September 3‚ 2014 Lecture 1 Professor Barry Keith Grant Terrance McDonald – Course Co-Ordinator Cinema – Industry‚ a social institution‚ entertainment‚ an art form. September 5‚ 2014 Lecture 2 Becoming a Film Student An introduction to screening and viewing practices September 10‚ 2014 Lecture 3 The Beginnings of Cinema Peter Mark Roget (1769-1879) Persistence of Vision Thaumatrope (1824) Animation Cel Zoetrope Invented in 1833 by British Mathematician William George Horner Panorama
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ADAPTATION AS INTERPRETATION The debate on cinematic adaptations of literary works was for many years dominated by the questions of fidelity to the source and by the tendencies to prioritize the literary originals over their film versions. (Whelehan:2006) Adaptations were seen by most critics as inferior to the adapted texts‚ as “minor”‚ “subsidiary”‚ “derivative” or “secondary” products‚ lacking the symbolic richness of the books and missing their “spirit”. (Hutcheon:2006) Critics could not forgive
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of Electrical Workers (IBEW); Laborers Local 724; Screen Actors Guild (SAG); Teamsters Local 399; and Writers Guild of America (WGA) (amptp.org). On November 5‚ 2007 the Writer’s Guild of America East and the Writer’s Guild of America West initiated a strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (Cieply‚ 2007). The strike lasted 100 days and ended on February 12‚ 2008. The strike put the economy in Los Angeles under severe strain with losses estimated as high as $2.1 billion
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Wanjiku Mwangi ENC 1102 Research Paper Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: Fostering Critical Thinking in Writing Classroom Using Film Composition Composition has long been established as a core element to the writing objective. Much effort has been used to classify different themes‚ styles and conventions within written works. This investigation into this particular medium has made for a scholarly outlook on writing. What was once a medium for simple communication; is now able to express varying
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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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Watching all the Asian films this semester has greatly changed my view of Asian directors‚ actors‚ and Asian films in general. It has opened my eyes and it let me see the creativity and the kind of quality that Asian Cinema has to offer. I used to think that Asian Film was corny and boring. Also‚ I used to think that it was just trying hard to follow its western counterparts. I was wrong. Asian film has its own identity and is unique in its own fascinating way. In Asian film‚ or just in Asian countries
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young man of today can go without food but not without a film. The cinema is the cheapest and the most popular form of amusement. Laborers can afford to miss their evening meal‚ not their evening show. Students prefer films to reading books. Thus‚ cinema exercises a very powerful effect on society. Cinema is a universal teacher. It educates the people in different branches of learning. Our film producers have made very purposeful films to collect public opinion against some of the social evils
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Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay’ Review Hilarious‚ witty and down-to-earth are just some of the words to describe the great film directed by the developing Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg. Both have partnered up and have created 2 films one of which is a sequel to the other. Both are yet to scoop any major awards or honours‚ but have shown a good potential with there 2 films getting a 4 star rating. They are yet to go solo and have been partners in directing since 2001. ‘Harold & Kumar Escape from
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FILM REVIEW: REUNION All of us would like to have a good past memories. As we all know high school life is the crucial part of becoming into grown-ups teenager. Once you enter high school things change‚ "some of your best friends become bitches. Homework goes in the trash; cell phones are being used in class. Detention becomes suspension‚ soda becomes beer‚ and gum becomes pot. Bikes become cars. Lollipops become cigarettes. Lip-gloss becomes makeup. French kisses become sex." High school can
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reasoning behind this is because this genre has everything in it: horror‚ action‚ comedy and sometimes even romance. Viewers love that these films are all based out of the writer’s head: no plot‚ no rules‚ just their thoughts. When viewers go in the theater thinking this would never happen and they leave seeing how easy it would be for it to. I Am Legend (2007) and World War Z (2013) both use basic concepts of the end of the world phenomena; such as‚ aggressive creatures‚ post-apocalyptic living and
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