The US cinema industry (2005) - publié le 09/05/2009
Thesis - 3 pages - Film studies
When I try to imagine a typical American family, the first image which comes to mind is that of a perfect family with beautiful (their teeth have to shine) and rich parents and beautiful and healthy children, who live happily in a small house somewhere in the countryside in a small village. A...
Contemporary French cinema explores the possibilities for human relations after loss, melancholy and trauma
Essay - 5 pages - Film studies
The subject of loss has been widely exploited in the twentieth century cinema by film-makers and actors. It is a classic and a delicate topic. As dealing with the loss is very personal and hardly reproducible on a film stock, the undertaking is risky. It is difficult to find the right...
Formulating nationalist conversations: An investigation of the function of West African Cinema
Essay - 4 pages - Film studies
Traditional African filmmakers, considered themselves part of an emerging third world cinema and used film as a tool of revolution, a means of political education to be used for transforming consciousness, however now there is a new generation of filmmakers that have been supposedly "freed...
Human connection in international cinema
Essay - 7 pages - Film studies
Many of the films we have watched in Contemporary International Cinema explore the nature of love on various levels. Some focus on the platonic aspect of human connection, some look at the sociological and nationalistic bonds that hold people together, and some delve deep into the inner...
European cinema, the French Nouvelle Vague Cinema: Truffaut's representation of childhood/children in 400 Blows
Case study - 3 pages - Film studies
A French expression ?faire les Quatre Cents Coups' is a common idiom used to describe children who are very undisciplined and disorderly. If correctly reflected and cited, this idiom is an extension from the expression that derives the title of Truffaut's first real film Les Quatre Cents...
British cinema and society with analysis of the film: Passport to Pimlico, 1949, Henry Cornelius
Essay - 4 pages - Film studies
Great Britain is usually perceived as a country that has a very developed culture, with respect to several points of view, not only musical, but also literally and, of course cinematographic. It thus seems interesting to show what the relation between cinema and British society is. To deal...
The US cinema industry (2005)
Essay - 3 pages - Film studies
When I try to imagine a typical American family, the first image which comes to mind is that of a perfect family with beautiful (their teeth have to shine) and rich parents and beautiful and healthy children, who live happily in a small house somewhere in the countryside in a small village. A...
Cinema of the absurd: The baby boom generation in The Big Lebowski
Essay - 4 pages - Film studies
After World War II, America experienced what would eventually be termed the “baby boom,” in which about 75 million births occurred between the years of 1946 and 1964. The “baby boomer” generation has been constantly examined since its inception, and the world during its time...
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...
Postmodernism and cinema
Essay - 7 pages - Film studies
‘It's about flights of fantasy, and the nightmare of reality, terrorist bombings, and late night shopping, true love, and creative plumbing.' (Gilliam; 1985). This tagline for the film Brazil highlights most of the concepts present in postmodernist criticism of cinema and television....
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...
Tragi-comedy in British committed cinema
Essay - 2 pages - Film studies
Tragicomedy refers to fictional works that blends the genres of tragedy and comedy into an entity that has its own character. It is a way to deal with tragedy as it is a difficult subject to be dealt with alone and the intensity can be cut by the distance set in by humor. Topics such as...
Divided Against The Self :The ego-dystonic individual as illustrated in Stephen Frear's "Prick up Your Ears" An essay On Erotic Identity, Homosexuality and the Cinema
Essay - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Stephen Frear's Prick Up Your Ears (1987) is based upon the life of England's notorious playwright Joe Orton. The film focuses primarily on Joe's 16 year unconventional relationship with Kenneth Halliwell. This relationship shall be used in the analysis that follows as an...
By-products of the cinema and the caso of the Star Wars films
Essay - 24 pages - Medias&communication marketing
This dissertation deals with the subject matter concerning the by-products of the cinema. Thereafter the dissertation will progress to collect sufficient evidence that is required to efficiently market and broadcast a particular kind of product. This concept can be clearly explained by...
