Preserving Burkinabè Cultural Heritage through Cinema
Dissertation - 43 pages - Film studies
This document discusses the role of cinema in preserving Burkinabè cultural heritage, highlighting factors that promote integration and challenges hindering the achievement of this goal.
Jean Vigo's Cinema: A New Perspective on Reality
Dissertation - 48 pages - Art history
This document explores Jean Vigo's innovative cinematographic techniques and their impact on French cinema, analyzing his films such as À propos de Nice and L'Atalante.
RSE in Cinema: Promoting Inclusion and Diversity
Case study - 2 pages - Corporate social responsibility
The film industry faces challenges in balancing artistic creation, economic profitability, and social responsibility. The Academy's inclusion criteria aim to promote diversity and representation.
Cinema, 50 Years of Passion - Nicolas Seydoux
Book review - 3 pages - Sociology & social sciences
Explore the history of French cinema through Nicolas Seydoux's auto-bibliographic essay, questioning the role of cinema in society and its impact on culture.
Charlie Chaplin's Impact on British Cinema and Society
Presentation - 3 pages - Culture, religion & civilization
This document discusses Charlie Chaplin's influence on British cinema and society through his innovative and political films, which helped shape British humor and contributed to the rebirth of the local film industry.
History of Sound in Cinema and TV
Course material - 4 pages - Medias
Explore the evolution of sound in film and television, from the invention of the phonograph to modern electronic music instruments.
The place of youth in American cinema
Dissertation - 1 pages - Film studies
The idea here is to present youth as a generation, between the ages of 17 and 28, with a certain margin of freedom. Indeed, young people are those who don't work, or who have just started working, and who don't necessarily have enough income or a place in society. As a result, American...
What is independent cinema?
Essay - 4 pages - Arts and art history
Il s'agit d'un essai sur le cinéma indépendant et sa définition au travers des différents protagonistes de l'industrie cinématographique. Il est structuré de la façon suivante : I. Histoire et émergence du cinéma indépendant II. Caractère financier impliqué par...
What Strictly Defined Expressionist Cinema in its Aesthetic and its Intellectual Aspirations ?
Essay - 4 pages - Film studies
After WW1, Germany was wiped out and wrecked and so had difficulties putting on a new face. Its cinematographic industry also had trouble compared to Hollywood given that Germany has been undergoing an economic recession. The expressionist cinema is a movement which arose from the German...
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...
A Case Study Comparing Marketing Campaigns in Film with Research into Models of Distribution and Marketing in Cinema
Case study - 4 pages - Marketing theories
In this case study we will be looking at the marketing campaigns of two films, one before the digital age truly began and one during the boom to see how they both were marketed to audiences and how successful it was in terms of profit return and critic consensus. Before we get into the main...
The cinema in Korea and France
Essay - 9 pages - Film studies
South Korea and France are two countries which belong to two continents with different cultures. South Korea is situated in Asia and has known, since the end of the Korean War (1953), a rapid development but had some difficulties in implementing democracy. Now, it is considered as a dynamic and...
Audit of innovation / creativity of cinema Vue Omni Centre, Edinburgh
Case study - 7 pages - Audit
Vue cinema is a UK leading multiplex and the one in Edinburgh opened in November 2002 for the release of the second Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets released on the 15th of November 2002. This cinema was a former Warner Village Cinema and currently...
Cinema and Technology: An Essay
Thesis - 3 pages - Television
'The cinema of attractions directly solicits spectator attention, inciting visual curiosity, and supplying pleasure through an exciting spectacle' Gunning (1990), p. 58. To what extent does mainstream cinema today continue to operate as a 'cinema of...
"Son of celluloid", Clive Barker (1986) - cinema and its metaphors
Artwork commentary - 4 pages - Literature
Son of celluloid' is a short novel written by the British author Clive Barker in 1983. It was originally published in 'The Book of Blood' in 1986 and it was an extract from a comic series called 'Trapping the Vein'. Barker is well-known for his work in both fantasy and horror...
The frontier between life and death in the history of cinema
Thesis - 15 pages - Film studies
The old conception of death has always been scary and morbid, a thing that has always been hard to accept, so that it had to be mysterious. Something that people would not want to talk about, that was considered as a taboo. Of course, it was the same as all the taboo subjects, like the...
The European 'art cinema' as a genre
Worksheets - 5 pages - Film studies
Cette dissertation de niveau Licence 3 a pour but de montrer en quoi le cinéma d'art européen est un courant cohérent qui se distingue par certains traits communs. Il est notamment caractérisé, ce qui le distingue d'autres genres de cinéma, par le principe de réalisme et...
The American Presidents: one of the principal targets of cinematographic censorship
Essay - 8 pages - Film studies
With the prominence of the U.S. president and the presidency, the executive office and its occupant have naturally found their way into numerous film expressions. Since 1903, presidents have been featured in no less than 400 commercial films. Ranging from respectful, biographical presentations to...
Women in Film: African Filmmakers and Female Identity in African Cinema
Case study - 5 pages - Film studies
tradition from generation to generation. This is an essential part of how powerful the medium of film can be in Africa; it is more effective in societal change than books, literature, or anything involving literacy. African film goes beyond its function in western culture; it serves a greater...
Cinema and Technology: An Essay - published: 19/01/2011
Thesis - 3 pages - Arts and art history
'The cinema of attractions directly solicits spectator attention, inciting visual curiosity, and supplying pleasure through an exciting spectacle' Gunning (1990), p. 58. To what extent does mainstream cinema today continue to operate as a 'cinema of...
Pride and Prejudice. Cinema vs Literature
Essay - 7 pages - Literature
A comparative study of the opening scene of Pride and Prejudice; based on the book published in 1873 and the film released in 2005. A visual presentation of a literary work such as Pride and Prejudice and especially the opening scene may lead the audience to read the novel and introduce the...
To what extent the French New Wave may have influenced Canadian direct cinema and cinéma vérité in the 1960's
Essay - 10 pages - Film studies
"In nature, the movement of waves may repeat endlessly with rhythm of seas, but in French cinema, the wave of 1959 remains unique" (Michel Marie: 2). Since February, 1959, a "myth" was created around the French New Wave which progressively became one of the most crucial movement in world...
Edward Cullen and his To-Be-Looked-At-Ness: Reversal of the cinematic gaze in Twilight
Thesis - 6 pages - Film studies
Twilight is the unabashedly melodramatic, vampire-meets-girl love story of Edward Cullen and Bella Swan, and despite its clear success it still seems to be strange material for the first huge literary phenomenon of the twenty-first century. The author Stephenie Meyer has a tendency towards the...
The African-American cinema: Between protest and integration - publié le 13/01/2009
Thesis - 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...
Homage and plagiarism in cinema
Essay - 8 pages - Film studies
Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times was a partial remake of Rene Clair's A nous la liberté (1931), a French comedy which was in turn inspired by Fritz Lang's 1926 science fiction epic, Metropolis. In this document, we try to find answers for the following questions: What did Chaplin borrow...
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...
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...
The Cinema Representation of futuristic cities
Essay - 5 pages - Film studies
Urbanization is a contemporary issue. Today, one person out of two lives in a city, and that figure will sharply increase in the next few decades. Many questions about what cities should be like have arisen due to the fast increase of the urbanization process since the 19th century. Urban...
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 meaning-making, acting...
Postmodernism and cinema - publié le 09/01/2009
Thesis - 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....
