Such history has seen a thousand times, stealing money to the Mafia, murders, thieves, mixed again and again in different ways, the only difference here is that they are two lesbians.The most striking aspect of the film is that it is a bloody film, which deals with the mafia and money, but ends up being a lesbian relationship that in the end they are the real winners because they make with what they want. The Celluloid Closet is a documentary that examines the history of the presence and treatment of gay characters in major Hollywood films. This film documentary interviews several men and women connected with the Hollywood industry to discuss various segments of different films, and their own experiences with the treatment of gay-themed personas…
Bibliography: Braudy, L and Cohen, M [eds]. (2004), Film Theory and Criticism: Sixth Edition, New York: Oxford University Press.…
So in this view, there was a number of the new enterprising film firms in which just sprang up at the turn of the century featuring non-fiction titles, most specifically the travelogues. In the period prior to world travel has been actually widespread and every tourist had a camera. Therefore, the scenes of distant lands as well as the life were then having considerable foreign appeal for film patrons. As in most of whom until time were working class and definitely could not afford travel for such a reason. Citing some instances, for these two filmmakers Edwin S. Porter (1870–1941) and D. W. Griffith (1875–1948) had done perfecting the editing techniques for such a reason of advancing a story. That so happened, non-fiction films had been quickly obscured in attractiveness by narrative films in which had been exploited in editing as well as other cinematic techniques. Among those were framing and the movement of the camera in order to engage audiences expressively. In effect to that, non-fiction film had an assumption to a contributory position. (Kawin 2011)…
The film directed by F.W. Murnau in 1922, Nosferatu was a significant film created during the German Expressionist period and reflected many of the different attributes at the time in terms of the larger cultural, technological, political and economic developments. Throughout this essay, the main topics discussed will be how the film form and film style techniques used in Nosferatu can be understood in terms of its culture; being the idea of fantasy genres, utilisation of Expressionistic attributes and its influence on other countries and forms of popular culture in the present day. Technology; discussing how industrial advancement expanded and improved the production of filmmaking and also how Germany was seen as innovators and pioneers of technology who set the benchmarks for filmmaking…
Film, is a powerful and global language. It could be as influential as the state or as simple as a comedy. For example, it represented the voice of the state of USSR under revolution in 1910-1930s. However, in Buster Keaton’s movie---‘Sherlock, Jr.’, it is just an entertainment, a simple reflection on life, and a playground for filmmakers to exercise their imagination.…
Stanley Kubrick once said "If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed". With that in mind, my paper today is an analysis of the 5 principles of film form in Stanley Kubrick’s last film “Eyes Wide Shut”. Even tough “Eyes...” isn’t my favorite of the Kubrick films, it is surely really close to being, I love every aspect of it, from the music, to the themes, to the way it was shot, to just the overall darkness of the whole idea, its just awesome. In this essay I will analyze the Function, Similarity and Repetition, Difference and Variation, Development & finally the Unity and Disunity of the film. Anyway, I’m not sure if you (Professor Villeneuve) have seen it yet, but if you haven’t… you really should. Furthermore, I just hope that some of the sexual themes of the movie that I include in the essay aren’t too off-putting, but besides, we are all adults here, right?…
Kaes, Anton. Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War. Princeton: New Jersey, 2009.…
Through their immersion in French cine-clubs, they became exposed to Italian Neorealism and classical Hollywood cinema, which offered an alternative to what they saw to be a decline in French cinema. Voicing their opinions together as film critics, they rebelled against the mainstream cinematic trend, which in post-war conditions had fallen back on old traditional and heavily reliant on novellic adaptations and the notion of a “cinema of quality”.…
Run Lola Run is an outstanding German movie. It thriller movie and a great example post modernism movie. Cinematographic, a motion- picture projector, a technique in modernism, is used in Run Lola Run to react to modernism. They used…
Chuck Tryon writes in his article “Video from the Void: Video Spectatorship, Domestic Film Cultures, and Contemporary Horror Film”: “…The Ring…
Cited: The Conformist. Dir. Bernardo. Bertolucci. Perf. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin. Paramount Pictures, 1970.…
Film, as a form of popular art, contributes greatly to various societies since its emergence for such a medium embodies the set of values and beliefs of the culture for which and within which it is made. Fritz Lang’s M (1931), which was produced during the Weimar Republic period, is an example of this role of motion pictures. In the following paragraphs, this essay will analyze the way the movie features the instability and insanity of the political and social situation through the examination of its narration and mise-en-scene. Narration, as defined in Film Art: An Introduction, is “the process through which the plot conveys or withholds story information” (Bordwell and Thompson 503). In this particular production, Fritz Lang used narration…
In the Nazi era, Germany was at the cutting edge of movie production, being compared to Hollywood. In the 1930’s films became a powerful vehicle for conveying a message to the masses which allowed for the Nazi party to reach a much bigger audience. Furthermore, Goebbels and Hitler were fascinated by film itself and hence contributed their time and effort in order to achieve a…
Bibliography: oane, M. A. (2004). The voice in the cinema: The articulation of body and space. In L. Braudy, & M. Cohen, Film Theory and Criticism (pp. 373-385). New York: Oxford University Press.…
Bibliography: Benshoff, Harry. Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997)…