...film The 400 Blows (or Les Quatre Cents Coups) falls under the category of art cinema; its style and form can be understood by way of an understanding of the conventions or anti-conventions of the art film model. Truffaut’s treatment of story, character, image, and space conform to the generally recognized set of characteristics that typify the genre. In the film the life of the protagonist, Antoine Doinel, accords with the filmmaker’s conscious attempt at creating a film that challenges commonly held notions of narrative, character, and style. As such, Les Quatre Cents Coups is a film in which the central character’s motives are ambiguous, narrative events are loosely connected, and degrees of closure are limited. These characteristics will later form the basic structure of the art film model and can be used to understand the film and art films, in general. An understanding of Les Quatre Cents Coups proves a difficult task without some understanding of the French New Wave, an influential film movement falling roughly between 1959 and 1964. During this era, directors such as: Godard, Chabrol, Truffaut, sought to produce films with a casual style and ambiguous but psychologically developed characters; these directors were opposed to studio filmmaking and the norms of “classical style” and story, which promoted narrative clarity and unity. According to James Monaco, the “aesthetic of the New Wave cinema was improvisational and its photography and editing were far less mannered than...
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...Winston makes in his journal describes a memory in which images of a child’s arm being blown off were being displayed in the cinema. Not only that, but—to Winston’s horror—everyone in the cinema seemed to be pleased with it. They enjoyed it. This passage is nothing less than alarming. It is even more so when one notices the relationships between modern entertainment and the frightening film in the book. Violence in the media is becoming more graphic and prevalent each year. However, while violence is being censored less by the day, minor nudity, sexual acts or themes, and profanity cause an outrage if not properly censored. To put it simply, more restrictions need to be enabled upon violence and...
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...the fundamental theme of Nuit et brouillard, with close reference to the film’s imagery, text, and musical composition. Shot in 1955, ten years following the camp’s liberation, Resnais’s film begins with post-war colour images of Auschwitz, capturing what remains of the barren land. As the camera progressively moves through the barbed wire fence, the present day moment is established and one sees ‘une drôle d’herbe’ surrounding the edges. The inclusion of overgrown flora can be argued as a metaphor for the surface and deep memories of the Holocaust; the camps are undoubtedly overrun with victims’ remembrances of the actual events, which took place. Pastoral pictures of Auschwitz in present day are then powerfully juxtaposed with genuine black-and-white footage of the camp during its days in action. This juxtaposition clarifies the effects time has on human memory. At present day, Auschwitz is seen against a pleasant...
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...…………………………………………….35 6.1 Location ………………………………………………36 6.2 Suppliers ……………………………………………...36 7. MARKETING STRATEGY ……………………………...38 7.1 Pricing Strategy ……………………………………...39 7.2 Sales Strategy ………………………………………..39 7.3 Distribution Channels ……………………………….40 7.4 Promotion Strategy ………………………………….40 7.5 Marketing Mix ……………………………………….42 Oasis Movie Theater 3 8. ACCOUNTING ISSUES ………………………………….43 8.1 Investment ……………………………………………44 8.2 Expenses ……………………………………………...45 8.3 Costs and Sales ……………………………………….46 8.4 Payback, Risk Analysis and Exit Strategy …………49 8.5 Income Statement of the Business Fair …………….51 Oasis Movie Theater 4 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Oasis Movie Theater 5 Oasis Movie Theater is a company dedicated to offering a premium cinema service to schools and university students. We are the first movie...
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...Genesis A. Jimenez Professor Abigail Manzella English 2830 18 November 2014 Beyond Objectification: Ann Darrow’s real role in King Kong One of the most intriguing aspects of King Kong is the power of her visual effects. The multiple exposures, processed "shots" and a variety of angles of camera aim to provide viewers of 1930’s an escape from the severe economic depression before World War II. However, in King Kong the representation of the female role as an object of pleasure is somewhat disappointing for our society nowadays. In the entire film, we are not provided by strong traits of Ann Darrow’s personality other than her helplessness and common gender stereotypes. It seemed that Ann Darrow didn’t have anything else to offer other than being the endangered beauty of the film. King Kong objectifies and enhance one aspect of Ann Darrow in the entire movie: her physical beauty, apparently her only role is to be the object of desire or wealth for Kong of the principal male roles in the film. My goal in this paper is to show that situation and her complexity, how that portrayal of Ann Darrow’s character determines the continuity of the movie and her genre. Clearly Merian C. Cooper y Ernest B. Schoedsackare portray Ann’s character in order to don’t deviate and enhance the overall concept of an adventure film and produces greater meaning to the final quote: "The beauty killed the beast" and the evidence brought in this paper helps to support my belief. In the scene when Carl Denham...
