Film Noir‚ meaning “black film’ in French‚ was the trending style and genre in American culture between the 1940s and the 1950s. It is a combination of European cynicism and the American landscape. Film Noir has its origins from German Expressionism and French Poetic Realism. Nino Frank‚ who was a French film critic‚ was the first to introduce this black and white genre to Hollywood in 1946. Many of the directors who introduced Film Noir where refugees from Nazi‚ Germany. From that moment in time
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French Film Noir: Touchez pas au Grisbi and Ascenseur pour l’échafaud Azaria Wassyihun Film Noir is often regarded as a uniquely American phenomenon. The particular context these films were produced in‚ marked by the post-war period‚ infused these films with a unique style Hollywood had never encountered before. America might have been the adequate setting for this unique phenomenon to occur‚ but film noir would not be the same without it’s international aspects. Famous Austrian born directors
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There were many changes in marketing and distribution of films from end of the silent period to the modern digital period. There was a studio system that existed at the end of the silent period and collapsed in 1949 with a court ruling. During this same time a sales era of marketing existed. After the Second World War the sales era was replaced with a new way of thinking and sales and marketing were not synonymous anymore. Marketing after World War II meant finding out what consumers’ needs and wants
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Exploitation films have been produced since the beginning of film‚ but once the Production Code was no longer in effect‚ more these films could be produced and at a faster rate. One genre of exploitation cinema is the drug crime film. Starting as early as the 1930s‚ filmmakers made movies about the dangers of doing drugs. These films were often cheaply made and aimed at a small audience (Clark 4). They were theatrically simple‚ with an uncomplicated narrative: “these are films whose entire function
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events‚ but he kept this clip very similar to the plot of the rest of the movie. Another aspect that is interesting in this segment was when Miss Trunchbull threw the little girl. This scene was taken in one shot‚ which means that the single length of film was continuously by one camera. Mise-en-scene was definitely a factor in this one scene from like the costume used and the staging of the fence with the garden of flowers. The uses of these techniques give the viewers different feelings based on these
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Lab 4 – Energy Sources and Alternative Energy Experiment 1: The Effects of Coal Mining Table 1: pH of Water Samples Water Sample Initial pH Final pH (24-48 hours) Pyrite 6 7 Activated Carbon 6 7 Water 6 6 NOTE: Picture below is after 48 hours of all three samples sitting in a warm place. POST LAB QUESTIONS 1. Develop hypotheses predicting the effect of pyrite and coal on the acidity of water? a. Pyrite hypothesis = If pyrite is in the water source‚ then it will make
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and how does Australian news coverage shift from the notion of entertainment? Along with Newsreels‚ Women’s Weekly gives great historical significance to the beginning of new age Australian Media. But newsreels were shown in cinemas before feature films and the introduction of television‚ making it the only source
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of the dominance of David Helfgott’s father in David’s early life. Our sympathies almost certainly lie with David. How does the director‚ Scott Hicks‚ achieve this? From the up-close-and-personal scenes with the adult David at the beginning of the film‚ our attention is focused on him. When Hicks takes us back to David’s childhood‚ we are aware that David is the focus but Peter Helfgott’s presence is stifling. He dominates every scene. Hicks conveys this dominance through the use of audio‚ symbolic
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LEVEL 3 How to write a Film Review Credits (first page only): Title‚ year‚ genre‚ director‚ (screenwriter)‚ music or soundtrack‚ main actors. Credits: Summary of the plot (synopsis): Only a brief summary of the film‚ around ½ to ¾ page. Make sure that your summary makes sense to a reader who does not know the movie. Do not refer to specific scenes and do not try to explain everything. You must also include the following items‚ but not as different parts (they should be included
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Although that the film is a rural comedy‚ Berlanga imitates some of the most important film genres: western‚ film noir‚ epics and Soviet Realism. These different genres‚ most of them American‚ are used in the dream sequences of the film. With those dreams‚ the director tried to explain the fears and ambitions of the characters and to make a relationship between the genres and the ideology of the characters. The first character that we see dreaming in the film is Don Cosme who is the priest of the
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