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Topic: Film and CinemaFound 16 articles
Ending the Exceptional: Defiance of Conventions in Dennis Hopper's "Easy Rider"
07/06/10 - 2394 words 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... Go to Article » A Trip Through Peter Kubelka's "Unsere Afrikareise" (Our Trip to Africa)
04/14/10 - 1103 words 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... Go to Article » The Rocky Horror Picture Show as the Inverted Plautine Comedy
04/12/10 - 2434 words The first line of Plautus’ epitaph reads: “Postquam est mortem aptus Plautus, comoedia luget, scaena est deserta,” or roughly translated, “since Plautus is dead, comedy mourns, deserted is the stage&rdquo... Go to Article » A Generation of Men Raised by Women: Gender Constructs in 'Fight Club'
04/09/10 - 2505 words Throughout history has existed a prevalent theme of men and women being reliant on one another, despite the significant—though changing, and usually artificial—inequalities in areas such as education, career power... Go to Article » High Fidelity: Comparing Novel and Film
04/07/10 - 2385 words 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... Go to Article » Richard Lester, The Beatles, and the Rock Musical Revised
04/02/10 - 5749 words 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... Go to Article » Embodied Memory and Trauma: Recovering from Rape in Jasmila Zbanic's "Grbavica"
03/23/10 - 3478 words 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... Go to Article » The Breakdown of Censorship in American Cinema
03/22/10 - 3653 words 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... Go to Article » Hitler's use of Film in Germany, Leading up to and During WWII
03/18/10 - 3193 words 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... Go to Article » Raising Titanic: The World of Communication & the Creation of One of the World's Most Succesful Films
03/10/10 - 3625 words 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... Go to Article » Career Snapshot: The Film Director, A Human Lens
03/05/10 - 1789 words 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... Go to Article » The Significance Of The Screenplay
02/17/10 - 1800 words 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... Go to Article » Sexuality, Religion, and Science As Seen Through "Twilight of the Golds"
02/16/10 - 2241 words 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),... Go to Article » The Hero We Create: 9/11 & The Reinvention of Batman
12/30/09 - 17947 words 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... Go to Article » An Analysis of Billy Wilder's "Double Indemnity"
12/14/09 - 1636 words 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... Go to Article » An Analysis of Film Critic Andre Bazin's Views on Expressionism and Realism in Film
12/11/09 - 1692 words 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... Go to Article » |