Women in the American cinema
Worksheets - 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...
Corporate strategy - Disney +
Case study - 9 pages - Business strategy
Entertainment giant Disney's new streaming platform is undoubtedly a major turning point for the company. Disney+ is an online video-on-demand platform owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company through its Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer and International division with the four...
Maya Deren: Avant-Garde Filmmaking
Essay - 3 pages - Film studies
Discover how Maya Deren's cinematic work embodies avant-gardism and experimentation, influencing American avant-garde cinema with her metaphysical and poetic films.
In what way storytelling helped shape feminism in our current society?
Essay - 3 pages - Philosophy
I choose the notion of the Idea of Progress. To illustrate this notion, I decided to talk about the idea of progress in feminism. Before I start, I'd like to give a quick definition of the notion: the idea of progress can be defined as an improvement, a development or a change. As a...
Cult and Classic Films in Eastern Europe
Artwork commentary - 3 pages - Film studies
This analysis explores the concept of cult and classic films in the context of Eastern European cinema during the Soviet era.
Jane Eyre - Franco Zeffirelli (1996) - The issue of adaptation
Artwork commentary - 18 pages - Film studies
Zeffirelli had to combine several, sometimes contradictory constraints: he had to update the text, to maintain a specific filmic transcription of the novel, and to negotiate a delicate balance between recognising the influence of the source text and the need for a specific creativity in the...
Hollywood: history, origins, stereotype
Essay - 14 pages - Film studies
We all know Hollywood; and for us, it's a famous place that we liked to visit. When we talk about Hollywood, the first words that come to our mind is stars, cinema, glamour, shiny, great weather etc. but, like all the famous place, not many people know WHAT IT IS really. We see...
A Trip to the Moon - Georges Méliès (1902)
Artwork commentary - 3 pages - Film studies
I examined 'A Trip to the Moon' because of its historical relevance, early science fiction's inventiveness, and social critique. The film's creative imagery, fantastic storyline, and sarcastic overtones shaped subsequent filmmakers and popular culture's space exploration...
Speculative Design
Presentation - 53 pages - Design and digital creation
Utopia, in fact, describes an ideal state (or at least the best possible one): its roots can be found in Plato's Republic. Dystopia, on the other hand, describes the negation of this ideal, often in the form of despotism. (...) Speculative design is a design approach that imagines possible...
The Mandate Film Analysis
Artwork commentary - 3 pages - Film studies
Analysis of Ousmane Sembène's 1968 film 'The Mandate', exploring themes of independence, corruption, and social reality in Senegalese society.
Foam of the Daze: Novel and Film Adaptation
Artwork commentary - 5 pages - Film studies
Analysis of Michel Gondry's film adaptation of Boris Vian's novel Foam of the Daze, exploring the challenges and creative choices made in translating the surrealist visual universe to the screen.
Documentary Listening to Filmed Speech
Essay - 3 pages - Film studies
This document provides a framework for film analysis, focusing on documentary listening to filmed speech and its application in understanding Eduardo Coutinho's documentary films.
Nosferatu the Vampire
Case study - 4 pages - Film studies
Nosferatu the Vampire (Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens in the original) is a German silent film by Friedrich W. Murnau (who is a pioneer in this genre of movie) screened for the first time March 5, 1922 in Berlin. This is the first film adaptation of the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker,...
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...
Aston Martin
Case study - 2 pages - Business strategy
Firstly, the origins of Aston Martin. Aston Martin is one of the most famous English car brands. It is based in Gaydon, at one hundred and twenty 120 kilometers from London. It was created in nineteen thirteen 1913 by Lionel Martin, and the name Aston comes from the name of a race that Lionel...
The Tangible Sight: The Haptic Experience in Film
Dissertation - 20 pages - Film studies
The following essay concerns audio-visual representations of the sense of touch in cinema, with a focus on contemplative and experimental cinema, and the affect it has on a general audience. To explain what happens physiologically and psychologically that allows us to feel,...
