Essays on Film Page 5

Beatrix Potter Beatrix Potter was a popular woman who endured the discrimination that most women received during her time. She is a picture of a successful woman during an era when mostly men were recognized. Her creativity stunned many people, including those closest to her such as her parents and relatives. Even today, Beatrix Potter…

Two or three sentences are fine; you don’t need to include a lot of details. For example, you might summarize the film Titanic by saying, “This film is a classic love story set on the only voyage Titanic ever made. The young woman involved, who is played by Kate Winglets comes from a high society…

Abstract Since the 1970s, the soundtrack in Hollywood has come of age as a complex and sophisticated site of cinematic art. Greater combinations of sounds expressing a wider spectrum of tones, textures and volumes can be heard at the movies more than ever before, while behind the scenes, the number of personnel producing them has…

The Vietnam War is widely regarded as the biggest failure in American foreign policy, as its loss of support was witnessed by the American public through nightly television broadcasts. This war, which lasted longer than any other in American history, created a greater division among Americans than any event since the Civil War. After suffering…

Flag Wars is an independent film documentary that took four years to accomplish. The film is concerned with the political and societal phenomenon going on at Olde Towne East Community in Columbus, Ohio. This phenomenon is called Gentrification. Gentrification is the coming of wealthier people in an economically stagnant urban district, which is said to…

            The concept of mise-en-scene is a French term which literally means “put in the scene.” It is originally a theater term but when applied to film, it covers a broader meaning, and refers to everything used to complete a scene or a shot. It is basically concerned with composition, for example, framing, movement of…

Which would be worse, to live as a monster? Or to die as a good man? (Shutter Island) Shutter Island takes place in and around Ashecliffe Hospital in 1954. Ashecliffe is an institution for the criminally insane. The film opens on a ferry transporting U.S Federal Marshal Teddy Daniels played by Leonardo DiCaprio and his new partner…

Laura as Film NoirIntroductionDuring the war years of the 1940s, there emerged a film genre in American cinema that film critics recognized and termed film noir. The term film noir literally means “black film” in French, although the adjective noir also denotes dark emotions, including gloom and sadness, both of which are also appropriate in…

This chapter examines the influence of Jean Baudrillard’s and Fredric Jameson’s perspectives on the postmodern within the realm of film studies. Both theorists have had a significant impact on film theory and history, and their most influential contributions are discussed in the first two sections. The first section delves into Baudrillard’s texts Simulations and America,…

In A Beautiful Mind (2002) Russell Crowe portrays real-life Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash. He delivers a thoughtful, measured and moving performance directed by Ron Howard. Nash was a student in 1947 reading mathematics at Princeton University. He delivered a paper on game theory (the mathematics of competition) that overthrew the accepted ideas about economics,…