Essay about sin city (Franck Miller & Robert Rodriguez)
Essay - 4 pages - Film studies
I am going to talk about Sin city, an action, detective and all in all fantastic film released in 2005, directed by Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, and Quentin Tarantino (but only for the sequence in Dwight's car, in which he talks with the policeman Jackie, while he (Jackie) is dead). Sin city...
A pychoanalytic study of Hitchcok's Spellbound
Essay - 5 pages - Film studies
Alfred Hitchcock has often been cited as a film-maker who used the Freudian and Lacanian theories of psychoanalysis and applied them to the narrative of his films. Spellbound is a film which uses psychoanalysis as a plot device; psychoanalytical elements are found both in the characters, like in...
Hollywood film genres: Melodrama
Essay - 3 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 Stella...
The Western hero
Essay - 3 pages - Film studies
One of the best and most accurate descriptions of the Western hero was given by Robert Warshow in his 1954 article "The Westerner". This paper discusses the main characteristics or personality traits of the westerner (as defined by Warshow). It presents the westerner as the embodiment of the myth...
Mass media and representation
Essay - 8 pages - Medias
A discussion on Film music requires basic knowledge of the music industry, which only people involved in music may possess. However, it is a passionate subject to analyze and this is why this topic has been chosen. The film music constitutes a new musical medium, which easily provokes the...
Sample Music Review
Essay - 1 pages - Arts and art history
The Legendary Pink Dots, featuring members of Skinny Puppy, played the Howlin' Wolf on Saturday, June 12th. Upon scanning the stage and seeing the medley of performers, I knew it would be an interesting show. The saxophone player, dressed in a purple and orange suit, a rather average-looking...
American Psycho's Killer Gaze
Dissertation - 3 pages - Film studies
Jacques Lacan's description of the Other is that which gazes on you or exerts power on you, yet does not truly exist; the Other is an imagined gaze that is constantly looking over you (Willemen, 216). In the film American Psycho (2000), screenwriter and director Mary Harron personifies the...
Alfred Schnittke in Retrospect
Essay - 2 pages - Arts and art history
“For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to the most serene time of my life.” In this quote, Alfred Schnittke, in the final years before his death, recaps his pleasant times...
Analysis of do the right thing, spike lee (1989)
Essay - 4 pages - Film studies
Do the Right Thing was released in May 1989 in Cannes. Spike Lee directed, produced and wrote the screenplay for the film. It tackles the subject of race relations by depicting the ethnic communities of the Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, where Spike Lee grew up. Spike Lee plays the...
Sports and the Media: Sport TV rights throughout Europe, a comparative approach
Essay - 13 pages - Television
The relation between sports and television started years back. We all have in mind the image of Jesse Owen winning four gold medals in the 100m, 200m, long jump and 4X100m relay during the 1936 Nazis Berlin Olympic Games. Thus, we can assume that sport has provided the greatest images ever to...
How does Fox News cover Africa?
Essay - 3 pages - Medias
Fox News is the top rated channel in the United States (U.S.) but it is also broadcasted internationally in 40 countries. It can stand for an American point of view about news but also for a more global one. Fox News has an obvious impact on Americans. That is why, in order to monitor the way...
Corporate Strategy: Chop Chop Analysis of Total Group
Essay - 3 pages - Television
Total is France's largest corporation as well as the fourth largest publicly-traded integrated oil and gas company in the world. Total is involved in three major segments: downstream, upstream, and chemicals. In the following report, we carefully analyzed these three business segments to...
Images of Africa
Study guide - 1 pages - Medias
A Rwandan nun, Theophister Mukakibibi, was condemned last Thursday to thirty years of jail because of her involvement in the genocide that took place in 1994. Let us analyze the media coverage provided to this event. Are various newspapers dealing with the event in different ways? What is the...
Cultural transformations of Elitist discourse in the modern public sphere
Essay - 17 pages - Medias
In his essay entitled ?the communist manifesto' Marx noted that the Bourgeois and the Proletarians form antagonistic classes in society. The history of society hitherto is the history of class struggles. IN my opinion, it marks the beginning of conflict in modern society. This conflict is the...
Articles about Riots in France
Essay - 2 pages - Medias
This presentation deals with the recent French riots that occurred during October and November 2005. These French riots began on October 27 in a Paris suburb and then spread nationwide. We have chosen three articles from the television address of November 8, about the Prime Minister of France,...
The Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood
Essay - 10 pages - Arts and art history
A considerable number of women were active in every phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Some, as was the case for Elizabeth Siddal and Lucy Madox Brown, incorporated the ideas of their husbands and fathers into their own art. Others were deeply influenced by the freshness of the Pre-Raphaelite...
Rear Window as an example of Panopticism - publié le 10/05/2007
Essay - 2 pages - Film studies
Panopticism is a concept that stems from the work of an eighteenth century philosopher, Jeremy Bentham. He was trying to figure out how to build a prison in which the guards could see the prisoners in such a way that the prisoners could never come to know they were being watched upon. Although...
Does the press prior to elections manipulate the general public?
Essay - 2 pages - Medias
Does the response of the general public change due to the influence of the press? We often observe a difference in the opinion (polls) of the general public where press plays a major role in publicizing a particular event. One can assume the Royal's partisans and their reaction when the press...
France's Lost Jewel
Essay - 2 pages - Film studies
Unlike Great Britain, France's colonial wars tended to involve a great deal of violence on the part of the colonizers. Britain generally extricated itself from its colonies with relatively little immediate violence involving British soldiers. The differing ways in which the two countries...
Heavenly Creatures - publié le 02/05/2007
Study guide - 2 pages - Film studies
Heavenly Creatures is a film that dates back to the year 1994 and was set in the 1950s which revolves around the story of a relationship between two young school girls. The film was an example of postmodernism and will be analysed in depth showing how this film can be defined as a pastiche.
The influence of Socrealism in Poland
Essay - 7 pages - Arts and art history
Socrealism is „an attempt to translate Marxism into the sphere of art” . This term appeared first in 1932 in the soviet press. It is, more formally, an artistic current; it was indeed the official art trend imposed by the Communist regimes. It originates in the Union of Socialist and...
Film review : 'The Devil wears Prada'
Study guide - 2 pages - Film studies
The Devil wears Prada is a refreshing provocative fairytale. This screen adaptation of Lauren's Weisberger's 2003 novel, which happens to be a best-seller worldwide, is produced by Wendy Finerman, directed by David Frankel and distributed by 20th Century Fox. This Award-nominated 2006...
The Rise of Choral Polyphony in Burgundy
Essay - 7 pages - Arts and art history
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was a flourishing of culture in the Netherlands with the rise of humanism and the patronage of the Dukes of Burgundy. With the advances in trade and commerce, there was also a general prosperity which contributed to the wealth of artistic...
George Lois - America's master communicator
Presentation - 26 pages - Medias
George Lois triggered the innovative and populist changes in American culture along with the concept and prototype design for the New York supplement for the Herald Tribune. MTV was an abject failure and people were laughing at the idea of a 24 hour rock and roll station talking to kids. Music...
The African-American cinema: Between protest and integration
Essay - 4 pages - Film studies
The invention of cinema happened at the very same time as the establishment of the segregation in the South. This social and political system, which advocated prejudices and inequality of races, is definitely going to stigmatize the nature of the relationships between the American cinema and the...
The Distribution of French Cinema to the United States
Essay - 68 pages - Film studies
In regard to the past of French Cinema and the global Cinema Market, is it possible for French Cinema to distribute profitably to the American Market? French cinema sees itself as being the great innovator in style, treating movies like a cultural heritage. The United States has always considered...
The French reality TV programme landscape and the Star Academy programme
Essay - 8 pages - Television
The television landscape has changed years ago with the incredible growth of new programmes. Indeed, reality TV knows a huge development among TV viewers raising key issues around ethics, politics, truth-telling and realist representation. Even if reality television is totally a new genre of TV...
Ambiguity of the term "objectivity" in the media
Essay - 3 pages - Medias
The importance of the concept of objectivity in the media is well attested. Since the beginning of the newspaper press in the early nineteenth Century in the United States and in Europe, rising democracy in the Society has produced various economic, political and technological factors which have...
The Daily Mail's electronic version, United Kingdom
Essay - 6 pages - Medias
The news outlet I have chosen to analyze is the internet version of “The Daily Mail “, a newspaper based in the United Kingdom, very famous especially in England. It includes the daily version of this newspaper as well as “The Mail on Sunday”, its week-end's edition. Gate...
Sound in two Hollywood films: 'singin' in the rain' and Thelma & Louise
Essay - 3 pages - Film studies
Singin' in the Rain is a musical created in 1951 by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, Thelma & Louise a road movie created in 1991 by Ridley Scott. These two works could sound different; nevertheless they have a common point, which is the important role of sound, and especially music, within the...
