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New German Cinema

many different directors today, and in the past. One notable director from the past is Alfred Hitchcock who would take a story and...

Hans Richter: “Ghosts before Breakfast”

clock; its 10 oclock. Time passes in five-minute jumps, indicating that we are not seeing it objectively. A man fights with his ti...

1940s Black Cinema

fell considerably short of avoiding stereotypes. For example, one review, that is typical of those produced by white critics, de...

Film Analysis

In order to offer thorough analysis, Boggs and Petrie (2004) recommend seeing a movie at least twice. The first viewing can be dev...

Chinese Cinematic Art

Even today, if we look at the extent to which Chinese cultural ideology has made its way to the West via art and...

Contemporary Productions and How They Have Influenced the Themes of Sophocles' Oedipus the King

to the gods, who always punish it. And that is a second theme of the play, the folly of pride. By refusing to accept his own acti...

Cinema, American Youth, and Rebellion Against Authority

nation was ready for new and innovative ideas which lead to new attitudes. Immediately following the war and through the decade o...

Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Modern Cinema Fantasies

npa), the use of the fantasy genre allows the author or director to stand outside of the reality with which we are familiar, and g...

Architecture and Film Connection

only when the heart is wakened in this picture that buildings are destroyed and the human element is reintroduced. A later film ...

Feminist Cinema and Psychology

political insights that can be gleaned from any motion picture. The major differences between a journalistic approach to a movie c...

Paranoia, McCarthyism, and Film Noir

in the destructive power of nuclear energy. Osteen (1994) points out that few events have affected the American psyche in a manne...

Cinematic Depiction of Aliens

depicts the aliens as beings who represent communism and the fear of being consumed by such "thought." The aliens in this film ...

Object v. Spectator Types of Cinematic Gaze

is completely unique and no two are alike. Therefore, what takes place is a kind of power struggle between the subject and the ob...

Stage Objections During the 1700s

film had prompted someone to commit heinous crimes. The other side claims that the society is violent and people want to see viole...

Frame Concept and Cinematic Representation

surprise twist at the end - the camera, representing the subjective perspective of the audience, is "run over" by a car rather tha...

Contemporary Cinema and the Use of Cyborgs

twentieth century, people are all chimeras, or mythic hybrids of machine and organism, or cyborgs (Haraway, 1991). In Western sci...

CDC Article Summary and Media Consideration of Product Placement

of showings is taken into consideration (Turcotte, 1995). The "cost per thousand" (CPM)viewers on product placement is generally c...

'Writing in Images' and Cinema

In three pages cinema is defined as 'writing in images' with differences between visual and written texts considered along with fi...

Cinema Persuasiveness

G-1). While such anecdotal evidence certainly suggests that films affect how we behave, the empirical evidence on this subject is ...

Chinese Cinematography and Women's Portrayals

in to the Japanese and be captured, however, eight of these women chose to drown in the Mulan River. One of the most...

Contemporary Oedipus Imagery

if he should have a son. Therefore, Laius took steps to prevent conceiving a son by Jocasta. However, Jocasta wanted a child and c...

Racism in Cinema

Nation first came out, the NAACP protested the film. W.E.B. Dubois, a leading black activist, published highly negative reviews of...

Shakespeare in Cinema

as simplistic because it stars an action hero (Mad Max becomes Mad Hamlet) and cuts several scenes and all long speeches. Of cours...

Postmodernism Defined

of another direction, only to be broken apart and redeveloped by way of postmodernistic composition. Technology, as such, represe...

Comparison of Films Robert Altman's Nashville and Robert Drew's Primary

Dean Story, was far more interested in film as an expansive theatrical art, represented by the Hollywood blockbuster features (ONe...

Postmodernism and Great Britain

influences as well as reflects the society in which it manifests. Here we may see a post-modern attitude. The influence of many ot...

German Occupation and French Cinema

such, "the French government, recognizing the need to entertain the troops and the civilian population, allowed certain film produ...

German Occupation of France and French Films

?vident que le Fran?ais avait appris quelque chose de WWI quand beaucoup dindustries ont ?t? arr?t?es et ont nui ? la nation. En t...

Modern Cinema in China

began in Hong Kong back in 1979, and was like a "coming of age" for the film industry (Li 709). Suddenly, there was a new generat...

Robbery in Films

in keeping all of the people hostage while the funds are delivered. As mentioned, while it is not exactly a bank robbery film, it ...