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...

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 is. Genres, by definition are various types of films that audiences and filmmakers...

EDITING There are several ideas that are associated with the role of editing in film criticism, which can be categorized generally according to the stylistic elements of realism and formalism and the ways in which they both build into the classical paradigm. LetÕs begin, though, w...

Great Expectations Let desire be your destiny ... Director: Alfonso Cuarón Producer: Art Linson Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki Production Designer: Tony Burrough Music (score & soundtrack): Patrick Doyle Artworks: Francesco Clemente Writing Credits: Mitch Gl...

Fallen Hero Traditional American feature films share the common characteristics of classical Hollywood cinema. In fictional films the main character is often portrayed as the hero that saves the day. However, the movie, Fallen contradicts this conventional way of cinema. The main character i...

The movie, It Happened One Night by Frank Capra, is an excellent example of a classical Hollywood film. It shows many of the qualities to be a classical Hollywood film. The film shows many different mise-en-scene, good character development, and narrative structure. All these are a must to have a c...

Two sequences that are intergal to an apppreciation of Scott Hick's Oscar nominated film 'Shine', are the opeining scences and the sequence of scenes, which gives the audience insight into the events of that led to the protagonist's mental breakdown. In both scenes the director has used compelling ...

High Noon, a movie directed by Fed Zinnemann, used a whole set of techniques he inherited from other filmmakers to make his point and help get the story across. We will be looking at Narrative elements, camera/editing techniques, and elements of presentation. One of the film makers that influence...

High Noon, a movie directed by Fed Zinnemann, used a whole set of techniques he inherited from other filmmakers to make his point and help get the story across. We will be looking at Narrative elements, camera/editing techniques, and elements of the presentation. One of the film makers that influen...

Michael Verhoeven's "The Nasty Girl" is a visual hodgepodge of documentary film techniques, with film sets that rival the simplicity of a theatrical stage in order to portray one woman's struggle to find the truth about her hometown's past. Instead of filming a documentary on the life of Anja Rosmus...

Mary Reilly In comparing the novel of Mary Reilly to the motion picture I noticed a few differences in the two such as the slightly changed narrative. In the first scene of the novel, to begin with, we are introduced immediately to Mary's childhood horror from her point of view. This give...

Genre and narrative - Se7en.A dark masterpiece of modern horror, which involves a veteran cop, Detective William Somerset who is about to retire, and Detective David Mills, who breaks in his replacement. They both become involved in a grisly, serial killer investigation. This twisted serial killer c...

After WW II, Germany was rebuilt economically. Within 5 years of this rebuild, there was what is now known as the "Economic Miracle". From 1955-1973 it was policy to invite those from poorer countries to Germany, as "Guest Workers", to solve the post-war shortage of manual labor....

Western films are the major defining genre of the American film industry - a nostalgic eulogy to the early days of the expansive, untamed American frontier and the borderline between civilization and the wilderness. They are one of the oldest, most enduring and flexible genres and one of the most ch...

Innovations in Intolerance The impact of the film Intolerance on the movie industry and its relative critical success is still debated to this very day. Although the majority hold this film to be a masterpiece and an artistic achievement others describe this film as a failure both financially a...

The post-production in the movie Donnie Darko played a huge role in the filming of this movie. The audio, which was music from the 80's, give the movie the feeling of the time when the story took place. The narrative had to be done before the actual shooting because they had to know when and wh...

Although it may be difficult to conceive of in our modern era, asfilm has taken its place alongside the long-accepted artistic mediums ofpainting and sculpture as an 'art form,' during the early era of silentfilm this was far from the case. At the beginning of the 20th century,film had the st...

The primary difference between the early Russian films of the firsthalf of the 20th century, and those films that exemplify the artistic ethosof the German Expressionist movement is that of the significance given tonarrative and to expressing a singular and coherent ideology for theviewer. Whi...

Laura Mulvey and Walter Benjamin are film critics who base their thoughts on established theory. Ms. Mulvey uses a psychoanalytic approach while Benjamin utilizes a political and economic view based on Marxist theory. In his statement, \"If the natural utilization of productive forces is impeded by ...

For many years, motion pictures have been a primary form of entertainment. The principals of movie making are utilized for the enhancement of our cinematic experience. The cinematography is the technique that captures the movement of images in motion pictures. Moreover, the functions of cinematograp...

If you read a written text and it has a certain effect on you, for instance it makes you scared, we can look closely at the way the text has been constructed to see how the writer has used the tools at their disposal to create the fear. Reading a film works in exactly the same way except that the t...

Citizen Kane is considered a great American movie. It is from 1940, but people could not view it without controversy till 1950. It is typical of American films because it is in English, and its production refers to American culture. \"The film industry of the 1930s thrived on a felicitous circle of ...

The Role of Third Cinema Third Cinema as Guardian of Popular Memory refers to popular memory as an oral historiography of the Third World folklore, serving as an account of memories passed from generation to generation. Unlike traditional Western Cinema, like that of the United States which is ...

Around the turn of the 20th century, America was a society experiencing big changes, unlike any that had been experienced before, and it was because of these changes that the birth of cinema was possible. Without certain conditions present it is unlikely that theaters would have grown in popularity...

These three articles were all about the relation of criminology to popular culture. I believe that a lot of the scenarios and perceptions towards certain violent movies are true. By using certain characters (heroic father or hard bodies) they can allow the viewer to perceive that character as part ...