Porter's Five Forces - Disney
Case study - 4 pages - International marketing
The Walt Disney Company is an American company founded in 1923 and specializing in leisure and entertainment. The Walt Disney Company was originally a cartoon production studio, created and supported by the two brothers of the Disney family. Disney studios are the source of many cartoons that are...
The Codes and Conventions of Factual Programming for Television
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Film studies
Documentary films are ‘non-fictional, slice of life factual works of art' (Reference: http://www.filmsite.org/docfilms.html). Because of this, documentaries may be described as accurate representations of life, whether that is true or not is a completely different story. The...
SWOT Analysis - Walt Disney
Case study - 5 pages - International marketing
The Walt Disney Company is an American company founded in 1923 and specializing in the field of entertainment. It was originally a cartoon studio created by two brothers, Roy & Walt Disney. Success was quick, and the group quickly grew in size. In the 1950s, the company turned to the production...
Shadows - John Cassavetes (1959) - What is the representation of the African American in the 19th century?
Presentation - 18 pages - Film studies
This slideshow is a support for an oral presentation of John Cassavetes' film Shadows, highlighting the representation of the African American in the 19th century.
Do the Right Thing - Spike Lee (1989) - Examining Race Relations in American Culture
Artwork commentary - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
As the sizzling heat of Brooklyn summer sets in, Lee's 1989 hit film, "Do the Right Thing," approaches simmering disputes and clashes of culture that arrived and were boiling. Floating in the background, it becomes a formidable formula that helps to see the race relationships of the...
Irresistible - Jon Stewart (2020)
Dissertation - 2 pages - Film studies
Irresistible is an American political comedy film written and directed by Jon Stewart and released in June 2020 in the US with as main characters: Steve Carell, Chris Cooper, Mackenzie Davis, Topher Grace, Natasha Lyonne, and Rose Byrne. This movie speaks about the political world...
4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days - Mungiu Cristian (2007) - A commentary on the narrative's social and historical contexts
Artwork commentary - 5 pages - Film studies
The film, "4 months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days", by Mungiu Cristian opens on a fish tank resting on a table clustered with newspapers, dishes, and a smoking cigarette burning on an ashtray. And as a hand reaches out for the smoke, the picture pulls back in a sharp movement and reveals two...
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...
Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Lamb to the Slaughter - Alfred Hitchcock (1957) - Summary
Artwork commentary - 1 pages - Film studies
This short film was directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1957 as the 28th episode in the third season of his television series "Alfred Hitchcock Presents". The director first introduces the story from a grocery store, where he is funnily fined for causing traffic trouble, as if he was driving...
Presentation of 9/11
Essay - 2 pages - Modern history
A hero is a person who is admired for their courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities. It can be the main character in a book or a film or a person with superhuman qualities. It can also be a modern-day hero, a person who has performed a heroic act or simply our own personal...
General trend in the way american movies portrayed american leadership in the last seven decades
Essay - 2 pages - Film studies
Leaders are generated in small numbers. Some are born to be leaders, while others work so hard that they eventually assume the role of leadership. Nevertheless, most leaders share similar characteristics. Over the last seven decades, several films have revealed the identity of leaders in...
Pop culture and Superheroes
Essay - 2 pages - Arts and art history
Pop culture plays a pivotal role in shaping societal perceptions, especially in the realm of gender representations and superhero narratives. In the vast expanse of popular culture, which encompasses mediums such as television, films, video games, and print, representations of gender often...
Little Miss Sunshine (2006) - Written expression and movie review
Tutorials/exercises - 1 pages - Linguistics & languages
This writing assignment explores "Little Miss Sunshine" (2006), discussing the film's ending, exploring the presence of a moral, and examining whether the Hoover family becomes more united.
Case study: The spitfire grill- Reasons why characters apply lies and secrets
Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies
The Spitfire Grill is a cinema's finest that is deeply theological in its film category and it is mainly packaged as a feel-good drama panned by a large figure of secular critics. They pay most of their attention to emotional tonalities and at the same time ignoring theological content and...
Creative essay exercises
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Linguistics & languages
This document contains three different types of essay exercises. The first exercise involves writing a storyboard for a film, the second exercise entails writing a letter to support a campaign, and finally, an exercise that involves writing a script for a scene in a play.
