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Alfred Hitchcock's Movie, Psycho and its Impact on the Film Industry The 1960's marked a big change in American cinema. With the collapse of the Hollywood Studio System came a weakening of censorship laws; sex and violence moved from obscurity to the forefront of mainstream cinema (Nowell-Smith 464). Although it quickly became clear that a market existed for such films, the earliest attempts to foray into the world of modern cinema were met with ambivalence. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, made in

that time, when I came across “Cowspiracy”, a documentary that explains the impact of eating meat on the world around us, from resource wastage to environmental change and animal extinction . Before watching, I never believed that any hour and a half film would have an impact on my life. While watching I witnessed graphic scenes of murder and violence towards farm animals that I had grown up loving and caring about. My eyes were opened to an industry that revolved around slaughter and maltreatment.

In the film, “Wild China: Heart of the Dragon” there were many different topics that were considered amazing. Many things that People in China do, most Americans do not do. Something from the video that was found to be amazing was when, in the video, the people of China and the video director started talking about The Caves of China. Another thing from the video that was amazing was what the Chinese population used to catch their fish in the rivers of Southern China. Last, but surely not least,

the motion picture camera; 35 mm film (Edison gives him plastic film) o Dec 1895: Dickson created his own motion picture company without Edison (furious)—called the American Biograph Company = Edison threatens to sue due to patents so Dickson is forced to make his film company as different from Edison’s as possible o Used 70 mm film (higher quality) which was larger than the film he used at Edison—“large film showing large pictures” o He also used a mutoscope film viewer which was based off of a

In his sophomore film, Julien Donkey-Boy (1999), director Harmony Korine tunes in to the psychotic perspective of Julien (Ewan Bremner) – a suburban schizophrenic with raisin-black eyes and detachable dentistry – and his almost equally grotesque family, in a disorderly smear of violence, incest, and finally, tragedy. The film 's fragmented narrative structure, with its grainy and hand-held visual style, shudders on to the screen in a fusillade of discursive vignettes, that reflect, not only the digital

First, give some context and history to British films of the 80 's. Using pp. 340-347 outline the films, filmmakers and themes of 80 's British film. Many British films during the 80’s primarily were created by directors who did not bring a lot of attention to themselves. The movies themselves did not attract attention because they did not gross as much money in comparison to the 80’s blockbusters of the American Cinema. For the British Cinema it’s generally been split between conservative

decline of Classical Hollywood films came after the Hollywood Antitrust Case of 1948 as television audiences dwindled in the wave of television popularity and accessibility and the taste and interests of viewers which in turn ended the monopoly of Hollywood Studios. To combat this Hollywood Studios turned it’s back on the origins of its creation and headed in a new direction. An era of film-school educated, liberal filmmakers began in Hollywood where the directors of the films began to express their personal

approach of walkways. This was an improvement from the previous shoot in terms of technical processing of the technique push processing, which these images appeared more grainy as expected as they were shot using the same film of hp5 400 ISO but pushed a further 2 stops to increase the grain and contrast in the images. This image worked well in response to the theme of tension shown through materials, techniques and process as the subject added to the out of focus grainy unconventional photographic look

In any classic 1940’s cinema the most distinct attribute is the use of lighting and lighting techniques. Although filmed without colour, experiencing budget limitations and technology disadvantages lighting in film noir exceeded without obstruction. Billy Wilder used many lighting techniques throughout the production of Double Indemnity, his use of lighting formulated the intended atmosphere of scenes. The first lighting technique that is presented to the audience is within the opening credits, an

advent of the Internet and social media, Hollywood executives were often wandering in the dark when it came to understand in detail what their audiences wanted and how any given film could be marketed to exactly the right audience, thus those parts of the population more inclined to spend money on a certain type of film. With the advancement of technology the tables have, however, turned. The Internet and especially social media have opened up a wealth of options to access information about people’s