Essays on Cinematography Page 71

In “That’s Entertainment? Hollywood’s Contribution to Anti- Americanism Abroad”, Michael Medved explains why people abroad hate America; Hollywood movies reflect a misunderstood image of the American civilization to the people around the world. Medved graduated with a bachelor’s degree in American history from Yale school; later on he attended Yale Law School for a year…

Documentary are able to create different ideologies based on how the come across to their viewer. The documentary film Bra Boys, by directors Sunny Abberton and Macario De Souza seeks to portray its central characters, Sunny, Jai and Koby Abberton as products of their harsh upbringing as well as brothers who take their gang’s motto…

The Odyssey, an esteemed epic poem authored by the Greek poet Homer, is widely considered one of the greatest works ever written. However, this revered status remained unchallenged until Star Wars emerged – a futuristic interpretation of The Odyssey. George Lucas wrote and released this highly successful film on May 25, 1977, which gained acclaim…

The sense of belonging is something that we will all feel whether we mean to or not, if it is for good or bad, if we feel we belong or alienated. This sense of belonging can come through our family, friends, likes and dislikes, backgrounds and opinions. This belonging gives us connections to other people…

The focal point of The Awakening by Kate Chopin is the story of Mrs. Pontellier, a woman with various emotional needs. These needs encompass material, sexual, intimacy, and the desire to be wanted or needed. Throughout the book, Mrs. Pontellier seeks out and satisfies her needs through interactions with Léonce Pontellier, Alcée Arobin, and Robert…

To be a mother in society women must surrender a portion of their individuality. Mothers who devote themselves to their family offer every part of themselves. All these mothers do are in the name of their children. Once they consume themselves in motherhood, they put what makes them happy aside, and focus on their family….

The unspoken challenge posed by “The Black Balloon” is to see if one could handle the same situation as the Mollisons, a middle-class Australian family whose eldest son has severe autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The film, directed by Elissa Down, draws from Down’s own upbringing with two autistic brothers, one of whom inspired…

March 20. 1941. the Krakow ghetto is liquidated. 1942. German subjugation spills into Transylvania. the Sighet ghetto is liquidated. Two apparently unrelated events in a overplus of decease and subjugation. However. both are turning points in two of the most spectacularly hideous histories of the Holocaust ; Spielberg’s Schindler’s List. and Elie Wiesel’s Night. There…

NotoriousAfter viewing Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious for the first time, the filmdid not strike me as particularly complex. Nothing specific about the filmlodged itself in my brain screaming for an answeror, at least, an attemptedanswer. Yet, upon subsequent viewings, subtle things became more noticeable. (Perhaps Hitchcock’s subtlety is what makes him so enormously popular!)Hitchcock uses motifs…

The story opens with Meursault, a clerk living in Algiers within the 1940s, reading a message stating the passing of his mom. While at the funeral the guests are surprised at his strangely calm behavior. He goes on a date with a woman he hardly met, helps a pimp, and goes to a beach outside…