American cinema

The War within Paradise of the Blind Paradise of the Blind is set in Vietnam where communism has taken over the country after the Vietnam War. The whole war changed the lives of the Vietnamese people; in which the story revolves around Hang and her views of her family members. Aunt Tam and Que are two members that Hang thinks dear of, even though they are beloved to her, Hang still views them very differently since she has lived and experienced events with them. What Hang sees can be represented

An Analysis of Duong Thu Huong’s Application of Audio in Paradise of the Blind During the turbulent setting of post-war Vietnam, Duong Thu Huong projects the chaos experienced by her characters through auditory expression and musical elements. Primarily a bildungsroman, Paradise of the Blind portrays the protagonist, Hang, guided by her hometown’s chants and foreign influences. Although the timeline of this novel is nonlinear, aspects like the cripple’s chant consistently transform, adapting to

altered the course of filmmaking in America to a greatly varying degree. The former signaled the end of the beginning of studio divestiture and the “Studio system” while the latter is a microcosm of the “McCarthyism” taking place in the greater American society at the time and the fear and turmoil created by any large scale monopoly break-up. The “Hollywood blacklist” era, lasting from 1946 to 1957, directly coincides with the rise and wain of “McCarthyism”. While the sad events of this time

While changing social attitudes toward female sexuality and premarital sex are in part responsibility for the changing portrayals of the women in Where the Boys Are and Where the Boys Are ’84, an evolution of industry policy is also a major factor. One element that greatly influence the 1960’s version of the film is the Production Code. The Production Code, also known as the Hay’s Code for its creator, was a set of rules and regulations governing motion picture censorship created by the Motion Picture

The Narration of the film doesn’t really fit in to Broadwell’s narrative structure; it has its own meaning of structure. The way movie and its plot have been written it completely challenges the structure of a classical Hollywood movie. The only common factor here was the “non-diegetic elements” of the movie, the background score. What we can also see in a conventional classical Hollywood film. According to Broadwell feature of Narrative structure, a film must have “Chain of events” which will be

America's Search for a Cultural Center The average American child can not even comprehend what institutions provide cultural enhancement. Is that too bold a statement? I don't think so. Primarily because American culture probably doesn't exist in any real form. The closest we get to art is in our cinema. Art as a practiced form is lost. Literacy rates are abominable, museums are underfunded in response to the lack of public interest in viewing their wares, and art classes are practically non-existent

of Editing Compared to Mainland China and Taiwan, Hong Kong had a more political and economic freedom as a former British Colony, so it successfully developed its own Chinese-speaking filmmaking business and played an important role on the world cinema stage. Because Hong Kong enjoyed little or no government restriction on import quotas, it slowly became the second largest film exporter and ranked in the third place for its motion picture production in the world. At the beginning, Hong Kong film

the artistic director of Pacific Arts Movement and of the San Diego Asian Film Foundation who received his PhD in Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA. His lecture presented grave insight into National cultural specifics but emphasized mostly on China and Hong Kong. He also broke down genres as they play a role in the film industry. Martial-arts as a genre are very specific to Chinese cinema and Japan has samurai films of loyalty and justice. As a genre, martial-arts take place at a temples or a forest

““Don't lose who you are, in the blur of the stars. Seeing is deceiving, dreaming is believing, It's okay not to be okay.” The song “Who You Are” By Jessie J captures what a hero is to me. The blunt and meaningful words have shown that you don’t have to go with the status quo to fit in. Being able to fit in is what every teenager, adult, and elder wants. Being able to be happy all the time and to not experience sadness and depression is what everyone wants. Jessie J has been a hero for me since

I. Introduction Beginning in the late 1960’s, a new film movement known as New Hollywood began, rapidly replacing the Classical method of filmmaking. This era was unique because many popular films of the time were produced outside of the studio system, shot on-location, and with non-professional actors and actresses. These “art films” were brash, irreverent, and full of anger. While directors during this time used drastically different methods to achieve their final product, the meaning they