Film as permission to realize again the fantastic
Case study - 6 pages - Philosophy
The concepts of “fantasy” and “reality” when placed together are often recognized as two parts to a single dichotomy. The separation is easily continued to include such corresponding pairings as childhood-adulthood, idealism-realism, and also genius-science. The total result...
Fujifilm strategy
Case study - 3 pages - Business strategy
Fujifilm is more of an elephant than a lion. It is a huge company, but it is not very aggressive. Instead the organizational culture is more passive. It can be stated here that winners firms lead other firms and do not follow them. Unfortunately, Fujifilm falls in the second category. Needless to...
Analysis of the reasons behind the failure of the film "Asterix at the Olympic Games"
Case study - 5 pages - Services marketing
The critic Eric Libiot of L'Express, denounced ‘Asterix at the Olympic Games' as "a film is a commercial venture that should shake his money to hide the emptiness of the scenario. And that the lack of artistic ambition and contempt with which it treats the audience result in a...
Promotion of the film: "O Jerusalem"
Case study - 8 pages - Services marketing
With nearly 50% of admissions, Europe remains the geographical leader for French cinema. The United States occupies a good third of the results for French films abroad. Asia saw a decline in the distribution. For two years, Japan recorded about 2 million entries, below their potential and,...
Film analysis: Mean Streets
Case study - 5 pages - Film studies
The famous American filmmaker, Martin Scorsese spent his childhood obsessing over missionaries and gangsters. These two themes remain dominant even in his films. He is the man behind the autobiographical, Who's That Knocking at My Door (1968) and the feature film Boxcar Bertha...
Neuroscience in Film: Distinguishing Fact and Myth in the Portrayal of Intelligence in Defending Your Life
Dissertation - 3 pages - Medical studies
Humans have the potential to use most of their brain if they choose to use reason and logic in their everyday decision making process. The movie 'Defending Your Life' examines how using more of one's brain power and overcoming earthly fears can propel an individual to move on to the next...
Internship Report - Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 13 pages - Services marketing
The Film Society of Lincoln Center was founded in 1969 to celebrate American and international cinema, recognize and support new filmmakers as well as enhance awareness, accessibility and understanding of the art. An independent performing arts center, The Film Society hosts a...
Film analysis: Rear Window Alfred Hitchcock
Dissertation - 2 pages - Film studies
According to the New York Times, 67% of people's personal favorite news stories are the ones where people perform acts of bravery in order to save someone's life. Saving the life of another person is truly a notable deed. Many people who risk their lives to perform daring acts of bravery do it...
Analyze the (critical) implications of how Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, Universal, USA, 1944) uses the conventions associated with film noir.
Dissertation - 4 pages - Arts and art history
Double Indemnity is widely regarded as a classic example of film noir by film critics and fans of the genre alike. In terms of genre Double Indemnity clearly belongs to the film noir category although it is due to the lighting and style that many believe, film noir...
Fuji film: Analysis and strategy
Case study - 16 pages - Business strategy
Fujifilm I & I (Imaging & Information) is an international Japanese company, established in 1934, which manufactures films and cameras. In a recent survey published in a Japanese business daily, the company was ranked the first in Japan. The group has leading technology, which enables it...
Analyze the (critical) implications of how Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, Universal, USA, 1944) uses the conventions associated with film noir. - publié le 22/10/2010
Dissertation - 4 pages - Television
Double Indemnity is widely regarded as a classic example of film noir by film critics and fans of the genre alike. In terms of genre Double Indemnity clearly belongs to the film noir category although it is due to the lighting and style that many believe, film noir...
The Vietnam War for the US film industry
Dissertation - 10 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The Vietnam War represents a crucial moment in U.S. contemporary history and has given rise to the conflict, which has so intensively motivated the American film industry. Although some Vietnam movies were produced during the conflict, it has been since the end of the war that the subject...
Internship Report - Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York
Internship report - 13 pages - Medias&communication marketing
The Film Society of Lincoln Center was founded in 1969 to celebrate American and international cinema, recognize and support new filmmakers as well as enhance awareness, accessibility and understanding of the art. An independent performing arts center, The Film Society hosts a...
The reality in Koreeda's film Nobody Knows
Dissertation - 2 pages - Film studies
As we take a cursory look of the city, we notice that the society appears to be very lively, crowded, bustling and excited. However, as we gain a deep understanding into reality, we may notice another dimension to this feeling of togetherness. The gray side of humanity is illustrated through the...
Choice of film speed
Dissertation - 2 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
A film is a basic tool for recording images in a camera. It is a flexible, transparent base, coated with light-sensitive emulsion containing silver halide crystals. When a black-and-white film is processed, silver halide crystals which had been exposed to light get reduced to black...
