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World War 2 Stanley Kubrick
1,860 words... y Kubrick was born in Manhattan on Thursday, July 26, 1928 to Gertrude Perveler and Jacques Kubrick. Stanley Kubrick has witnessed three wars, a slave revolt, and a superpower nuclear confrontation. Stanley has been to the edge of our universe and back, even though he has spent almost half his personal and professional life in the courtside just outside London, England. Stanley Kubrick arrived in Great Britain in the early 1960 s as a filmmaker in total control of his personal life thanks to...
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Cave Paintings Oral Communication
427 wordsKristine McCarthy October 1, 2000 I think Watches formed a very good, accurate arguement in saying that cave paintings are cinematic. Much like movies, when cave paintings are seen in a certain way they show qualities that can be seen as cinematic. Once you look at cave paintings under a firelight things are seen much differently. They seem to move, disappear, reader, and even change shape and color, just like a movie. When seen in this light these paintings no longer seem to be scribbled and di...
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King Lear Original Text
1,481 wordsWhen dealing with text of Jacobean writers such as Shakespeare, one has a great deal of freedom in interpreting it. His words are full of not only meaning, but entendre's, alliterations, and metaphors that allows a great deal of artistic freedom when actualizing it into performance. Perhaps that is why his plays have been a longtime favorite standard performance material, and more recently (the past 100 years), have become very popular to produce and present What allows for Shakespeare to be pre...
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The Birth Of A Nation And Greed
1,299 wordsThe progress of the film industry was remarkably fast in the first quarter of this century. I have chosen two films namely The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Greed (1924) for comparison and contrast to show how much the industry had evolved within the short span of nine years. These two films are chosen for the short time span between them. This short time span will enable us to evaluate the development of the film industry in terms of the psychological build-up of the plot and the characters, cin...
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Reservoir Dogs Police Officer
1,452 wordsJoe Egan and Gerry Rafferty were a duo known as Stealers Wheel when they recorded a Dylanesque pop hit, "Stuck in the Middle With You", in April of 1974. The single reached number five on the charts - little did they know that eighteen years later it would become a cult favorite. In 1992 Quentin Tarantino, a little known writer / director , took the Cannes film festival and the world by surprise with his motion picture Reservoir Dogs. The movie is about the difficulties that occur when five "mas...
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Remember The Titans Comedic And Tragic Entertainment
581 wordsThe human race has an unquenchable thirst for entertainment. The need to be entertained can be seen through the ages; however, the need for entertainment is greater now more than ever. Because of the use of modern technology, humans have more free time; thus, leaving more time to fill with entertainment. The most common form of entertainment in the modern society is cinema. This powerful media has spawned what modern man knows as entertainment. For example, movies are a simple an effective way o...
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Race And Class Southern Blacks
950 wordsIn his 1988 film Mississippi Burning, Director Alan Parker sets out to corner the audience into an awareness of the segregation and bigotry in Americas south during the 1960 s. Ironically he attempts to achieve this by using cinematic methods that fall in line with exactly what his films central message is attacking; the ugly stereotyping of race and class. While the films message is as important in todays society, where segregation of race and class still occurs, the use of blatant misrepresent...
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African Americans Film Makers
1,083 words... pplication's of the technology that were to become central to the language of film thereafter While such techniques as fades, close-ups, use of perspective, juxtaposition of symbols, tracking shots, reveals, dissolves and wipes, would be used by the industry to make cinema more effective in communicating with its audience, they would also later be used by Leni Reifenstahl to glorify Hitler with her production virtuosity, and blame Jews for the economic woes of Germany. African-Americans, Isl...
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Citizen Kane Textual Analysis Of The Picnic Scene
1,070 words... g him appear older and obviously prostrate. Despite his casual dress, the top button of his shirt remains fast and his coat clasped between his hands. With his chin on his chest he appears fragile yet stubborn. His tone spells out his weariness and his boredom with Susan's continuing attack. His obvious attempt to avoid the discussion through remarks on Susan's volume and his wish for her to cease display his desire to avoid conflict and keep up appearances with the guests. Kane's character ...
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One Of The Great Cinematic Techniques
1,111 wordsGriffiths pioneering technical work includes: the special use of subtitles graphically verbalizing imagery, the introduction of night photography, the use of outdoor natural landscapes as backgrounds, the definitive usage of the still-shot, the technique of the camera iris effect (expanding or contracting circular masks to either reveal and open up a scene, or close down and conceal a part of an image, moving, panning camera tracking shots, the use of total-screen close-ups to reveal intimate ex...
