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Star Trek is a franchise that has been around for a very long time; it has been turned into books, movies and a television series. Television is one of the world 's most influential pieces of propaganda. Whether it is being used to promote the next president, sponsor the newest upcoming athlete, or tell you about your favorite show, television is used to influence the world and how we perceive it. The popular television show aired for the first time in 1966 and throughout the years has seen many

Clip Analysis This clip is from the 1929 movie, Un Chien Andalou. This film uses two specific formal choices that illustrate it’s surrealism, including discontinuity editing and close-ups. Discontinuity editing in this film went against Hollywood’s continuity rules of seamlessly blending scenes together that not only made narrative sense, but visual sense as well. However in Un Chien Andalou, these rules are broken by obscure, random images that don’t seem to fit together and lack any narrative sense

Life these days takes a toll on us when we least expect it. It is important to remain yourself and focus in when curveballs are thrown. By doing this we are exhibiting to our issues, consequences good with the bad, and tribulations that we are ready for whatever is thrown our way. Lessons taught to us at a young age by our parents, peers, and other outside influences help mold our decisions. As an African American female growing up on the Southside of Chicago outside influences helped deter me away

The concept of Auteur was first introduced by Andre Bazin in an essay featured in a 1954 edition of Cahier du Cinema, often referred to as ‘camera stylo’ or ‘signature style’ as a way of critiquing French new wave cinema. This theory allowed film to be criticised and analysed in the same way as other creative platforms such as art and literature. By identifying the director as auteur as opposed to just ‘Metteur-en-Scène’ it transformed them into an artisté, by assuming creative control they in turn

Sam Walrath EN103 C Compare/Contrast Essay October 6, 2016 Among the many great debates that have passed down through the centuries, there is one that has yet to be given a clear answer or voice; yes, my fellow nerds, I am talking about the great battle of the fandoms. While there are those who think Captain Picard would be no match for Darth Vader, it is finally time to shed some light on the situation; it is time for Star Wars versus Star Trek. I enjoy both universes equally, but I believe that

Charles Pierse 11510667 In answering the claim that “the heterogeneity of art cinema makes a mockery of the attempts that have been made to treat it as a distinct genre”, I felt it important to choose readings that I felt tried to deal with the elements of art cinema in a wider sense as opposed to focusing solely on a particular film/director or country. With this in mind the readings I found most apt for this task were, “Art Cinema” by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith whose essay the topic arose from, “The

Joanne was just another ordinary girl, with the passion of writing. As she delved into writing and started working on the book her mother passed away and she sank into a deep, grieving depression, getting little to nothing accomplished. Joanne thought she would give it another go but she failed to make progress, she fell in and out of love ending up with a failed marriage and a baby daughter which she had to raise alone. She was a single mother struggling to support herself and her daughter, Jessica

Breathless and The Motorcycle Diaries “Like the ancient oral and literary traditions of travel tales to which it is related, the road film speaks to the human predilection for travel, to our fascination with vehicles of locomotion, our visions of freedom, the pleasures of adventure, the promise of self realization, the experience of life as a journey” (Location 8051 of 13125). When analyzing the foreign movie genre, road movie, there are two that stand aloft. Breathless is a movie about a robber

The short film Les Mistons or otherwise translated meaning The Brats. In 1957 age 25, Truffaut is already an accomplished writer and theorization of cinema. Along with his adoptive brothers, he is changing the way we will think and talk about cinema. They have already changed the cinema and discourse. Very soon all of them will make their first film. Truffaut is the first one to start to fully have the adventure. In 1957 in the offices of ARTS, he makes a friend with a young writer and publishes

Composition 1 May 2015 Jean-Luc Godard Little do many Americans know that some of the most commendable movies of modern film have been derived from a French man and his passion for American Cinema. Directors like Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino have some of the most recognizable names in the industry, and rightfully so draw inspiration from this director and his non- traditional French films of the early 1960’s (Kolker 210). As a leader of the French New Wave movement, Jean- Luc Godard dually managed