right. According to him‚ art cinema has a set of formal conventions relating to modes of production/consumption as well as having a discrete film practice and particular viewing conventions. Art cinema is likewise situated within the historical existence of film practice. In this essay I will discuss how Antonioni’s The Passenger (1975) can be classed as an art film according to the elements that characterise art cinema as put forth by Bordwell. Historically speaking‚ the Passenger was made in
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memory and narrative in Jane Campion’s film In the Cut in relation to dominant ideology and gender. The essay proposed shall examine the way in which ideology and gender help portray the themes of fairytale‚ memory and narrative. By focusing on ideology through gender in the film‚ it shall firstly analyse ideology and then gender and combine the two. Important to note here‚ is that throughout the film gender and ideology is closely linked and throughout the film‚ narrative is linked to gender and ideology
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Erica Freedman 1-24-2013 Feminist Theories in Intercultural Perspective- Hoffman The explosively popular 50 Shades of Grey series depicts Ana Steele‚ an aspiring young writer who quickly falls into the clutches of an extremely seductive and successful Christian Grey in a dominant/ submissive love story. Easily sweeping the young and restless girl off her feet‚ Grey’s confident and demanding presence starkly contrasts Ana’s who is known to self deprecate and hide behind plain clothing or a
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Introduction Psychoanalytic film theory‚ despite its relatively late development‚ has become one of the most widely practiced theoretical approaches to cinema studies today. This is largely owing to the fact that psychoanalysis and film technology were born in the same era‚ and essentially grew up together. Thus‚ as cinema quickly came to focus on ways of rendering subjective experiences--the innermost psychological depths of the characters it portrayed--it naturally drew upon the newest conception
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The result of this is that the role of women‚ in films‚ is often secondary to the role of men. Think about the number of films starring a female in the lead‚ as opposed to the ones in which she functions as merely a companion or love interest for the male star. A 2014 study analysed 2‚300 characters in that year’s highest grossing domestic films to discover that‚ of the top grossing films of 2014‚ women were protagonists only 12% of the
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Waves = movement * Reference points * Come and go; something causes it * Helps and hinders ****Time reference = "too western" 1st wave (1896 to 1920s) * women’s right to vote * economic and political equity **racial history as well Dramatic increase in women working... 2nd wave (1950’s to 1980’s) * civil rights empowered women‚ especially women of color civil rights welcomed women... * sexuality * Kinsey report
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Discuss how the different national film industries in Europe have recently developed a variety of transnational strategies to expand their market. You will consider production and distribution issues from several different countries‚ using at least two set films as case studies‚ adopting a comparative approach. European film industries are now starting to develop and are becoming more successful in countries other than their own. This is because national film industries in France‚ Spain‚ Germany
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“The presence of woman is an indispensable element of spectacle in normal narrative film‚ yet her visual presence tends to work against the development of a story-line‚ to freeze the flow of action in moment of erotic contemplation” (Laura Mulvey‚ “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”). Discuss the significance of this observation in relation to one or more narrative films. Laura Mulvey’s essay appeared for the first time in “Screen” in 1975 and immediately created quite heated debate that continues
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http://uregina.ca/~gingrich/o28f99.htm Feminists‚ third world or post-colonial analysts‚ identity theorists‚ writers with new approaches to sexuality‚ and post-modernists argue that the classical approaches are incomplete‚ misleading‚ or inadequate. Feminists and analysts of sexuality argue that classical sociologists were male writers with a male centred and conventional analysis of women‚ family‚ and sexuality. One general line of criticism of feminists is that women are absent from the social
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overtly feminist themes; because this is not a story about her marriage or her motherhood but instead a story about the woman herself and her thoughts about life. Thoughts which are sometimes radical‚ sensual and certainly autonomous and separate from her role as a wife or mother‚ an idea as yet unexplored in English literature and quite challenging of the Chopin’s patriarchal society . This is an excellent piece of literature to explore through the lens of feminist criticism. Feminist criticism
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