Essays on Cinematography Page 88

The movie I choice was Finding Nemo it’s a Pixar animation it came in the summer of May 30,2003. It was ranked top ten American film and top ten in the greatest film in animation as of June 2008. As this movie was ranked the top ten how can people not enjoy this movie. With…

Erik Erikson, a loyal Freudian follower and student developed an eight-stage theory explaining personality through life development. He believed personality to not be a scandalous product of biological sexual turmoil in one’s life due to passed events, but rather having a genetic predisposition with the acceptance of external factors from the environment (Schultz & Schultz,…

The 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird is an adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel of the same name. Lee, as a character, mirrors Scout in a traditional bildungsroman story, enabling the examination of racism and social injustice through the viewpoint of a young girl who directly encounters these problems from her own unique vantage point….

In the film The Graduate directed by Mike Nichols, the main character Benjamin Braddock is seeking to find his place in the world following his college graduation. Ben has an affair with his family’s friend Mrs. Robinson, but ends up falling in love with Mrs. Robinson’s daughter, Elaine. From a historical, marxist and gender perspective,…

Sometimes, defining science fiction can be maddening, as Quentin Cooper points out in his BBC article. James Gunn defines science fiction as “the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people in the real world as it can be projected into the past, the future, or to distant places. It often…

The Glass Menagerie is a four chapter memory play written by Tennessee Williams that reflects upon his own unhappy and dysfunctional family. With this being said, the narrator in the play, Tom Wingfield, resembles Tennessee Williams himself. The setting takes place in the winter and spring of 1937 in St. Louis and symbolically reflects the…

In the film Divergent, directed by Neil Burger, people that are different are viewed negatively. In the case of the main character, Tris starts out in Abnegation but has trouble being fully selfless like the rest of her family. When it is time for Tris to take her aptitude test, something goes wrong in her…

During the Golden Age of Hollywood, one particular star stands out compared to the rest. Gene Kelly, a man who can be regarded as a creative genius that changed the way people approached film musicals. Kelly altered the way film musicals were made by taking on the responsibility of being a performer, choreographer, and a…

Whenever people face a risk, they question themselves whether the risk is worth taking or not. Are all risks worth taking? Personally, I do not believe that all risks are worth taking. However, some are and when you do take them, the outcome is almost always positive. The ability to take calculated risks is truly…

Introduction The Critical Period picture is a beautiful artwork that illustrates what America government look like in the 1780s. The picture looks very detail and there is plenty of things going on with this new nation under the Articles of Confederation. It represented how the United States of America was struggling after declared their independence,…