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The study of film masculinity still tends to concern itself with the products of local society. The focus of the essay is to represent a close approach to masculinity in Hong Kong cinema. Chinese old …
Dubbed the feel good film of the decade, “Slumdog Millionaire” is the film to see. Excitement, tragedy, love and hate it’s all featured together. The film starts by showing the pove…
In life people will come in contact with others, who are from a different background, culture, lifestyle or ethnicity as them, yet still every individual is equal, they’re all humans. As humans,…
Imagine a world without oxygen. A dangerous world few have seen and few will ever see. A world filled with colors as bright as a rainbow and blackness as dark as any cave. A world with strange, nev…
Cruel Story of Youth (1960) by Nagisa Oshima presents an image of youth which was unseen in Japanese cinema. Turim describe it as a suggestive symbolically imagery, of foreclosed spaces and sadistic, …
Film marketing is a process that is specific to the movie industry. Like all businesses promotion of movies is an integral part of any new release because of the extremely high financial risks that ar…
The documentary “The Times of Harvey Milk” and Michelle Tea’s memoir Valencia offer insight into the experiences and attitudes of San Francisco’s gay and lesbian communities at…
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that started in Italy at the beginning of the 1400s and lasted approximately 200 years. The Renaissance period was considered a transition period from the me…
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In this dissertation I will be posing the question “Art and hyper reality in animation and how have things changed?” A lot of commercial animation today is being pushed by 3D …
The movie is set as a reflection of the struggle in the North African country to gain independence. The film is set in Algiers, the capital of Algeria, a French colony. The year is 1957, and the Alger…
In this assignment I will be describing the structure and the ownership of the UK film industry and exploring the production, distribution and the exhibition of Slumdog Millionaire. I will be also loo…
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, is better known as Tom Cruise (Syracuse, New York, July 3, 1962) is an American actor. He has starred in some of the most successful films of recovery in the last three deca…
Edward Sissorhand, Moulin Rouge, Hero. Compare/contrast color and meaning how color define character. Color has an important role for a movie. The colors have many meaning such as love, happiness, sad…
“Don’t Ever Try to Judge me Dude”: The Representations of Whiteness Visibility and Crisis of White Masculinity in 8 Mile (Curtis Hanson 2002)
The meaning behind the term “whit…
A firm and imagined set helps to bring forth a good visual and a better output. This is to the desire of the person who is putting up a set and what does it mean and how does it help him as many canno…
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Marriage is one of the most important commitments one makes to oneself and to the person he/she loves. Marriage requires much courage, integrity and clarity over the goals in li…
Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to “document” reality. A documentary film is a movie that attempts, in so…
“The Godfather is exciting as it was upon its release in March of 1972. The statement “I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse” still resounds with recognition in the inst…
In this essay, Modleski took a very negative look at the representation of woman in Hitchcock’s film. Modleski argues that sexual violence was the general feminist view of ‘blackmail’…
Studlar challenges Mulvey’s theories on the male scopic pleasure as the bearer of control. Studlar also challenges Mulvey’s statement of the female as ‘lack’ and instead sugges…
