The Arts. A wide spectrum of knowledge encompassing of the performing arts, literary arts and visual arts. By watching movies, reading novels, listening to music or looking at a painting, the arts extend our personal knowledge and enrich our inner lives. Art is way through which an individual can understand their selves better. A way through which one can express their ideas freely without any boundaries. A way through one can understood various cultures and societies around the world. A way so powerful that it can be used to change the world but at the same time be utilised as a form of propaganda.
Film is the art form that most expansively personifies the desires, ambitions, fears, and overall outlook of 20th century society. A film can say so much about the historical era that produced it, and, by extension, the mood of people at that time. Examples of this include the films of the 1940s that hoped to arouse support for the struggle against Nazi Germany( e.g. Casablanca) ,the alien invasion films of the 1950s that reflected the US fear of communism (e.g. War of the worlds), films supporting the fight for equal rights for black people in the late 1950s and 1960s (e.g. The Great White Hope, To Kill a Mockingbird), and explicit films which depicted society’s newly tolerant views to sex in the 1970s (e.g. Emmanuelle). …show more content…
In brief the movie dealt on issues of friendship, marriage, faith, life struggles and wins and death of loved ones. Topics that are far from fiction and issues that are part of our lives. What better way to portray all this things other than a film. It is through characters of the performing arts one is able to identify themselves and one is able to learn life lessons form. By understanding other people’s emotions through empathy, the arts make us feel more connected with the movie characters and thus we are able to relate to the issue and gain knowledge that we might apply in our day to day
Film is the art form that most expansively personifies the desires, ambitions, fears, and overall outlook of 20th century society. A film can say so much about the historical era that produced it, and, by extension, the mood of people at that time. Examples of this include the films of the 1940s that hoped to arouse support for the struggle against Nazi Germany( e.g. Casablanca) ,the alien invasion films of the 1950s that reflected the US fear of communism (e.g. War of the worlds), films supporting the fight for equal rights for black people in the late 1950s and 1960s (e.g. The Great White Hope, To Kill a Mockingbird), and explicit films which depicted society’s newly tolerant views to sex in the 1970s (e.g. Emmanuelle). …show more content…
In brief the movie dealt on issues of friendship, marriage, faith, life struggles and wins and death of loved ones. Topics that are far from fiction and issues that are part of our lives. What better way to portray all this things other than a film. It is through characters of the performing arts one is able to identify themselves and one is able to learn life lessons form. By understanding other people’s emotions through empathy, the arts make us feel more connected with the movie characters and thus we are able to relate to the issue and gain knowledge that we might apply in our day to day