100 YEARS OF INDIAN CINEMA Indian Cinema has now completed 100 years on April 21‚ 2012‚ a country where over 1‚000 films are made every year‚ in several languages. During these long years Indian cinema has broken many new grounds and established several milestones. The Times of India‚ India’s major newspaper then‚ hailed it as "the marvel of the century". As writer and essayist Mukul Kesavan wrote‚ "The art of the cinema was fashioned in India at the same time as it was developed in the West". The
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INDIAN CINEMA... EDUCATES AND ENTERTAINS? Award winning film-maker and actress Nandita Das once said‚ “Without poets‚ artists‚ and film-makers‚ men would soon weary of nature’s monotony. The sublime idea that men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature‚ and which is only an effect of art‚ would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons‚ no civilization‚ no thought‚ no humanity; even life would give away‚
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STATEMENT TO THE PROBLEM Cinema is meant and believed to entertain‚ to take the viewer to a world that is starkly different from the real one‚ a world which provides escape from the daily grind of life. Cinema is a popular media of mass consumption which plays a key role in moulding opinions‚ constructing images and reinforcing dominant cultural values. Hindi cinema has been a major point of reference for Indian culture in this century. It has shaped and expressed the changing scenarios of modern
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British Cinema History Emergent British Cinema 1880-1900 Modern cinema is generally regarded as descending from the work of the French Lumière brothers in 1892‚ and their show first came to London in 1896. However‚ the first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park in 1889 by William Friese Greene‚ a British inventor‚ who patented the process in 1890. The film is the first known instance of a projected moving image. At the end of the 19th America had started to experiment
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flamboyance and glamour‚ something that certainly transfers over to Indian Cinema. Released in 2007 throughout the world‚ Om Shanti Om was a tremendously successful film both in India and abroad. Even in the United States‚ it was greatly popular while only opening in a select amount of theaters. Directed by Farah Khan and produced by Gauri khan‚ Om Shanti Om served as a parody on many of the quintessential stereotypes of Indian cinema. It was not a hostile film‚ as most of the stars being parodied actually
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British theatres One of the world’s major centers for theatre‚ Britain has a centuries-old dramatic tradition and about 300 theatres. There are several thousand amateur dramatic societies in Britain. The Royal Shakespeare Company performs in Stratford-upon Avon and at the Barbican Centre in London. A modern reconstruction of the Globe Theatre‚ close to its original site‚ is under way. Most cities and towns in Britain have at least one theatre. There are 500 youth theatres in England alone. The Unicorn
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Revisiting The Golden Era Of Hindi Cinema Introduction : A country of 1.2 billion people‚ the ancient civilisation of India is a melting pot of cultures and juxtapositions. It is a land that will assault your senses all around. The vibrant colours‚ exotic aromas‚ cacophony of sounds‚ and the amalgamation of flavours will both enchant and offend. Within it more than 20 native dialects are spoken. But in this diversity there is unity found in the common language of their movies. Such is the
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1 Kate Woodford Modernity‚ Consumerism and ‘The Women’ In the 1920s‚ ‘modernity’ swept through America‚ with a enormous economic shift that transformed the pre world war one country from a society still rooted in a predominately agricultural small town past into the worlds primary industrialized urban nation with the formation of the city. It was through corporate capitalism‚ mass production and consumerism and the process of the mass media that this was done. Where Paris
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Hong Kong Cinema The Chinese art form I ’ve chosen to write about is film‚ with an emphasis on Hong Kong Cinema. I enjoy movies‚ in particular action films. Hong Kong Cinema has produced some of the best action films I have ever seen. I will discuss three Hong Kong Action genres‚ Martial Arts films‚ the Kung Fu Comedies and the Triad films. My first experience with Hong Kong Cinema came in the 1970s with Martial Arts films. Martial arts‚ emphasizes self-strengthening‚ therapeutic exercise
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Kyle Keitz Professor Mullens Film 221 March 5‚ 2013 Art Cinema Characteristics in Persona According to David Bordwell’s research‚ Hollywood had a basic outline on how they made their films. The classical narrative cinema follows narrative structure‚ cinematic style‚ and spectatorial activity. In Classical Hollywood Cinema there is usually a psychologically defined‚ goal oriented character that’s easy to like. Foreign countries had a different way of making film‚ post WWII‚ Europe reestablished
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