Comparison Between 'Formula And Subversion'

How do the films’ devices function to construct the systems of the cinematic time, cinematic space and narrative logic? What ideological conclusions can draw from popular films such as this?

Summary, context of the era depicted, description of major social, economic, or cultural forces in the era and how the film addressed nature of the era:

When we want to look for New Historicism in a novel or in a movie it is important to first have a look at the author’s biography as well as the social background and it is lastly important to look at the ideas that was circulating the cultural era of that time as well.

This film highlights the flaws of humanity in a western world. The films ability to touch on topics of classism, prostitution, and alcoholism makes the content mature and unlike typical western films. This revolutionary and innovative western created a foundation for many future films. The sophistication of the content, and lack of adherence to the production code makes this film an “adult”

In the” Stories Hollywood Never Tells”, Zinn is talking about those who have not the word in the official history: slaves, Indians, peasants, deserters, textile workers, trade unionists and pacifists - those who have scored victories sometimes wiped defeats often, but which, in any case, have been carefully erased textbooks. The historian Zinn argues that Hollywood has become too pro-military and too pro-business in their approach in movies, and that more movies should be geared toward the average-Joe of America. As the years progress, the more well to do increase their grip into Americas culture and twist it into their liking. The only way Hollywood would start making films geared toward the middle class and show a film about Americans rising up and opposing the powers that be

How did society affect this film (i.e., what currents in society led to the creation of the film)?

Following the end of the United States’ Civil War, new territories had becomes states, notably what is now known as the West. The West, iconized by its Cowboys, gunfights, and horses in the years that followed the Civil War, made its way to the silver screen as one of the first genres of movies to be produced. The genre is popularized as a “Western” and is devoted to telling the

Although this paper uses a mainstream movie, at all times you should use scholarly writing and language throughout the paper.

Every since John Ford’s 1939 western Stagecoach, the West has been portrayed in art, entertainment, and literature as a desolate arid landscape of mountains and deserts. The story or movie backdrop was usually set in America’s colonial era and often included small frontier towns with saloons, the local jail, and ranches on the outskirts of town. The main characters were ranchers, handsome gun slinging wayward cowboys donning Stetsons, savage Indians raging havoc against settlers, and outlaw gangs roaming the prairies holding up banks and railroads. Every story pretty much had a similar plot; the pursuit of wrongdoers, lawmen and bounty hunters set on catching that elusive bad guy, guns and gunfights, and the humble settlers protecting his family and land. The heroes that

Example 1.) Citizen Kane was released at the point where the American Studio System was at the peak of its power. The producers of this film were able to have complete control over what was included in the film, and you can tell that by the controversial scenes surrounding Kane, and all of the trials and tribulations that surrounded a man in this time period.

Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now lacks the impact of its inspiration, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. While the basic elements of imperialism and human nature remain intact, the characters of the film bare little resemblance to their literary counterparts. The film serves as a re-interpretation of Conrad’s novella, updated from 19th-century British imperialism in the Congo to a critique of 20th-century U.S. imperialism in Southeast Asia. Coppola’s changes in setting and plot structure, however, force the film to sacrifice the character development so crucial in the literary work. This detracts from the overall effectiveness of the film.

Citizen Kane brought the aspects of a newspaper tycoon in the 1940’s to life in a form of a dramatic narrative. This film is based on a true story of a newspaper magnate, William Randolph Hearst and based off of some aspects of Orson Welles(Writer and Director). This filmed has been named, “The best American film of all time” due to the fact that, during the time of its making, it was the first film to take on many new techniques of cinematography. Citizen Kane is a revolutionary film not only in the drama genre, but in filmmaking of all forms.

The film represents violence of destruction as associated with masculinity, and it shows this as a negative attitude, and

By analyzing the historical contexts of these specific movements, we take a deeper look at society's social, religious, economic, and political conditions that existed during a certain time and place. These relevant factors profuse mass influence into a filmmakers decisions while in the production process of a film. Additionally, these components have the role of establishing distinct trends in the film industry. Each movement has its own purpose for creating each film in regards to a stylistic standpoint.

culture. This movie clearly brings out the cultural clashes and conflicts between the high context Chinese culture and the low context American culture.