Transnational cinema

Breathless. Breathtaking moments that grip you in the moment so that you forget what else is going on around you and focus on that feeling and what fueled it. I chose this picture from the movie Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon where Ziyi Zhang’s character (Jen) fights Michelle Yeoh’s character (Shu Lien) using different forms of chines kung fu and acrobatics. The fights in this movie were breath taking the way the characters could leap and soar as if they had wings. This fantasy aspect along with the

From the The Godfather to The Last Airbender, classic and forgettable movies alike all had to go through the MPAA to receive the glory or infamy they are remembered for today. During Jack Valenti’s 38 year reign over the MPAA, he set the standards of how movies would be rated for years to come. The MPAA’s rating system has become outdated when compared to America’s constantly changing societal standards which has allowed filmmakers to push the boundaries with their films while still getting the ratings

Response Paper #3 – Casablanca As Historical Evidence Looking at the socially or culturally history of the United States, many historians use Hollywood films as a primary source. I also used many films such as Easy Rider (1969) or Dance, Girl, Dance (1941) to support my historical thesis paper and to make the topic more vivid by using the images of the film. Even though, some people think that films are accurate and authentic in its depiction, it is important to mention that films are still fictional

In A Heartbeat by Beth David and Esteban Bravo is an animation short film with a young redhead boy whose heart went chasing after a “ crush” as shown of his. But soon his heart is ripped into two when they are shown in the public eye together- soon leading for his crush to put it back together. In A Heartbeat by Beth David and Esteban Bravo send the message to it’s viewers that the heart wants what it wants. When one young man heart is going after the “ popular “ boy in school. This short film

Citizen Kane is directed, produced by and stars Orson Welles and was made in 1941. Citizen Kane follows the life of famous newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane and was a very controversial film for its time. Citizen Kane does not come under one specific film genre but falls under the heading of several interesting genres, which include biography, narrative, detective and news-paper reporter genre. ‘Film Noir’ is also associated with Citizen Kane as it has many genres but also a very specific style

Classical Hollywood narrative has been around since 1917, it has been the most common way people see cinema today. The reason this movie styles has remained as the most common is because it achieves the job by making the viewers sink deep into the film. Classical hollywood narrative consists of a clear plot, including beginning, middle,and end. In the beginning the film shows the watcher the surrounding including the lifestyle and everything else going on during the films time period. This helps

An Analysis of Film Babies within Different Cultures Thomas Balmes’s documentary Babies focuses on four babies born within four different countries. The babies are from Japan, United States, Mongolia and Namibia and each of the countries have a different culture. Japan and United States are developed countries; while Mongolia and Namibia are developing countries. Developed countries have advanced economy and the people have access to good education and technology. On the other hand, in developing

Moreover, In the process of globalisation, people of different countries are becoming “world audiences”. The demands for media texts produced by these 6 media institutions are increasing. For example, In Hong Kong, most of the foreign films shown in cinema are produced from Hollywood. And the programmes of the popular paid-TV channels are bought from these 6 major media institution such as

How did the cinema affect the lives of women and children in 1930’s? Labelled the ‘golden age of Hollywood’ the 1930’s was arguably a decade of turmoil. This led to many people attending the cinema to escape from reality. Among adults, women tended to go to the cinema more often than their husbands, and this finding was echoed by rowntree, who found that 75 per cent of cinema-goers in New York during the late 1930’s were women[1]. With large numbers of children attending these types of pictures

Even though a vast majority of us wish that it was possible to turn back the hands of time and change or rewrite history. However, the truth of the matter is that we simply cannot. Everything happens for a reason, and we should learn to accept it. Accept it for what it is, rather than what we would like it to be.      However, to often in Hollywood the city of glamour and glitz, fortune and fame, movie producers have a tendency and even feel at liberty to rewrite American