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Mise En Scene Close Up Shot
2,049 wordsAmerican Beauty and the Beast Beneath In American Beauty, 1999, directed by Sam Mendes, we are confronted with the permeating images that have consumed mainstream American life. Mendes exploits these images as constructions that we created around ourselves as a means of hiding our true selves. Mendes is able to implicate us in the construction and make us active viewers by exploiting our voyeuristic nature, the nature of a prying observer to usually seek the sordid or the scandalous. In American...
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Horror Films Blair Witch
2,300 wordsHorror Films Recent years have seen a glorious revival of American horror cinema with films such as Scream and The Blair Witch Project re-introducing moviegoers to the joys of high-caliber fright flicks. Sadly, however, British attempts to capitalize on the genre's return from the grave have been embarrassing to say the least, with films such as Revelation and Long Time Dead boring audiences and making hardcore horror fans yearn for death's sweet embrace. So, it comes as an enormous relief to re...
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Black And White Alfred Hitchcock
1,758 wordsScorsese Auteur By the end of the 1990 s, Martin Scorsese was recognized as one of the most significant of American film directors. His uncompromising cinematic examination of New York Citys underbelly, beginning with Mean Streets, has exerted a profound cultural influence on cinema goers and filmmakers. The fact that he was not much recognized by the Academy Awards, indeed, adds to rather than detracts from his reputation; after all, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick were also ...
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Mel Gibson William Wallace
930 wordsBraveheart film review Mel Gibson has reached an acting pinnacle, at least so far, with Braveheart. It is an epic movie that is loosely based on historic events in Scotland. All the performances were great and the cinematography was superb. The film covers the life of William Wallace from the time he is a small boy, when his Father dies, to his own death. The movie is set mostly in 13 th Century Scotland, the storys backdrop is William Wallace's struggle against the unjust rule of the English Ki...
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Form Of Revenge Roger Chillingworth Movie
1,014 wordsSin or Saint The Scarlet Letter is a highly sexual movie remake of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel. Starring Demi Moore as Hester Prynne, Gary Oldman as Arthur Dimmesdale and Robert Duvall as Roger Chillingworth. The movie is in a league of its own and thats not really a compliment. Literary purists should be aghast at some of the liberties taken with the original text, but the complaints have more to do with cinematic misjudgments and drastic change in plot than those in the book-to-screen ...
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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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Francis Ford Coppola Point Of View
1,656 wordsBeginning roughly with the release of Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Stopped Worrying and Loved the Bomb in 1964, and continuing for about the next decade, the Sixties era of filmmaking made many lasting impressions on the motion picture industry. Although editing and pacing styles varied greatly from Martin Scorcesses hyperactive pace, to Kubrick's slow methodical pace, there were many uniform contributions made by some of the eras seminal directors. In particular, the Sixties saw ...
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Charles Foster Kane Literary Techniques
1,492 wordsThings Fall Apart: Okonkwo Okonkwo, the main character of Things Fall Apart, by China Achebe. And Charles Foster Kane of Orson Welles Citizen Kane, both have value systems that are incongruous with their cultures. Thus allowing them to be defeated by society. These are two men with a great need for recognition. Their need for something that was extinguished long ago. Okonkwo's struggle to prove his greatness in the face of those who knew his father. Charles Foster Kane's void that must be filled...
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2,608 wordsOverview David Lewelyn Wark Griffith, an American filmmaking pioneer, screenwriter, producer, and director, was born January 22, 1875, near Louisville, Kentucky. Best known for his controversial perceptions of race and class in American society, D. W. Griffith left an indelible mark on the history of cinema. He died July 23, 1948, in Hollywood, California. I. THE MOVIES FIRST GENIUS II. GRIFFITH AND FILM LANGUAGE 1. The State of the Art 2. Revolutionizing Perception III. INVENTING HOLLYWOOD: BLO...
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Men Feel Social Construction
1,442 wordsMen and Masculinity Why are men so sensitive when it comes to their masculinity? This question came to me when I began reading the introduction of this section on sex. I believe that men are pushed into a social stereotype just like women are. They are told how to act, when to cry, and when to be tough from a very young age. These traits are not only bestowed upon them by their parents, but by movies, music and government of the past and present. ? For many straight men, homosexuality is a direc...
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