Essays on Cinematography Page 65

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…

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….

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…

"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…

Watt’s use of film technique is critical to exploration of character and theme in Look Both Ways. Discuss. Mixing of animation and action slips clearly show what is going on inside the mind of characters. Meryl images train wreck, sharks attack, being run over by a car or even earthquake. Her thoughts are full of…

The film Sunken tells the story of the fourteenth Dalai Lama’s first twenty four years with the use of symbolism and cinematic prowess that can only be described as spellbinding. The film provides insight into Martin Course’s more sensitive style of directing without losing any of his incredible talent at weaving a story one can’t…

Among the most common elements of a film is comedy. In essence, like almost any other element, comedy plays a unique role in enabling film as a form of art to meet its objectives, particularly that of entertainment. In this regard, comedy as both an artistic and cinematic element mainly functions to attract the attention…

The main focus of this paper is on the “Bomba” films within the independent film, “Serbis”, and their importance to the overall story. Through a semiotic analysis of the posters, signs, and film itself, I aim to demonstrate their relevance to the plot. By examining the cultural context in which these films are viewed, I…

The drive is an American action thriller film directed by Danish filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn in 2011. The script, written by Hossein Amini, is centered on the novel Drive by James Sallis 2005. The cast includes Ryan Gosling as an unidentified Hollywood stunt driver who shines as a getaway driver. The film was made on…