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...Nicholas Vonderheyde Masculine Identity in Science Fiction Film: From Reagan to Bush From the 1970s to the early 1990s, there were many anxieties regarding shifting gender definitions and roles in American society. Ronald Reagan’s attempt to “re-masculinize” the country was during a time when communism and terrorism posed real threats to our nation. After these problems were resolved diplomatically rather than through physical action in the early 1990s, the definition and representation of masculinity began to shift. This was directly reflected in the media in “critical dystopias”, or films that envision an apocalyptic future. Essentially, these Science Fiction productions are artistic critiques of contemporary issues in society. Terminator 2 (James Cameron, 1991) and Demolition Man (Marco Brambilla, 1993) are both critical dystopias from the early 1990s that exemplify the social commentary of such films. The protagonists of both films completely redefine the white, heterosexual male super-body version of masculinity that was popular in the 1980s. By examining the narratives, the characterization, and the cinematography of each critical dystopia, one can see a clear cultural shift in the definitions of masculinity and a growing critique of contemporary masculinity within these films of the early 1990s. Following the Vietnam War, the nation experienced a period of feminization. This can best be depicted in the creation of the “New Man” in men’s magazines; the “New Man” is...
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...From Predator to Protector: The Paradigm Shift in America’s Werewolf Supernatural entities have been the topic of fiction since the dawn of literature. These entities brazenly manipulate the societal, environmental, and physical norms which dictate much of the living world. Perhaps one of the most renowned literary characters of supernatural fiction is the werewolf. Historically, this literary concept of a wolf-human hybrid is rooted in evil. They are graphically described as “bestial, blood-drinking, human-flesh-eating creatures, endowed with more than human agility and strength” (Rudin 115). Werewolves served as popular antagonists throughout media, including television and cinema; yet, in recent years, the media’s perception of werewolves has taken a noticeable shift in the opposite direction. Stephenie Meyer, the critically acclaimed author of the Young Adult series The Twilight Saga, embodies this shift to the “new” werewolf. Meyer made a drastic change to the very nature of what was once a ferocious beast by characterizing werewolves as more gentle and protective. People wonder, though, what caused this sudden switch of characteristics? Through texts such as Rick Bass’ The Ninemile Wolf, Barry Holstun Lopez’s Of Wolves and Men, Valerie Fogleman’s piece “American Attitudes Towards Wolves: a History of Misperception,” Stephenie Meyer’s The Twilight Saga, and more, this paper will argue that the “original” werewolf belief was founded on America’s misperception of wolves...
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...20 Roto-Moulded Plastic Water Storage Tanks PRODUCT CODE QUALITY AND STANDARDS PRODUCTION CAPACITY MONTH AND YEAR OF PREPARATION PREPARED BY : 303701005 : IS 12701:1989 : 9000 tanks of 500 L, 750 L, 1000L and 5000L. : January, 2003 : Small Industries Service Institute 4th Floor, Harsiddha Chambers, Ashram Road, Ahmedabad-380014. Phone Nos.:27540619, 27544248, 27543147 Fax No.: 079-7540339 E-mail sisiabd@gujl.guj.nic.in INTRODUCTION Roto Moulded Plastic Water Storage Tanks are made from Linear Low Density Polyethylene/Low Density Polyethylene. These tanks are light in weight therefore, it is easy to fix them at the place of choice. These tanks require no painting, no rotational moulding, product is formed inside a closed mould rotating biaxial in two plains perpendicular to each other. In batch type-rock-N-Roll type Rotational Moulding machines, frame of the machine is turned in a primary axis while mould is rotated in secondary axis. As rotational moulding does not involve any injection pressure and high shear rates, this process offers certain basic advantages over other processes and techniques of plastic processing. a) Complex parts can be moulded without need for post-assembly. b) Low machinery cost relative to production capacity. c) Double walled items can be produced. d) Ease of colour and material change. e) Multiple product and multi colours can be moulded at the same time f) Minimum wastages. g) High production capacity on selected parts. h) Production design...
