American Film Essay

Before the 1930’s many influential films were silent, except the score in the background that had slight or little relevance to the movie. As technology kept improving, sounds were added to movies as a method to help get across themes and motifs. Dialog could now be heard in movies, instead of having to be read on a blank background. One of the first and most influence German films to properly execute the use of sounds was Blue Angel, by Josef Von Sternberg. Blue Angel was created in 1930, and tells

The films Godzilla and Them! contain many similarities and differences. The most significant similarities are there representation of the atomic fear during the ending of the Second World War. Both Japan and the United States knew the catastrophic damage any future atomic bombs might cause thus intensifying their fear. William M. Tsutsui refers to an argument from writer Susan Sontag “Surveying the gigantic monster movies that flourished in the years since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Sontag concluded

The first thing I picked up in cinema class was that the size of the screen can play a huge role in the way the viewer experiences a film. American Honey by Andrea Arnold felt like one of those movies that was tailormade to be experienced to its full potential on the big screen. If I saw this movie at home on a smaller screen, there would be so many things that I would not be able to experience because of the limitation in screen size. Andrea Arnold uses the technique of viewing cinema as a window

African Americans, hence during the Jim Crow Era. One of these points was the advancement of technology in the race to space between The US and Russia. Another point that is made during the film is the racial barriers in the 1960s but how much people were beginning to become accepting of more than race but personality and intelligence. the movie hidden figures starring Taraji P Henson as Katherine Johnson a mathematician working for NASA in the basement including many other African American or black

Paris is Burning is a film that takes place in New York city during the 80’s. It documents the underground balls, drag scenes and its contestants. Although the common race we see in the film in African American we also see other different races such as, White’s and Latino’s. Therefore, I will analyze this documentary from the perspective of African American rhetoric. The film first starts off with showing how the ball competitions are held. It shows a variety of contestants showing of their looks

Jessica Burns 309164 Jmbf6b@mail.missouri.edu Film Studies 1800 Sequence Analysis/ Assignment No. 2 American Beauty -From when Carolyn arrives home until the end of the scene with Lester in their living room (Chapter 19: 1:14:35–1:17:40) The movie “American Beauty” literally is trying to express how much beauty there is in America but it is not always so easy to see. Often in the film objects normally thought of as ordinary are magnified to express deeper meaning and

One of the first things I learned in cinema class was that the size of the screen can play a huge role in the way the viewer experiences a film. American Honey by Andrea Arnold felt like one of those movies that was tailor made to be experienced to its full potential on the big screen. If I saw this movie at home on a smaller screen, there would be so many things that I would not be able to experience because of the limitation on-screen size. Andrea Arnold uses the technique of viewing cinema as

other film industry, deserves to be attributed with the creation of the horror genre. Even though it is not responsible for the first attempts at horror movies, it certainly shaped the genre into what it is today and made it accessible to global audiences. The appearance of horror movies happens in cycles with a distinct pattern that repeats itself – a movie appears, delivers thrills to the audience, and suddenly, due to low production costs, sequels and remakes are made, or original films based

American Sniper is a 2014 American biographical war film directed by Clint Eastwood and written by Jason Hall. It is loosely based on the memoir American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History by Chris Kyle. The film follows the life of Kyle, who became the deadliest marksman in U.S. military history with 255 kills from four tours in the Iraq War, 160 of which were officially confirmed by the Department of Defense. Although Clint Eastwood had Kyle’s autobiography

Violence: An American Tradition is an eye opening film about the history of violence in America. The film begins all the way back with Christopher Columbus and discovering America, and ends with more a more modern form of violence, abuse. The narrator analyses the violence that has been ingrained in American history and proposes reasons as to why the violence was and frankly is, so extreme. Although there were many different types of violence discussed in Violence: An American Tradition, the three