Asian Studies Review March 2010‚ Vol. 34‚ pp. 3–18 History‚ Silence and Homelessness in Contemporary Chinese Cinema: Wang Xiaoshuai’s Shanghai Dreams RICHARD LETTERI* Furman University Abstract: Set a few years after China’s opening to the various forces of globalisation‚ the film Shanghai Dreams (2005) tells the story of the conflict between Qinghong‚ a 17 year-old schoolgirl who wishes to remain in her hometown of Guiyang‚ and her father‚ Lao Wu‚ whose dream of returning to his hometown of
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elements that characterise art cinema. Cherish Perez de Tagle (12339949) cherishpdt@gmail.com European Cinema Since 1945 Module Code: 2FLM7H9 Ian Green January 10‚ 2011 Bordwell (1979) criticizes the idea that art cinema exists as an offshoot of classic narrative cinema. He argues that it is a way of storytelling in its own right. According to him‚ art cinema has a set of formal conventions
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10 Prime Examples of A Good Movie Calvin Johnson Most everyone in the world enjoys a great movie. There are many different elements that make a good movie. A few elemtents are: photography‚ mise en scene‚ movement‚ editing‚ sound‚ acting‚ drama‚ story‚ writing‚ and finally ideiology. If a movie excels in one of more of these things the movie is destined for success. There are 10 movies that are prime examples of the things that make movies good. There are three types of film: realism
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inventions‚ so also does the drive to expand the horizons of subject matter reflecting fundamental changes in social relations‚ social needs‚ and social values and objectives. In the “Cinema Effect Illusions‚ Reality‚ and the Moving Image” exhibition the various artists seek to create works that integrate cinema into our perceived notion of reality. Amongst the artists featured in the exhibition is Matthew Buckingham. Matthew Buckingham does a twenty minute film based off of Edgar Allan Poe’s
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Black Images in Classical Hollywood Cinema until the advent of the Civil Rights Era The word “Hollywood” must not be confused with the place in Los Angeles‚ where the movie industry was established around 1920‚ but it can be understood as a state of mind‚ regarding production techniques‚ themes and its sociology. As we know there was a movie industry set in New Jersey’s Fort Lee well before the companies moved over to Hollywood‚ with its better movie-making conditions regarding weather and backdrop
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After World War I‚ an artistic movement began in Germany called the Weimar Cinema‚ or later called German Expressionism. The movement is most often credited with introducing a new style of film in which dark‚ dramatic lighting and abstract set design were used to convey emotion. Films included an antagonist who was usually depicted as an iconoclast and their actions often resulted in pandemonium and terror. Out of German Expressionism came Film Noir‚ a coined phrase used to describe dark and cynical
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method to bring the matter. The rules of grammar should be delivered step by step and taught in a simple explanation in order to be easily understood by students. The writer takes “USING CINEMA EDUTAINMENT CONCEPT IN TEACHING PREPOSITION AT I-TUTOR ENGLISH COURSE PULOMAS EAST JAKARTA” as the chosen title because cinema edutainment concept is a new teaching technique
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This essay will explore the ‘problem of masculinity’ and the way Classical Hollywood cinema invests and deals with the image of the male body‚ drawing from the analysis of examples from Top Hat (1935) and The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). Steve Neale argues that ‘it is very rare to find analyses that seek to specify in detail‚ in relation to particular films or groups of films‚ how heterosexual masculinity is inscribed and the mechanisms‚ pressures‚ and contradictions that inscription may involve’
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article Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ true to the representation of women in film noir? Feminism is a social progress that has had a large impact on film theory. Cinema is said to be taken by feminists as a medium which represents myths about women and their femininity and men and their masculinity. Previous feminist theory has been focussed on stereotypes of women particularly in film (Rosen‚ 1973) In her article Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ (1975) Laura Mulvey uses psychoanalysis
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I do agree because most people went to the cinema in their spare time and most people had a radio. The adverts in the cinema were probably to do with make up‚ sports like baseball‚ music like jazz‚ and obviously the advertising of radio’s‚ cars‚ fridges‚ telephones‚fashion etc. On one side it was the most important cause of the boom because it was showing everyone that there is more new and better products around for sale‚ because if they didn’t have a TV or another piece of technology that shows
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