Résumé du film Rebecca d'Alfred hitchcock
Book review - 1 pages - Film studies
Résumé du film Rebecca d'Alfred hitchcock adapté d'un roman de Daphné du Morrier. The movie by Alfred Hitchcock was adapted by a novel to Dafné du Maurier. The story took place in Cornwall in the 1930'. At the beginning of the plot the narrator, a women (we never know her name), dreamed.
TV Families: TV, Family and Dominant ideology
Essay - 8 pages - Television
"Family is the one experience to which virtually all viewers can relate" Kutulas states (2005, p. 49). For this reason, family is omnipresent in the current televisual landscape. But this is not any family. For many decades, television has broadcasted a certain type of family: the nuclear family,...
Reality TV and Ideology
Essay - 3 pages - Television
"Media rituals are actions that reproduce the myth that the media are our privileged access point to social reality" (p. 60) Couldry argues in Reality TV: Remaking television culture (2004). This myth is particularly significant in reality TV whose claim is to present real life. Thus, if rituals...
Art and globalization - published: 12/05/2011
Thesis - 21 pages - Arts and art history
"Art always has been and always will be important to humans", says Cynthia Freeland, professor of philosophy at the Houston University. This sentence, announced as a universal truth, shows that art remains strongly essential for human beings. It is also assured that everybody knows the importance...
Art and globalization
Thesis - 21 pages - Arts and art history
"Art always has been and always will be important to humans", says Cynthia Freeland, professor of philosophy at the Houston University. This sentence, announced as a universal truth, shows that art remains strongly essential for human beings. It is also assured that everybody knows the importance...
NIGHTS OF VILLJAMUR by Mark Charan Newton, Excerpt
Poesy - 36 pages - Art history
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Comparing English broadcast journalism and French broadcast journalism
Thesis - 4 pages - Medias
History of journalism has been influenced by technologies and also by cultural history and geographic areas. In order to study this specific point, we will observe in this essay the differences between broadcast journalism in England and broadcast journalism in France, through their own history...
Sir Alfred Hitchcock: A unique perspective of movie making style, always done for the viewers
Thesis - 2 pages - Film studies
Nothing in Mister Hitchcock's childhood foretold him to pursue his great career in movie making. The little Hitchcock was quiet, shy and reserved. He spent a part of his scholarship in a Jesuit college which gave him a critical opinion of integrity of people working for churches. He also had had...
Abstract Expressionism
Thesis - 2 pages - Arts and art history
In the 1950s, abstract expressionism was the most influential in the world of art. But that movement which considered United States as the leading artistic place wasn't a bolt from the blue. In fact in the 1940s, some artists asked themselves about the idea of pure American art, and most of them...
Movie Analysis: "Chocolat" by Claire Denis
Book review - 3 pages - Film studies
Chocolat is a movie made by a women filmmaker named Claire Denis. She lived her youth in Senegal, she made a semi-autobiographic movie to share a part of her life with us and mostly to show the aspect of the woman's life during this colonial time. But in my point of view, even if the story is...
The frontier between life and death in the history of cinema
Thesis - 15 pages - Film studies
The old conception of death has always been scary and morbid, a thing that has always been hard to accept, so that it had to be mysterious. Something that people would not want to talk about, that was considered as a taboo. Of course, it was the same as all the taboo subjects, like the cinema, as...
The recent evolution of the music industry
Essay - 5 pages - Music and dance
Within the last twenty years, the music industry has experienced a world of change. Revolutionary technology has evolved almost every aspect of the industry, from the artist to the label to the publisher. Like other media industries, music has been forced to roll with these changes.So first, we...
Analysis of uses of social networking sites
Worksheets - 8 pages - Design and digital creation
To begin my survey, I am going to present my method to identify effectively the major issues of my survey. I have been interested in the study of student's attitudes and student's behavior when they use social networking sites. I have been obliged to choose a way to collect qualitative and...
The New World (2005, Terrence Mallick)
Essay - 5 pages - Film studies
The year of 1607 is remembered as the year the English colonists first settled in America. This crucial date in American history is one of an unexpected encounter between two civilizations, the European and the Indians. In popular culture, the confrontation of those opposite cultures has been...
Sicko (Michael MOORE)
Essay - 5 pages - Film studies
Ever since his first documentary, "Roger and Me", Michael Moore has always been a controversial documentary maker. His movies tackle burning issues such as the war in Iraq, weapon ownership on the basis of the 2nd amendment, large corporations' greed at the expense of workers and customers....
