The male gaze in the film Mean Girls
Presentation - 9 pages - Film studies
This document contains a presentation analyzing the male gaze in the movie Mean Girls. Mean Girls is a 2004 American teen comedy, starring Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert, and Amanda Seyfried. The plot focuses on a naïve teenage girl navigating her way through the social hierarchy of...
How did the Brighton School change the way of telling stories in Cinema, using in particular a new method of editing and giving a new role to the camera?
Dissertation - 2 pages - Film studies
A freshman graduating in Cinema would probably have questions about how Cinema has evolved since 1895. Although, more precisely, the question to ask is when and what are the basis of the cinema we know today. The Brighton School started in 1898 with Robert William Paul. He built his own camera:...
What Strictly Defined Expressionist Cinema in its Aesthetic and its Intellectual Aspirations ?
Essay - 4 pages - Film studies
After WW1, Germany was wiped out and wrecked and so had difficulties putting on a new face. Its cinematographic industry also had trouble compared to Hollywood given that Germany has been undergoing an economic recession. The expressionist cinema is a movement which arose from the German...
Imitation Game - Morten Tyldum (2014) - Does the movie pay a beautiful tribute to Alan Turing, the main character?
Artwork commentary - 2 pages - Film studies
I would like to present The Imitation Game, a British movie based on a true story. Here is my key question I would like to answer: Does the movie pay a beautiful tribute to Alan Turing, the main character? In order to answer my key question, I'd like to start by a short presentation of the...
My Own Private Idaho - Gus Van Sant (1991) - The Character's Inner Torments
Artwork commentary - 2 pages - Film studies
The movie My Own Private Idaho was directed by Gus Van Sant. It was released in 1991, in a period when almost no films dealing with homosexuality and queerness in general had yet been shown to the public. Everything was still just the "right" way to behave. So for one of the first times, we...
Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud (2007) - The Internal Conflict of the Main Character
Artwork commentary - 1 pages - Film studies
Based on Marjane Satrapi's famous autobiographical comic books, Persepolis is a condensed movie of the four volumes of this saga. Co-directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud and released in 2007, Persepolis is the journey of Marjane herself, an eight-year-old girl living in Tehran in...
The Screenplay
Worksheets - 3 pages - Film studies
This document is made of ten corrected questions about screenplays.
Blade Runner - Ridley Scott (1982) - Sequence Tears in rain
Artwork commentary - 3 pages - Film studies
The film we will analyze today is the movie Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott. Released in 1982, Blade Runner is a science fiction film introducing us to Rick Deckard, a Blade Runner who will be in charge during all the film to eliminate replicants, androids with human appearance. The film...
4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days - Mungiu Cristian (2007) - A commentary on the narrative's social and historical contexts
Artwork commentary - 5 pages - Film studies
The film, "4 months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days", by Mungiu Cristian opens on a fish tank resting on a table clustered with newspapers, dishes, and a smoking cigarette burning on an ashtray. And as a hand reaches out for the smoke, the picture pulls back in a sharp movement and reveals two undergraduate...
Eugenics and determination: a review of Gattaca (1997)
Artwork commentary - 1 pages - Film studies
Let's take a look at Andrew Niccol's latest SF movie, featuring Ethan Hawke, Jude Law and Uma Thurman. Nominee of the best Art Direction-Set Direction, Gattaca raises interesting questions while being artistically on point.
Jarhead - Sam Mendes (2005) - The place of men and women in society during the war
Artwork commentary - 3 pages - Film studies
Jarhead is a trip movie and also a movie of war that tells the stories of the soldiers, it was filmed in the late 1970s, Sam Mendes directed the film based on the true story of Anthony Swofford's private life as a military man in the US marine, the movie takes us back to the Gulf War. The...
Twice the fall - Creating a short movie based on real facts
Speech - 2 pages - Film studies
The movie I'm about to introduce is titled Twice the fall. It traces back the 09/11 events through the story of two distinct characters, Linda Vasquez and Seth Grayson, respectively confronted with psychological and political issues. September 11th, 2001, Manhattan. The twin towers collapse,...
Jane Eyre - Franco Zeffirelli (1996) - The issue of adaptation
Artwork commentary - 18 pages - Film studies
Zeffirelli had to combine several, sometimes contradictory constraints: he had to update the text, to maintain a specific filmic transcription of the novel, and to negotiate a delicate balance between recognising the influence of the source text and the need for a specific creativity in the...
Primary Colors - Mike Nichols (1998)
Essay - 1 pages - Film studies
In January 1996 the journalist and moderate columnist Joe Klein anonymously published a book which was entitled Primary Colors. Quickly, the novel knew a great success and became a best-seller: it spent 9 weeks as number one on the New York Times bestseller list. So it's one of the most...
