Essays on Cinematography Page 64

The movie ‘Jaws’ from 1975, directed by Steven Spielberg, revolves around a shark that uses its jaws (teeth) to fatally attack people. The movie “Jaws” was a groundbreaking summer hit that shattered box office records and propelled Steven Spielberg to fame. Thanks to the triumph of “Jaws,” Spielberg went on to produce more blockbuster films….

The movie title who belongs to a Melina Matsoukas’ highlight, ‘Queen and Slim’ is frightening: monstrous yellow letters against a dark foundation, with the tremendousness of the textual style setting up the huge extent of the film. Turner-Smith and Kaluuya are a couple of youthful spirits on an apparently straightforward first date. While they are…

Juno After seeing the film JUNO; 1. What is it about? And why do you think that? Who is the protagonist AND why? The 2007 film, Juno, was a story about an independent young teenager who accidentally got pregnant. Since Juno was in high school, she was faced with the difficulties of handling peer pressure…

The Discovery Channel documentary ‘The Science of Sex Appeal’, explores not only the factors that humans take into consideration when choosing a possible mate, it also explains the chemicals that are involved in both choosing a mate and maintaining a long term relationship with that mate. Attraction can stem from different physical features ranging from…

The film “Footloose” centers around a town where music and dancing are prohibited by law, which Reverend Shaw Moore helped institute. As the minister of the tight-knit community and the father of a high school girl, Reverend Moore enforced these regulations in response to his son’s untimely demise, which he believed was caused by music…

“The Blind Side” is the story of Michael Oher, a 17-year old Black American boy who has been living like an orphan since he was young.  His father was nowhere, his mother had different kids by different men, and his memories have always been of running away from foster homes.  He gets to enroll in…

The box-office of success of a number of documentaries indicates the increasing polarization in the American political landscape, wherein the battlefield has extended to this media form that had been often reserved for classrooms and public television. Michael Moore’s darkly comic, sensationalistic and suggestive style has prompted a number of documentary film directors and critics…

Avatar, the movie, is an epic science fiction by James Cameron shown in 2009. The film’s setting was in 2154, where humans dwell on Pandora, an Earth-like moon of the planet Polyphemus in the Alpha Centauri Star System. The humans belong to a group called RDA who plans on mining a precious mineral called Unobtanium….

"All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way–if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy."Gene remarked. (p.196) A Separate Peace, by John Knowles, is the story of…

When evaluating Ken Burns documentary series The Civil War (1990) in terms of establishing a  verdict on the inherent quality of the series, it is important to keep in mind that there two basic perspectives from which the film will ultimately viewed: the perspective of an “average” viewer, and the perspective of an historian.   The…