is a theoretical approach to study films as a text. It will include an extended study of film form and provide necessary vocabulary to analyse films. There will also be an additional section on Indian cinema. 2. Text Book: David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson. Film Art: An Introduction. SEVENTH EDITION. New York: McGraw-Hill Inc.‚ 2004. 3. Reference Book: 1. Richard Maltby Hollywood Cinema Blackwell Publishing‚ 2003 2. Ed. R L Rutsky‚ Jeffrey Gieger Film Analysis: A Norton Reader Norton Publishing
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everything can and should be resolved by violence because it does not help but create new problems and that you cannot all was trust people. Throughout the movie we see him being put in to situations that make him nervous and uncomfortable‚ like in the scene when they first get to Big
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An important scene found in the movie To Kill A Mockingbird is a scene concerning Mr. Tate recoiling upon the outcaste‚ Boo Radley‚ and unraveling a new perception of friendship. Atticus Finch (played by Gregory Peck)‚ his daughter Jean-Louise Finch‚ also known as Scout (played by Mary Badham)‚ and Boo Radley (played by Robert Duvall) all play an important role in the scene. As scout relates what had happened‚ she notices a man in the corner of the bedroom behind the door. She identifies the mysterious
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The Conspirator is a movie made in 2010 directed by Robert Redford. The whole point of making this movie was to bring history to life. Through other movies made by Hollywood‚ the truth of the story is very small. In this movie‚ they went back and went as historically correct to the time after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. After the assassination of President Lincoln‚ men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill Lincoln and the vice president and the secretary of state.
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one of that can be taken as fact and other is a fiction. In reality we tend to take our own personal ideas and beliefs. When we attempt to put the events of our lives into story form it is no wonder that we each crate our own individual story. In the film‚ four characters create their own version of what happen. They intend to tell a instead of saying and doing the right thing. Why do people always intend to tell a lie instead of saying the truth? Why does a person only believe in what they want to
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it inception in the late 1800s. Although film-making varied from generation to generation‚ one thing remained constant and that was the eight major Hollywood studios. Many of these studios are around today such as Warner Brothers‚ MGM‚ and Universal Pictures. Most of the studio’s longevity was based off of their involvement during the height of the studio era commonly referred to as the “Golden Age of Hollywood.” Throughout this essay I will decipher a film from 1930 to 1952 and discuss the major
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Todd Haynes’s film Far from Heaven is a remake of Sirk’s previously analyzed film. Haynes recovers in Far from Heaven not only the narrative line of All That Heaven Allows but also the techniques of melodrama‚ such as mise-en-scène‚ camera movements‚ or the film’s composition‚ which make it possible to reinforce the sentimental connection of the viewer with the story (Higgins 101). Haynes emphasizes the power of melodrama’s visual techniques and music to move the emotions of the viewer “with saturated
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down different paths one would be the responsible option; abortion or adoption seeing as she’s not ready to deal with a child‚ or to keep the child after it’s born. In this movie maturity and immaturity are combined in shocking ways. The moral of this film seems to run along the lines of; make your decisions wisely and to be protected if pre-marital sex is your choice. To be discussed‚ Juno’s immaturity to have unprotected sex without being able to deal with the consequences such as pregnancy. To somewhat
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Douglas Sirk’s film All that Heaven Allows follows a well off widow‚ Cary Scott‚ who falls in love with her landscaper‚ Ron Kirby. After confiding in her family and friends about her love for Ron‚ they criticize her since a relationship between and older woman and a younger man is considered taboo. Drama ensues and and Cary is ultimately left with the decision to either keep pursuing her romance with Ron or to move on. In the scene “The Wedgwood Teapot” the director conveys Cary Scott’s control
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death scene comes from a strikingly different point of view. In the novel‚ Nick’s continual assertion of his own beliefs maintains the audience’s interest in his opinions rather than Gatsby himself. While delineating the scene of the crime‚ Nick interjects that he “firmly [believes]” that Gatsby’s servants “knew [about the bodies] by then.” Fitzgerald‚ in turn‚ assures that it is clear exactly whose life The Great Gatsby depicts. On the other hand‚ Wilson clearly narrates the 1974 death scene through
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