Media is a way of mass communication, media is shown through movies, tv, books, news, internet, games, and more. The media delivers the news, stories, popular information, and more about war. What the media doesn’t show you is the effects veterans face after war. PTSD is a health condition that causes the victim to experience a previous terrifying event. Many veterans or active soldiers suffer this condition after the war,…
Hollywood challenged television with its innovative technical advances to win back its lost audience to TV. The experimentation began with the release of the promo This is Cinerama in 1952, designed to introduce the wide screen process Cinerama, which became a landmark in film history. This was an attempt to show the wonders of the new widescreen format using three separate but synchronised camera images to create an enveloping picture through an arc of 146 degrees. It made the audience felt that they were at the centre of the action but the expense limited the possibilities in theatres. Then Hollywood tried 3-D which required audience to wear glasses to give the illusion of depth.…
In the film adaptation of the Stephen King novel, Thinner is a story that follows an obese, defense attorney that from the opening of the film is displaying characteristics of the typical American losing weight. He steps on the scale, which reads almost three hundred pounds, then he accepts a homemade smoothie from his supportive wife as she tracks his weight loss on their home computer. When she mentions that his weight loss has not changed over the past few weeks he responds with a justification many American’s tell themselves while on diets, that these things take time. The lawyer, Billy Halleck, proceeds to go to court where he gets a guilty mob boss cleared of attempted murder charges.…
Produced in 1939 by Edgar G. Ulmer, The Light Ahead highlights a transition away from past superstitious beliefs toward Jewish Enlightenment thinking. The film is set in a small village of Glupsk, which serves to portray Jewish shtetl life as a juxtaposition to big city life. In his film, Ulmer pushes for the furtherance of Jewish Enlightenment through underlining stark contrasts in opinion between religious leaders of the village and Mendele, a book peddler and Jewish Enlightenment thinker. Mendele is a highly influential character throughout the film, altering the storyline through his asides with Fishke, a cripple, and Hodel, a blind woman, at pivotal scenes at the beginning and end of the film. Mendele's character is further used to champion Jewish Enlightenment values…
The Film, Half Life: A Parable for the Nuclear Age is written and directed by Dennis OʻRourke. The film was released in 1986 and won the Peace Film Award in Berlin later that year. The film gives a well-balanced insight on the impacts on the indigenous communities from the Castle Bravo nuclear testing of 1954, in the Marshal Islands. The film shows multiple perspectives of the event from personal accounts of the indigenous people, to military personal, and even US political leaders. Declassified military footage of the testing, which was released shortly before the film, was also included in the film.…
“10% of conflicts is due to difference in opinion, 90% is due to wrong tone of voice”. Throughout history society has witnessed conflict arise for any number of reasons; we must consider all factors of what is happening and also who is affected by the tension created by the outcome. Often the longer the engagement continues the more varied each parties’ responses will be. Failure to discuss the truth can be simply down to the fear of losing everything or the exact opposite where one’s hubris ego purely believes that he is right no matter what sort of evidence against them. However, society has also seen that the when the people’s responses become more varied this can lead to further conflict in a more physical manner.…
In 2007 Annabelle Park and Eric Byler began shooting a film on a controversial topic that plagues communities and countries even today in 2015.The never-ending controversy in the film and today is immigration reform. The film 9500 Liberty is a documentary on Prince William County, Virginia throughout the process of implementing the Prince William County Immigration Resolution. The Immigration Resolution allow police enforcement to stop, question, and arrest persons who may appear to be illegal undocumented immigrants. The film is sociologically relevant because it is an account of the first time in United States of America’s history that immigration policies was enforced. . In 9500 Liberty the film illustrates how Prince William County was…
