Film Studies Essays

The Cinematography Of American Beauty Film Studies Essay
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Introduction: Cinematography is an art form, not just an aspect of a movie. Cinematography affects the mood and tone of a movie as well as the viewers feelings while watching a movie. In American Beauty this is dem...

Shutter Island Versus The Shining Film Studies Essay
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Introduction: Rene Descartes was a philosopher who introduced a popular philosophical method called Radical Doubt in his book Meditations on First Philosophy. Descartes “proposed discarding any kind of belief...

Reality In The Movie Mulholland Drive Film Studies Essay
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Introduction: In order to write this paper, I have looked for several definitions of reality, and I rapidly got confused among all the meanings, the perceptions and the concepts around it. However, for the purpose ...

The Cove Documentary Film Studies Essay
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Introduction: In order for a high-quality documentary to capture an audience’s attention it must tell a story. There are three elements to a good documentary. The first is it has to have a set up, this guaran...

Postmodernity And Brecht In Contemporary Theatre Film Studies Essay
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Introduction: This essay will demonstrate the postmodern theory and how playwright, Bertolt Brecht has influenced postmodernity with contemporary theatre. I shall analyze how Brecht’s styles and techniques ha...

Triumph Of The Will Propaganda Film Studies Essay
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Introduction: Leni Riefenstahl denied that her film Triumph of the Will was propaganda. She claimed “It is history – pure history”. Susan Sontag’s response is that the film is propaganda tha...

Michel Foucault And Judith Butler Influencing Queerness Film Studies Essay
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Introduction: In this essay I will be looking at the work of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler seeing how their work has influence queerness. I will start the essay by looking at the man, Michel Foucault, followed ...

Mise-en-scene
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Introduction: Mise-en-scene in Citizen Kane is a critical part of the film’s success and the deep characters that the film creates.  In critical scenes, props were placed in the foreground of the scene a...

Spider-man
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Introduction: Spider-Man is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero. The character was created by writer and editor Stan Lee and artist and co-plotter Steve Ditko. He first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #15 (Aug. 1962). ...

The Social And Cultural Messages In Apocalypto Film Studies Essay
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Introduction: When one decides to put history on film, one must be prepared for substantial tradeoffs (Rosenstone 16). Films cannot convey historical events with pinpoint accuracy or with exact detail because films...

The Impressionism Vs Post Impressionism Film Studies Essay
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Introduction: Impressionism was a movement or style of painting that originated and developed in France in 1870s and distinguished by its focus on the immediate impression produced by a landscape or scene and use o...

Unforgiven Directed By Clint Eastwood Film Studies Essay
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Introduction: Unforgiven is a dark and haunting film in what can be considered Clint Eastwood’s ‘finest hour’. A revisionist western, set in the 1880s that serves as the final culmination of Eastw...

South African Show Shaka Zulu Film Studies Essay
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Introduction: In late 1986, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) created a television mini-series by the name of Shaka Zulu. It would prove an instant and huge success, and by 1992 it had been seen by ...

Sport films
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Introduction: In America, hundreds of sport films have been produced. Usually, sports weren’t that much successful. Films were usually intended for younger audience, and were made of low budget, until rec...

Movie Review Of The Last Song Film Studies Essay
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Introduction: For those hopeless romantic who get captured by the plots or meanings of any Nicholas Sparks novel, then The Last Song is the film of the year to see. In The Last Song, Sparks captures the heart of h...

The Aesthetics Of One Cult Film Film Studies Essay
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Introduction: This essay will discuss the aesthetics of the cult film, Blade Runner. Firstly we will look at the way in which theorists have set out to define the extensive genre of cult film, looking at in particu...

Sam Houston And The American Southwest Film Studies Essay
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Introduction: The book “Sam Houston and the American Southwest”, written by Randolph B. Campbell and edited by Mark C. Carnes is a superbly written biography chronicling the life of Samuel Houston and h...

Digital Tools Used In Gojira And Godzilla Film Studies Essay
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Introduction: Humans have been around for thousands of years. Today, many movies have been created based on stories and legends of influential people and life-changing events that were recorded in history. Inspira...

Psychoanalytic Theory And Reading Of Cultural Products Film Studies Essay
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Introduction: The main concept of this essay is to point out how psychoanalytic theory could be used as a method of understanding and analyzing cultural products. The most valid approach for this is to observe how ...

The Principle Of Color In Multimedia Technology Essay
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Introduction: These three dimensions of color: hue, saturation, and value constitutes a color model that describes how humans naturally respond to and describe color: the HSV model. Because the HSV model has three ...

The Life Of Walter Elias Disney Film Studies Essay
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Introduction: What is the background history of Walter Disney? A. Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago Illinois to Elias and Flora Disney. Walt grew up in a large family having three brother...

Alfred Hitchcocks Rear Window Film Studies Essay
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Introduction: Rear Window is a 1954 suspense thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by John Michael Hayes and based on the 1942 short story “It Had to Be Murder” by Cornell Woolrich. Starring Ja...

Battleship Potemkin Directed By Sergei Eisenstein Film Studies Essay
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Introduction: “There is no art without conflict,” Sergei Eisenstein (1926) once wrote, and Battleship Potemkin (1925) is a typical illustration of a film that led to become a sign for revolution. One ca...

The History Of The Revisionist Western Film Studies Essay
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Introduction: Robert Altman chronicled his own 1971 naturalist motion picture McCabe and Mrs. Miller an anti-western perhaps due to the fact that the film blatantly ignores or subverts a number of Western conventio...

Triumph Of The Will Film Studies Essay
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Introduction: There are many contrasting opinions on the subject. Some believe that the movie is a piece of Nazi propaganda meant to promote the Nazi image and discourage its enemies. Others believe it is a factual...