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Film
The keyword Film is tagged in the following 21 articles.
In his 1988 documentary, The Thin Blue Line, Errol Morris explores the 1976 murder case of police officer Robert Wood and the man convicted for the murder, Randall Dale Adams. Having originally stumbled upon the subject, Morris chose to make the documentary after &... Read Article »
Directed by Louie Psihoyos, The Cove (2009) is an Oscar-winning documentary that follows Psihoyos and a crew of devoted dolphin activists as they fight to stymie and bring attention to dolphin hunting in the small coastal village of Taiji, Japan. Psihoyos’ Film... Read Article »
The development of motion picture complexity has been driven by a continuing technological evolution, ignited and manipulated by human initiative and inventiveness, which has afforded Filmmakers the opportunity to practice a more complex craft to tell more complex... Read Article »
If you’re looking for another all-American cross-country love story, you’d be better off browsing movie aisles far, far away from the likes of Badlands. This 1973 title, director Terrence Malick’s debut Film, turns the typical teenage romance on its... Read Article »
The myth of American exceptionalism has existed since early on in our nation’s history. As early as the mid 1830s, Alexis de Tocqueville proclaimed that the United States held remarkable place in the world, as a nation of immigrants living in the first democracy... Read Article »
Peter Kubelka’s 1966 Film “Unsere Afrikareise” or “Our Trip to Africa” is a remarkably unique bit of Filmmaking. Despite a true story to go along with the Film’s production (of Kubelka’s distaste for the bourgeois Europeans... Read Article »
Since soon after the invention of sound Films, directors have been turning popular—and sometimes not so popular—books into motion pictures. Many a critique, either positive or negative, has been written about the editorializing done and the amount... Read Article »
A popular Film genre in Britain and the United States during the late 1950s and early 1960s was the rock and roll musical. As Susan Hayward points out, this type of Film came about as Hollywood and record companies sought to cash in on the musical phenomenon known... Read Article »
On its simplest level, Jasmila Zbanic’s 2006 Film Grbavica examines how the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s still shape life in post-conflict Sarajevo. The Film’s protagonist, Esma, is struggling to cope with the aftermath of being a victim in the systematic... Read Article »
In America, the years from 1946 to 1962, labeled the “post classical era” of cinema, were years in a state of transition. American culture was simply unstoppable and alive, constantly changing and growing toward a more open society. However, though there... Read Article »
At the University of Southern California Film School, there are two main goals: to foster creativity and encourage technical growth. As the Cinema-Television School website states, “This is an environment in which the flow of creativity and shared information... Read Article »
German cinema from 1927 to 1945 was affected drastically by the political environment that grew within the nation. After Germany suffered drastically at the hands of the Versailles treaty and its reparations clause, Adolph Hitler, the Fuhrer of Nazi Germany, and the... Read Article »
Twentieth Century Fox was right to question the likelihood of box-office success for James Cameron’s $200 million Film Titanic: “an Edwardian period piece, a costume Film, a romance, a story whose ending was known – and a ‘downer’ so to... Read Article »
The scene is set for another take: the actors and extras are in costume and in place; the set decorator has set the stage just as the vision of the Film entails; the director of photography has the lights and cameras ready to capture the action. However, before the... Read Article »
Film is a highly collaborative medium. Most movie viewers probably do not think of the collaboration process each time they sit at the theater, or at their computer, but the required teamwork is significant, as any moviegoer who has actually sits through the end credits... Read Article »
Within the first ten minutes of Twilight of the Golds, it is clear that both Judaism and homosexuality play a role in the Gold family. The family is at least culturally Jewish, if not more, and the son David (Brendan Fraser), is portrayed to be gay. Yet neither &ldquo... Read Article »
A giant hole is ripped in the side of a skyscraper. Smoke and flames pour out and debris tumbles into the street. Clouds of smoke billow upwards and burning embers rain down. Plumes of dust and smoke blot out the sun, darkening the city skyline. In the foreground,... Read Article »
Chaucer’s description of “the Knight” in his “General Prologue” may be seen as a multi-layered narration. First he gives a very precise and historically relevant account of his campaigns. Based on what Chaucer knows about the knight&rsquo... Read Article »
In her article “Visual Pleasure and the Narrative Cinema”, Laura Mulvey describes a way of analyzing and understanding cinema from a feminist and psychoanalytic perspective. A very similar approach is taken by Molly Haskell in her review of Hitchcock&rsquo... Read Article »
Film critic Andre Bazin had very strong feelings on the subject of montage and realism. In his article “The Evolution of the Language of Cinema”, he explains his theory that montage, although necessary in many cases to make a Film work, can be heavily overused... Read Article »
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), a key twentieth-century cultural theorist, has been influential in various fields, including art and literary criticism. He wrote “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” in 1935 to examine revolutionary changes... Read Article »
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