The natural world allows us to show of more of our individual talents, whereas the urban landscape seems to only allow us to show what is needed of us in terms of industry.
Modern Times echoes these themes and images of the early representation of the modern city. However, the film is much more comedic, but with the same message. For example, the factory scene shows the same monotony. It is comedic, yet it is also representing the dehumanizing of urban workers because of the extreme technological advances (Hicks 2007). This film represents a strange sense of automation taking the life and quality out of production within modern urban environments. There is the incessant need to be faster, and Chaplin's character can't even take a short break. Yet the workplace is not an ideal environment -- the fly that keeps bothering him represents the constant torture the modern worker endures…...

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References

Chaplin, Charlie. (1936). Modern Times. USA.

Hicks, Jeremy. (2007). Dziga Vertav: Defining Documentary Film I.B. Tauris.

Marko, Daniel. (2002). The man with the movie camera: Speed of vision, speed of truth? Web. http://www.25hrs.org/vertov.htm

Vertov, Dziga. (1929). The Man with the Movie Camera. USSR.

Their decision and ability to not only highlight the portions of the film that nest exemplify this (i.e. Streep's scenes as Julia Childs) but to also tie the rest of the film into the same perspective they were hoping to entice their viewers into adopting (i.e. The worship of Childs from afar a la Powell) accomplished exactly what was needed.
The construction of the television spots used in the marketing campaign for Julie & Julia were not effective only in legitimizing the story of Julia Childs told in the film, but also helped to draw younger viewers to the film. Amy Adams is a quickly emerging yet very well-received actress, and her story in the film modernizes what would otherwise be a historical piece. Though this historicism was the main focus of the advertising campaign, the television spots also reflect and understanding that younger audiences will not necessarily be drawn…...

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References

"Calling." (2009). Columbia pictures. Accessed 16 September 2009.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzTpZ3gKlJo 

Chang, D. (2009). "Streep unleashes her inner Child." Variety 415(10), pp. 19-22.

"Figuring it Out." (2009). Columbia pictures. Accessed 16 September 2009.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCJbrDqHUP0&feature=related

The spectator is unwittingly sutured into a colonialist perspective. But such techniques are not inevitably colonialist in their operation. One of the innovations of Pontocorvo's Battle of Algiers is to invert the imagery of encirclement and exploit the identificatory mechanisms of cinema in behalf of the colonized rather than the colonizer (Noble, 1977).
It is from within the casbah that we see and hear the French troops and helicopters. This time it is the colonized who are encircled and menaced and with whom we identify. The sequence in which three Algerian women dress in European style in order to pass the French checkpoints is particularly effective in controverting traditional patterns through the mechanisms of cinematic identification: scale (close shots individualize the three women); off-screen sound (we hear the sexist comments as if from the women's aural perspective); and especially point-of-view editing. By the time the women plant the bombs; our…...

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Works Cited

Bazin, Andre. "The Myth of Total Cinema." In What is Cinema? 2 vols. Selected and Translated by Hugh Gray. Berkeley: Univ. Of California Press, 1971.

Bordwell, D. (1997). On the history of film style. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Burke, K. (1997). Refining windows and frames: Visions toward integration in the discipline(s) of communication. Part 1. International Journal of Instructional Media, 24, 315-332.

Bordwell, David. Staiger, Janet. Thompson, Kristin. The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985).

In fact, the reviewer seemed to make it clear that this film would provide insight even for people well-familiar with the comfort women story. Three survivors talk about what they endured as comfort women, and how that has continued to impact them and their lives, to this day. The reviewer describes the women using graphic detail, which is an interesting and anomalous phrase. After all, would not one expect to find descriptions of rape to be graphic and disturbing? However, the euphemistic phrasing that is employed to justify human rights violations like this one, such as calling the women "comfort women" rather than "sex slaves" softens the impact of what has been done, even years after the fact. Therefore, while it is clear that the reviewer has previously studied these events, it is equally clear that the reviewer did not ever really consider the impact that being forced into…...

The first part ends with Lincoln's assassination and with influential abolitionists wanting to punish the Southern states.
The second part of the movie presents the characters after the end of the war as they attempt to reach their goals. Austin travels south with the intention of taking care that blacks are being set free and that they receive their basic rights. Ben Cameron is disappointed that his people now have to treat blacks as equals and decided to form the Ku Klux Klan.

