We scurried ourselves to the rhythm of the subway, pushing our way to the concrete ways of New York. Each gallery we visited was like a haven away from the hurried life of the street. Each haven secured a unique art, awaiting the eyes of appetent viewers. The art of William Kentridge is striking, ...

Each means of art contain their own characteristics in symbolizing their ideas and views. Paintings for example have plastic effects through the use of forms, lines and textures and are bordered to its frame, basically limiting the artist to his view. This is used together to pass on an expressive f...

As Good As It Gets Essay Cultural Studies and Popular Art July 20, 2004 In this essay review of As Good As It Gets I will discuss the genre of the film, the form of the film (narrative), and narrative elements within the film. One way to categorize a film is to determine what genre it i...

Introduction. In this essay I plan to point out which particular aspects of the film medium are explored in surrealist film. In doing this task I will need to define surrealism in terms of the cinema and therefore explain exactly which aspects of a surrealist film set it apart from other genres t...

Psychoanalysis, as stemmed from Freud, brings the "unconscious" to the foreground of importance, adding value to those thoughts, feelings, etcetera, that are usually repressed. Film, as a mass entertainment, serves as a way for an audience to "experience" situations that they do ...

The French New Wave was a movement that lasted between 1959 to 1964. It all started with the Cinematheque Francois, an underground organization that would regularly show older films from around the world. This beget the cine-club, and by the 1954 there were 100,000 members in 200 clubs. From thes...