The necessity of water and time The dominance of power in society can be illustrated by using a pyramid. People with the possession of real power‚ we find at the very top and narrowest part. At the bottom‚ and widest part‚ we find everything and everyone else. Like the people of Dimock‚ in the documentary Gasland‚ they put their trust and faith into the hands of the controlling minority part‚ thinking that they would act in their best interest. However‚ in many cases just like theirs‚ megalomaniacal
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Claire Johnson’s essay‚ Women Cinema as Counter Cinema‚ explores the ways in which female stereotypes in films came to be and how feminist filmmakers can go about subverting the damage that decades of problematic portrayals of women have caused. Johnson spends a great deal of time talking about the idea of the woman as an “icon”—merely a symbol meant to represent a separate idea or ideal. This type of iconography has turned women in films into rough caricatures that audience members are able to categorize
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Katrina Farmer Pd.2 History Of Cinema What is cinema? Cinema is a film‚ a story captured as a set of moving pictures to be shown on a screen in a movie theatre or on television. It is a passage of expression and modern science. Cinema is the most tried and true form of storytelling. Cinema is a sequence of moments captured in time‚ to make you feel‚ to make you see and to make you understand. Cinema is theatre made more intimate‚ passion in motion. Cinema built everything that we see on televisions
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This essay will discuss both the Cinema of Attractions and Narrative Cinema and their origins in order to better understand the differences found between them in regards to the criteria to follow. This essay will highlight the role that the spectator plays‚ and the temporality that both the Cinema of Attractions and Narrative Cinema exhibit. Tom Gunning proposed the Continuity Model in order to better understand the beginning of film and the making of film. Gunning proposes the following assumptions:
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Food can be a means to educate. Essay Select any two texts in the anthology where food is presented in this way by writers and compare the attitudes shown towards food in your selected texts. Both text 24 and text 30 have been written to appeal to children. Features such as informality in language‚ simple sentences and cartoon characters all imply that they were produced for kids. Text 24 gives the ideology of playfulness and tasty food which the scruffy dog presents. Whilst text 30 helps to teach
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Italian Neo realism; Pure Cinema 1. Ladri de Biccilette [Bicycle Thieves] (Vittorio De Sica) Do you agree with Andre Bazin that Ladri de Biccilette is an example of ‘pure cinema’? (Bazin [1971] p.60). To what extent is such a pure cinema possible and‚ in your opinion‚ which Italian Neo-realist film screened on the unit comes closest to it? Explain your reasoning. This essay will address the characteristics of ‘pure cinema’ and the extent of its practical nature. It also seeks to analyse
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Biyaya ng Lupa The movie showed how Filipino Families lived in the past. The main charaters‚ Jose and Maria‚ got married and started a life together‚ having four children. They were extremely conservative in how they ran their family; with the couple talking about how they shouldn’t fight too much because it would cause the downfall of their marriage. I like the movie because it shows how old Filipino films were at that time. It also showed how beautiful Rosa Rosal (playing Maria) was when she
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Litsa Mouka 1 I know very well‚ but all the same… A study of fetishism I know very well‚ but all the same... A study of fetishism in relation to cinema This dissertation is an exploration into the different ways cinema utilises processes of fetishisation to evoke desire and disavow lack. In all cases it will show how the basic notion of fetishism functions as a symbolic substitution for the lack and as such‚ how it imposes itself onto the structure of film and the experience of watching/looking
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The cinema of attraction. ‘A matter of making images seen.’ This is what Fernand Léger was writing in 1902 about the new art‚ trying to describe the possible changes in cinema‚ by emphasizing the fact that imitating the movements of nature is not necessarily the best way of defining cinema’s essence. This is only one of the writings concerning this topic which influenced Tom Gunning in characterizing the cinematic period before 1906 as that of the ‘cinema of attractions’. In this essay I am
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In the early 1900s Italy was the first to start a new advangarde movement in the cinema production‚ thanks to the art movement Futurism. The Manifesto of Futuristic Cinematography dates back to as early as 1916 some sources even started earlier. To the futurists‚ the cinema was an ideal form of art for their "wonderful plays"‚ being the start of a new artistic medium. As film had with no past and able to be manipulated by editing and simple special effects it became a new creative and subversive
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