World cinema

Digital Film Technology Revolutionizes the Film Industry     With the release of Star Wars: Episode I the Phantom Menace, in March of 1999, digital film technology officially filtered itself in to main-stream Hollywood. Digital film technology is the latest and probably most revolutionizing new technology to hit Hollywood.  The use of digital film allows for infinite editing capabilities and endless benefits to distribution and special effects.  The use of digital film allows for producers

popularity is sealed by the fact that the audience feels its story being told, and this is the argument for its success in the market. Nigerian cinematographic products have equally undergone a veritable metamorphosis to have learnt from all forms of cinemas and are gradually moving towards the enviable situation of a developed homegrown video industry that can arguably boast of its own distinctness. Originally projected for the traditional village settings of juju, village-oriented comedy and folkloristic

INDIAN FILM INDUSTRY ANALYSIS(growth) The Indian Film Industry has been one of the oldest segments of the Indian entertainment industry. The Lumiere Brothers brought motion pictures to India in 1896, and since then there has been no looking back. Today, India has the world's biggest movie industry that churns out around one thousand movies each year. The Indian Film Industry is witnessing mark improvements on all spheres - from the technology used in making films to the themes of the movies, exhibition

Bicycle Thieves (1948) is the story of a father and his desperate search for his stolen bicycle, without which he faces poverty and an inability to support his young family. The film was directed by Vittorio De Sica, who co-wrote the screenplay with Cesare Zavattini, based on the novel of the same name by Luigi Bartolini. André Bazin (1971) notably champions the view that it is a 'true masterpiece' of Italian neorealism, to which it was a relative late comer, in fact he insists that De Sica had reignited

is one in which the perceived value of the offering to the buyer is determined more by the service rendered than the product offered. The services I encountered have various levels of intangibility. For example, my service encounter at Odeon cinemas included physical aspects such as the theatre, popcorn, and tickets. However, with the telephone banking service encounter there is almost no tangible aspect. The services I encountered also varied in the separability of the buyer and provider

How Bollywood Uses New Media Tools For Marketing its Movie. Nirajan Rijal Abstract In today’s world thousands of movies release each year. Every movie has its own promotional strategies. To pull audience in theatre, producers and movie distributors use innovative strategies. There is a tough competition between movies, so promotion is most important part. New media is the latest platform to market movies. Movie website

The president of production at Hanson Productions, an off-Broadway production company, was faced with the same situation for every Broadway production: where to locate, how many seats, what to charge and how to promote and market the production. There are three separate venues, with three separate value propositions to the studio, case and audience. While bigger means more seats and more revenue for each show, there is a capacity percentage that must be factored in to the decision due to the increased

Perhaps the most well-known innovators of the direct cinema genre of documentary film are the Maysles brothers, Albert and David Maysles. Together they created what became one of the most revolutionary contributions to direct cinema, Grey Gardens. This documentary film features the daily lives of a mother and her middle aged daughter, both named Edith Beale, who live in squalor despite their numerous recounts of their luxurious past. Through this film, the Maysles brothers went against the aesthetic

language being Hindi, spoken by 40% of Asians so Bollywood films are usually spoken in Hindi. India is the seventh largest country in the world, and has an

causing a complete or dramatic change”. But the line for where a dramatic change starts and ends is often times hard to determine. The first films were shown to public audiences in the late 1890’s by the French Lumière brothers. Yet the idea of a cinema as we now know it was only just beginning to take shape during the first quarter of the 20th century. It is in this context that we are to view Evgeny Bauer’s “The Revolutionary” (1917) and Sergei Eisenstein’s “Strike” (1925). Both of these films