IMPACT AESTHETICS: BACK TO THE FUTURE IN DIGITAL CINEMA? Scott McQuire Millennial fantasies As anyone interested in film culture knows‚ the last decade has witnessed an explosion of pronouncements concerning the future of cinema. Many are fuelled by naked technological determinism‚ resulting in apocalyptic scenarios in which cinema either undergoes digital rebirth to emerge more powerful than ever in the new millennium‚ or is marginalised by a range of ‘new media’ which inevitably include some
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LITERATURE AND CINEMA FANTASY IN FILMS Life is a Theme of Literature‚ Literature is the expression of Life. Life fashions Literature and Literature moulds Life. The intimate relation between Literature and Cinema is one of the common place truths which have been illustrated again and again‚ both Social and literary life history. Literature is the most fascinating creation of a literary artist based on the style and stategy of life. Life and reality are the basics
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Cinema as a Language Silence film had reached its artistic peak by 1928. It seemed like cinema had developed into an art most perfectly with silence. The realism that sound would bring could only be seen as chaos. However‚ the sound proved that it didn’t come to destroy; on the contrary‚ it had a responsibility and it came to fulfill its mission to the cinema. The point is whether the technical revolution formed by sound track actually the aesthetic revolution. Considering editing‚ we cannot
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from its various advantages‚ Cinema is not free from its evil effects. Film artistry is‚ unfortunately‚ compelled to compromise with people’s popular taste and appeal to their lower instincts. Too many films dealing with sex problems and with the ways of the criminals are now shown‚ f These are apt to affect public morality. The substandard catering of music I and recreation is likely to injure public taste and outlook and is not ultimately good for the art. The Cinema has far reaching effect upon
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When one contemplates the concepts of cinema and attractions‚ the ideas of the modern day blockbuster film might come to mind. World disasters‚ car chases‚ and high profile police investigations are just some of the story lines that attract people to theatres year round. The term "cinema of attraction" introduced by Tom Gunning into the study of film is defined more precisely. To quote Gunning‚ a cinema of attraction: "directly solicits spectator attention‚ inciting visual curiosity‚ and supplying
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Elements of the cinema TIME * Since the images of moving pictures move in time‚ time is the most important element of the cinema. In the cinema it is subject to contraction‚ expansion‚ breaks or leaps through the manipulation of the director. The three aspects of the time 1. Physical time is the time taken by an action as it is being filmed and as it is being projected on the screen. A film may actually show what is happening in real life. * Physical time in the cinema can be distorted
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your at Italy‚ it like reviving Italy’s film industry. If you are thinking‚ what Im thinking. Then you guess right. Im talking about Cinema Paradiso. Released in 1988 this Italian drama film written and directed by Guiseppe Tornatore will have you so entertained‚ that you wouldn’t mind having a crying baby next your seat. Just kidding. Cutting to the chase‚ Cinema Paradiso is about a young boy named Salvatore but people called him Toto‚ who grew up in a native Sicilian Village. However‚ 30 years
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"Cinema Paradiso" is a movie about growing up‚ love‚ leaving and returning home‚ loss and success. Its first part illustrates a flashback of Salvatore’s life in Sicily‚ how he fell in love with movies with Alfredo’s guidance‚ and how he and his beloved Elena started a romance that ended bitterly. The latter part shows his return from Rome to his hometown for Alfredo’s funeral and some revelations of past events that caused him to live a nostalgic life for thirty years though he had been successful
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used to refer to the whole of Hindi cinema. Bollywood is only a part of the Bhartiya film industry. The name is a portmanteau of Bombay (the former name for Mumbai) and Hollywood‚ the center of the American film industry. Though some deplore the name‚ arguing that it makes the industry look like a poor cousin to Hollywood‚ it seems likely to persist and now has its own entry in the Oxford English Dictionary. Bollywood is commonly referred to as Hindi cinema‚ even though Hindustani‚ the substratum
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Cinema Paradiso is set shortly after World War II in Salvatore Di Vita’s hometown of Sicily. Salvatore‚ nicknamed Toto‚ is a small child with a love for film who creates a close friendship with Alfredo‚ the cinema’s projectionist. Youth‚ the first theme we will discuss involves the trials and tribulations Toto goes through at the start of the movie. Toto has lived at least a few years without a father figure as his father went away to fight in World War II. After the war‚ however‚ his father does
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