Film

The film The Battle of Algiers focuses mainly on the emotionally demanding struggle for Algerian independence from the French in 1957. Set in Algiers, the capital of Algeria, this film captures the true essence and powerful emotion behind the historically pivotal Algerian War. Director Gillo Pontecorvo’s expertise and artistic ability is seen throughout the film. Viewers notice immediately the film’s lack of color and granulated effect. This style gives the film a rough edge and adds to it’s convincing

The advent of television and television shows may have come long after film, but it enhanced film production almost instantly. Television naturally derived from early film since each uses basically the same medium: the motion picture camera. Since film had already set a base in the industry and mastered the new techniques and technology of cinematography, television had the opportunity to learn from film?s mistakes and advance itself quickly. For this reason, television evolved very rapidly and was

The second film directed by Stacy Peralta that I have scene is Crips and Bloods: Made in America. Just like his other documentary films, this film takes a historical perspective. I was introduced to this film last month when we were covering historical documentaries. I believe that I had seen parts of this documentary but I had never watched the entire film until now. Crips and Bloods: Made in America was released in 2008 and explores the origins of the Crips and Bloods, two of the most prominent

Cult Films are characterized by their active and communal following, they are highly rebellious in their appreciation. Cult viewers tend to prefer obscure topics that stray away from the typical norm, topics that may aggravate cultural sensitivities and step on political views. Cult inherits an abundance of genres and challenges the genre conventions they hold in order to rebel into a different form of storytelling. They frequently have troublesome production histories, coloured by accidents,

When I was five years old, I experienced the power of film as a tool for telling history through the animated feature, Our Friend Martin. In the film, the protagonist Miles follows Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from boyhood through his untimely murder, exploring key moments of the latter’s life. I thought producer Andy Heyward made the film’s content palatable for me to process the weight of King’s legacy, as a child, but kept me engaged through animation. For example, when Miles and 15-year-old Martin

As we can see from our figures above, two out of the tree films fit into Dao and Shin’s day-and-date release model “Bubble” and “Melancholia” have a home digital quality of 12.1% and 13.25% respectively. These both indicate that the durability of each film was low, and that they both were well suited for day-and-date releases. “Whitey” did not fall into a day-and-date model equation, but rather fit a delayed release model. The value for home digital came to an unreasonable 2794% due to a lack of

The Challenge of the Native Americans The film selections for this assignment are as compelling as they are dramatic. Many issues are addressed and presented in various genres varying from drama to fantasy. All these films, however, have a single theme, which is embedded in the background; an attentive viewer may be able to observe it. The issue is the challenge of the Native Americans to adjust to the modern post-industrial world culturally and economically, all the while remaining loyal to and

Nineteen thirty-nine was an exceptional year for movies in face film critics gave labeled it "the greatest year in film history." Furthermore, member as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has a very large number of films to consider. Today only five films were nominees for the honor of "outstanding production" of the year 1939. Although all ten films that were nominated that year are excellent movies, the two best-known of these films The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind remained popular

Between 1960 and 1970, there was a transition of black and white to color television broadcast worldwide and most directors showed their film in color; however, Pontecorvo keeps the black and white theme to enhance the documentary formulating a realistic feeling for the viewers. The film also masks the French brutality against the Algerians during the post-war. The film balances and connects these two themes through cinematic techniques to shroud what occurred during the revolution and capture

society will be explored and how they have been shaped by our social and cultural context. A recently produced Walt Disney film will be identified which portrays these standards of heteronormative gender structures. By analysing the film and making reference to an independent source, the background and history of this example will also be explored to determine if and why Disney films continually perpetuate heteronormative discourses of gender using the media. Steyn and van Zyl (2009:3) define heteronormativity