Essays on Cinematography Page 73

“Liar Liar” is a comedic film that follows the life of Fletcher Reede, a dedicated lawyer and father who has gone through a divorce. Portrayed by Jim Carey, Fletcher resides in Los Angeles, California, where he grapples with his habit of compulsive lying and how it affects him. The movie delves into Fletcher’s challenging dynamic…

The screenplay for the movie, The Bad Seed (1956) was adapted from the genre of fiction written by William March under the same title in 1954. According March (1954) his character Rhoda portrayed a child sociopath that was void of conscience. Rhoda, age 8 is typified by Piaget as cognitively classified as going through the…

School of Geography, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA, England; e-mail: Robina. Mohammad@plymouth. ac. uk Received 17 May 2006; in revised form 16 September 2006; published online 28 September 2007 Abstract. Hindi cinema offers a means of examining the evolving geographies of the multisited, multinational Indian diaspora and its relationship to the `homeland’….

Just before 5 am on September 5, 1972, eight terrorist entered the rooms of the Israeli athletes in the Olympic village of Munich, Germany. The ensuing drama that unfolds in the movie Munich is suspenseful, and intriguing; the action is compelling, and sometimes heart-wrenching. The screenplay was adapted by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth from…

This novel and movie depicts the life journey of a woman and her sister and there for takes place in different locations. Three main locales are Atlanta, Georgia, Memphis, and Tennessee and the Olinka Village in Monrovia, Africa. (In the early to late 1900’s) The main characters of this novel and movie are Celie: the…

Both the federal government and individual state governments have encouraged domestic movie and video production for a long time. They allow many tax write-offs to help with the production and the ability to make money off movies. There are currently thirty-one states which offer tax and credit incentives to video production. During the recession, this…

Films have long held the interest of the American public and the world.  For over a century, billions of people from every part of the globe have invested at least some portion of their lives to sitting in a theater or in front of their televisions staring at the action on the screen.  While most…

The line starts out relatively small, but I’m early, bundled up in my winter coat to stand in line to meet the artist. It’s isn’t the first time I’ve done this, nor will it be the last. Like all lines, it starts out with people staring at their feet, trying not to make eye contact…

The whole society recognized today depends upon religion. Both scholarly works The Handmaid’s Story, shaped by Margaret Atwood, and Persepolis, made by Marjane Satrapi, present the peruser with a general populace subject to religious fundamentalism. The two works picture outrageous timetables. They challenge the peruser to consider what could occur and the final product for…

Movie Review The 1980 film Ordinary People involves issues of crises and intervention and also dramatically portrays a clinical approach in practice to dealing with adolescent  psychological crisis. As Klein and Lindermann defined crises a “the acute and often prolonged disturbance that may occur in an individual or social orbit as a result of an emotional…