Comparison of depictions of Native Americans in Ford's films
Dissertation - 2 pages - Film studies
An examination of Hollywood films of the past, particularly those that fall into the genre of the Western are entertaining, but also serve as an interesting window into the context of Native American relations in the nineteenth and twentieth American centuries. The two movies Drums Along...
Film analysis: Ed Wood's Personhood
Dissertation - 4 pages - Film studies
Tim Burton's 1994 film Ed Wood is a meaningful parody that brings to life the biography of Edward D. Wood Jr. (a struggling filmmaker, actor and writer who reveals his identity as a heterosexual transvestite) as he would have filmed it. Wood comes to terms with his fetishes and the comfort...
Film analysis: Hunger Point
Dissertation - 4 pages - Film studies
The 2003 film, Hunger Point, tells the story of Shelly Hunter—a 23 year old struggling with anorexia—through the narration of her older sister, Frannie. While Shelly's presentation of anorexia is typical and conforms to the DSM-IV-TR criteria for a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa,...
Human resources: The film analysis
Dissertation - 5 pages - Human resources
The film depicts two HR realities. The first is that of the complex relationship between Frank, a young intern in Human Resources, who is dynamic, energetic, and his father who is both fearful and disillusioned with the job he has held since he was young. Frank is a victim of deceptive...
Film analysis - The dreamers
Dissertation - 2 pages - Film studies
Once the protagonists of “The Dreamers,” Matthew, Isabelle, and Theo lose access to the “Cinematheque Francaise,” they become even further cut off from the reality beyond the apartment. In fact, nearly the whole film is shot within the magical rooms and tight corridors...
American Beauty: Film analysis
Dissertation - 3 pages - Film studies
I believe that we enjoy watching movies because for a brief moment in time we can escape from reality and be transported to different places and live vicariously through the characters depicted in the film. American Beauty is the story of the last year of Lester Burnham's life and the...
Lolita in book and film
Dissertation - 2 pages - Literature
The difference between the character Clare Quilty in book and film of Lolita are huge. In the book by Vladimir Nabokov, Quilty is hardly seen or heard of until the very end of the book. However, in the film directed by Stanley Kubrick he is anything but subtle. The reasons for...
Films in a camera
Dissertation - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
A film is a basic tool for recording images in a camera. It is a flexible, transparent base, coated with light-sensitive emulsion containing silver halide crystals. When a black-and-white film is processed, silver halide crystals which had been exposed to light get reduced to black...
Representations of gender and sexuality in films - publié le 12/01/2009
Dissertation - 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...
Hollywood film genres: Melodrama - publié le 07/05/2009
Essay - 4 pages - Film studies
“Something else besides a mother” this was Stella Dallas' excuse to her daughter in order to alienate her bond with her daughter and secure the latter's marriage into the upper class society. Discussing the key-scenes of the film that reveal the two contradictory roles...
J'ai l'impression d'avoir le coeur sec: the emotive value of breaks, shifts and ellipses in the films of Maurice Pialat
Case study - 16 pages - Film studies
This dissertation sets out to analyze the function of breaks, shifts and ellipses in the films of Maurice Pialat (1925-2003). These shifts and contrasts, which can often be sudden or violent, create problems in relation to the narrative, as they are present between and within the sequences...
Media, messages and styles used by Indian marketing communicators of films
Dissertation - 17 pages - Services marketing
India is the world's largest producer of films by volume - producing almost a thousand films annually. However, revenue-wise, it accounts for only 1 percent of global film industry revenues. The Indian film industry comprises of a cluster of regional film...
Film aesthetics in Chris Rock's - "I Think I Love My Wife"
Dissertation - 2 pages - Journalism
The 2007 motion picture I Think I Love My Wife was directed and written by Chris Rock, who also stars in the film as the leading character. With screenwriting control and director credential Rock can tell the story of a man in a bland marriage from his point of view without outside...
Film Critique: The Asphalt Jungle
Essay - 4 pages - Film studies
The first wave of urgency to escape the world of corruption, greed, and immorality inside the shady underground of the urban city ("the jungle"), is brought forth by protagonists Dix Handley and Alonzo Emmerich in two scenes of John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle. The first scene takes place in...
Ridley Scott, George Lucas and Tim Burton: their visions of architecture in their Sci-fi films
Essay - 2 pages - Film studies
Being allowed to do an essay on three different film-makers is an opportunity not only to analyze their different ways of seeing the city and its architecture, but also of showing it through their movies. I have voluntarily chosen to compare three Anglo-Saxon film-makers who have...
