Comparison between 'Nighthawks' by Hopper and Mystery and 'Melancholy of a Street' by de Chirico - publié le 20/02/2007
Essay - 4 pages - Arts and art history
The success of the Melancholy show demonstrated that existential issues are a productive source of inspiration for artists. Universal melancholy affects both painters and spectators. Hopper's Nighthawks and De Chirico's Mystery and Melancholy of a Street represent human metaphysical concern,...
Olivia Ruiz in concert at the Bataclan on 3 and 10 of April 2006: From "the real TV" to "the real artist performer"
Essay - 4 pages - Music and dance
In France, the Loft Story TV programme paves the way for the real television. Now, lots of viewers watch “ordinary” people eating, sleeping, and arguing… Overnight these stage actors become famous just having talent to be on television. Andy Warhol was right when he said “In...
Anna Politkovskaya: A woman, journalist and human rights activist in contemporary Russia
Essay - 3 pages - Medias
am a pariah”. This is how Anna Politkovskaya defines herself in the beginning of a posthumous article published by The Guardian on October 14th, 2006. Seven days before, on October 7th, around 5 pm, she was murdered in her flat in still non-clarified circumstances. Her death occurred while...
William Hogarth (1697-1764)
Essay - 5 pages - Arts and art history
The exhibition about William Hogarth at the Louvre museum is an essential one for many reasons. First of all, it is the first time that such a retrospect is held in France to honor the British painter. Besides, it is the occasion to discover or rediscover this genius artist admired by the...
Schubert's piano trio in e flat in Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick, 1975
Essay - 3 pages - Music and dance
In this paper, I will analyze the use of Schubert's piano trio in e flat op. 100 in Barry Lyndon, a 1975 Stanley Kubrick's film. First, I will consider the music independently of its original context. In a second part, I will see how Kubrick uses it in its film, and whether the music fits in the...
Individual identity and global information. The global village (Mac Luhan)
Essay - 7 pages - Medias
This paper will discuss how individual identity is constructed in an environment of global information and media flows, and will examine how valid Marshall Mac Luhan's global village concept is, in this environment. The pattern of our everyday lives has made us aware of the numerous changes...
Individual identity and global information. The global village (Mac Luhan) - publié le 25/01/2007
Essay - 7 pages - Journalism
How is individual identity constructed in the environment of global information and media flows? How valid is Marshall Mac Luhan's global village concept in this environment? Nowadays, each of us is aware from the pattern of our everyday lives that there have been lots of changes linked with...
Critical Theory: theatre and post-structuralism
Essay - 6 pages - Arts and art history
The idea of Post-structuralism derives from philosophy. It is a discipline which has always tended to emphasize the difficulty of achieving secure knowledge about things (Barry;1995:63) .Philosophical writing, although following the structure thesis, followed by anti-thesis, then a synthesis of...
Representations of gender and sexuality in films
Essay - 7 pages - Film studies
‘The street's getting worse everyday here. The whores were bad enough but the drags are wiping us out. I can't stand the drags. (…). They confuse transvestism with a circus. Worse, with mime'. In All About My Mother (Almodovar; 1999), the character Agrado stresses the importance of...
The X-files (1993-2002) - A cult text
Essay - 8 pages - Film studies
The X-Files (1993-2002), about two government agents investigating unsolved cases relating to paranormal activities, was a quality drama which became a cult hit with audiences and subsequently an international cultural phenomenon, generating vast amounts of secondary texts including merchandise...
Choderlos de Laclos's : Les Liaisons Dangereuses - publié le 22/01/2007
Essay - 5 pages - Film studies
Choderlos de Laclos's novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses has been the object of four main cinematic adaptations, all very different from one another or from the source text itself. These films are Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (1959) by Roger Vadim, Dangerous Liaisons (1988) by Stephen Frears,...
Critical Theory: theatre and post-structuralism - publié le 22/01/2007
Essay - 6 pages - Arts and art history
Post-structuralism derives from philosophy , ‘ a discipline which has always tended to emphasise the difficulty of achieving secure knowledge about things' (Barry;1995:63) .Philosophical writing, although following the structure thesis, anti-thesis then a synthesis of both, always comes...
Film studies: signs and postmodernism
Essay - 4 pages - Film studies
‘L.I.E: Long Island Expressway. You got the lanes going east; you got the lane going west. You also got the lanes going straight to hell...' Thus opens L.I.E., a film about a fifteen-year-old boy who becomes involved in an unusual relationship with a much older man. Here, the first words of...
Live technologies in theatrical performance in a post modern perspective
Essay - 8 pages - Arts and art history
How does the use of live technologies in theatrical performance exemplify our own positioning in a post-industrial technologically based society? Further, how does this in turn explain some of the concerns of the postmodernists? These are the buzzing thoughts that plague an individual's or a...