Documentary Concept Development I first learned about Simmone from a friend. Simmone is the fifth wife of my friend’s great grandfather. Simmone Kuo, in her 70s, owns a 30-year-old Tai-Chi studio in SF Chinatown. After moving to San Francisco, my partner and I have already paid several visits to Simmone’s Tai-Chi studio and started filming for this documentary. Every Sunday noon, she cooks for us.…
The people in the Deaf culture love being associate with each other because they are not isolated from the world or the society. By connecting to each other, they will not lose their confident and be strong. The scenes previously mentioned indicate that Matt does not know how to be associate within the people. Since he basically grew up in the hearing culture, he had a hard time to be associate with the other hearing people and thus, this made him to be alone. In other words, because he is used to be alone and not acknowledge the Deaf culture, he does not know how to participate in any team works or connect to the other people.…
In film, there are both visual and sound aspects that allow the audience to know the true meaning of a story. Two aspects equally important in a modern aged film. The award winning movie Up (2009) is brilliant at combining these two aspects. The film is about an old man’s adventurous journey to forfill a promise by traveling through a floating house carried by hundreds of balloons. Today I am going to analyze a scene in the beginning of the film about Carl’s past.…
RACIAL INJUSTICE Soccer, Kangaroos, Vegemite, thongs: these all represent droplets in the historic ocean that constitutes our Australian identity. Ladies and gentlemen, I personally greet you all today for our most inimitable ceremony, the Australian Film Festival, celebrating Australia’s diverse culture through media. To open this year’s event, two films have been selected: Bran Nue Dae – directed by Rachel Perkins – a hilarious musical conceptualising the racist attitudes that were previously present in Australia, and Australian Rules – directed by Paul Goldman – a film depicting racial conflict, not between teenagers, but their superiors. In Bran Nue Dae, a young Indigenous boy, Willie, is sent off to a Catholic school to become a priest,…
Departures is an award-winning Japanese film about a young man who returns to his small hometown and works as an undertaker after an orchestra in Tokyo he is a member is disbanded. The Japanese name of the film is Okuribito, which means "the one who sends off" and describes Daito 's career as someone who prepares bodies before they are placed in coffins to be cremated. Daito 's job involves cleaning, clothing, and making up the person to the family 's liking before they say their goodbyes. Departures explores the themes of death, family, and the importance of making sure that the deceased and their families are respected during tragedy. The film provides insight into the handling of dead bodies in Japan, Japanese food, and bathhouses.…
A Separation is a 2011 Iranian drama, set in present-day Iran, directed by Asghar Farhadi. The movie revolves around religiosity, ethics and love. The movie is a roller-coaster of different emotions and events. It deals with different relationships in an Iranian context. The movie starts with a couple, Simin and Nader, in front of a magistrate having a divorce hearing.…
The 1962 art science-fiction French movies ‘La Jetée’ was directed By Chris Marker. The movie runs for 28 minutes and most of the film shot by using ‘Photomontage’ technique shot in black and white apart from one short video that shot in motion which is the scene that the girl is sleeping in the bed and the picture going to fade and then suddenly open her eyes and blinking. Photomontage is a combination of several images joined together in an artistic way. This movie has been Recognized as one of the best time travel Science-Fiction movies in the world. It has won the ‘Prix Jean Vigo Award’ for Best Short Film and Won the Best film Golden Spacecraft in ‘Trieste Science Fiction Festival’.…
The movie Agora depicts the escalating conflict between Christians and pagans in Roman Alexandria in the late fourth century under the emperor Theodosius I. Agora’s attempt to describe the dynamic of the conflict between Christianity and pagan Neoplatonism, especially the violence employed and shifting power, falls short of the true historical complexity by simplifying and distorting the historical narrative. Agora’s portrayal of the Christian faction known as the parabalani and their involvement with the widespread violence against dissidents, such as the pagan Neoplatonists, aligns with the historical record, although the film does not fully explain the parabalani’s relationship with Cyril, the bishop of Alexandria. Mitchell describes the parabalani as “supposedly teams of paramedics, who were organized into a virtual regiment of vigilantes,” under the direct control of Cyril to enforce his will with brutality (Mitchell 298).…