Manipulation of space and sexuality in L'Avventura
Essay - 5 pages - Film studies
In Rudolf Arnheim's Dynamics of Architectural Form, Arnheim argues that in many ways, physical space is less important to human beings than the psychological perception of space. For the average man, experience isn't made up of isolated incidents, but rather an “experience is generated only...
Three mile island accident
Essay - 5 pages - Journalism
Three Mile Island Crisis started at four a.m. on March 28th, 1979. There was a clog in one of the pipes and the men working there had to clear it out, which was a regular occurrence. They shot air into the pipe in order to unclog it, which worked and then they went about their usual business at...
Market driven Journalism
Essay - 5 pages - Journalism
The effects of market driven journalism on the fourth estate are questionable at best and disastrous at worst. In market driven journalism, “viewers and readers are transformed into customers, news into products, and circulation or signal areas into markets” (McManus, 1). A prime...
Eric Clapton: Legend among legends
Essay - 4 pages - Arts and art history
In the late 1960s, one of the most well known cases of graffiti observed around the musical Meccas of London and New York was "Clapton is God". Three decades later, the sensational guitarist and singer continues to keep his fans captivated by producing remarkable musical innovations. His...
If only I were an Indian, de John Paskievich
Essay - 3 pages - Film studies
The film "If only I were an Indian", incorporates many controversial topics. It is mainly focused upon the borrowing of cultures and traditions. The film is about a group of Czech people who, from time to time, attempt to live the traditional lives of the people from the Plains of North America....
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 with...
Hiding in the stacks: How U.S media transmit U.S Government lies
Essay - 4 pages - Journalism
The American Government has a wide array of resources available with which they can disseminate information regarding their activities, both at home and abroad. These resources include but are not limited to press secretaries, communications chiefs, and leaked documents that are released to the...
Shakespeare in vegetable underpants: Peter Stein and Peter Zadek's opposing approaches to Shakespeare
Essay - 9 pages - Film studies
“Shakespeare in underpants,” is how Peter Stein has described the work of fellow director and rival Peter Zadek, while the latter has called Stein's work boring and overly polished to the point that his actors become overcooked “vegetables” (Patterson 132, 168). Both German...
Is hip-hop dead?
Essay - 4 pages - Music and dance
Two years ago, Nas, one of the greatest American rapper, brought out a new album, titled ?Hip Hop is dead'. The title speaks for itself. Since the mid-90s, hip hop and rap have lost their values. In fact, hip hop qualifies a culture or a way of life including music, values and dressing codes...
Orientalism in French painting in the first part of the 19th century through Women of Algiers in their apartment by Delacroix
Essay - 5 pages - Art history
I have chosen to focus on ?Women of Algiers in their apartment' (1834) by Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863). He is usually considered the most important French romantic painter. His romantic mood led him to dream of the Orient (thanks to poems by Byron) before traveling in North Africa, in search...
The image of women in painting
Essay - 5 pages - Art history
In order to study the image of women in painting as reflecting changes in political and social context, I have chosen three works of art by three different artists, from three different periods. I will study these paintings in their historical context as a mirror of the evolutions of values. The...
Jan Matejko (1838-1893)
Essay - 4 pages - Arts and art history
Jan Matejko is one of Poland's most outstanding painters. He painted big canvases representing the history of Poland at its moments of greatest glory or most dismal decline. He created a Romantic vision of the history of Poland and wanted to print it deeply in the imagination of every Pole at...
"Text Messaging and Instant Messaging : Aid or hindrance?"
Essay - 7 pages - Journalism
As is the case when many technologies emerge, the debates that spring forth tend to fall to one side or the other. Moral, ethical, social, and religious concerns arise. However, there is one type of concern that I find not only interesting, but in a way disturbing. That is, the fear of the...
Fine arts under communism: the role of nonconformist painters in Poland between 1949 and 1989
Essay - 6 pages - Arts and art history
We might call them "unofficial", "dissident", "alternative" or "nonconformist", but the fact remains that all these artists wanted to create works of art outside the official system. During the communist period in Poland, this meant the rejection of the regulation of official art, or socialist...
Transformers: America in disguise
Essay - 8 pages - Film studies
Michael Bay's Transformers is a genre pastiche, combining elements of action films, science fiction, high school dramas, general comedy and even moments of direct satire. Most interesting, though, are the ways in which Bay's film ties into the genre of war cinema and the modes and conventions it...