The representation of American teenagers in films during the 1950s and 1990s
Essay - 15 pages - Film studies
The ‘teen film', ‘teen flick' or ‘teenpic' has changed since the 1950s when it started to define itself through Juvenile delinquency films. As was recently commented, ‘the teen flick has lost its shiny innocence and become a cynical brute' (Maher; 2006: 13). Over the course of...
Theater and audience perception in a postmodern perspective - publié le 15/01/2007
Essay - 9 pages - Arts and art history
Renowned French philosopher Jean Francois Lyotard described the impact of post modernization as ?The genuinely postmodern work, forces us to recognize that reality is something other than our formulations of itself and that those formulations are therefore what is constructed'. An...
To what extent is the British newspaper market is a pluralist market?
Essay - 6 pages - Medias
According to former MP William Hague, Britain 'has a great and vibrant tradition of a free and pluralist press and media, rich in its diversity and opinions.'(Hague; 2000). It is true that in the past decades, the British newspaper market has always been referred to as being effervescent...
How do magazines construct identity?
Essay - 5 pages - Medias
The many different types of magazines that are present in the market could be seen as a proof that editors are constantly looking to target an audience. Indeed, in order to secure the right type of advertisers, magazine editors have to find the right type of readers so that the efficiency and...
Artaud's theatrical principles
Essay - 5 pages - Arts and art history
Artaud stated that ‘theatre is first ritualistic and magical, in other words bound to powers, […] and whose effectiveness is conveyed through gesture, directly linked to the rites of theatre which is the very practice and the expression of a hunger for magical and spiritual...
Theater and audience perception in a postmodern perspective
Essay - 9 pages - Arts and art history
« The genuinely postmodern work forces us to recognise that reality is something other than our formulations of it, and that those formulations are therefore constructs » (Jean-François Lyotard). Investigate and interrogate the urge in performance theatre to radically restructure audience...
Live technologies in theatrical performance in a post modern perspective - publié le 15/01/2007
Essay - 8 pages - Arts and art history
How does the use of live technologies in theatrical performance comment on our own positioning in a post-industrial technologically based society? How does this in turn exemplify some of the concerns of the postmodernists? Postmodern cinema is rich in intertextual references, and is often...
Postmodernism and cinema
Essay - 7 pages - Film studies
‘It's about flights of fantasy, and the nightmare of reality, terrorist bombings, and late night shopping, true love, and creative plumbing.' (Gilliam; 1985). This tagline for the film Brazil highlights most of the concepts present in postmodernist criticism of cinema and television. Indeed,...
Blue sky studios
Study guide - 4 pages - Film studies
Blue Sky is an international studio providing visual effects and digital animation services. Their contribution has been seen in pictures such as Mousehunt, Home Alone and so on. Towards the end of the nineties, Blue Sky studios had absorbed new projects. The main projects revolved around...
Music and social movement: Reggae
Essay - 5 pages - Music and dance
Reggae music is an engaged musical genre. It is very famous and at the same time not so well-known. Most of the people think of Reggae music as music of joy, peace and linked to Jamaica, the sunny island where everyone smokes herb freely. But in fact, we will see that Reggae inscribes itself in a...
Sex and the city: Analysis of a sitcom
Essay - 3 pages - Medias
Sex and the city is a popular American cable television program, which is adapted from Candace Bushnell's book of the same title. Sex and the city was the idea of a single woman in her thirties writing about relationships and using that column as a tool of self-discovery about her own life,...
Moulin Rouge and Romeo + Juliette
Essay - 8 pages - Film studies
Romeo+Juliet and Moulin Rouge are two movies directed by the eccentric Baz Luhrmann. In these love stories, Baz Luhrmann especially stake on the visual and the abundance: the abundance of decorations, the abundance of colourful visuals (Moulin Rouge « uses the colourful musical setting of the...
The architectural dimension of museums
Essay - 9 pages - Architecture
My decision to retain the architectural dimension of museums in their modern and contemporary acceptation as the central theme of my study has been orientated by personal grounds as well as it has been prompted by technical reasons. Indeed, my profound interest in architecture has invited me to...
Representation & Reflection on the Subject of Death in Modern & Contemporary Art
Essay - 14 pages - Arts and art history
Within the framework of the presentation of the personal fictive museum, I have decided to retain ten art pieces from the 20th C and 21st C in accordance with the problematic of the representation of, and the reflection on death in modern and contemporary art. In as much as the questioning about...
Jan Toorop
Essay - 18 pages - Art history
The works of Jan Toorop, in the context of the Dutch art and its interpretations, is the central theme of this document. The scope of his work ranges from the 17th century to the early 20th century. The decision to retain Jan Toorop as the central theme of the assignment is attributable to two...
Xu Beihong: pioneer of Chinese Realistic Painting?
Essay - 9 pages - Arts and art history
Xu Beihong (1895-1953) was a native of Yixing in Jiangsu Province. His father, from whom he learned painting in his childhood, was also a painter. At the age of 20, Xu went to Shanghai to sell his paintings. In 1918, at the invitation of Cai Yuanpei, he went to Peking University to work as an...
