Essays on Cinematography Page 19

Without Cinderella’s unattractive stepsisters or the seven dwarfs accompanying Snow White, our childhoods would have been very different. These fairytales, along with others, have been passed down for years. The traditional Disney princess culture is celebrated and cherished for entertaining young girls. Nowadays, it is widely accepted and most parents cannot imagine not incorporating these…

This essay will examine two main points concerning representation in a ten-minute clip of Shaft. The first point is the cultural representation, specifically the emergence of the Blaxploitation genre. The second point focuses on the representation of women and how their gender status affects the film’s narrative and characters. The film portrayed both of these…

On one level, this opus of David Fincher – based on the book by Chuck Palahniuk and spotlighting Brad Pitt as “Tyler Burden”, Edward Norton as the nerdy narrator, and Helena Bonham-Carter as the woman who reels in both men – is a gratuitous appeal to vicariously-experienced violence. Viewed once or twice more, the paradox…

Star Wars is a scientific discipline fiction escapade novel. The symbolism and word picture was truly first-class in the narrative. The narrative gives a great expression into the hereafter as it has many different types of things we have non yet invented; charge man rifles, infinite ships that go the velocity of visible radiation, fat…

The Gods Must Be Crazy depicts contrasting approaches to man in nature, between the Bushmen and the Westerners, one without modern society resulting in physical freedom and unrestrained behavior, and the other as active participants in civil society with community living and civil freedom. Both share a harmonious existence between the individual and society. According…

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…

Some time in the summer of 1929, probably around the time his friend Clyde Smith graduated from college, Robert E. Howard moved to Brownwood. According to Smith’s “Adventurer in Pulp,” Howard spent “several months” in the town while “he worked at his writing.” Since you don’t need to write letters to someone who lives in…

The film Enduring Love deals with a number of different characters and their lives after participating in a traumatic event with each other. In this paper I will defend the thesis that the title “Enduring Love” is misleading; not only is it not love, but it is also not enduring. The tragic event that the…

Into the Wild Into the Wild is a movie based on the true story of Chris McCandless and his pursuit for fulfillment through exiling himself from society. Two songs, ‘Guaranteed’ and ‘Long Nights’ were written specifically for the movie and although both were inspired by him, “Guaranteed” gets more to the heart of Chris McCandless’s…

“To Kill A Mockingbird” Movie Review Based on the book by Harper Lee, the black and white film “To Kill A Mockingbird” was a very entertaining spectacle. “To Kill A Mockingbird”, written through Scout’s perspective, is essentially about Scout (Jean-Louise), Jem and their father Atticus Finch living in the racially divided Alabama town of Maycomb…