Marketing Mix - Disney
Case study - 4 pages - International marketing
Walter Elias Disney co-founder of the Walt Disney Company with his brother Roy since 1923. Originally few people know that Walter had created a production company alone which unfortunately went bankrupt, during which time he produced Alice in Wonderland. However, he did not let that hold him back...
Activities on a construction site
Internship report - 15 pages - Architecture
For the purpose of obtaining the degree in Mechanical Civil Engineering (GCM). At the end of the third year, each student must complete an internship in a company (or communities or design office). It is an opportunity for the student to discover the world of work and to really understand the...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey (1962) - The 3 main characters
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
At first sight, this quotation makes me think that in reality it is our acts which determine the person that we are. We can be judged by our acts. It is particularly true in Ken Kesey's novel... The example of the three main characters: The Chief, the Big Nurse and McMurphy.
The Screenplay
Worksheets - 3 pages - Film studies
This document is made of ten corrected questions about screenplays.
How did the Brighton School change the way of telling stories in Cinema, using in particular a new method of editing and giving a new role to the camera?
Dissertation - 2 pages - Film studies
A freshman graduating in Cinema would probably have questions about how Cinema has evolved since 1895. Although, more precisely, the question to ask is when and what are the basis of the cinema we know today. The Brighton School started in 1898 with Robert William Paul. He built his own camera:...
To What Extent Does the Expression of Emotions Influence Relationships?
Dissertation - 3 pages - Psychology
Emotions play an important role in our daily lives, they are affecting everything from our behavior to our decisions, and contribute to the construction of our own- identity. So they represent a crucial part of the communication between humans and relationships are based on communication,...
Presentation of the Character Wonder Woman
Case study - 6 pages - Arts and art history
Wonder Woman first appeared in 1941, created by psychologist William Moulton Marston and artist Harry G. Peter. In her original comic book origin, Wonder Woman is a princess of the Amazons, a mythical race of female warriors that have isolated themselves from the world on Paradise Island. She is...
4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days: A look at Mise-en-Scene
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
The award winning film 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days chronicles the life of two Romanian university girls as they navigate the difficult communist life of 1987 Romania. In the film, the two friends embark on journey to perform an illegal abortion after one of the girls, Gabriela,...
They Live: Underestimating Camp
Essay - 4 pages - Film studies
Distinguishing a film as “campy” is, arguably, as difficult as determining whether or not a film is “good.” The definition of “camp” is utterly malleable and, moreover, exists almost purely in the eyes of the beholder. Similarly, a film is rarely...
National cinema and tropes of horror: Guillermo del Toro's "The Devil's Backbone" - Representing fascism through hauntology
Thesis - 5 pages - Film studies
Horror films, rich in texture, are capable of interpretatively referencing specific national contexts. Using the supernatural, these stories can aid in understanding national themes by correlating particular social ills or historical periods with the uncanny: the film's...
The evolution of the Walt Disney Company
Case study - 6 pages - Business strategy
Walt Disney and an artist, Ub Iwerks, created a company that specialized in cartoons in the early 1920s in Kansas City. They had derived the inspiration from the Lumiere Brothers' invention. Walt Disney's company soon went bankrupt. Undeterred, he teamed up with his brother Roy in 1923 to...
Fellini's Otto e mezzo
Thesis - 5 pages - Film studies
Since the dawn of cinema, there have been numerous film directors who have garnered the reputation of innovator, auteur, even genius of the medium. Only three directors, however, have created such unmistakably identifiable styles as to warrant film terminologies based on their very...
Michael Curtiz: Case study
Case study - 7 pages - Literature
Being director in Hollywood in 1940, is a curious business, midway between the foreman and the artist. Led studios, artists who are appointed to this position must obey a number of injunctions while using their authority on teams assigned to them. They have a particularly drastic specifications...
Stranger Than Paradise: Meaningful Minimalism
Essay - 3 pages - Film studies
The term “independent film” is extremely malleable in the realm of American cinema. A film may be considered “independent” if it is financed and/or distributed outside of a Hollywood studio, or if it bends and/or breaks the conventions of mainstream American...
Viewer's Guide: Okuribito (Departures)
Essay - 8 pages - Film studies
New viewers of Asian cinema, especially if they are from a Western audience, often encounter many problems in understanding Asian movies. The cultural background of the film can often times be quite perplexing; Asian culture differs so vastly from Western culture that many new viewers...
