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 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...
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
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...
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...
The African-American cinema: Between protest and integration
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...
The US cinema industry (2005)
Thesis - 3 pages - Film studies
When I try to imagine a typical American family, the first image which comes to mind is that of a perfect family with beautiful (their teeth have to shine) and rich parents and beautiful and healthy children, who live happily in a small house somewhere in the countryside in a small village. A...
Postmodernism and cinema
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....
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...
I'm at the 'Window':A look at voyeurism in the cinema and society
Thesis - 5 pages - Film studies
We all carry certain expectations with us when we go see a film at the theater. We expect the room to be dark, though we make exceptions for the beam from the projector behind us, the track lights showing us to our seats. We expect quiet, hence the ads preceding the feature presentation that...
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...
Cinema of the absurd: The baby boom generation in The Big Lebowski
Essay - 4 pages - Film studies
After World War II, America experienced what would eventually be termed the “baby boom,” in which about 75 million births occurred between the years of 1946 and 1964. The “baby boomer” generation has been constantly examined since its inception, and the world during its time...
Divided Against The Self :The ego-dystonic individual as illustrated in Stephen Frear's "Prick up Your Ears" An essay On Erotic Identity, Homosexuality and the Cinema
Essay - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Stephen Frear's Prick Up Your Ears (1987) is based upon the life of England's notorious playwright Joe Orton. The film focuses primarily on Joe's 16 year unconventional relationship with Kenneth Halliwell. This relationship shall be used in the analysis that follows as an...
In what way storytelling helped shape feminism in our current society?
Essay - 3 pages - Philosophy
I choose the notion of the Idea of Progress. To illustrate this notion, I decided to talk about the idea of progress in feminism. Before I start, I'd like to give a quick definition of the notion: the idea of progress can be defined as an improvement, a development or a change. As a...
A Trip to the Moon - Georges Méliès (1902)
Artwork commentary - 3 pages - Film studies
I examined 'A Trip to the Moon' because of its historical relevance, early science fiction's inventiveness, and social critique. The film's creative imagery, fantastic storyline, and sarcastic overtones shaped subsequent filmmakers and popular culture's space exploration...
Jane Eyre - Franco Zeffirelli (1996) - The issue of adaptation
Artwork commentary - 18 pages - Film studies
Zeffirelli had to combine several, sometimes contradictory constraints: he had to update the text, to maintain a specific filmic transcription of the novel, and to negotiate a delicate balance between recognising the influence of the source text and the need for a specific creativity in the...
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...
The Tangible Sight: The Haptic Experience in Film
Dissertation - 20 pages - Film studies
The following essay concerns audio-visual representations of the sense of touch in cinema, with a focus on contemplative and experimental cinema, and the affect it has on a general audience. To explain what happens physiologically and psychologically that allows us to feel,...
Hippopotamus
Case study - 18 pages - Services marketing
In this case, we will consider the servuction process in a restaurant. The restaurant we are studying is not a classic restaurant. It is part of a chain which implies a degree of standardization of the offers, and the recognition of the sign among the public. This represents a strong competitive...
Service marketing in multiplex
Case study - 110 pages - Services marketing
The magical word in cinemas today is - multiplex. It caters to the busy, fast moving and variety-loving consumer who wants more than just one film under a single roof. Multiplexes have become just a rage that most of the old cine complexes are converting to multiplexes. Cinema...
Promotion of the film: "O Jerusalem"
Case study - 8 pages - Services marketing
With nearly 50% of admissions, Europe remains the geographical leader for French cinema. The United States occupies a good third of the results for French films abroad. Asia saw a decline in the distribution. For two years, Japan recorded about 2 million entries, below their potential and,...
The Walt Disney Company since 1923 till present
Case study - 10 pages - Services marketing
We do not go to the cinema to watch a cartoon; we go to watch a Disney production. The popularity of this company is such that Disney is not merely the symbol of animated films; it has become a synonym of them. With five theme parks (located in Florida, California, Hong Kong, Tokyo and...
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 movies....
Georges Melies: Movie Magic
Essay - 2 pages - Film studies
As is the case with many art forms, the exact origin of Cinema is tainted with controversy. While numerous innovators played important roles in the dawn of the medium, the Lumière brothers (Louis and Auguste) of France are most directly accredited with creating the first...
Alice and Anna: The women of 'Closer'
Essay - 9 pages - Film studies
Feminist film criticism during its glory days focused on three major themes: the objectification of women on the screen, their marginalized role in the narrative, and the effect that movies as a product of popular culture have on that popular culture. These three perspectives, which began to be...
Essay about sin city (Franck Miller & Robert Rodriguez)
Thesis - 5 pages - Film studies
I am going to talk about Sin city, an action, detective and all in all fantastic film released in 2005, directed by Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, and Quentin Tarantino (but only for the sequence in Dwight's car, in which he talks with the policeman Jackie, while he (Jackie) is dead). Sin city...
Miramax Company
Case study - 18 pages - Services marketing
The world of the cinema is a very peculiar one. And because it is a very peculiar one, I choose to study the most peculiar firm on this market: Miramax. This choice has been motivated by the fact that this firm had a very strange story which determines its strategy. While at the beginning...
Subverting the Mainstream: The Postmodern World of David Lynch
Essay - 5 pages - Film studies
During the first half of the twentieth-century, a movement known as “classical Hollywood cinema” thrived; this was the dawn of truly “mainstream” films. The movies created during this time operated largely within metanarratives; all-embracing laws which governed human...