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...Introduction Media is everywhere; it has become a part of our daily life. The media play a dominant role in the learning process. Media has potential to shape personalities, change the way we perceive and understand the world and our immediate reality. The term media is derived from Medium, which means a carrier or mode. Media denotes an item specifically designed to reach a large audience or viewers. The term was first used with the advent of newspapers and magazines. However, with the passage of time, the term broadened by the inventions of radio, TV, cinemas and Internet. Connecting with media means being connected with the world around us. We spend much of our time entertaining ourselves by browsing channels on TV, surfing on the internet or talking on the mobile phones. In the world of today, the media has become almost as necessary as food and clothing. It is true that media is playing an outstanding role in strengthening the society. Its duty is to inform, educate and entertain the people. It helps us to know the current...
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...(c) Bedford/St. Martin's bedfordstmartins.com 1-457-62096-0 / 978-1-457-62096-6 SOUNDS AND IMAGES Movies and the Impact of Images 187 Early Technology and the Evolution of Movies 192 The Rise of the Hollywood Studio System 195 The Studio System’s Golden Age 205 The Transformation of the Studio System 209 The Economics of the Movie Business 215 Popular Movies and Democracy In every generation, a film is made that changes the movie industry. In 1941, that film was Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane. Welles produced, directed, wrote, and starred in the movie at age twenty-five, playing a newspaper magnate from a young man to old age. While the movie was not a commercial success initially (powerful newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst, whose life was the inspiration for the movie, tried to suppress it), it was critically praised for its acting, story, and directing. Citizen Kane’s dramatic camera angles, striking film noir–style lighting, nonlinear storytelling, montages, and long deep-focus shots were considered technically innovative for the era. Over time, Citizen Kane became revered as a masterpiece, and in 1997 the American Film Institute named it the Greatest American Movie of All Time. “Citizen Kane is more than a great movie; it is a gathering of all the lessons of the emerging era of sound,” film critic Roger Ebert wrote.1 CHAPTER 6 ○ MOVIES 185 (c) Bedford/St. Martin's bedfordstmartins.com 1-457-62096-0 / 978-1-457-62096-6 MOVIES A generation later...
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...INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION COM 3705 ASSIGNMENT 1 Unique Number 604407 Daisy Marowanidze 49446444 COM 3705 ASSIGNMENT 1 Unique Number: 604407 Page 1 Declaration I, the undersigned, hereby declare that this is my own and personal work, except where the work(s) or publications of others have been acknowledged by means of reference techniques. I have read and understood Tutorial Letter CMNALLE/301 regarding technical and presentation requirements, referencing techniques and plagiarism. Daisy Marowanidze 49446444 23 July 2015 Witness: Emmanuel Kadzunge Daisy Marowanidze 49446444 COM 3705 ASSIGNMENT 1 Unique Number: 604407 Page 2 Table of Contents COVER PAGE................................................................................................ 1 DECLARATION ............................................................................................. 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................... 3 1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................... 4 1.1 Globalisation and hybridization explained from a cinematic perspective ...................................................................................... 4 1.2 The difference between deculturalisation, acculturalization and reculturalisation explained from a cinematic perspective.................. 6 2.1 Three theoretical approaches to the study of the...
