Cinematography began in the early 1800s with a simple Phenakistoscope and has evolved into its present day state of computerized generation (DeAngelis, 11). Since the 1500s, people have been trying to transform light into fixed images (8). In the early 1800s, there was a problem that innovators h...

Fritz Lang\'s movie \"Metropolis\" was filmed in Germany in 1926. It is a dystopian film portraying a horribly polarized future society where the working class is made to toil endlessly, in stark contrast to the ruling class, i.e. the upper class, who live the life of luxury, high up in towers, look...

Images--they draw us into their sinful lust, invigorate us, suck us in like zombies or candy. I, like most of us, am a media junkie, and gladly process sparkly music videos with no content and horrific movies that I later dislike. Undoubtedly, many times I have paid more attention to the beauty of t...

David De SouzaWorld Cinema12/16/98I have chosen to do my journal entries on films dealing with revolutions. All of the films I have chosen deal with the theme of over throwing the old regime.1.)"Open City" Open City was one of the first films out of post-war Europe; in fact, it was shot right after ...

Special EffectsWhen you see a commercial, and animals are talking to each other and having human expressions you think, "how did they do that"? The answer is special effects. When you look at commercials, movies, cartoons, all of them have some sort of special effect. With the technology becoming ...