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“Gran Torino,” directed by Clint Eastwood, is a very moving and captivating drama. It’s a simple story about tolerance and cultural differences, but also one of hope, self-sacrifice,…
The Walt Disney Corporations mission, at least according to them, is to make people happy. In order to fulfill this statement, the company has grown from a small cartoon studio run by Walt and Roy …
Since cinema was born, it has been redefined lots of times for last 10 decades due to lots of new skills, tools and techniques were introduced and they were accepted to new production of cinema. Nowad…
Importance of Context
“For me context is the key – from that comes the understanding of everything”
(K. Noland)
Word context, taking its roots back from Latin contextus, is define…
Textual analysis is crucial in film analysis of any kind. Almost all film studies module will always consist of textual analysis as the first assignment. Textual analysis is usually focused on sequenc…
In wanting a challenge, I choose a topic that I heard of, but wanted to do a lot more research and find key issues in how African Americans films evolved throughout stereotyped characters and racism. …
Suspense, horror, and creative are some of the words that describe Alfred Hitchcock s films. Something that no one had ever seen on screen was the techniques Hitchcock used. He was known as the master…
‘Before Elvis, there was nothing,’ John Lennon is alleged to have once said. When Elvis Presley recorded his first official single ‘That’s All Right Mama’ on 5 July 1954,…
Singing in the Rain is an American comedy musical film starring Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O’Connor and Jean Hagen, and directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen. It offers a com…
The dissertation reviews works of David Cronenberg circa 1976-1999 in relation to Truffaut’s theories of the auteur to show the relevance of auteur theory in today’s cinematic climate. The…
It is evident that Italian Neorealism and the life of post-war shaped the film Bicycle Thieves (1948). However, with much debate, one can argue that the sentimental nature of the film overwhelms the f…
