Sam Maloney International Cinemas September 19th‚ 2011 Restivo‚ MW 12:00 EXAM 1 “One artistic strength of Hong Kong cinema‚ then‚ is its use of parallels and motifs—musical‚ visual‚ or verbal—to bind together episodically plotted films.” : In Plots p 120 So far in this Chinese Cinemas class‚ I have noticed something every film we have viewed in class and every Hong Kong film I have watched outside of the lecture: the stories flow perfectly. At first the films could come off as confusing
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regarded as the two chief Italian expositors of neorealism. Zavattini worked as the screenwriter for Vittorio De Sica and authored several of the masterpieces of neorealist cinema including Ladri di biciclette (1948) and Miracolo a Milano (1950). Aristarco founded the journal Cinema Nuovo and encouraged the idea of Italian cinema as a natural progression fron neorealism to what might be called critical realism. Interested in promoting a realist agenda reminiscent of Lukács’s throughout the arts‚ Aristarco
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examples of a shift in the melodrama genre. Rebel Without A Cause depicts the story of a troublemaking teenager‚ Jim Stark‚ with unaffectionate parents‚ who is faced with moving to a new environment. The Last Picture Show‚ a film about the recession of cinema in a rural town‚ reflects the breakdown of censorship during the Modernist period. The experimentation of genre beginning in the 1950s during the Postclassical period changed
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Test #1: Study Notes Chapter 1 Cinephile: a lover of cinema Filmography: a list of films There are distinct types of explanation in film history: 1. Biographical History 2. Industrial/Economic Historybusiness procedures 3. Aesthetic Historyfilm art (form; style) 4. Technological History 5. Social/Cultural/Political Types of Explanation: 1. Chronology 2. Influence 3. Trends/Generalization 4. Periods (by positing trends‚ historians generalize) 5. Significance Methodological Individualism:
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French-New Wave Introduction This essay is about the influence of the French-New Wave on contemporary cinema. It begins by the brief introduction to French-New Wave‚ of which the influence on will emerge without strain in the process of analysis. Arising From time to time‚ filmmakers‚ film critics‚ and film buffs will make references to a period in film history known as the French New Wave. For some people this is a term to throw out just to sound impressive‚ while for others it carries
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Film Studies Assignment 1 Classical and Post-Classical Hollywood Cinema Table of contents INTRODUCTION--------------------------------------------- 3 CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD------------------------------- 4 Classical Gender Representation-------------------------------------- 4 Classical Style‚ form and content-------------------------------------- 5 GENRE TRANSFORMATION AND POST-CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD------------------------------- 5 REFERENCES 8 BIBLIOGRAPHY 9 FILMOGRAPHY 10 INTRODUCTION During
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Leading cinema operator‚ Golden Screen Cinemas (GSC) extends its reach to East Malaysia with the opening of its first cinema in Sarawak with the opening of GSC Bintang Megamall‚ Miri under the “GSC Lite” branding today. “The 8-screen GSC Bintang Megamall‚ Miri is the first GSC cinema to open with all- digital halls in the GSC chain‚ the first all-digital hall cinema in East Malaysia and will also offer the first digital 3D hall in Miri”‚ said Ms Koh Mei Lee‚ GSC Chief Executive Officer. “GSC
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Aesthetic and Thematic Definition of Independent Films "The Official cinema of the world has run out of breath. It is morally corrupt‚ aesthetically obsolete‚ thematically superficial‚ and temperamentally boring." (Lionel R et al‚ 1960) As a result of this and a great number of other reasons‚ independent cinema was born. For the most people who have a basic knowledge of American cinema‚ “independent filmmaking consists of low budget projects made by (mostly) young filmmakers with a strong personal
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DECLINE OF STARDOM AND EMERGENCE OF REAL LIFE CHARACTERS IN MALAYALAM CINEMA: A STUDY BASED ON SALT AND PEPPER‚ TRAFFIC AND ADAMINTE MAKAN ABU INRODUCTION The Malayalam film had a glorious past of 80 years. It has gone through various phases of time and of success‚ failures in various aspects of film‚ of technical changes‚ treatment of the plot‚ editing styles etc. The black and white moving
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and Qeysar by Masoud Kimiai. Nevertheless‚ it was following the Popular Revolution in 1979 that the Iranian New Wave movement (as it is known today) began to truly take shape. In parts two and three‚ I am going to ask how and why the post-revolution cinema‚ particularly works from auteur Abbas Kiarostami and Jafar Panahi‚ took on its genre defining conventions. Despite intense interior turmoil‚ the past thirty years have seen Abbas Kiarostami‚ Jafar Panahi and the Makhmalbaf family evolve into internationally
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