Flora Cameron commits suicide after being chased by Gus, a former slave that tried to convince her to marry him. Ben quickly apprehends Gus, hangs him, and leaves his body in front of Lieutenant Governor Silas Lynch's house. Lynch responds by ordering the executions of all those part of the Klan. The Camerons manage to escape Lynch's people and they take refuge in a country home.

As Austin is…...

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Works Cited

The Birth of a Nation. Dir D.W. Griffith. Epoch Film Co. 1915.

She must deliver the government plan to an end and be successful. She is determined and uses all her feminine best cards. At the beginning of their meeting she seems to be a superficial, sex interested woman, giving a slight sense of nymphomania. During her adventure with Roger Thornhill she falls in love with him. A theme frequently used in American films (take for example all James ond films, sexy women ready anytime to jump in the hero's arms). At the end Eve and Roger seem a happily married coupled going on a honeymoon, and the viewer is given the impression of the perfect companion, a future ideal mother and wife, and Roger the devoted husband. They had there moments of doubt, when Roger thought Eve betrayed him and named her a person with no feelings, but Roger realized his mistake and they reconciled. The characters seem to have…...

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Bibliography

Wood Robin, "Ideology, genre, auteur" (1976), Hitchcock's Films Revisited, University Press 1989

Film Criticism of Casablanca
Casablanca, one of the most famous films of the last one hundred years, uses various film and music techniques to convey the story of Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman's tragic love triangle set in orld ar II's North Africa. The film connects on many human levels due to its use of seamless shots including close-ups, deep focus and dissolves to name a few. The technique of mis en scene, which literally means use of stylistic items such as scenery, lighting and costumes also artistically builds the drama. The use of music also plays a huge role in setting the scene for romance in the film. It, too, can be considered a character, after all no one can forget the line "Play it again, Sam." The following paragraphs takes an in depth look at such examples in the film.

Film Criticism

Montage and overlapping of scenes opens the movie dramatically…...

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Work Cited

Casablanca. Dir. Michael Cutriz. Perf. Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. Warner Bros, Inc., 1942.

In this area, meanings with their endless referrals evolve. These include meanings form discourses, as well as cultural systems of knowledge which structure beliefs, feelings, and values, i.e., ideologies. Language, in turn, produces these temporal "products."
During the next section of this thesis, the researcher relates a number of products (terminology) the film/TV industry produced, in answer to the question: hat components contribute to the linguistic aspect of a sublanguage inside of the English language?

CHAPTER III

FILM and TV SUBLANGUAGE

e've come to a certain point in the history of film.

Introduction

In the writing of the script for film/TV, a sublanguage, the writer's deep collection of his/her responses to life. Under specific circumstances, individuals in a particular area of expertise alter/change/utilize a language, in this case, English, to fit their profession, in turn making it easier of those in the profession to understand. This practice of altering specific words/terms also makes it more…...

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Ban Barriers That Inhibit Film and TV Makers and Viewers." Canadian Speeches, March 2002, 68+. Database online. Available from Questia,   Accessed 4 March 2009. www.questiaschool.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5001998288http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5000764575.Internet .

Berry, Ralph. "Understanding Hamlet through the Soliloquies." Contemporary Review, August 2003, 115+. Database online. Available from Questia,   Accessed 4 March 2009. www.questiaschool.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5026836367http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5001998288.Internet .

Bregent-Heald, Dominique. "The Redcoat and the Ranger: Screening Bilateral Friendship in Cecil B. DeMille's North West Mounted Police." American Review of Canadian Studies 38, no. 1 (2008): 43+. Database online. Available from Questia,   Accessed 4 March 2009.http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5026836367.Internet .

Dirks, Tim. AMC filmsite. 2009 American Movie Classics Company LLC, 2009. Available at   Internet. Accessed 4 March 2009. www.questiaschool.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5002295362http://www.filmsite.org/filmterms19.html .

These blows come in the form of beatings and disappointments encountered by Antoine while he is a student at a prison-like school. Truffaut paints the starkness of his reality effectively in his use of black and white hues. The boys are dressed mainly in dark formal clothes and their surroundings are also dark. This is contrasted with the brightness of the outside world in which Antoine is constantly looking for. He is left to his own devices, as the adults of the film appear to be "hypocritical, unsympathetic, unperceptive and untrustworthy" (Mast 353). This depicts a gloomy picture of Truffaut's outlook on life. His methods of camera technique, palette choice and story structure further promote this feeling. His choice of loner and misfits like Antoine who feel stifled by society also promote changing definitions in society. Truffaut wanted to put these ideas out into the public not only to…...

