Tania Modleski’s "Cinema and the Dark Continent: Race and Gender in Popular Film‚" discusses how popular film perpetuates stereotypes of black women. Some controlling images of black women include: the mammy‚ the jezebel‚ and the sapphire. While Modelski doesn’t analyze the sapphire stereotype‚ she does use Whoppi Goldberg’s past film roles as examples of the nurturing and maternal mammy and the over- sexualized jezebel. While I could clearly see Modelski’s comparison of Goldberg’s
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Bordwell and Thompson define the art film as "a film which‚ while made under commercial circumstances take an approach to form and style influenced by "high art" which offers an alternative to mainstream entertainment" (1). Like avant-garde film making‚ this style offer the audience with a movie that takes glory in cinemas stance as a modern art form‚ for art house films are not just intended to be entertaining‚ they are designed to be imaginative. Shekhar Kapur’s 1998 film ’Elizabeth’ presents us with
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Art and Intention ART/101 Shelly Scott-Harmon I was undoubtedly surprised at the difference and similarities between my first thoughts on the piece and my thoughts after reading about it. When I was first looked at Hung Liu’s Painting Three Fujins the figures looked very solemn‚ serious‚ and balanced. The piece seemed to have both a controlled and abstract feel about it. Most of the figures contain a lot of detail but with the drips going through them it
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Kyle Keitz Professor Mullens Film 221 March 5‚ 2013 Art Cinema Characteristics in Persona According to David Bordwell’s research‚ Hollywood had a basic outline on how they made their films. The classical narrative cinema follows narrative structure‚ cinematic style‚ and spectatorial activity. In Classical Hollywood Cinema there is usually a psychologically defined‚ goal oriented character that’s easy to like. Foreign countries had a different way of making film‚ post WWII‚ Europe reestablished
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glamorous world of the Indian film business‚ which is commonly called Bollywood. II. What is Bollywood ? Bollywood is a term used to describe the Indian film industry‚ the largest in the world in terms of film productions. As we have noticed‚ Bollywood is a play on the word Hollywood ; the « B » comes from Bombaï‚ also known as Mumbaï‚ which is a big city in India. Bollywood‚ the greatest dream factory on the Indian subcontinent‚ is the most productive film industry in the world. It
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Salaam Cinema Film Review Documentary seeks to present factual information about the world whereby the filmmaker asks the audience to assume that the film presents trustworthy information about its subject (Bordwell & Thompson 2011). In films‚ they offer the audience various ways for experiencing‚ along with viewing exactly what they find gratifying. Films tend to not merely just help to develop a thought or perhaps exploring visual qualities and sound textures but also‚ take audience on a journey
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1) EVOLUTION OF FILM In 1873‚ Leland Stanford‚ a former California Governor needed help in winning a bet that he had made with a friend. Stanford was convinced that horse in gallop had all four feet off the ground and was bent on proving it. Since it was impossible to prove such a thing by merely watching a horse race‚ he employed the services of Eadweard Muybridge‚ who was a well-known photographer. Muybridge worked on the problem for four years and finally came up with a solution in
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Final Project: Art Timeline Jessie McAlee Axia College of University of Phoenix Art/101 Final Project: Art timeline After careful review and consideration‚ I have decided to create a timeline for the museums website that will focus on the medium of Coffee Stain Portrait. The internet has become a wonderful medium for young artist. This timeline shows a modern look at the resources available to showcase their artwork in a free public forum. I chose painting with coffee
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Art and Intention When it came to the understanding of the art works both Marcel Duchamp’s and Michelangelo’s the reactions came for a lack of knowing what they were looking at and a lack of understanding. For Duchamp’s art piece had nothing to do with nudist or anything of the sort it was simply the act of motion. The name it was offended people the most about the “Nude Descending a Staircase” painting done by Duchamp. Now on the other hand I can believe the public had a hard time with Michelangelo’s
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Art and Intention checkpoint Art 101 Art and Intention checkpoint The reaction of the public was that of not understanding what the artists were trying to convey. They did not understand that Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase‚ was based on the concept of motion. In Michelangelo’s David he was making a political statement. In both works of art‚ part of what viewers found objectionable about them was that they (the public) did not understand what the works represented. In Michelangelo’s
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