When one contemplates the concepts of cinema and attractions‚ the ideas of the modern day blockbuster film might come to mind. World disasters‚ car chases‚ and high profile police investigations are just some of the story lines that attract people to theatres year round. The term "cinema of attraction" introduced by Tom Gunning into the study of film is defined more precisely. To quote Gunning‚ a cinema of attraction: "directly solicits spectator attention‚ inciting visual curiosity‚ and supplying
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Elements of the cinema TIME * Since the images of moving pictures move in time‚ time is the most important element of the cinema. In the cinema it is subject to contraction‚ expansion‚ breaks or leaps through the manipulation of the director. The three aspects of the time 1. Physical time is the time taken by an action as it is being filmed and as it is being projected on the screen. A film may actually show what is happening in real life. * Physical time in the cinema can be distorted
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your at Italy‚ it like reviving Italy’s film industry. If you are thinking‚ what Im thinking. Then you guess right. Im talking about Cinema Paradiso. Released in 1988 this Italian drama film written and directed by Guiseppe Tornatore will have you so entertained‚ that you wouldn’t mind having a crying baby next your seat. Just kidding. Cutting to the chase‚ Cinema Paradiso is about a young boy named Salvatore but people called him Toto‚ who grew up in a native Sicilian Village. However‚ 30 years
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"Cinema Paradiso" is a movie about growing up‚ love‚ leaving and returning home‚ loss and success. Its first part illustrates a flashback of Salvatore’s life in Sicily‚ how he fell in love with movies with Alfredo’s guidance‚ and how he and his beloved Elena started a romance that ended bitterly. The latter part shows his return from Rome to his hometown for Alfredo’s funeral and some revelations of past events that caused him to live a nostalgic life for thirty years though he had been successful
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The exploration of William Shakespeare’s play ‘King Richard III’ and Al Pacino’s 1996 doco-drama film ‘Looking for Richard’ reveals the explicit relationships between each text and their respective audience. The Elizabethan and twentieth century contexts in each of these texts are important as it demonstrates the value of each text and enables the understanding of how the film enriches the ideas presented in the play. Shakespeare’s ‘King Richard III’ portrays a malicious and corrupted Richard to
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used to refer to the whole of Hindi cinema. Bollywood is only a part of the Bhartiya film industry. The name is a portmanteau of Bombay (the former name for Mumbai) and Hollywood‚ the center of the American film industry. Though some deplore the name‚ arguing that it makes the industry look like a poor cousin to Hollywood‚ it seems likely to persist and now has its own entry in the Oxford English Dictionary. Bollywood is commonly referred to as Hindi cinema‚ even though Hindustani‚ the substratum
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Cinema Paradiso is set shortly after World War II in Salvatore Di Vita’s hometown of Sicily. Salvatore‚ nicknamed Toto‚ is a small child with a love for film who creates a close friendship with Alfredo‚ the cinema’s projectionist. Youth‚ the first theme we will discuss involves the trials and tribulations Toto goes through at the start of the movie. Toto has lived at least a few years without a father figure as his father went away to fight in World War II. After the war‚ however‚ his father does
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there is a £1.50 benefit to the economy." . Cinema has become a powerful vehicle for culture‚ education‚ leisure and propaganda. In a 1963 report for the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization looking at Indian Cinema and Culture‚ the author (Baldoon Dhingra) quoted a speech by Prime Minister Nehru who stated‚ "...the influence in India of films is greater than newspapers and books combined." Even at this early stage in cinema‚ the Indian film-market catered for over 25 million
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reflect and analyse our biggest problems and fears. Cinematherapy has emerged precisely in order to make the most of those personal introspective moments offered by a series or film. It is a technique that uses the multiple psychological benefits of cinema together with cognitive therapy. It’s objective? To use audiovisual material as a tool to help ourselves overcome all kinds of psychological disorders. With a film a director meets one of the purposes of therapy: to make the public and the patient
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‘Alas he’s mad’ (3:4:108) How far do you agree with the statement that Hamlet is mad? I disagree with the statement that Hamlet is mad due to all the evidence throughout the play in which I believe Shakespeare uses hidden phrases and hints to suggest Hamlet is only pretending to be mad. I believe that by the way Shakespeare exaggerates the extent of Ophelia’s madness‚ so the audience may compare this to Macbeth to realise that he is not actually mad. For instance when she speaks‚ she talks in
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