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Works Cited

Cowie, Peter. The Seventh Seal. 17 March 2005 http://www.criterioncollection/asp/release.asp?id=11&eid=26&se.

Drabelle, Dennis. "Shooting From the Hip." Washington Post (June 15, 1997): 4 pages. 20 March 2005  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp=srv/style/longterm/books/review.htm ..

Kawin. Bruce, F. Mindscreen: Bergman, Godard and First Person Film. Princeton:

Princeton University Press, 1978.

This is important, because the director was using these individuals to show how the struggle for independence was carried out by: ordinary people who wanted to make a difference. (Johnson)
Since the film was first released in 1966, sympathy has changed dramatically. What has been happening is: the views of the FLN and their leaders are seen as heroes throughout the film. As they are representing the struggles that Algerians are going through during the independence movement. In this aspect, the movie was about the people standing up to: capitalist regimes that were exploiting many countries. (Johnson)

However, as time has went by, the use of these tactics by the FLN (mainly bombings) has changed. What has been occurring is that, this has become a common form of attack that many terrorist groups are using against innocent civilians. After the events of September 11th and the feelings associated with what happened,…...

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Bibliography

Johnson, Sheila. "The Battle of Algiers." Common Dreams, 2003. Web. 20 May 2011.

Film And Television and Culture
One of the principal concepts that Robert Zemekis' 994 motion picture Forrest Gump is meant to put across regards the problems that society has to deal with. Consequent to watching this film, most viewers are likely to look back and think about all of the issues in Forrest Gump's life. The fact that Tom Hanks soundly plays the character contributes to making the audience relate to him, especially considering that his emotional nature increases the overall feeling that one has while viewing the film.

Forrest Gump is a rather ordinary individual who somewhat accidentally becomes a part of a series of historic events. Having been challenged by life's hardships, he continuously strives to achieve his goals, regardless of the fact that he often comes across tough situations. His below-the-average IQ and his failure to connect with the love of his life in his early years do not…...

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10. The visual effects employed throughout the film are downright impressive when considering that the film was shot in the early nineties. Computer generated imagery techniques have made it possible for Tom Hanks to be shown shaking hands with several celebrities that died before the film was made. Similarly, clips showing characters during the Vietnam War put across the feeling that napalm was actually shot near the actors.

11. One is likely to feel that his personal identity is influenced by such films, considering that the sentiments that it triggers are quite strong. Even with the fact that it is very difficult (considering that individuals are bombarded with emotive feelings through a series of mediums) to influence people in the contemporary society, Forrest's determination and the fact that he uses morality as a means to get by makes viewers understand that it is best for them to remain impartial and ethical in most circumstances.

Dir. Robert Zemeckis. Forrest Gump. Paramount Pictures, 1994.

Film: Family Prays Together Stays Together Tyler Perry Select a film, short story, drama worthy time analysis, Aristotle's ideas good dramatic storytelling lecture, analyze story a 750- 1
Tyler Perry's movie drama "The family that preys" represents the story of two families that eventually are forced by circumstances to work together and to get along, regardless of the discrepancies that exist in their life style, mentality, and dreams.

The story line is relatively complex in the sense that there are numerous events that take place throughout the film, from marriage, to drama, from happy moments to sad ones. From this point-of-view, the story and the plot itself resembles the complexity of everyday life, with all intricate affairs and developments that usually do take place in people's lives. An aspect however that may seem somewhat unrealistic relates to the way in which paths cross between the two families. In every day life, and…...

Film Comparison
Almodovar's Prisons

Prisons can be more than a place where one is confined for what they have done. A prison can be a great number of things; a prison can be a psychological, social, emotional, or physical construct. Pedro Almodovar explores these four types of prisons in two of his films, Volver and Todo Sobre Mi Madre (All About My Mother). In both of these films, the characters find themselves held prisoner by what they keep as secret; the ramifications of these secrets sometimes force characters into seclusion, whether it is self-imposed or a result of social/cultural fears. Volver and Todo Sobre Mi Madre's narratives demonstrate the effects that these four types of prisons -- psychological, social, emotional, and physical -- have on the people that are forced into confinement.