Anthropological and historical perspectives on the death of Captain Cook
Essay - 7 pages - Journalism
Scientific and philosophical thought have been preoccupied with the problem of an objective, empirical reality whose nature is discoverable and quantifiable at least since Descartes. This theoretical trend continued and culminated in the discoveries and ideas of Isaac Newton. The Apotheosis of...
The Broadcasting Board of Governors
Essay - 5 pages - Journalism
The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) which became independent of the United States Information Agency in 1999 when that department was dissolved, is charged with responsibility for US-backed, non-military international broadcasting. Such endeavors long pre-exist the BBG, and have been an...
FESPACO: More than a film festival
Essay - 5 pages - Film studies
With the revolution of filmmaking has come the need to bring films and filmmakers together. The creation of film festivals provides a place where filmmakers can showcase their films. Thousands of film festivals have formed around the world over the past decades. Some are larger and more...
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...
The European city: the Versailles of "Andre Le Notre"
Essay - 5 pages - Architecture
Although Europe carries a tradition of greenery, France is a country which has been identified as a Country of Gardens. André Le Nôtre lived from the period of 1613 to 1700. He was a French landscape gardener. Le Nôtre carried down the occupation of his family as a landscape gardener as his...
Introduction to modern China ? the relationship between Chinese architecture and urban culture: Beijing
Case study - 5 pages - Architecture
Beijing has not originated as the capital of China. As early as history can date back, the city was not even called Beijing. It was always known as the ?Northern Capital' in China. This was how Beijing was called and known prior to the rule of the third Ming emperor, Yongle, who then declared...
Communication media: Spain 2018
Essay - 2 pages - Medias
Ordered by the Fundación Observatorio de Prospectiva Tecnológica Industrial (OPTI), Cathrin Pagel's 2003 foresight study intends to explore the future of traditional communication media in Spain [press, television, radio, the Internet] and draw their possible evolution until 2018. With the...
Landscape painting in 19th and 20th centuries
Essay - 10 pages - Arts and art history
Landscape painting in the American context emerged in the 19th century along with the philosophical works of Emerson and Thoreau. The literary arts also began to turn toward an examination of the natural world at about this time. American painters, whom had previously been preoccupied with...
The new American musical: How the musical has changed to attract a new audience?
Essay - 6 pages - Film studies
Throughout the greater part of the twentieth century the American musical has entertained audiences of all ages and backgrounds. The musical has become a reflection of American life: sometimes tragic, somewhat unpredictable, but always persevering. The American musical has taken many shapes...
Comments on "Thank you for smoking" by Jason Reitman in the light of business ethics
Essay - 3 pages - Film studies
“Thank you For Smoking” is a movie from 2005, about a tobacco industry lobbyist, Nick Naylor. As the negative effects of tobacco on health are no longer easy to deny, the tobacco companies join in the creation of the Academy of Tobacco Studies. The purpose of this academy is to prove...
Magnificent "Madrigals" (and bombastic ballets) of the exciting "English" variety
Essay - 5 pages - Arts and art history
Speaking strictly in musical terms, the English madrigal is the result of assimilation. The genre generally referred to as the English madrigal was borne of the Italian madrigal form. However, just as historians no longer refer to America as the cultural melting pot, rather a tossed salad. The...
Adaptation: The perfect adaptation
Essay - 19 pages - Film studies
In 2000, The New Yorker magazine writer Susan Orlean published her book, The Orchid Thief, a history of orchids and orchid collectors. The main themes of the work include the history of the passion for plants held by cultures past and present, the perils of harsh habitats such as the Fakahatchee...
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 workings...
Paul Cezanne: Legend of Provence
Essay - 7 pages - Arts and art history
Paul Cezanne was described as “the father of us all” by Pablo Picasso, as he was greatly influenced by Cezanne, and Picasso doesn't stand alone. Cezanne, the French artist from Aix-en-Provence, was depicted as a “visionary ahead of his time, Cezanne's innovative style, use of...
Interconnections: Chaos, Art, and Life
Essay - 8 pages - Arts and art history
“Nature is seen as an interconnected dynamic network of relationships that include the human observer as an integral component.” If we were to replace the word “nature” with “art” in this quote, it still functions as a good definition. Through nature, we encounter...
