Film theory

Film has been a prominent topic in society since its conception. One of the most important physical areas of film creation is located in Hollywood, California. Hollywood has produced some of the most recognizable directors and film creators. Walter Elias Disney is one major example of this. He is still extremely well known because of the vast business he created that is still thriving today. Many people have argued that his career fits within either the classical auteur theory or the structuralist

B. Theories From a different angle of view, the ultimate aim of culture/media theories is to provide theoretical/academic foundation to different genres within art and media. Likewise, there are several film theories aiming to provide theoretical framework to different genres within motion picture. Besides, these theories help to perceive the relationship between other genres within art and Hollywood movies. Structuralist Film Theory One can easily identify that this theory

In the initial days of cinema, film theories tended to divide into two opposing views, Formalism and Realism. Formalists believed the formal properties of cinema shaped the way films were made, as well as our responses to them. For formalists, the challenge was to establish film as an independent art form. They found their answer in film’s formal properties, which enable the filmmaker to alter reality and create new worlds within the screen. Formalist filmmaking reached its peak in 1920s with Sergei

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3. Social Exchange Theory, was also exemplified in the film. The social exchange theory is about the use of power. The act of categorization can cause unbalanced power relations in society, especially as far as the example in the film. Power was unbalanced when Ms. Elliot told that one group based on their eye color their privileges and rights they had; while stripping the other group of individuals of theirs because they did not have that certain eye color. This showed how discrimination and prejudices

Auteur theory, theory of filmmaking, considers the director as an author of the film and gives most credit to the director. “Auteur means who the chief creator force behind the film. If it is a book it is easier and it is usually one person product but in a film it is a lot more complicated” (Jonathan Berman Week 7 lecture). I think the key word are here “the chief creator force behind the film”. If we are asking who wrote the story originally then the answer to the question “who are the real authors

Critical Feminist Book Review: Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film, and Fiction – Teresa de Lauretis (1987, University Indiana Press) After reading Technologies of Gender it is easy for me to imagine author Teresa deLauretis comfortably discussing the impacts of patriarchal gender identity construction - which, she convincingly argues, is the goal of the titular technologies – over espresso with the feminist likes of Virginia Woolf and Adrienne Rich (both of whom she invokes throughout

metaphors in his novel Film Theory: An Introduction Through the Senses in order in to analyze and interpret an audience’s perception of cinema. As cinema serves as a mechanism for audience members to enter a phantasmatic body, the creators of a film must appeal to the audience in order to engage their curiosity, emotions, and interest. This allows for a viewer to develop expectations and desires, and ultimately draw a conclusion from the film about the real world. Howard Hawks’ 1938 film Bringing Up Baby

Films are one of the most popular media in the modern world, watched by hundreds of millions of people all around the world. Films began in the late 19th century as a technological novelty, transferring to a new means of presentation and distribution an older tradition of "entertainment, offering stories, spectacles, music, drama, humour and technical tricks for popular consumption." (McQuail, 1983) And, as with any popular media, people began to talk and write about it, and film theory arose from

Social Disorganization theory is one of the most important theories by the school of Chicago, it was found by two sociologists Clifford Shaw and Henry McKay. In their perspective, they believe social disorganization delinquency was caused by nature of the environment rather than individual characteristics. (Rafter brown, 69.) It refers to the lack of ability of local communities to realize the common values of their residents. Furthermore, residents of neighborhoods with high rates of crime and violence