Kathryn Bigelow

low statistic if you take into consideration that women account for 50.4% of the entire population. Furthermore, although there have been 88 Academy Award ceremonies since 1929, it was only during the 82nd Academy Awards last 2010 that a woman, Kathryn Bigelow, won an Oscar for Best Director for her movie, The Hurt Locker. To this day, no female director has won since. On the other hand, women only account for 11% of writers, 22% of editors, 6% of cinematographers, 26% of producers, and 20% of the executive

In our society today many see a hero as what they wanna see it as, they see a hero as one set definition, but in reality a hero is whatever you view it as personally. A lot of it has to do with personal beliefs adm traits. As kids we all were shown and taught about who our heroes are in society. Everyone grew up thinking the heros in our society are the ones they told us were, but as we grew up we then realized who our heroes were and sometimes it wasn’t who they told us it was supposed to be. From

The title of the film is Zero Dark Thirty and the release date is December 19, 2012. The movie was directed by Kathryn Bigelow, who is an American director. After 9/11, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) spend years tracking Osama bin Laden down and the place he was hiding. When the CIA suspected the place of where he was hiding they had to persuade the government to attack, which also took a while. (2) What is the movie about? The film starts two years after September 11, when Dan walks into a

sensory overload." According to Flanagan, slow cinema emphasizes on "the employment of long takes, decentered and understated modes of storytelling, and a pronounced emphasis on quietude and the everyday...an aesthetic of slow." Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow) and The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah) are two movies that seem to follow the "classical cinema" formula, and at the same time, resemble both chaos and slow cinema in different ways and at different times.

Film scholar Louis Gianetti says, “In the field of cinema, the achievement of the Women’s Movement [of the 1960’s] has been considerable, though most present-day feminists would insist that there is still much to be accomplished in the battle against patriarchal values” (428). Gianetti’s words are an understatement. Women in Hollywood are underrated, underrepresented, and generally shoved into the background of the film industry. However, with film becoming one of the most pervasive and influential

Zero Dark Thirty and Terrorism Introduction Zero Dark Thirty is an American action film written by Mark Boal an Academy Award winner for Best Original Screenplay and director by Kathryn Bigelow the first woman to ever win an Academy Award for Best Director. The film Zero Dark Thirty tells the story of the ten year manhunt for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden after the nine-eleven attacks in the Unites States of America, and according to law researchers, shows how the different branches in the “government”

CRITICALLY DISCUSS ANY OF THE FILMS SCREENED IN THE COURSE IN RELATION TO DISCOURSES SURROUNDING THE “DEATH OF CINEMA”. WHY ARE SUCH IDEAS/DISCOURSES ATTRACTIVE TO PARTICULAR FILMMAKERS AND TYPES OF CINEMA? Notions surrounding the “death of cinema” have been infiltrating cinema discourses for many years now. As we move away from cinema in its ‘purist’ form, we have almost completely transitioned into the digital age, and with this transition, ideas and opinions on the ultimate fate of cinema have

Colton Jones The Dr. Denton 5th period March 31, 2016 Just and Unjust Torture “Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgment of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law” (Hague). Governments can not control the people they govern by blocking them, they work together, they