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...Interpreting the Risorgimento: Blasetti's "1860" and the Legacy of Motherly Love Author(s): Gabriella Romani Source: Italica, Vol. 79, No. 3 (Autumn, 2002), pp. 391-404 Published by: American Association of Teachers of Italian Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3656100 . Accessed: 22/09/2013 08:43 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. . American Association of Teachers of Italian is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Italica. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 149.150.51.237 on Sun, 22 Sep 2013 08:43:40 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions Blasetti's the Interpreting Risorgimento: 1860 and the Legacy MotherlyLove of Alessandro Blasetti's1860has recentlybeen the focus of literaryand film criticism,which analyzedvariousaspectsof the film, including the didactic and ideologicalnatureof the director'sintelpretationof the For Risorgimento.1 his reading of this memorableItalian past, Blasetti used both domestic and foreign...
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...VALUE ADDED TAX ACT, 1991 (22 No. ACT OF 1991) [Date of assent of the Acting President and publication in the official Gazette, the 10th July, 1991/25th Ashar, 1398 (BS)] An Act to make provision for imposition of value added tax on goods and service WHEREAS it is expedient to make provision for imposition of value added tax, It is hereby enacted as follows:1. Short title and commencement.(1) This Act may be called the Value Added Tax Act, 1991 (2) In this Act,(a) sections 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22 and 72 shall be deemed to have come into force on the 2nd June, 1991 corresponding to the 18 Jaistha, 1398 (BS); and (b) except the sections mentioned above, all other sections shall come into force on the 1st July 1991 corresponding to the 16 Ashar, 1398 (BS). 2. Definitions.In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,(a) 'exempted' means goods and services exempt from payment of value added tax under this Act; (b) 'output tax' means value added tax imposed under this Act; (c) 'input' means (i) except labour, land, building, office equipment and transport, all raw materials (any gas and any material used as fuels), packaging materials, service, machinery and spare parts; (ii) in the case of trading, goods imported, purchased, acquired or otherwise procured in any way for sale, exchange or transfer in any other manner; (d) 'input tax' means value added tax paid on inputs imported by registered person or purchased by him from any other registered person;...
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...I have duly acknowledged all the sources used by me in the preparation of this dissertation. 3rd March 2013 Kshitij Pipaleshwar ii CERTIFICATE This is to certify that the dissertation entitled ‘‘Gunda’ and ‘Loha’ : A Study of Cult Film Cultures’ is the record of the original work done by Kshitij Pipaleshwar under my guidance and supervision. The results of the research presented in this dissertation/thesis have not previously formed the basis for the award of any degree, diploma, or certificate of this Institute or any other institute or university. 4th March 2013 K.V.Nagesh Babu Assistant Professor Centre for Critical Media Praxis School of Media and Cultural Studies iii CONTENTS 1. Attractions of Cinema…………………………………………………………………….1-9 2. Understanding Cult Film……………………………………………………………….10-18 3. Looking Beyond Bollywood…………………………………………………………..19-23 4. Being and Becoming Gunda…………………………………………………………...24-39 5. More than Gunda and Loha……………………………………………………………40-43 6. List of Illustrations………………………………………………………………………...44 7....
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...TERM PAPER ON MARKETING STRATEGIES OF MARUTHI SUZUKI SWIFT Introduction: 4 wheeler industry today is consider to be highly demanded industry as the population and the cost of living have increased. This reports highlights all the outcomes of 4 wheeler industry particularly referring to swift car which is the most popular ever demanding car of the recent years. Swift car is popular among the young generation because of its unique features such as style mileage comfort and price. This report highlights Micro macro Analysis, survey on purchase decision making process, Marketing mix strategies, STP strategies, and CRM practices Maruti Suzuki: Maruti Suzuki india limited, commonly referred to as Maruti is a subsidiary company of Japanese automaker Suzuki motor Corporation. It has a market share of 44.9% of the Indian passenger car market as of march 2011 Maruti Suzuki offers complete range of cars from entry level Maruti 800 and Alto, to hatchback Ritz, A-Star, swift, Wagon-R, Estillo and sedans Dzire,SX4, in the ‘C’ segment Maruti Eeco and Sports Utility vehicle Grand Vitara. It was the first company in india to mass-produce and sell more than a million cars. It is largely credited for having brought in an automobile revolution to India. It is the market leader in India, and on 17 September 2007, Maruti Udyog limited was renamed as Maruti Suzuki India limited. The company’s headquarters are located in new Delhi. In February 2012, the company sold its 10th million...
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