The case study of Skype
Case study - 6 pages - Journalism
Skype is software that allows free calls from one computer to another computer. Skype uses VoIP, but also, pays to call on any landline or mobile or enables to receive calls from landline or mobile. To use Skype, you need a computer, internet access, a microphone and speakers. We will see how it...
Film Industry: Analysis of the Venice and Cannes film festivals
Thesis - 3 pages - Film studies
The Venice Film Festival, also known as the Mostra, is the oldest film festival in the world, as its first opening dates from 1932. At first, the festival was only an art exhibition, to which music, cinema, theater, architecture and eventually dance were added, which makes it a unique festival....
Cinema and Technology: An Essay
Thesis - 3 pages - Television
'The cinema of attractions directly solicits spectator attention, inciting visual curiosity, and supplying pleasure through an exciting spectacle' Gunning (1990), p. 58. To what extent does mainstream cinema today continue to operate as a 'cinema of attractions'? Illustrate this...
Cinema and Technology: An Essay - published: 19/01/2011
Thesis - 3 pages - Arts and art history
'The cinema of attractions directly solicits spectator attention, inciting visual curiosity, and supplying pleasure through an exciting spectacle' Gunning (1990), p. 58. To what extent does mainstream cinema today continue to operate as a 'cinema of attractions'? Illustrate this...
The future of architecture lies in the Middle East
Thesis - 3 pages - Architecture
Persuasion is one of the strongest weapons in the history of English language. The persuasive powers of the English language are unlimited. Writers have long used English as a creative tool to convey messages to their readers, express certain feelings, reflect specific images, share emotions,...
Introduction to Jazz: Miles Davis, his life and music
Thesis - 3 pages - Television
Miles Davis is an American jazz composer and a trumpet player. He was born in Illinois in 1926 and died in California in 1991. Miles devoted himself to music throughout his life. He was and still is, even if dead, a key character in Jazz music. He has played all forms of Jazz, has created some...
Medieval Europe: Investiture Controversy
Thesis - 3 pages - Arts and art history
The Investiture Controversy marks one of the most unstable moments in the history of the Catholic Church. At the heart of the controversy, there were two sides competing for supreme authority, trying to answer the question of whether the king's power outranks that of the Pope's or vice versa....
Art After 1945: Gordon Matta-Clark
Thesis - 7 pages - Arts and art history
Like many of the artists of the 1970s, Gordon Matta-Clark was concerned with the impact of a capitalist-driven society on an urban setting. After studying architecture at Cornell University, Matta-Clark devoted himself to the concept of “anarchitecture.” Anarchitecture is an...
The Lady of Auxerre and the value judgment of the Greek Archaic Art
Thesis - 9 pages - Television
The Lady of Auxerre is a 75 cm high limestone statuette of a sculpted woman. The state of conservation is good except for the left half of the face and the arm, which was restored later on. There are red traces of painting on the breasts; She stands on a base 10 cm high in a very straight...
Hungarian Secession Style: An Art nouveau interpretation - The example of the Applied Arts museum of Budapest
Thesis - 5 pages - Television
In 1858, John Ruskin (1819-1900) wrote influential essays that prompted architects to be inspired by the nature teachings. Two others figures were a decisive influence on the creation of this new modern style. They are the “Comte de Laborde” (1807-1869) and Eugene Emmanuel Violet-le-Duc...
The Night Cafe by Van Gogh: An analysis
Thesis - 5 pages - Arts and art history
The Night Cafe by Van Gogh gives a real sense of melancholy, which is an outcome of the deep night glow in the cafe. This canvas has a very specific character. Painted in 1888, the Night Cafe is the pictorial transcription of sentimental and emotional tribulations that haunted the painter....
Joseph Beuys's 'I Like America and America Likes Me'
Thesis - 10 pages - Arts and art history
Joseph Beuys's “I Like America and America Likes Me" was performed in May 1974. The location of the action is commonly referred to as the Rene Block Gallery in New York. The gallery opened with this performance at 409 West Broadway. Beuys performed this action as a 53-year- old and with...
Street art: A case study
Thesis - 5 pages - Arts and art history
Places and means of access to culture are very numerous and very diverse. However, one often makes a deliberate approach to access knowledge: visit a museum, surf the net, participate in classes etc. Fortunately, there are areas of universal access, all you need is to keep your eyes and ears...
Jackson Pollock's Black and White: Number 26 A:
Thesis - 9 pages - Arts and art history
On 11 August 1956, the art world lost one of its most innovative American artists. Jackson Pollock died in a car accident and took with him the secrets of his work (which had been controversial) specifically the art of "drippings" (which he had engaged in from 1947 to1950). Among the...
