Transnational cinema

Stephen King said, “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They’re inside us, and sometimes, they win.” This quote sums up the arguments made in the article “Why We Crave Horror” and what King believes. Stephen King makes three correct claims saying that humans crave horror to have a peculiar sort of fun, face our fears, and reestablish our feelings of normalcy. Humans use horror to have a peculiar type of fun. Knowing that this horrific event won’t actually happen allows people to enjoy watching

Perna Arts has been one of the well-known and renowned production houses that have been operating in the Indian cinema for a long time. Perna Arts, as the case states, has been facing issues where it has been unable to attract financers, subjects, movies, directors, actors etc. that were in the past the key to success or the core competency for the company or the production house. However, in the past Perna Arts was one of the most successful production houses in the Indian film industry. The core

How has the feature film you have studied captured and sustained the viewers interest? Yes exactly and today in my seminar I will identify these key words to analyze and answer this question. In the film 'A Beautiful Mind', the director Ron Howard, along with writers, producers etc have used many techniques in order to capture the viewers interest and sustain it through out the film. I have identified the most important techniques used as: -how the actors are presented through characterization

Silent film has no recorded sound but can include background music and special effects. Since there was no way to record people talking, music was used instead. Music establishes setting, creates mood, atmosphere and may foreshadow. Charlie Chaplin is one of the most famous producers and directors of the silent film era. Not only did he write, he acted and scored movies too. In Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush (1925), the dance of the rolls in the official version was officially composed by Chaplin

““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

Undertale and Violence Undertale was an indie game released in 2015 by Toby Fox after a very successful Kickstarter project. Undertale is truly one of a kind, it acts as less of a game and more of an experience. Undertale takes inspiration of Role Playing Games (RPG) from all throughout the history of video games and has a unique mechanic that makes it the center of a lot of attention in the world of gaming. This game allows the player to complete the entire game without killing a single monster

“Women have mainly played decorative objects in Hindi cinema for a long time. Or, even in films where they had important roles, they are more victims and martyrs or victimizers of other women” – Dr. Shoma Chatterjee (Award winning author, film scholar and journalist, India). Even though Hindi cinema focused more on Male protagonist centrality but during the 1950’s and 60’s Hindi cinema produced films which highlighted Female characters as orphans, wanderers and even Warriors at times. Despite the

Q-1: How has indian film industry evolved through ages? A : Indian Cinema has completed 100 years of its inception in this very year. In the last 100years, the cinema has evolved genre wise and also technologically from black and white and silent to coloured and with special sound effect. When we talk about Indian film industries, the current scenario is very different from past due to change in technology. Today Indian film industries playing an important role in Indian economy. We can divided

Bend it Like Beckham (2002/3) is a romantic comedy written, directed and produced by Gurinder Chadha, a Kenya-born British film maker who grew up India. Director Chadha’s films often reflect on her complex background. Unlike many comedies, Bend it Like Beckham is filled with plenty of important themes. One of them addresses the importance of cultural integration. Jesminder Bhamra, like the director, is British-Asian. Just like Director Chadha had refused to take traditional Punjabi dancing lessons

The Bicycle Thief is a deeply moving neo-realist films of the 1940’s focused on the state of Italy in the aftermath of WWII, which depicts one man’s loss of faith and his struggle to maintain personal dignity in poverty and bureaucratic indifference. The director use neorealism in this film to show the working class life, set in the culture of poverty, and with the implicit message that in a better society wealth would be more evenly distributed. The majority of the movie is focused around the bicycle