Shannel Henry Dr. Brennan HUMN 1002 4/15/2014 Baby Face In the 1930s the United States was experiencing a depression era. This era known as ,The Great Depression, had a great effect on the movie industry. Films began to focus on sex, violence, infidelity, and promiscuous ways to target new audiences, mainly the males. The other types of genres like horror, gangster, and musical were still high in Demand during this era also. Social realism came about, which is a style of art that focuses
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book Film Art: An Introduction we learn the fundamentals of film; mise-en-scene, editing, and cinematography. Both mise-en-scene, editing, and cinematography deal with what is happening inside of the film frame, this includes the setting, costume, lighting, framing, photographic aspects, characters, editing, and cuts of the shot. Together these specific fundamental elements partake in the films that we watch providing dimension, mood, and style. The Big Combo is the epitome of film noir. Film noir’s
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Casino (1995) Postmodern Gangster Thriller A Universal Studios Film. Directed by Martin Scorsese. Written by Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese. Book by Nicholas Pileggi. Produced by Barbara De Fina. Cinematography by Robert Richardson. Edited by Thelma Schoonmaker. Casting by Ellen Lewis. Production Design by Dante Ferreti. Art Direction by Jack G. Taylor. Set Decoration by Rick Simpson. Costume Design by Rita Ryack and John Dunn. Running Time: 178 minutes. Cast: Robert De Niro (Sam “Ace” Rothstein)
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Themes Regina Walker ENG 225: Introduction to Film Instructor: Christopher McBride January 17, 2016 The movie I chose to discuss for the theme topic is Goodfellas. The major theme of this movie is about Henry a young man in little Italy who wants to become a wise guy. The mafia was always considered a very tight group, and the gangsters' mob family was just as important as their own family. This is first seen in the movie when Henry first starts working part time for Paulie. Paulie introduced
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On May 31, 1999, 18-year-old Matt Dawson was at a field party with his girlfriend. Since he had a 1:00 a.m. curfew and his girlfriend didn’t have to be home until 2:00, he decided to catch a ride home with a group of friends headed to a store near his house. They were traveling at an estimated 89 miles per hour when they crashed just a few blocks away from Matt’s house. Both Matt and the driver were not wearing seatbelts and were ejected from the car. The other three people in the car, including
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Professor Bradshaw-Beyers Writing in the Disciplines November 20, 2014 CE – 3 Christopher Nolans Memento and John Boormans Point Blank films are both crime fiction films in which each tell the story of a mans personal and ludicrous life mission. Leonard Shelby from Memento and Walker from Point Blank go through life a crisis that deals with the search for their enemies and deeper life issues. The characters share a life issue of fear, the fear of dying before picking up the broken pieces
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Mildred Peirce Assignment 1. In her article, "The Genre", Jeanine Basinger says there are 3 main purposes of the Woman’s Film. Which purpose (choose one) do you think best describes the messages in Mildred Pierce? Explain why. Jeanine Basinger's article, "The Genre" discusses 3 main purposes of the Woman's film. I believe the purpose that best describes the message in Mildred Pierce would be the purpose of choices. Mildred Pierce makes many choices that have a relation on what tends to happen
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Intro: Traffic light cameras are becoming more common at the major intersections in Colorado. The “Stop Running Red Lights” program was created to raise safety awareness and reduce traffic fatalities. Americans are in such a big hurry and there are more crashes at intersections from people trying to run the red light. Red-light cameras are designed to assist communities to control traffic in enforcing laws by photographing the vehicles as the driver’s run through the red light. However
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Assignment: The reliability of eyewitness testimony SCI 110-Introduction to Physical Science Prof. Etheridge Jennifer Thompson-Cannino stood in a police department in 1984 looking through a window at five African-American male suspects. Mrs. Cannino was trying to pick out the man who burglarized her home and sexual assaulted her. She was shown five black similar looking males. After a few minutes she picked number #5, a man name Ronald Cotton. When asked was she sure he was the guy, her response
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About ten years before the birth of noir cinema, guidelines for cinematic content in America began being enforced. The Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association or MPPDA adopted a code which set forth a list of specific do’s and don’ts of the film industry (Medoff). The code was known for being exhaustingly repressive, forbidding almost anything that was deemed “bad” or anything subject to give audiences the wrong idea (Cook). The birth of noir during this era is fascinating because
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