Form and Style in Film
Essay - 3 pages - Film studies
Film form is the decisions you make that concern and shape the whole story, as it has been written or how it will be shown to the audience, and film style is the specific shooting, editing and audio decisions we make to support the form. The form is all about the story, plot, and narrative of the...
The Codes and Conventions of Factual Programming for Television
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Film studies
Documentary films are ‘non-fictional, slice of life factual works of art' (Reference: http://www.filmsite.org/docfilms.html). Because of this, documentaries may be described as accurate representations of life, whether that is true or not is a completely different story. The earliest...
Analysing suspense sequences - Blackout and It Follows
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Film studies
Blackout is set within a medium-sized apartment, with the main locations we see being the bedroom, the kitchen, and a storage room. The bedroom is small, the bed in the middle with a small amount of space on either side. Bedside table with a lamp, some books and a framed photo of a person. The...
Stalker - Andreï Tarkovski (1979)
Essay - 3 pages - Film studies
Stalker is a film directed by Andreï Tarkovski shot in 1979 in U.S.S.R. The screenplay is loosely based on a novel by Boris and Arcady Strugatski: Roadside Picnic. The Stalker works as a guide who leads people through 'The Zone' - an area where the normal laws of physics no longer apply-...
Irresistible - Jon Stewart (2020)
Dissertation - 2 pages - Film studies
Irresistible is an American political comedy film written and directed by Jon Stewart and released in June 2020 in the US with as main characters: Steve Carell, Chris Cooper, Mackenzie Davis, Topher Grace, Natasha Lyonne, and Rose Byrne. This movie speaks about the political world specially in...
Corpse Bride (Les Noces funèbres ou La Mariée cadavérique au Québec) - Tim Burton (2005)
Essay - 4 pages - Film studies
Corpse Bride is a 2005 animated film directed by Tim Burton. It was created using the technique of stop-motion, which consists of objects being physically manipulated between individually photographed frames. In this case, the objects used are puppets with movable joints, as in many other Tim...
Analyse cinématographique - Le Gothique - Tim Burton - Les Noces Funèbres
Essay - 7 pages - Film studies
Analyse cinématographique du film d'animation Les Noces Funèbres réalisé par Tim Burton. Dans ce devoir, je rends compte notamment du renouveau du genre du gothique.
Women's Employment Opportunities in Key Creative Roles of Filmmaking in the UK and in France
Essay - 6 pages - Film studies
This business report compares the employment opportunities in the film industry for women in France and in the UK. France has more films produced and released than the UK, meaning more people are employed in the French film industry. Certain factors create obstacles for women in building their...
The Tangible Sight: The Haptic Experience in Film
Dissertation - 20 pages - Film studies
The following essay concerns audio-visual representations of the sense of touch in cinema, with a focus on contemplative and experimental cinema, and the affect it has on a general audience. To explain what happens physiologically and psychologically that allows us to feel, I've studied the...
Film and media
Litterature review - 9 pages - Film studies
This assignment explores the BBC one television programme Strictly come dancing (2003-present) taking a closer look at how the programme has become a global success.
Film and media - Casino Royale
Litterature review - 7 pages - Film studies
The essay evaluates how the film Casino Royale (2006) makes use of sound and effects to develop the film's characters, events and plot.
Film and media - Blue Jasmine
Litterature review - 6 pages - Film studies
This assignment evaluates the costume, set and design of the film Blue Jasmine (2013) starring Cate Blanchett. With reference to film theorists throughout it takes a closer look at how the film's character is highlighted through the use of costume and design.
The editing techniques in in Casablanca and Battleship Potemkin and the film noir genre in Bound and Double Indemnity
Case study - 3 pages - Film studies
It should first be remembered what editing is before defining its principal functions. To do this, I will make close references to Casablanca, to illustrate Hollywood continuity editing on one hand and to The Battleship Potemkin, as an example of Soviet Montage on the other hand. Indeed, the two...
Hollywood: history, origins, stereotype
Essay - 14 pages - Film studies
We all know Hollywood; and for us, it's a famous place that we liked to visit. When we talk about Hollywood, the first words that come to our mind is stars, cinema, glamour, shiny, great weather etc. but, like all the famous place, not many people know WHAT IT IS really. We see Hollywood on...
Children of heaven - Majid Majidi, 1997
Essay - 3 pages - Film studies
As a children growing up, it is often very difficult if not impossible to express ourselves. Children, despite the fact that they are young and still immature, must often face brutal circumstances and overcome serious difficulties. Sometimes, the difficulties cannot be overcome, yet it may not be...
Little Miss Sunshine
Artwork commentary - 1 pages - Film studies
Olive is the little girl (she's about 7 years old I think). Richard Hoover is the father. Sheryl is the mother. Frank is the uncle of Olive (brother of Sheryl). Dwayne is the older brother of Olive, he is 16 years old.
