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World War Ii 20 Th Century
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20 Th Century Advances In Technology
1,292 wordsOver the years film has meant many different things to many different types of people. Cultures have been forever changed due to certain films being made. One of the things that has maintained films to stay appealing to audiences are the continuing advances in technology that keep films interesting, as well as challenge filmmakers to constantly develop new ideas. I will show how technology and the use therein contributes to film and the creative aspect that goes into producing a product that app...
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Due To The Fact Needham Heights
1,266 words... fect of the camera circling the actors while the motion remained still. This gave the effect that time was able to stand still while the actors were able to defy the laws of gravity. This is a good example of how technology was used to enhance techniques that have been around for many years, in order to create a certain mood. By manipulating what the audience knows as the reality the directors were able to create something that had never been seen before, because of this it was much easier f...
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Philippine Cinema Movie Producers Filmmakers
678 wordsTHE MOOD, if a number of telltale signs are to be interpreted correctly, is generally optimistic insofar as the fate of local movies is concerned. Recent developments in the field can possibly bring about much-needed relief to the otherwise distressed movie industry. But perhaps more than instantaneous relief, they herald the advent of change, which can only come about after a cleansing of ranks, the institution of radical reform, and then and only then can Philippine cinema finally see the ligh...
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George Lucas Star Wars
1,837 wordsComputer technology: That's entertainment, 2000 CNN NewsStand's James Hattori finds out what entertainment might look like in the year 2010 Web posted at: 4: 00 p. m. EST (2100 GMT) (CNN) -- As we reach the year 2000 and the next phase of the Information Age, it's easy to forget that just 10 years ago, the Information Age was stuck on its launching pad. The Internet was unknown to nearly everyone except university researchers; TV was still patting itself on the back over cable success; films wer...
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Man With A Movie Camera Vs Run Lola
1,536 wordsAndre Parfeniuk Student # 10260974 December 3, 2001 The Impact of Dziga Vertov on Film " The main and essential thing is: the sensory exploration of the world through film. We therefore take as a point of departure the use of the camera as a keno-eye, more perfect than the human eye, for the exploration of the chaos of visual phenomena that fills space. " - Dziga Vertov, Manifesto The Council of Three (1923) The innovative theories and filmmaking techniques of Dziga Vertov revolutionized the way...
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People Of Color African Americans
749 wordsAfter watching The Planet of the Apes, everyone seemed to leave the movie with a message in mind. Be it the controversial subject matter of Science vs. Religion, animal cruelty, or the cries of the extremeness of war and nuclear weapons. The makers of this film clearly felt the importance of illustrating to the viewers how unjust this society of "superior" apes were towards the humans. It allows the viewer to leave the movie thinking about our own society, and the similarities in how certain peo...
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Influenced Greatly Violent Crime
1,029 wordsBadlands In the 1960 s the movie industry changed greatly. It was the time when the classical period came to the end and the post-classical or the New Hollywood era began. During the 50 s and early 60 s Hollywood was producing primarily musicals and historical epics like Cleopatra and Hello Dolly. Such films benefited from the large screens, wide framing and improved sound. They were commercially proved till the end of the late 60 s. In the 1960 s and 1970 s the new young generation was coming o...
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Translated By Robert Ancient Greece
1,748 wordsIt is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told 1. In recent years the attention of the filmmakers turns to the Ancient Mythological heroes and historical persons. This interested arose not only in search of new themes, but also in attempt to acquaint the wide contemporary audience with the great heroes of the past. In the span of several years the audience was presented with great number of historical epic dramas that revive the great deeds of the past. The Movie Troy (2004) is one of th...
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Women Role In Third World Latin Part 1
2,145 wordsWomen's Role in Third World Latin Cinema Shortly after the first screening in 1895, film as an art began to proliferate in areas all over the world. Now, movies are carefully constructed works of art combining both the visual and aural realms of human perception. When discussing the history of Brazilian film, though, it is impossible to separate the art of film from the social and political text of Brazil's history. Unlike the United States, Brazil historically confronted more problems with the ...
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Rio De Janeiro Social And Political
2,165 words... in almost direct opposition to Vera Cruz. With "low budgets, nonprofessional actors, independent production, natural settings, "a camera in hand and an idea in mind" -... " (p. 6 CN) the Cinema Nova was born. The first of the movements great directors, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, would succeed in bringing this movement to fruition. In 1955, with the election of Kubitschek, Brazil found itself face to face with a new optimism. With development alist nationalism turning its mighty gears and cre...
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Francis Ford Coppola Harsh Realities
1,659 wordsCinematic violence has been in films since the start of movie making. From Orson Wells tearing up his estranged wives room in Citizen Kane to Anthony Perkins slicing up Vivian Leigh in Psycho, violence has always been present in film in one form or another. It was not until the late sixties and seventies that such visionaries as Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Sam Peckinpah, and William Friedken, to mention a few, came and put on film what was to become a trend in America...
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Social And Political Forrest Gump
2,139 wordsFilm 295 F Essay As the term suggests, an auteur is an author, someone whose aesthetic sensibilities and impact are most important in the creation of a text. With literary texts, discerning authorship is usually no problem. But with collaborative art forms, such as film, deciding on authorship is much more complicated. Generally speaking, film theorists have concluded that it is the director of a film who is the auteur, the most important creative figure. But auteur theory is concerned with more...
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Avant Garde Boris Karloff
3,386 wordsCertain films which today are regarded as classics of American cinema John Ford&# 39; s The Searchers (1956), Orson Welles&# 39; Citizen Kane (1941), the Judy Garland musical The Wizard Of Oz (1939), Frank Capra&# 39; s It&# 39; s A Wonderful Life (1946), Walt Disney&# 39; s Fantasia (1940) are, or at least used to be, cult films. Box-office disappointments when they were released, these films were kept alive over the decades not by reviewers or studios or theaters, but by film goers who loved t...
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Black And White Film Noir
4,098 wordsEXISTENTIALISM IN FILM I could not say where or how existentialist themes first emerged in film. Often times, critics will point to the work of Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini as early examples. Indeed, these two men are titans in their art, and they will be discussed in this essay. However, it occurs to me that a certain genre of film being made in America during the late forties and early fifties perhaps deserves credit for treating very early, if not for the first time, subject matter and...
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World War Ii Film Noir
4,884 wordsForty years after Raymond Borde and? tienne Chaumeton defined the challenge, critical commentators on film noir continue to grapple with it. Ironically, American writers did not immediately take up consideration of this indigenous phenomenon and the question of its essential traits. Only gradually in a frequently cross-referenced series of essays in the 1970 s did they begin to express themselves. There are now a dozen full-length books in English concerning film noir and undoubtedly more to fol...
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Fran Ois Avant Garde
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Natural Born Killers Oliver Stone
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Differences And Similarities African American
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D W Griffith Buster Keaton
6,372 wordsWhile films made during cinema&# 39; s early days may appear archaic, awkward, or even unintentionally funny to some modern viewers, they were part of a revolution in entertainment that was never before equaled and perhaps may never be equaled again. Later innovations such as television and the internet (so far more of an information medium than an entertaining one) owe their acceptance, if not their very existence, to the initial discovery that people are endlessly fascinated when a narrative s...
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