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Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds (2005) is a film that falls under the genre of science fiction. What is genre? Genre can be defined as different categories marked by a distinctive style, fo…
In this article we discuss the concept of animation, exploring its definition and the history of early animation devices, the techniques developed for animation, including traditional animation, 3D C…
Pakistan film industry started off as a mighty empire, industry of the chocolate heroes and exquisite heroines. This is known as the “Golden era of the industry” where cinemas were filled …
Before Sunrise, is a movie featuring two strangers, Celine and Jesse, who met on a train and spent a night sharing experiences, thoughts and affections, but parted before sunrise. The movie has a take…
The Lives of Others is set in 1984 East Berlin, five years before Gorbachevs “glasnost” policies, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. The film centers on the East German Ministry for State Se…
Third cinema is not necessarily hard to define, however, it is hard to place many films in to the concept and be satisfied with labelling it with that terminology. Therefore, this essay will define an…
The Office, a comedy television series, is an adaptation of Ricky Gervais’s and Stephen Merchant’s comedy sitcom of the same name that aired in the United Kingdom. The Office follows the …
Hollywood movies have preached the assimilation of the ethnic “other” into American culture. This is a dangerous prospect as media representations are used to frame our understandings of …
The opening sequence of Mary Poppins shows a backdrop of the city of London. Credits scroll by as the camera pans from right to left on the backdrop until it zooms in on Mary Poppins, (Julie Andrews),…
The Frenchman Louis Lumiere is always credited and he actually is known as the inventor of the motion picture camera in 1895. Other inventors preceded him, and Lumiere’s achievement should alway…
Nowadays, film has been popular among people through the ages. There are kind of films that have been created up until now. For instance, films about criminal, romance, Sci-Fi, etc. Many film director…
A sound engineer has a vital role in all fields of entertainment and media, whether it is in film, television, radio, live music or most notably the recording studio. In each case, the engineer has a …
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…
The Dasdhunga movie is chosen as a media text for this semiotic analysis. Dasdhunga is directed and written by Manoj Pandit, the screenplay based on the true story of Dasdhunga Accident. The accident …
Nowadays, when our living pace is so fast there are a lot of temptations and sometimes you start thinking about your own death, divorce and other somber feelings. ”Submarine” directed by y…
The term ‘Contemporary’ when applied to Musical Theatre is slightly misleading, seeing as the term can be applied to any art-form, when something new and different, something that pushes t…
Our America by LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman was based on the life story of Ida.B Wells, which is in the south side of Chicago. Ida.B Wells was the big housing projects, where many African Americans l…
A poster can be described as a placard or bill, generally huge and frequently incorporating photographs or designs, posted up for marketing or advertising or for decorative reasons. The functions of t…
