World cinema

Requirements for Indian cinema has been one of the most dominant and distinguishing features of the subcontinent’s culture for the past sixty years. I am here to discuss, the ways in which cinemas in India have evolved from ancient times. How the tradition is changing and that Indian movies are not just- dance, music and colors, but much more meaningful than that. Nationalism and Nations are invented traditions and there is an inherent relationship between Indian Cinema and nationalism. It depicts

Reflection #1 – Hugo (Scorsese, 2011) “What precisely is the cinema of attractions? First it is a cinema that bases itself on the quality that Leger celebrated: its ability to show something.” – Tom Gunning It was in a large, packed cinema that I first viewed Hugo in 2011. During this initial viewing it had not occurred to me that this film was a spectacle of the history of cinema. However, upon revisiting the film with a more developed understanding of film history, I was delighted to be able

a revolution in French cinema. In the following years these directors were to follow up their debuts, while other young directors made their first features, in fact between 1959-63 over 170 French directors made their debut films. These films

Film and Culture 27 September 2010 Cinema Paradiso: Feeling the Love Through Music and Sound Cinema Paradiso was made in 1988, and was written and directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. It won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1989. Cinema Paradiso follows the life of Salvatore Di Vita from the time he was a boy to his successful career as a film director. Love truly is what the movie is about. Whether it is to have a love of film, love of someone else, or having a love for what you do, it is

STATEMENT TO THE PROBLEM Cinema is meant and believed to entertain, to take the viewer to a world that is starkly different from the real one, a world which provides escape from the daily grind of life. Cinema is a popular media of mass consumption which plays a key role in moulding opinions, constructing images and reinforcing dominant cultural values. Hindi cinema has been a major point of reference for Indian culture in this century. It has shaped and expressed the changing scenarios of modern

she isn’t quite the household name. But her achievement as the very first Indian woman to ever single-handedly direct a movie is engraved in stone, and will always be. The year was 1926, at a time when world cinema was still experimenting with the science and technology of motion pictures. Indian cinema had already taken long strides by then, but produced only acting roles for women. Yet, breaking the mould, Fatma Begum established her own production company - Fatma Films - and went on to direct Bulbule

religion but also other areas like culture, rituals, customs, traditions, family, etc is shown through movies and all these are also as important as religion and which play a significant role in movies…   History of Indian Cinema The Indian film industry is the largest in the world in terms of ticket sales and number of films produced annually (877 feature films and 1177 short films were released in the year 2003 alone). India accounts for 73% of movie admissions in the Asia-Pacific region, and earnings

British influence and then the American dominance after the 2nd world war, the entertainment industry has seen it all. Bollywood, the Hindi-language industry in Mumbai is considered by many to be the heart of the Indian film industry. Although the format of Bollywood films has changed over the years, a typical film is melodramatic; long (three to four hours); filled with song and dance

Vanessa R. Schwartz, Gyan Prakash, and Camilo D. Trumper are authors who wrote books on urban globalization in different cities around the world. All three historians used cinema and film as part of their evidence in support of their different arguments. Schwartz, Prakash, and Trumper, however, agree that filmmakers created realities, either as entertainment, political messages, or reflections of their city. For Schwartz, Prakash, and Trumper, film reveals intimate details about cities during the

which can influence an artist’s project. In Philip Lutgendorf’s article, Is There An Indian Way of Filmmaking? (2006), he attempts to suggest how texts from the Indian cultural heritage could be used for the discourse of both Indian cinema as well as to the study of cinema itself, which justifies discussion. This essay will attempt to challenge Lutgendorf’s ideas within his article through Hayao Miyazaki’s film, Spirited Away (2001) through the discussion of manga/animae origin, Japanese mythology,