challenges? • How does the structure of the industry affects profits? The Movie Exhibition Industry 2013 IT IS APT that 2012’s top-grossing film was The Avengers, because movie studios and exhibitors sought to avenge a dismal prior year at the box office. Domestic box office receipts climbed 6 percent from 2011 to a record—setting $10.8 billion in 2012.‘ Three films—The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, and Skyfall—grossed more than $1 billion each in global ticket sales (see Exhibit 1). Behind the scenes
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THE CINEMATIC REVOLUTION: AN ANALYSIS ON THE BOX OFFICE HIT FILM “HENERAL LUNA” AS PERCEIVED BY SELECTED: FILM EXPERTS, MARKETING EXPERTS, HISTORIANS AND MASS COMMUNICATION STUDENTS A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the College of Arts and Letters Bulacan State University In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication Major in Broadcasting by Adolfo, Jasmine Faye M. Añonuevo, Sabbyna R. Cara, Angelica P. Paguiligan
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comedy films Cinema of France | Gaumont palace in Paris, c.1914 | Number ofscreens | 5,653 (2014)[1] | Main distributors | Twentieth Century Fox(14.6%) Warner Bros. (9.8%) UGC (6.9%)[1] | Produced feature films (2014)[1][2] | Total | 258 | Animated | 9 (3.49%) | Documentary | 37 (14.34%) | Number of admissions (2014)[1][2] | Total | 208.9768 million | National films | 91.26 million (44.4%) | Gross box office (2014)[1][2] | Total | €1.33 billion | National films | €563
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An artistic movement whose influence on film has been as profound and enduring as that of surrealism or cubism on painting, the French New Wave (or Le Nouvelle Vague) made its first splashes as a movement shot through with youthful exuberance and a brisk reinvigoration of the filmmaking process. Most agree that the French New Wave was at its peak between 1958 and 1964, but it continued to ripple on afterwards, with many of the tendencies and styles introduced by the movement still in practice today…
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82751 01 001-026 r6 ko 8/24/09 7:41 AM Page 2 Learning Objectives After reading this chapter, you should be able to ✔ appreciate the difference between passively watching movies and actively looking at movies. ✔ understand the defining characteristics that distinguish movies from other forms of art. ✔ understand how and why most of the formal mechanisms of a movie remain invisible to casual viewers. ✔ understand the relationship between viewers’ expectations and filmmakers’
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photography to cinema, neither of these readings can be related to the previous readings that have been completed throughout the course of the semester. Theses readings can be related to each other in a sense. Mulvey mentions the film journal Screen, which is the same journal that the second reading by Comolli and Narboni came from. The thesis that was articulated for Laura Mulvey’s paper can be found in two places: in the first and last paragraphs in the introduction. The first part states that the
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Journal Entry 1 The Jon Lewis passage from his book The Road to Romance and Ruin: Teen Films and Youth Culture focused on several aspects of the portrayal of teen culture in cinema. Initially summarizing the viewpoints of several authors of sociology and media on the relationship between cinema, youth and their relationship with one another, the article goes on to describe Lewis’ personal viewpoints on central themes common within most films about teens. A main focus of what seems to be standard
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Annotated Bibliography: How Women are portrayed in Movies McNeil, Jean. “Imagery of Women in TV Drama: Some Procedural and Interpretive Issues” Journal of Broadcasting 19.3 (1975): 238-288. Web. 15 Dec. 2011. In this scholarly article, Jean McNeil explains how women are being portrayed in movies by how attractive they are and how “well dressed” they are and talks about how there are basically used as sex toys for the audience. Also, she explains that women are being used to dress inappropriately
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Do the monsters and the victims in horror films have any connection to contemporary social issues? Answer with reference to one or two horror films of your choice. Name: Leopold Riess Course: IR 140 Global Communications, Citizens and Cultural Politics Word Length: 1902 Story telling is an art that has been part of the human civilizations since time immemorial. In the different parts of the world, be it in Africa, the Caribbean or the European nations, the early human societies would use
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influential women in film, Marilyn Monroe and Katherine Hepburn are names that come to mind because of their work in front of the camera. However, less known, yet possibly more influential than them in the cinematography business, Leni Riefenstahl shaped the cinematic world through her work behind the camera. Although being on the “wrong side of history” in terms of her alleged alliance with Nazi dictator, Adolf Hitler, having the influence of the Nazi philosophy shaped her films as the innovative pieces
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