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Twentieth Century Leisure and Social Change in Great Britain

agriculture is a priority and employment patterns are dependent upon it, leisure is not only constrained by the amount of "spare t...

Cinema, American Youth, and Rebellion Against Authority

nation was ready for new and innovative ideas which lead to new attitudes. Immediately following the war and through the decade o...

Moulin Rouge (2001) and Setting a Cinematic Mood

Berkeleys choreography book, he creates mood through unusual camera angles, and heightens the films pace through "speeded-up, step...

Film Genre/Its Evolution

silent era, as it became clear to filmmakers that certain types of stories were particularly popular and profitable (Gazetas, 2008...

P2P's Impact on Cinema Industry

This essay pertain to peer-to-peer (P2P) networking and the impact of film piracy on the cinema industry. Six pages in length, thr...

Chinese Cinematography and Women's Portrayals

in to the Japanese and be captured, however, eight of these women chose to drown in the Mulan River. One of the most...

Racism in Cinema

Nation first came out, the NAACP protested the film. W.E.B. Dubois, a leading black activist, published highly negative reviews of...

European Cinema and Culture

movie. One of the major concerns, one might derive from the ECCs findings, is that older films might be lost or not preserved or t...

Comparison of Films Robert Altman's Nashville and Robert Drew's Primary

Dean Story, was far more interested in film as an expansive theatrical art, represented by the Hollywood blockbuster features (ONe...

Contemporary Oedipus Imagery

if he should have a son. Therefore, Laius took steps to prevent conceiving a son by Jocasta. However, Jocasta wanted a child and c...

Shakespeare in Cinema

as simplistic because it stars an action hero (Mad Max becomes Mad Hamlet) and cuts several scenes and all long speeches. Of cours...

Postmodernism Defined

of another direction, only to be broken apart and redeveloped by way of postmodernistic composition. Technology, as such, represe...

Robbery in Films

in keeping all of the people hostage while the funds are delivered. As mentioned, while it is not exactly a bank robbery film, it ...

Masculinity in Modern Cinema

the natural disaster" (Action Films, 2002). Marchetti also states that action-adventure films have long been the domain of male...

African American Stereotypes and Cinematic Semiotics

rather than blatant stereotypes and also new films which spoof the previous stereotypes depicted which in effect erases cinematic ...

Contemporary Productions and How They Have Influenced the Themes of Sophocles' Oedipus the King

to the gods, who always punish it. And that is a second theme of the play, the folly of pride. By refusing to accept his own acti...

Chinese Cinematic Art

Even today, if we look at the extent to which Chinese cultural ideology has made its way to the West via art and...

Education and the Use of Cinema

seek information. Paulo Freire calls lecturing the "banking concept" of education, and there is not much student-teacher interfac...

Treatment of Masculinity and Homosexuality in Cinema

would seem that the ones in power, ie, middle aged white males, were the only ones who were truly depicted in a favorable light in...

The Evolution of Cinema

This 8 page paper discusses the main turning points in the history of cinema, the technology, and speculates on the future of th...

The Development of the British Film Industry: Cultural Influences

here is that the film industry, even in its earliest days was driven by economic concerns and considerations. Throughout the 192...

The Function of the "Gaze" in "Vertigo"

dizziness and dislocation. For most of the first 45 minutes of the film, Scottie (James Stewart) gazes at Madeleine (Kim Novak) f...

Film Analysis

In order to offer thorough analysis, Boggs and Petrie (2004) recommend seeing a movie at least twice. The first viewing can be dev...

Modern Cinema in China

began in Hong Kong back in 1979, and was like a "coming of age" for the film industry (Li 709). Suddenly, there was a new generat...

German Occupation and French Cinema

such, "the French government, recognizing the need to entertain the troops and the civilian population, allowed certain film produ...

German Occupation of France and French Films

?vident que le Fran?ais avait appris quelque chose de WWI quand beaucoup dindustries ont ?t? arr?t?es et ont nui ? la nation. En t...

Cuckoo's Nest and Nursing Ethics

frees him from this indignity and travesty of life by smothering him with a pillow and then escapes from the asylum (One Flew, 199...

Citizen Kane

of Thatchers diary. Film components: Dissolves, flashback, deep-focus shots, long shots, close-ups. In the establishing long sho...

Hans Richter: “Ghosts before Breakfast”

clock; its 10 oclock. Time passes in five-minute jumps, indicating that we are not seeing it objectively. A man fights with his ti...

New German Cinema

many different directors today, and in the past. One notable director from the past is Alfred Hitchcock who would take a story and...