Orientalist painting
Essay - 10 pages - Arts and art history
Today, we are going to talk about Orientalist painting. In this way, I'm going to present you the general aspects of that kind of painting: its historical context, its specificities, its recurrent themes, its criticisms and finally its decline. Throughout this presentation, I will try to show you...
Apocalypse now
Essay - 13 pages - Arts and art history
Inspired by the novel written by Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899) and influenced by the film by Nicholas Ray Wind across the Everglades (1958), Francis-Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979) reveals a grandiose imagery that conveys a lavish symbolic charge. Vast opera of death and...
Drama film: Hiroshima mon amour
Study guide - 11 pages - Arts and art history
Ode to love and requiem for war, the incantatory threnody of Hiroshima mon amour lulls the senses and the spirit of the spectator grabbed by the literary and cinematographic poesy fruit of the collaboration between the writer Marguerite Duras and the cineaste Alain Resnais. Rewarded for its...
A clockwork orange (S. Kubrick)
Thesis - 15 pages - Arts and art history
The problematic axis of the course « Hollywood-Europe-Hollywood » is based upon the reciprocal interaction between European cinema policy & Hollywood film industry. In as much as it insists on the backward & forward motion of the influence from one model to the other, this thesis underlines the...
Under the blanket of "Sex and the City"
Essay - 14 pages - Arts and art history
Once upon a time, in New York City, there were four girlfriends. In celebrating the thirty something birthday of one of the four, they made a pact - to have sex like men. They decided to date who they want, when they want, as often as they could get what they want. This is how the show sex and...
The character of James Bond
Essay - 28 pages - Arts and art history
James Bond is the most indefatigable action hero in the history of cinema. Since 1962, his inclination for women, his taste for fights and his British appeal have been the right ingredients for a series, has been a great success. Indeed, for a generation who only knew the homogenized heroes and...
Is it true that hollywood films always reproduce stereotypical gender roles ?
Essay - 5 pages - Arts and art history
To discuss about the subject of the reproduction of stereotypical gender roles in Hollywood films, first of all, it is important to remember what the term “gender” means. Strictly, by definition, gender must be used to refer to females or maleness in cultural, social and linguistic...
Chagall : I and the village
Essay - 10 pages - Arts and art history
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) is one of the best loved artists of the 20th century. Born outside Vitbesk, a small Russian city of 50,000 inhabitants, he was naturalized French in 1937. His Russian childhood was to have important influence on his all work, and his dream-like memories of this period...
Women in the American cinema
Study guide - 2 pages - Arts and art history
Some people say that movies offer a clear reflection of a society or a culture, and put into light its majors concerns and views of the world. And one has to admit that this is particularly true for the American cinema, which, from its origins in the beginning of the 20th century, often followed...
