World cinema

values of individualism, social equality, and progress gave citizens a reason to buy a movie ticket. Influential film makers and the new forms of cinema they produced not only enabled escapism, but sought to capture the horror and uninhibited heroism, bloodshed and meaning of warfare to the eyes of America. Cinema during the Great Depression and World War 2 became a primary leader in this art form as an earmark of American society. From disheartened industrialists and unsuccessful farmers, to occupied

In the globalization era, people all over the world have the ability to constitute the images of other countries although they have never physically been to those places. Appadurai (1990, p.296) has extended Benedict Anderson’s concept of imagined community, suggesting the notion of ‘imagined worlds’ that are established by the intersecting five aspects of global cultural flows: ethnoscapes, technoscapes, finanscapes, mediascapes, and ideoscapes. That is to say, the dynamic transnational movements

Sound is obviously an essential part of cinema, and most couldn’t imagine watching any sort of entertainment without sound. Although how did sounds start and what were some major advancements in the world of sound cinema? The introduction of sound to cinema began by a process known as Phonofilm, created by a man named Lee de Forest and Theodore Case in 1923. The Phonofilm, which recorded synchronized sound directly onto film, was used to record a variety of entertainment including vaudeville acts

Socially I did not grow up with much exposure to Chinese culture. It is always thought-provoking to learn new information that is why decide to pick a culture with which my background is scarce. I selected to watch a foreign movie called Fearless, also known as Jet Li’s Fearless in the United States. My decision to watch a movie is I enjoy the proficiency to learn from films. I have never watched a foreign film so I was intrigued to experience one. I was not sure what to expect with a foreign movie

Film Showing at Elk Rapids Cinema Revisits a World Before Vaccines It was a parent’s worst nightmare. A perfectly healthy child’s life could, with no seeming reason, instantly change forever. In some cases, the child could become paralyzed within hours. It was inexplicable. Frightening. Polio. With the last outbreak of Polio in the US being in 1979, many today have no recollection of the terror of this disease. The disease primarily infected children, and there seemed to be no pattern to who

What is Cinema? A cinema or a movie, or you may say it as a motion picture, which includes the art of moving images through a visual medium that tells stories and exposes or expresses reality. Cinema is the world’s most recent art form that was created in the 19th century. It is the world’s most complex, collaborative, and costly artistic expression. Initially, the first two versions of the film camera used were the kineto-graph and its European counterpart, the cinematograph to record daily events

Indian Film Industry. Bollywood is one of the largest film producers in India and one of the largest centers of film production in the world. However, the first films India watched were not made in Bollywood. The various stages of evolution of bollywood can be categorized as follows: Silent Era to Talkies (1930-1940): Dadasaheb Phalke, the father of Indian Cinema was a man with vision and courage. In the silent era, he pioneered the revolution and released his path breaking film, Raja Harishchandra

the paper is to present a theoretical framework for the understanding of Brazilian political filmmaker Glauber Rocha’s style of film making which is inspired by third cinema. At the centre of the theory is the concept of Third Cinema: a new cinematic movement, built on the rejection of the concepts and propositions of traditional cinema, as represented by Hollywood. In this paper the content and context of the film Land in Anguish (Earth Entranced) is used to study about the aesthetic of film making

some believe that it should not hold the title of it being the first film because the cameraman was a British nationalist, who filmed the film in Britan. The film was also just a recording of a popular play. Dadasaheb Phalke, named the father of cinema produced the first full-length motion picture. He brought scholarly and cultural aspects to his films. His first film consisted of males playing the female roles. This marked the

In the early times of narrative cinema there was litter pressure on the filmmakers for the evolution of film forms before nickelodeons (Salt, 31) as cinema had not become a mass cultural product and film was still just a novelty expected to die out like rock n roll. And so the demand was low and so the supply could remain unoriginal. Mary Jane's Mishap was made in 1903 when ‘multi-scene films were becoming popular’ (Salt, 32). Mary Jane's Mishap is notable for its use of experimental and inventive