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“From a lump of clay a vessel is made, what makes it useful is space within the vessel, for a room, we make doors and a window, but what makes a room habitable is the empty space, so while there…
South Park is an icon of modern satire and humor in America. This sitcom is a source of thousands of winged phrases culprit billion settlement on all sorts of topics covered in it. It ridicules man…
Sunset Boulevard, directed by Billy wilder in 1950, is considered to be the greatest film about Hollywood ever put on celluloid by Hollywood. It is a classic black comedy/drama, and perhaps the most a…
“Living life for one day as a lion is better than living as a hyena for a hundred”, is a proverb that captures the depth of personalities of those who die in this world with pride. Firstl…
There are many contrasting opinions on the subject. Some believe that the movie is a piece of Nazi propaganda meant to promote the Nazi image and discourage its enemies. Others believe it is a factual…
Robert Altman chronicled his own 1971 naturalist motion picture McCabe and Mrs. Miller an anti-western perhaps due to the fact that the film blatantly ignores or subverts a number of Western conventio…
“There is no art without conflict,” Sergei Eisenstein (1926) once wrote, and Battleship Potemkin (1925) is a typical illustration of a film that led to become a sign for revolution. One ca…
Rear Window is a 1954 suspense thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by John Michael Hayes and based on the 1942 short story “It Had to Be Murder” by Cornell Woolrich. Starring Ja…
What is the background history of Walter Disney? A. Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago Illinois to Elias and Flora Disney. Walt grew up in a large family having three brother…
These three dimensions of color: hue, saturation, and value constitutes a color model that describes how humans naturally respond to and describe color: the HSV model. Because the HSV model has three …
The main concept of this essay is to point out how psychoanalytic theory could be used as a method of understanding and analyzing cultural products. The most valid approach for this is to observe how …
Humans have been around for thousands of years. Today, many movies have been created based on stories and legends of influential people and life-changing events that were recorded in history. Inspira…
The book “Sam Houston and the American Southwest”, written by Randolph B. Campbell and edited by Mark C. Carnes is a superbly written biography chronicling the life of Samuel Houston and h…
This essay will discuss the aesthetics of the cult film, Blade Runner. Firstly we will look at the way in which theorists have set out to define the extensive genre of cult film, looking at in particu…
For those hopeless romantic who get captured by the plots or meanings of any Nicholas Sparks novel, then The Last Song is the film of the year to see. In The Last Song, Sparks captures the heart of h…
In America, hundreds of sport films have been produced. Usually, sports weren’t that much successful. Films were usually intended for younger audience, and were made of low budget, until rec…
In late 1986, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) created a television mini-series by the name of Shaka Zulu. It would prove an instant and huge success, and by 1992 it had been seen by …
Unforgiven is a dark and haunting film in what can be considered Clint Eastwood’s ‘finest hour’. A revisionist western, set in the 1880s that serves as the final culmination of Eastw…
Impressionism was a movement or style of painting that originated and developed in France in 1870s and distinguished by its focus on the immediate impression produced by a landscape or scene and use o…
When one decides to put history on film, one must be prepared for substantial tradeoffs (Rosenstone 16). Films cannot convey historical events with pinpoint accuracy or with exact detail because films…