The representation of the Great War in German Art: Otto Dix (1891-1961)
Thesis - 5 pages - Arts and art history
In August 1914, after months of a prolonging crisis and tension, the Great War broke out, abruptly interrupting any artistic activity in Europe. Indeed, those who had helped launch the first wave of new ideas of the twentieth century by their avant-garde trends were mobilized. It is in the...
Land Art
Thesis - 20 pages - Arts and art history
In the late 1960s, a limited number of artists, especially from New York, United States, left the classical settings of the workshop, gallery and museum, to work directly in nature, or introduce natural elements into museums. According to GillesTiberghien, this new Land Art can be defined as "a...
Reality TV - publié le 09/12/2010
Thesis - 2 pages - Film studies
Reality TV is a kind of TV program which presents humorous and dramatic situations without a script, documents actual events and features ordinary people instead of professional actors. Documentaries and nonfictional programs such as the news and sports shows are usually not classified as a...
Reality TV
Thesis - 2 pages - Film studies
Reality TV is a kind of TV program which presents humorous and dramatic situations without a script, documents actual events and features ordinary people instead of professional actors. Documentaries and nonfictional programs such as the news and sports shows are usually not classified as a...
Pathe: Internal and external analysis of the company - publié le 26/11/2010
Thesis - 70 pages - Film studies
Pathe is a French movie company. This company was founded as Societe Pathe Freres in Paris in 1886, by four brothers: Charles, Emile, Theophile and Jacques Pathe. First, thanks to Charles Pathe, the company became a major producer of phonograph records. Then he decided to extend his company to...
Pathe: Internal and external analysis of the company
Thesis - 70 pages - Film studies
Pathe is a French movie company. This company was founded as Societe Pathe Freres in Paris in 1886, by four brothers: Charles, Emile, Theophile and Jacques Pathe. First, thanks to Charles Pathe, the company became a major producer of phonograph records. Then he decided to extend his company to...
The art movement - Abstract Expressionism
Thesis - 3 pages - Television
Abstract Expressionism is a major movement, created in the half of the 20th century, when the international artistic scene moved from Paris to New-York. Actually, it was a kind of creative emulation of American painters in the 1940's 50's which was closely linked to the international and cultural...
Research methodology to arrive at the recommendations to improve businesses advertising and marketing strategies for a client
Thesis - 20 pages - Film studies
The aim of this report is to make recommendations to our client CS in order to improve businesses advertising and marketing strategies. The company has been established for 10 years but through poor advertising has not reached its full potential that the owner enthusiastically believes it can...
Feminism and Gender Sensitivity in Reporting
Thesis - 1 pages - Journalism
There is no doubt a thin line between the concepts of feminism and gender sensitivity in reporting. Sometimes these two concepts are interchanged. It is our view, however, that there is a significant difference between these two concepts. This report aims to clarify this difference particularly...
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
Thesis - 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 should be classed as a style...
Analyze the (critical) implications of how Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, Universal, USA, 1944) uses the conventions associated with film noir.
Thesis - 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 should be classed as a style...
"Language and the internet", David Crystal (2001)
Book review - 9 pages - Design and digital creation
Nowadays there is surely an increase of new forms of communication among people thanks to technological achievement, communicative power, and social potential of the Internet. While sociologists, political commentators, economists draw attention to the dangers of the Internet because of...
The emergence of Al-Jazeera in the Middle East - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 2 pages - Arts and art history
Olfa Lamloul, in her book entitled Al-Jazeera, Defiant and Ambiguous Mirror of the Arab World wrote, ‘The short history of the disrespectful Arabic channel Al-Jazeera, broadcast from the emirate of Qatar,provides valuable reference points in the maze of Middle Eastern issues in the post-Cold...
In what way does Romanticism challenge the aesthetic values of Neoclassicism? - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 4 pages - Arts and art history
At a time when the ideal of enlightment dominated in European cultural life, Rousseau was the only philosopher to enhance the significance of individual experiment and the need for nature in the education of young boys. Nature is elevated to a moral guide, a source of innocence and timeless...
What image of the ' native ' population does Delacroix's 1834 Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement present, and how did Picasso revisit this painting in 1954? - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 5 pages - Arts and art history
Delacroix painted Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement in 1834 after he was back from his journey in Morocco and Algeria which had profoundly influenced him,. In 1954, after having revisited many painters such as Velasquez or Monet, Picasso decided to revisit Delacroix's Femmes...
Women with the Hat, Henri Matisse, 1905 - published: 29/09/2010
Essay - 3 pages - Arts and art history
This paper analyzes the extent to which the artwork, by virtue of the painting technique used, has an impact on the reaction of its audience, and the artistic context in which it was created. Imagine a woman looking at someone. She is seated, with her face turned towards the audience. She seems...
