The purpose of this essay is to discuss how social and cultural issues surround movies. The movie chosen to analyse these issues is the Bollywood movie, Padmavat (Sanjay Leela Bhansali, 2018).
The essay will begin by introducing how films affect social cultures. Following this, I will address the issues that the movie has faced and also, other possible theories.
Over the years, Cinema has become a powerful tool for education, leisure, culture, propaganda. In 2013, the world hit a record high of 7,610 films, with India accounting for more than one-fifth of the total production. (uis.nesco.org, 2018)
The first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, once stated,”..the influence in India of films is greater than newspapers and books combined,”
After completing your movie analysis, you will reflect on the analysis process and how you have learned to more thoroughly analyze film as well as how rigorous study of film enhances your development as a student and thinker. In this 300- to 600-word reflection, review your initial post from the “Post Your Introduction” discussion in Week One, and consider how your ability to analyze movies has changed or grown. Append your reflection to the analysis portion of your paper. Your reflection should be personal and exploratory in
Rarely has a film impacted an audience and held the test of time as the film Gone with the Wind. I have always been curious if director, Victor Fleming and producer, David O. Selznick and screenplay writer, Sidney Howard knew what they were creating a masterpiece and how this film would have such an enormous impact on audiences for years to come. Interestingly enough there were some who thought the film should not be made, as Irving Thalberg said to Louis B. Meyer in 1936, “Forget it Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel” (Ten Films that Shook the World).
Movies have the ability to transport people to different times and places and distract them from ordinary everyday reality. They allow for a range of emotions to be experienced. At their core, movies examine the human condition. There are plenty of deeper truths woven into screenplays and plenty of lessons to be learned, even when an individual is solely seeking entertainment.
The first section will explore the themes of culture and socialization through specific examples from the movie. The rest of the paper will explain the sociological significance of the movie and why a sociologist would find this movie interesting. This section of the paper will also
Analysis of The Film “Clue” Films are great for escapism and social change. They impact society by bringing pleasure into people’s life in an affordable manner through censored entertainment. The censored entertainment allows families to bond socially through interaction of a specific shared experience. A genre of a film is the film which guilds the audience to a specific idea or purpose known as the theme. A films influence society with emotions and social behavior through the message of the theme.
Movies, being an influential factor in our society, make a great impact on our outlook on foreign and
“Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it’s probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it”(Banksy). The main idea of this essay is how can films change people’s perceptions. There are three main subtopics that will be discussed and thouroughly analyzed which are emotions, racism, and documentaries, how these categories can affect people. Film is the most effective way of changing people's perspectives.
This shows the influence of culture on the overall film, and the subsequent narrative, plot and use of cinematic
Films and movies hold much than we can guess, they reveal a lot of vices and rots that are happening in society. Others give a history of a particular society, its beliefs, culture and their standard of living in the society. Films are used to disclose the social responsibilities in a given season and customs, moral values, societal worries and other cultural practices.
Jeunet’s techniques are influential to his film’s visual style. For example, Jeunet utilized wide angle lenses and placed the actors particularly close to the camera. This produced animated-like facial features which worked well with the actors casted, due to their unique facial features. I did a little bit of research on the cameras and lenses used to film and I came up on a blog. The stated that for Tautou, Delbonnel and Jeunet found that a wide angle 14mm or 27mm lens was just right. Anything longer or shorter did not look quite right. The camera in Amélie barely filmed scenes at eye level. Bruno Delbonnel set the camera usually a bit above or below eye level. Mixed in with the wide angle lenses, a small tilt up or down eventually contributes to the dynamic look. Another element I cherished about the camera work was the way Delbonnel moved the camera towards an object or focal point. He did not simply zoom in, he gradually moved the camera as he moved it with a turn of about 180 degrees. The use of the track/crane device is common in most films but Jeunet’s controlled
What were Edwin S. Porter's significant contributions to the development of early narrative film? In what sense did Porter build upon the innovations of contemporaneous filmmakers, and for what purposes?
Direct Cinema The term 'direct cinema' was coined by American director Albert Maysles, to describe the style of documentary that he and his contemporaries were making in the 1960s as a result of a lightweight, portable 16mm camera and high quality lightweight audio recorders becoming available. The introduction of these, together with film-stock which was sensitive enough to give a good quality close-up monochrome picture under most lighting conditions (Including hand-held lights) led to a revolution in Documentary filmmaking, allowing film crews to be much more flexible. Gone were the days of bulky, virtually immobile 35mm cameras; now manufacturers improved their 16mm stock and accepted it
With this short but very interesting and informative class I have just scratched the surface of the what it takes to make a full fleged film. It takes much more than I had presumed to make a movie in Hollywood. The number of people that it takes to make a minute of a movie let alone the entire movie was astonishing to me. There are many things that it takes to start making a movie but without an idea of some sort there is no movie to be made.
The BBFC has commissioned me to undertake research as part of a project to ascertain to what degree films can be regarded as powerful within contemporary society. In this assignment, I will comprehensively explain the relationship between audiences and films with well explained examples. I refer to the different sectors relating to the topic that include the following:
In the contemporary context, when one tries to analyze the idea about women from previous decades being an audience and not the crew of a film industry, one wants to question and ask: why were women only an audience or, actors? Maybe there were some culturally held values and beliefs with respect to their contexts? However, with the passage of time, cultural and professional values improved. Technology began to improve and so did the mind-set of professional groups along with the audiences. Film industry has had an impression of providing first entertainment and, second education. Hence those working for the films might have had hurdles in choosing working for films as their career or vocation. At different times in the history, women in different cultural contexts have worked for certain film industries. I want to explore the idea about women and their talent in the film industry. Since I am primarily a viewer of the Bollywood industry and an occasional viewer of the Hollywood cinema, I want to compare the cultural and professional values of those who work for films in different settings. Since the course readings provided information with respect to certain cinema contexts, I wanted to add some ideas providing a comparative analysis of the women talent in diverse film settings.