Internship Report - Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York
Internship report - 13 pages - Medias&communication marketing
The Film Society of Lincoln Center was founded in 1969 to celebrate American and international cinema, recognize and support new filmmakers as well as enhance awareness, accessibility and understanding of the art. An independent performing arts center, The Film Society hosts a 363-day...
Globalization of adolescence
Essay - 1 pages - Sociology & social sciences
The world-wide web has connected people in ways that we have never been connected before. It provides a means for media to sporadically spread all over the world, reaching all different cultures and countries. Media such as music, cinema, literature, art, etc.. have always connected...
Ignatius of Loyola Brandão
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
Ignacio de Loyola Brandão Lopes was born in Araraquara - SP, on July 31, 1936. Train Leaf, weekly of Araraquara, published on 16 August 1952 was a review of the movie "Rudolph Valentino," the first text Ignacio. Days later, the Correio Popular newspaper of that city came into play. As the first...
Home Movies
Essay - 2 pages - Film studies
Nothing can create nostalgia like a movie camera. There is something about the moving image that can trigger emotions like few other mediums can. It is easy to get lost in a film; they have the awesome ability of capturing and recreating the past. The nostalgic value of the cinema is...
David Lynch
Essay - 4 pages - Film studies
Storytelling, since the dawn of time, has served as an invaluable means in which human beings are able to create, sustain, and relay emotion, identity, and ideology. The stories people tell allow them to simultaneously connect to, and differentiate themselves from one another. Arguably more...
Hitchcock, Truffaut and Godard:New wave's brothers from another motherland
Essay - 13 pages - Film studies
Alfred Hitchcock's fascination with French culture emanates in nearly all of his films. Conversely, many aspects outlining the fundamental guidelines of the 1950's French film movement adopted quintessential “Hitchcockian” devices. Hitchcock's influence on French filmmakers shaped much...
Films on the ongoing war in Iraq
Essay - 14 pages - Film studies
Since the start of the U.S. war in Iraq in early 2003, the citizens of the world have been bombarded with news coverage the likes of which has never before been seen in the history of armed conflict. Likewise, the world of cinema has embraced the conflict in Iraq in many varied forms and...
The death penalty: The importance of dying with honor
Internship report - 15 pages - Literature
In literature as in cinema, the subject of death penalty has been largely used. It can be seen in fantastic films such as The Green Mile by Frank Darabont, as well as in journalistic type of books, as in In Cold Blood by Truman Capote or in The Executioner's song by Norman Mailer, as well...
Internship Report - Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York
Essay - 13 pages - Services marketing
The Film Society of Lincoln Center was founded in 1969 to celebrate American and international cinema, recognize and support new filmmakers as well as enhance awareness, accessibility and understanding of the art. An independent performing arts center, The Film Society hosts a 363-day...
Sexuality in modern melodrama
Essay - 7 pages - Film studies
The depiction of sex and sexuality in American cinema was slow in maturing, but in the last two decades there have been a growing number of popular melodramas that depict sex as a meaningful part of a relationship. This practice distinguishes modern melodramas from the classical Hollywood...
Pathe: Internal and external analysis of the company
Thesis - 70 pages - Film studies
Pathe is a French movie company. This company was founded as Societe Pathe Freres in Paris in 1886, by four brothers: Charles, Emile, Theophile and Jacques Pathe. First, thanks to Charles Pathe, the company became a major producer of phonograph records. Then he decided to extend his company to...
Coca Cola vs. Pepsi: Analysis and comparison of strategies
Case study - 20 pages - Business strategy
We chose to make a strategic analysis of the two evergreen giants of the cola industry - Coca Cola and Pepsi. These two protagonists of the cola market make for an interesting study as they pursue different strategies in their operations. Initially, we present the two companies and the market...
Strategic analysis of Sony
Case study - 5 pages - Business strategy
Sony generated about 70 billion dollars in sales in the year 2007, thanks to its Consumer Electronics division, which is its main business. Despite the big figure, this sector has also experienced a loss of 321 million dollars. While the primary sector was hit by loss, the secondary sectors in...
Sony, a case study: The advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing
Thesis - 5 pages - Business strategy
Today, the pursuit of profit and lower costs are a major issue for large global companies. Indeed the emergence of new technologies in business and the spending on research and development, logistics have become too high to bear. Thus, large firms have resorted to outsourcing some of their...
Analysis of television advertising: The coffee brand Nespresso
Case study - 7 pages - Management
Television conveys messages in mass, both visual and auditory. It serves as a support for other advertising discourses, which is one of the instances of production that we find in the media which will be the topic of our study in this paper. We will devote our analysis on one of the TV...
Case study of the Virgin group
Case study - 45 pages - Services marketing
Today, Virgin is a holding company with much diversified activities, which includes more than 300 companies that are established in over 30 countries, mostly located offshore, and about 50,000 employees. All subsidiaries of the group, although independent of each other, are nonetheless united...
Implementation of a luxury hotel including a conference room in one of three countries: Romania, Bulgaria or Hungary
Case study - 10 pages - Business strategy
The first hotel of our chain of luxury hotels 'The Diamond' was built in 1972 in Geneva, Switzerland. Since its creation, 'The Diamond' is experiencing significant growth which is expressed by our strong presence at international level (400 hotels in 32 countries mainly in Europe...
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...
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...
Does the viewing of slasher films empower female viewers?
Case study - 4 pages - Political science
Throughout recent decades, the graphic violence of slasher films has become increasingly controversial. The horror slasher genre has become one of the most controversial film categories, receiving attention for the skillful and artful way these movies become emotion roller coasters (poised...
Socio-cultural movements in India
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
There is no definition of art or nation that does not quickly become problematic in the Indian context, and this is indicative of the complexity of the issues at hand when we ask: in what ways do art and literature help in nation-building in India? Definitions are still manageable in the case of...
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...
"Children of heaven" review, theme of honesty
Case study - 2 pages - Educational studies
Children of heaven” is a wonderful movie that brings the true living conditions and aspects of living in Tehran with much conviction and authority. The film, filmed on location in Tehran is about a poor family living in Tehran. Though the movie is shot in extremely rough conditions and...
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...
Opposing values in American thought as depicted in films
Case study - 4 pages - Arts and art history
In a world where movie directors and filmmakers are building a name for themselves Robert Ray in A Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema(1930-1980) tries to show the need for filmmakers to produce movies that every person can relate. Ray emphasizes on the need for commitment in both plot and...
Media in Germany after World War Two
Essay - 3 pages - Modern history
The development of media in the Western Germany during the period of the Allied Occupation (1945-1949) and in the first decade of the Federal Republic (1949-1959) The media is present all around the world. The media tries to express facts, entertainment, opinion, and other information. In this...
Live technologies in theatrical performance in a post modern perspective
Essay - 8 pages - Arts and art history
How does the use of live technologies in theatrical performance comment on our own positioning in a post-industrial technologically based society? How does this in turn exemplify some of the concerns of the postmodernists? Postmodern cinema is rich in intertextual references, and is often...
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 definably solely as...
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 names....
A Performance Analysis of the films Harold and Maude and American Beauty (1999)
Essay - 3 pages - Film studies
Over the course of the last three decades American society has taken its fondness of youth and femininity and turned it into an outright obsession. As a direct result of this obsession, women over the age of 35 have been made to feel bad about their bodies, their activity levels, the food they...
