Sherman’s Untitled Film Still #3, 1977 is a 8X10-inch silver gelatin print highlighting the subject matter responsible for launching her iconic career. This image is one of the sixty-nine photographs making up the Untitled Film Stills series created between the years 1977 and 1980 when Sherman first moved to New York. Although the artist is in her photographs, they are not self-portraits. As the creator and model to fictional b-list celebrities reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock films, and “the look of
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Brazil Professor Maya Matos Intro to Film 16 February 2015 Cinema Aesthetics in City of God: A Study of Editing and the Cosmetics of Hunger This paper will focus on editing in the initial sequences of the film City of God. It will also show how the editing choices place this film in context with a movement, which is disaffectionately referred to as the Cosmetics of Hunger. City of God is a 2002 Brazilian film set in the favela, or slum of the same name. The film tells the story of a young photographer
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Issue No 59 FILM “Kia ora. My name is Boy and welcome to my interesting world.” With these words Boy invited audiences to watch Taika Waititi’s highly successful comedy/drama. Cinema opens windows into multiple worlds; the study of film provides the tools with which to explore and understand these worlds. For New Zealand actor Sam Neill, a long, lonely road was an essential image in the landscape of New Zealand filmmaking when he co-directed Cinema of Unease in 1996 with filmmaker Judy Rymer. Over
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Rana Yiğitbaşı Mr. Christensen L3C – IB Film 27 October 2010 The Legend Hababam Sınıfı Name a movie that is watched and known and adored by the all of the citizens in its country. Name a movie that has music so good that makes your heart beat faster. Name a movie whose audience reactions are the same even after being watched for thirty years. There can only be one answer: “Hababam Sınıfı”. It was firstly an idea, then a collection of short stories, then a book, then a script, then
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Question 1 Why have American films been so successful over the last half century? Outline what you consider to be key success factors for a film (type of story and genre; actors; directors, pace, music, and so on). Was the fascination for the American culture and way of life the prominent reason for that success? What was the contribution of the American melting pot with its huge diversity of migrants’ origins to the creativity and global outlook of the American movie industry? There are several
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Analyzing films is considered an art form that attempts to “break up the whole to discover the nature proportion, function, and interrelationships of the parts” (Boggs and Petrie, 2008). Final Fantasy, the first CGI (computer generated image) film featuring synthetic human actors, opens with its protagonist, Dr. Aki Ross, surveying her barren, alien surroundings. Aki wakes from the recurring dream and looks out at earth from the window of her spaceship. As the music swells, our heroine wonders if
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Monogatari (ハチ公物語?, "Hachikō monogatari") is a Japanese language film starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Kaoru Yachigusa, Mako Ishino, andMasumi Harukawa. The film, directed by Seijirō Kōyama, is a tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno's death. The film was released in 1987 and was the top Japanese film at the box office that year. Hachikō Monogatari is a melodramatic film that tells the true story of friendship, trust, and affection of
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and Video Film Development in Nigeria by Abiodun Olayiwola biodunlayiwola@yahoo.ca Department of English, Emmanuel Alayande College of Education Oyo, Oyo State, Nigeria Abiodun Olayiwola holds a doctoral degree in Film Studies from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He teaches drama and theatre in the Department of English, Emmanuel Alayande College of Education, Oyo, Oyo State, Nigeria. He has published articles in refereed international and local journals on Nigerian video film, fiction and
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Walter Benjamin (1936) The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction ________________________________________ Source: UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television; Transcribed: by Andy Blunden 1998; proofed and corrected Feb. 2005. ________________________________________ “Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power of action upon things was insignificant in comparison with ours. But the amazing growth
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Nanook of the North is a silent documentary film produced by Robert J. Flaherty. The film is centered around the humble lives of a group of Quebec Inuit. Although the documentary is praised for being one of the first realistic depictions of alternative culture, In Chapter Five of Bill Nichols Introduction to Documentary, Nichols excuses Flaherty for recreating shot to look as though it was inside of an igloo, when it was, in reality, a reenactment created in the open air with an oversized igloo as
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