Televisuality, realism and ideology in TV
Essay - 2 pages - Television
John T. Caldwell uses the term « televisuality » to address the 1980s turn to stylistic exhibitionism in American television. "Televisuality was a stylizing performance" (Caldwell, 1995), TV dominated by style. It generated a new approach to realism by creating new codes. What are these codes?...
The Medium is the Message - M. McLuhan
Essay - 1 pages - Medias
In his work, McLuhan studied the link between the content and the medium in the communication process. He played a capital role in the elaboration of modern communications studies by asserting that "The Medium is the message" (Understanding Media: The extensions of man, 1964). Indeed, as opposed...
Tricksters for Myths and Legends
Thesis - 2 pages - Arts and art history
Gods, according to mythology, are troublemakers. What shines through from the lessons espoused within most mythological tales is that Gods are apt to get carried away. They represent the most basic of human desires, seeking self success, happiness and fame; and they are driven entirely by blind...
Anglais - Exposé Elite Model Power Point
Presentation - 1 pages - Arts and art history
With more than 35 agencies in its network and the most powerful model scouting process in the industry (the Elite Model Look), Elite offers complete international coverage. Thirty four years after opening its doors in Paris, Elite today manages over 800 models from 5 continents. Its approach to...
Analyse d'une publicité
Case study - 1 pages - Arts and art history
This humoristic ad comes from the brand Mini. It's on a billboard. It's composed with three parts: the car Mini Cooper on the left, a bodycopy on the right, the logo and the website at the bottom and a frame around. The Mini Cooper is pink with the roof white. The bodycopy is white and...
Jenny Holzer: Merging Verbal and Visual Art
Thesis - 3 pages - Arts and art history
Art of the 20th century can be characterized by the common feature of progressing the definition of art and constantly challenging the relationship between artist, art and viewer; the ability to do this while utilizing new technologies that appeal to the modern world and current events is what...
Buddhist influence on architectural elements of the Dunhuang Caves of China
Thesis - 4 pages - Arts and art history
The Dunhuang Caves have long been one of the most important architectural sites in the world, not only as a monument of cultural heritage, but also as memorial to the only religion to ever be universally accepted throughout the vast empire of China. While the sheer number of caves is an...
The collection of the Medici displayed at the Tribuna and Rudolf II's wunderkammer
Dissertation - 9 pages - Art history
"Kunstkammer" or "wunderkammer" are German words and meant respectively "marvels room" and "art room". These words became famous thanks too Julius Von Schlosser who published in 1908 a work on the art titled Die Kunst- und Wunderkammern der Spätrenaissance. These words mean in particular the...
Philips Wouwerman, Taste and market in the 18th century
Dissertation - 11 pages - Art history
Philips Wouwerman was born in Haarlem in 1618. He was the eldest son of the painter Paul Joosten and Susanna van den Bogert. His two brothers, Pieter and Johannes Wouwerman, were also to become painters. Philips probably received his first painting lessons from his father. According to Cornelis...
Caillebotte's bequest
Dissertation - 10 pages - Art history
Gustave Caillebotte (Fig. 1) has long been considered as an odd man out in the circle of the French Impressionist. A wealthy amateur, a friend and a supporter of these artists, Caillebotte amassed a stunning collection of their work, which he bequeathed to the State at his death in 1894, and...
An Artist : Gaudi
Essay - 1 pages - Arts and art history
Antonio Gaudi was a Spanish and a Catalan architect, who belonged to the Modernism (Art Nouveau) movement. He was famous for his unique style and highly individualistic designs. We think he was born in the province of Tarragona in Catalonia in 1852. While there is some dispute about his...
Comparison of two artist-painters' works: Jacques-Louis David and Gustave Courbet
Thesis - 4 pages - Arts and art history
The artists chosen for this study are the two French painters Jacques-Louis David and Gustave Courbet.They lived similar experiences in the social and political chaos of post-revolutionary France. Chronologically speaking, the two of them together examined the changes in the society furthermore...
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 (1972). Mean...
A historiography of the net.art
Essay - 4 pages - Arts and art history
The historiography of an event, phenomenon or a novel can be defined as the examination of different discourses and diverse modes of writing history. Therefore, we must first, examine the design of the history and methodology. Today, historiography is characterized by a rapid methodology that...
Is Brasilia an urban Utopia?
Case study - 4 pages - Architecture
The region of Brasilia came into being on April 21, 1960. Today, it is the capital of Brazil. It was built at the request of President Juscelino Kubitschek and was designed by Oscar Niemeyer and Lucio Costa. In this paper we will try to answer the question of whether or not Brasilia fits the role...
