The Tamils are an ethic group and lives in southern India and on Sri Lanka (mainly in the state of Tamil Nadu); it is an island of 21 million people odd the southern tip of India. According to a 2001 government census‚ most Tamils live in the eastern and the northern Sri Lanka‚ and they comprise approximately 10 percent of the island’s population. From their religion most of them are Hindu but Tamil language set them apart from the four fifths of Sri Lankans who are Sinhalese; the members of a largely
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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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University of Amsterdam | Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences Urban Studies | Bachelor Thesis | 2009- 2010 Opportunities divided Development along the East Coast Road in Tamil Nadu‚ India Kaj Beetstra Opportunities divided Development along the East Coast Road in Tamil Nadu‚ India University of Amsterdam | Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences Urban Studies (In Dutch: ‘Planologie) | Bachelor Thesis Date: 11 May 2010 Student: Kaj Beetstra Student number: 0515337 Address:
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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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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) waged war against the government of Sri Lanka for 33 years. Being a minority group in a nation that has a long history of Western colonization‚ prompted the LTTE to lash out against the Sinhalese majority in the years following the country’s independence in 1948. Throughout the 1970s‚ the group began using acts of violence‚ while undergoing a couple of name changes‚ until 1976 when the group formally became the LTTE. Shortly after their establishment‚ the
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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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