregation of Helens family for dinner at her mother’s
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Film 100‚ Introduction to Film Fall 2012 Semester (Main Campus) Mondays‚ Tuesdays and Thursdays‚ 11:00 a.m. to 11:50 a.m.‚ Library 0146 3 humanities credits Instructor: Dr. Ellen Kreger Email address: kreger167@aol.com (Please include your name in the subject line if it is not part of your email address!) Phone number: (914) 376-7745 (h)—Please call between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. Office hours: By appointment Monday-Friday An introduction to the language of film‚ this course familiarizes
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The advent of television and television shows may have come long after film‚ but it enhanced film production almost instantly. Television naturally derived from early film since each uses basically the same medium: the motion picture camera. Since film had already set a base in the industry and mastered the new techniques and technology of cinematography‚ television had the opportunity to learn from film?s mistakes and advance itself quickly. For this reason‚ television evolved very rapidly and was
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What makes a film which is “based on a true story” authentic? Do films only use this ploy to connect with spectators that assume that these movies are situated in a farfetched reality? When audiences view these types of films they come to only expect one thing from them and it is authenticity. The issues with many of these films is that filmmakers want to add depth to characters that already historically exist. The reason for these skewed character representations is that they have to pander to main
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Critics argue that these roles that many African Americans play in films as servants‚ jezebels‚ unintelligent black men‚ and “mad black men” are mainly what is available because these are the roles that the film industries audiences want to see. They also think that this is what will sell. Woody Allen is a filmmaker and playwright and he says he only hires African Americans actors and actresses
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A hopeful actress gets her first break in a zombie film‚ but then real life zombies trapped the cast and crew on the set and they have to battle to survive. BRIEF SYNOPSIS: CURTIS (40’s) is a desperate movie director who needs his new zombie film to succeed. When his current actress is not working out‚ he decides to find a new actress. VANESSA (20’s) is a hopeful‚ budding actress‚ working as a waitress. She’s star struck when she meets Curtis and the lead actor‚ MARK (20’s). When Vanessa realizes
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intentional affairs. The film Miracle directed by Gavin O’Connor and the book The Boys of Winter by Wayne coffin recreated this “story about a coach with a vision‚ a team of patriotic kids from mostly working-class families who were prepared to make sacrifices for the unknown‚ and a nation
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that reason‚ the theme of the 2009 Brisbane Film Festival will be Australian Identity in Film – A Retrospective‚ as we hope to explore the ways in which Australian feature films have helped shape the complexities and diversity of Australia’s culture and identity. In particular‚ the festival will explore the diverse representations of homosexuals in Australian film and how this has influenced society’s perception and acceptance. For many years‚ Australian film has formed a consistent stereotype for men;
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Beige Pascua THEA 32 “The Namesake” The Namesake is a film that has both visible and invisible sounds. The different sounds are used to portray different emotions in the film. In the beginning of the film we see Gogol’s father on a train when all of a sudden we hear the train screech but we do not see the actual action of the train getting into a wreck. This is what we call invisible sound‚ when you can hear a sound but not see the origin of where the sound is coming from. We also hear invisible
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“The Intouchables”-a film of true humanity The movie‚ “The Intouchables”‚ is based upon a true story‚ and real characters. It’s a story about two unlikely people who end up connected in a way only reality could conjure up. I had seen this movie once in 2012. But after I attended this class‚ I decided to watch it again because there are four elements in the movie that are related to what we are learning: disability‚ ethnicity‚ class‚ and culture differences. After watching
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