"Almodovar is most interested in melodrama, approached from a variety of angles, some of them skewed" (Mast & Kawin, 2003, p.…...

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Almodovar, P. (Director). (2006). Volver [Motion Picture]. Spain: Sony Pictures Classics.

Amodovar, P. (Director). (1999). Todo Sobre Mi Madre [Motion Picture]. Spain: Sony Pictures Classics.

Mast, G. a. (2003). A Short History of the Movies. New York: Longman Pearson.

Simon, P. (Ed.). (2010). Looking At Movies (Third ed.). New York: W.W. Norton.

Film: Final Research Paper (Parasite- 2019)Research is essential in any field since it provides important knowledge relevant to the subject or study field. Film research is necessary for understanding the films fiction, non-fiction, or documentary narratives. Storytelling is an art that is best interpreted by analyzing a selective film. To fulfill this purpose, this paper aims to present film research for a specific era movie. The chosen era is present . The movie is an Oscar-winning Korean drama and thriller named Parasite (2019). The learnings about the cinema of this particular time and its historical context and critique will be elucidated in further sections of the paper.Historical ApproachThe Korean film industry is a great competition for Hollywood since their filmmaking and direction are acclaimed worldwide. The funding from the government granted for filmmaking in Korea is the subsidy required for strengthening the entire movie. Since recently, the Korean film industrys…...

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BBC News. Parasite: The Real People Living in Seoul’s Basement Apartments. February 10, 2020.   (accessed December 2, 2021).https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-51321661 

Hempel, Bryan. Class Issues and Identity in South Korean Cinema. October 3, 2020.   (accessed December 2, 2021).https://hyperrealfilm.club/reviews/2020/10/1/class-issues-and-identity-in-south-korean-cinema 

Kang, Inkoo. Parasite: Notes from the Underground. October 30, 2020.   (accessed December 2, 2021).https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/7158-parasite-notes-from-the-underground 

"Borderline," released in 1950 and directed by William A. Seiter, stands as a fascinating artifact of its era, blending elements of film noir with a unique exploration of morality and identity. The film stars Claire Trevor and Fred MacMurray as undercover agents entangled in both a criminal investigation and a complex web of personal and moral dilemmas. This essay aims to dissect the thematic elements, narrative structure, and cinematic techniques that make "Borderline" a noteworthy piece in the history of early post-war cinema.
The historical context of "Borderline" is significant. Produced during a period marked by the rise of film noir and reflecting the societal upheavals post-World War II, the movie navigates a world where the clear demarcations of right and wrong are often blurred. The film utilizes the common noir theme of undercover operations, but it does so with a twist – both protagonists, Madeleine Haley (Trevor) and Johnny Macklin…...

The first thing you need to do is understand what a theme is.  A theme is an idea in a movie.  Many people think of themes as the main idea, but a movie may have a central theme and several other themes.  If you are not sure how to identify a movie’s theme, think about the things in a movie that you want to talk about after you watch it or that leave you thinking about the movie. While themes can spur a number of different discussions, you should be able to describe the them concisely, generally....

Genre theory refers to the use of familiar themes and ideas as a way of signaling to the audience what to expect from a work of fiction. Genre theory can be used in various types of fiction and is often discussed when talking about both literature and movies. Genre theory can provide a good springboard for analysis of a particular work, because works can exemplify genres, deviate from genres, or even flip genres completely upside down.  As fictional works have developed, genres have become more specific.  Genres were initially very broad, both....

Advertising is such an interesting topic.  It can be overt, such as in television commercials, print ads, or ads in social media.  It can also be more subtle, such as product placement.  Advertising can seem relatively straightforward, or it can involve complex psychological manipulations.  Advertising is a billion-dollar business, because ads can help generate billions in revenue for their companies.  There are so many different things that you can investigate for a paper on advertising, from the use of celebrity endorsements to fear based advertising.  In fact, much modern entertainment is actually....

Three iconic high school dance movies helped shape popular culture from the late 1970s to the late 1980s: Dirty Dancing, Grease, and Footloose.  While the movies all focused on high school aged teens, they also had other similarities that are worth exploring.  They all feature relationships with a boy from the “wrong side of the tracks” in some way.  This is reminiscent of West Side Story, the original teen dance epic.  Of course, West Side Story derives its story from Romeo and Juliet.  Your thesis could focus on those similarities or you could....