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    opposite. Carax is a genius and exemplifies french culture and cinema as well as global cinema and culture in his film Holy Motors. He does this by pushing the boundaries of what should be seen on the big screen, evoking emotion and portraying a message for the viewer to ponder on. What makes this film a great piece of french cinema is the connections it draws to other films, You can see throughout film subtle hints at older pieces of french cinema which leads you to the conclusion that Leos Carax was heavily

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    South Indian or specifically Malayalam Cinema. The first question the arises in my mind while watching any Malayalam movie is why does the nationally and internationally acclaimed Malayalam or for that matter any South Indian Cinema fail to represent women’s experiences, Why are The Female leads just subjected to basic chores, or as an object of desire? Me being a Woman find it very disturbing to see woman being labelled in the same umbrella. Indian cinema has always been under the line of fire

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    Third Cinema in China: Yellow Earth What is identified as 'excess' in Western cinematic experience is, therefore, precisely where we locate Third World cinema. -Teshome Gabriel The possibility of a Third Cinema in China is encouraged with Chen Kaige's 1984 film Yellow Earth. Drawing upon Teshome Gabriel's framework, a working definition of Third Cinema is possible in the case of Chinese cinema. The "fifth generation" of China's film-makers is credited in making films such as Yellow Earth

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    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

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    including the third floor windows were retained (Heller 2015, p 12). The new building walls were finished in smooth white stucco, as can be seen in Fig 11. The cinema complex is accessible via the third floor of the Santa Monica Place courtyard through glass entry doors. Evolution is also seen through the materiality used in the cinemas. The Egyptian decor consisted of soft reds, blues, and yellows. The screen was framed by four, giant pillars 1.4 m wide and 6 m high, their surfaces painted and

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    New Wave Cinema

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    of Narrative Film," it is said that “the prevailing mode of postwar French cinema was literary adaption, which caused French films to become increasingly verbal and theatrical. It was against this tendency- identified as ‘the tradition of quality’ by Francois Truffaut and the other critics writing in Cashiers du Cinema, that the New Wave reacted in the late 1950’s and 1960’s.” Camera-stylo, which would permit the cinema “to become a means of expression as supple and sbutle as that of written

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    Direct Cinema Essay

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    Direct Cinema The term 'direct cinema' was coined by American director Albert Maysles, to describe the style of documentary that he and his contemporaries were making in the 1960s as a result of a lightweight, portable 16mm camera and high quality lightweight audio recorders becoming available. The introduction of these, together with film-stock which was sensitive enough to give a good quality close-up monochrome picture under most lighting conditions (Including

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    The White Bollywood

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    to The Good Road (2013), the cinema of India, an extremely important part of our cultural identity celebrating its centenary this year. Has been working as an ambassador of India to a global audience since the day of its inception. In India, it is often seen that films made in Hindi targeted at a larger audience, commonly known as mainstream movies or Bollywood films, employ a different grammar of filmmaking than that is used in so-called sensible or parallel cinema while representing or portraying

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    In the art world of the 1970’s, Mary Kelly responded directly to the issues raised in Mulvey’s article often making works that attempt to reclaim feminine identity. Most of Kelly’s films are works of research and documentation that concern ideas of women’s roles and women’s work. In the early 1970s Kelly was involved in the making of the film Night Cleaners (1970-1975). The film explored contemporary issues of feminist activism in following a group of working-class female service labourers and

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    to painting, to more importantly since its earliest floriation in cinema. The evolution of American cinema at times occurred parallel to the changing American society. Architecture can be connected to the cinema, in the representation, by the connection through culture. The twentieth century can be broken down into its decades to be examined further. The main argument that I would like to put forth is that architecture in the cinema remains more of a unique defining characteristic, working with the

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