Essays on Cinema

Citizen Kane is revered to be one of the greatest films to be made in movie history. The success of the film was strongly influenced by one of the most resounding names in the film industry, Orson Welles. Notably, Welles had directed, acted, co-wrote, and produced Citizen Kane. It is important to note that the…

Discuss the ways in which Citizen Kane challenged the traditional narrative and technical elements of classic Hollywood cinema. Give specific examples using appropriate cinematic terminology. Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film directed, co-written, produced by, and starring Orson Welles. This was Welles’s first feature film. With this film, Welles introduced many new filmmaking…

The Classical Hollywood Cinema era took place after the silent cinema era. This was roughly between the late 1920s and 1960s. The start of this “Golden Age of Hollywood,” began with the film, The Jazz Singer, which was released in 1927. It was the first movie to have used synchronized voices as a Vitaphone talkie….

Twentieth-century Italian Literature and Cinema Aesthetically Brought to Life Ideas Friederich Nietzsche defines history as being an organization of man’s memory in relation to the past, as seen in terms of a series of events. Nietzche’s approach toward history can be articulated in what he dubs his three modern forms of historical consciousness: monumental, antiquarian,…

The renowned directors of our era frequently possess a distinctive style that viewers readily identify and associate with them. Tim Burton, along with JJ Abrams and Oliver Stone, is one such director who exhibits a wonderfully one-of-a-kind style. In Burton’s movies, the lead characters often expose their emotions and perception of the world. Throughout his…

Bernard Tschumi is regarded as one of the universe s open uping designers, rejecting the diehard outlook and one of the few bow smugglers of deconstructivism. His essay, The Pleasure of Architecture which was written in 1978 manifests his theoretical thoughts of the pleasances in architecture, in which he stresses on the inutility of architecture…

Putting together a movie requires a lot of pre-planning to create the final creation. Many decisions must be made to organize and plan the overall visual design. This requires collaboration from multiple key players such as the director, producers, cinematographer and production teams to demonstrate their expertise as unit to manifest the overall idea into…

Although the film was very old, the quality of the story is equivalent to fine wine, its aged but it’s also very delicious and flavorful. Cinema Paradiso showed me how it was back then, at first glance I thought that the movie was an early Italian version of the movie “Dennis the Menace” with old…

Digital Cinema –Boon or Bane! In today’s fast paced age, with technology upgrading constantly, soon filmmakers will be opting for more digital rather than analog prints. Digitization is nothing but electronic software distribution without the use of any physical media, utilizing media like satellites & the internet. In the beginning of the decade, if the…

Building a sense of Nationalism Through Third Cinema It is more than just merely plausible that Third cinema can be used as a vehicle to build a sense of nationalism for Barbadians and the wider Caribbean. Fed on a steady diet of commercial cinema from the developed world, former colonies have acquired the taste for…