Art Film Essays and Term Papers

Authorship, Post-Classical and Art Cinema Narration - In Reference to Robert Altman’s 'The Player'

Cinema Assessment Task 2 Authorship, Post-Classical and Art Cinema Narration In response to Q3 and referring to Robert Altman's The Player Robert Altman's 1992 film The Player is a savagely comic film that explores the cutthroat nature of the Hollywood film industry. The film, which ...

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Riefenstahl's Triumph Of The Will: A Work Of Art

Leni Riefenstahl’s Nazi documentary, Triumph of the Will, although technically dazzling and artfully made, belies the sinister and inhumane actions of the Nazi regime the film celebrates. Triumph of the Will, a propaganda film commissioned by Adolf Hitler, documents a 1934 Nazi Rally in ...

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Propaganda In Film

and the manipulation of popular opinion in modern western civilization Ever since Aristotle outlined his principles of persuasion in Rhetoric, these principles of persuasion or compliance have been an important part of human history. However, the word "Propaganda" is a relatively new term and ...

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Existentialism In Film

I could not say where or how existentialist themes first emerged in film. Often times, critics will point to the work of Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini as early examples. Indeed, these two men are titans in their art, and they will be discussed in this essay. However, it occurs to me that a ...

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Film Score Music

To say that music plays a large role in our society would not do justice to one of the most important and popular art forms of yesterday and today. We underestimate the effectiveness and power that music, in any form , can have over even the most insensitive of people. In almost everything we ...

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Alfred Hitchcock: 50 Years Of Movie Magic

Alfred Hitchcock is among the few directors to combine a strong reputation for high-art film-making with great audience popularity. Throughout his career he gave his audiences more pleasure than could be asked for. The consistency of quality plot-lines and technical ingenuity earned him ...

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Birth Of A Nation: Art Or Propaganda

Mankind, engaging in war, driven by whatever instincts guide him, seeks to keep the defeats and victories of battle in his memory and on his conscience. To accomplish this men have used paint and canvas, ink and paper, or instrument and song in their effort to communicate the tragedy and glory of ...

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Alfred Hitchcock: 50 Years Of Movie Magic

Alfred Hitchcock is among the few directors to combine a strong reputation for high-art film-making with great audience popularity. Throughout his career he gave his audiences more pleasure than could be asked for. The consistency of quality plot-lines and technical ingenuity earned him the ...

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A Comparison between Wuthering Heights and Arnold’s Film Adaptation

A Comparison between Wuthering Heights and Arnold’s Film Adaptation Abstract This thesis focuses on comparing Emily Brontë’s masterpiece and her only novel Wuthering Heights with the film adaptation in 2011 directed by Andrea Arnold. It concentrates mainly on the different portraits of ...

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What Is Art ?

Without knowing first what art is, we will not be able to tell what good is art. Having studied several different definitions of art, I am most satisfied with Tolstoy's definition of art from his essay "?" (pckt pg.21). According to Tolstoy, art is a form of communication, a vehicle which the ...

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Psychoanalysis and Mulholland Drive

Mulholland Drive Introduction The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the film "Mulholland Drive," directed by David Lynch. Specifically, it will choose three or four aspects of the film and discuss how these aspects work within the film narrative, while explaining ...

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Effect Of Film On History (1920s-1940s)

The evolution of film throughout time has been a fascination to many. Just like retracing the steps of famous painters, poets and authors, following the history of film, actors and directors is a science in itself. Throughout the century the art known as film making has evolved as directors such ...

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The Odyssey and O Brother Where Art Thou Comparison

Todd Greene Mach 25, 2011 Per 5, Extra Credit The book/novel, The Odyssey and the movie, O Brother Where Art Thou both show numerous similarities and, or differences. Homer's the Odyssey, is written in Shakespeare's language and the words are reversed being hardly illegible. The Coen ...

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The Myth Modernized in O Brother, Where Art Thou?

The Myth Modernized in O Brother, Where Art Thou? The viewer is told at the beginning of the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? that the movie is based on Homer's Odyssey. The hero is named Ulysses; his wife is Penny (Penelope), and he undertakes an eventful journey to reclaim her. With his ...

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The Art Of Dance

Dance Describing "Arts" in a single word, or even a single sentence is not justification enough towards this vast subject. For centuries this subject has taken new formation and theme, but roots back to it's origins showing us the reflection in it's true shape. "Dance" being one of the roots in ...

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Comparison Of The Film Beloved

There is no doubting the fact that slavery has been and always will be a controversial issue. What makes it even more complicated is the conflicting accounts of the slaves’ experiences. The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass and Beloved both use a unique storytelling device – ...

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Documentary Film Proposal: Life In A City

Documentary Film Proposal Presented to- Subash Chandra Rao Department of Communication And Media Studies Jain University-2014 Life in a ...

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History Of Pornography And Censorship

Introduction: In 1964, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart was unable to identify solid characteristics of pornography. Instead he uttered his famous line, "I'll know it when I see it." Indeed, Justice Stewart's line would be remembered for many years to come as American society continued to ...

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Timeline Of Art

The Thread: The thread which joins all the isms in the twentieth century are its slow evolution from one period to another. As artists from one concepts were exploring a certain idea that led to another either just for the sake of the curiosity or by sheer boredom. Therefore my paper deals with ...

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Impact of Digital Technology on Jerry Uelsmann's Art

A critical review: The impact of digital technology in relation to the art of Jerry N. Uelsmann ”The digital evolution is now providing artists with exciting new alternative ways of generating images. While I am interested in these computer options, I still have a basic love of the darkroom ...

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