Indian television in the era of globalization
Case study - 20 pages - Film studies
Since its birth in 1959, it seems that Indian television has developed in a way that is similar to most of the world's broadcasting sectors. Conquered by technological progress, particularly by the major advance that the introduction of satellite transmissions represents, the Indian television...
Characterization of Joe Brody in Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep
Case study - 3 pages - Film studies
The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms defines characterization as “representation of persons in narrative and dramatic works” and distinguishes between direct characterization, which attributes qualities to the character directly by virtue of description or commentary, and indirect...
Is reality real? Protecting the viewers through informative disclaimers
Case study - 26 pages - Film studies
Reality television has swept America over like an epidemic. Almost every channel has some form of a reality show. This genre began in 1989 with the creation of COPS and America's Funniest Home Videos. Only three years later MTV aired the first episode of The Real World. After that, reality...
The economic impact of the movie making industry in the United States
Case study - 18 pages - Film studies
Along with the main industries of the United States, such as the automobile or the pharmaceuticals industry, the American film industry emerged during the twentieth century as an industrialized mass entertainment activity. Every year, billions of movie tickets were sold in the US, and all over...
Introduction to European culture: Nosferatu, the first version (1922)
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,...
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,...
Christians in the entertainment industry
Case study - 4 pages - Film studies
As an aspiring filmmaker, it would seem that I'm on my way to entering an industry that isn't exactly brimming with Christian values. The film industry, along with the rest of the entertainment industry (music, theater, advertising, etc.), tends to be more interested in what makes money than...
Acting sample resume
Case study - 1 pages - Film studies
Musicals: Seussical the Musical Little Shop of Horrors Oliver! Little Shop of Horrors Into the Woods Les Misérables The Music Man Ensemble Workshops With: Billy Scudder, Robert Goodwin, Gregory Smith, Mark Lewis, Gai Jones, Ann Reinking, Vance Fulkerson, Bryan Davidson, Corky Dominguez, Danny...
Curb Your Enthusiasm: A linguistic analysis of a social assassin
Case study - 9 pages - Film studies
Curb Your Enthusiasm is an HBO series which centers on Larry David as the main character. Larry is best known for being the writer of the hit series, Seinfeld, and in Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry plays a partially fictionalized version of himself. The show is filmed in a cinéma vérité style and...
The role of women in Shadows (John Cassavetes, 1959)
Case study - 2 pages - Film studies
In his article in Film Culture, Jonas Mekas wrote about Shadows: “It doesn't prove anything, it doesn't even want to say anything, but really it tells more than ten or 110 other recent American films.” Later, he wrote in Sight and Sound: “Since their most passionate obsession...
Beyond the Harem - Fall 2008
Case study - 7 pages - Film studies
In the feature films Persepolis and Rana's Wedding, we are told the stories of women who in the course of their lifetime have defied male patriarchy, and are therefore labeled as feminists. However, these and many others are exclusively individual examples, and it seems that there is no...
Man and the Metropolis: Fritz Lang's Vision of the Future
Case study - 5 pages - Film studies
In 1927, director Fritz Lang, in collaboration with his wife, screenwriter Thea Von Harbou, produced a cinematic masterpiece of science-fiction that addressed the relationship between society and technology during an era in which that relationship was at its formative stage. The socio-political...
The success of the novel and the movie "Memoirs of a Geisha"
Case study - 3 pages - Film studies
When it was first published in 1997, the novel “Memoirs of a Geisha” written by Arthur Golden has already met a huge success: it ranked during a whole year in the New York Times top 10 best-sellers list. In 2005, the big screen adaptation of the book, produced by Steven Spielberg, also...
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...
Tex Avery, the Crazy Genius
Case study - 5 pages - Film studies
Cartoons emerged as one of the most famous entertainment characters in the middle of the 20th century. They were as famous as stars like Marilyn Monroe. A lot of awards were won by supervisors of cartoons. For example, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the creators of "Tom and Jerry" have got 7...
J'ai l'impression d'avoir le coeur sec: the emotive value of breaks, shifts and ellipses in the films of Maurice Pialat
Case study - 16 pages - Film studies
This dissertation sets out to analyze the function of breaks, shifts and ellipses in the films of Maurice Pialat (1925-2003). These shifts and contrasts, which can often be sudden or violent, create problems in relation to the narrative, as they are present between and within the sequences...
'I reinvented the past in the pursuit of a haunting and timeless truth': Do Louis Malle's war films correspond to the notion of the postmodern historical drama?
Case study - 11 pages - Film studies
In a review published by the French periodical Le Nouvel Observateur, critic Jean-Louis Bory (1974: 56-57) described Lacombe, Lucien (1974) as ‘the first real film-and the first true film-about the Occupation...' He added, ‘I know. I was there'. The problematic nature of this statement...
Pornography in the Finnish context - publié le 12/01/2009
Case study - 3 pages - Film studies
Since 1970s, some changes have been made in the Swedish and Finnish pornography market. The consumption of pornography has increased in terms of supply, variability, and accessibility. Pornography and pornographic material for a variety of tastes can be obtained in convenience stores, (sex)...
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...
12 Angry Men: Analyzing the Jurors
Case study - 2 pages - Film studies
The movie 12 Angry Men systematically altered the views of the jurors by eliminating the bias, ignorance, and fallacies. Many of these men held predetermined points of view in which there minds were made up before analyzing the defendant. Through the process of reviewing factual information and...
