Essays on Cinematography Page 27

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….

  “How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?” was the tagline to 1962 film version of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, directed by Stanley Kubrick.  This particular novel was steeped in controversy since the day it was published.  Often regarded as pornography and it has been on and off the banned book list for decades.  …

There are few movies that achieve the high degree of quality exhibited by that of the 1990 beautiful calamity. American Beauty. The movie is a true chef-d’oeuvre in both content and how this content is delivered to the viewing audiences. It excels at being an enlightening and relevant play about American life. and ne’er fails…

Introduction The storyline of the famous Crouching tiger, hidden dragon revolves around the Green Destiny sword. In the movie, a Wudan warrior Li Mu Bai is on a course to deliver the legendary Green Destiny sword to his trusted Friend Sir Te. Li Mu Bai meets with Yu Shu Lien and trusts her with the…

Like most of us, Robert E. Howard was a fan of the movies and like many people who lived through the Great Depression, movies were more than entertainment to him; they were a form of escapism. The movies were also a source of inspiration for his fertile imagination.  Indeed, some scenes from movies he saw even…

It is hard to understand and decisively seek after any law convincing people to change their technique for living. In the book Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, there were various changes in the strategy for living in the midst of the Distress. Persepolis was created subject to Satrapi’s memories through her eyes as a child. Satrapi…

In the present society everything is dependent on religion. Both The Handmaid’s Story, which was composed somewhere in the range of 1980 and 1986, and Persepolis, which was additionally composed somewhere in the range of 2000 and 2002, enables the peruser to find out about a general public dependent on religion. The two written works…

The film Dangerous Liaison, directed by Stephen Frears remains just about faithful to the epistolary novel, Dangerous Liaisons, by Choderlos de Laclos. Stephen Frears does “betray” the novel towards the end of the film but, it makes the ending that much more better and enticing. The film represents what the epistolary novel only hints at…

When a symbol is displayed people react to it harmonizing to how they have seen that symbol earlier. This is explained with Saussure ‘s ‘theory of the mark ‘ where the sign/ symbol has a depicted significance that is conveyed and carried with it. Through the usage of Signifier and Signified people invariably ( without…

Seabiscuit is about a surprisingly small horse that had crooked legs, and was considered a bad-racing horse, and how he became America’s lift during the great depression by making a comeback that no one even imagined was possible. The horse was ridden by a jockey, Red Pollard, who was half-blind and didn’t win any races…