Nowadays the world progresses faster than ever. The nation has been swept by rapid developments in technology and inspiring social movements. Directors and artists notice these changes, and as a result, film adapts. The release date of a film can speak volumes about a film. It is a marker of all the elements available at a specific time to form the formal and social qualities of a film.…
This Third Cinema film looks at “the struggle of ‘cultural decolonization’ and the ‘recuperation of a national culture’” (Buchsbaum, 159). It is an allegory of a nation fighting to recreate itself. This paper will discuss the prominent theme of cultural decolonization and analyze how the character’s personal history and their nation’s national history shape…
Entr’Acte is an early avant-garde film produced by Erik Satie and Rene Clair. In this film, two artists integrated repetitive moving image with one melody, which kept coming back, and they diffused their attitude of life into the entire production. Absurdity and repetition play extremely important roles in Entr’Acte, that both of the characteristics not only reconcile one foundational structure of the film, but also create hierarchical variations in either visual aspect or auditory aspect. Repetition in Entr’Acte builds up the fundamental structure rather than confuse the audience. Some scenes are repetitive like the overlapping architecture, ballet dancing, roller coaster.…
Amongst the variety of selective works from our readings, my attention was particularly drawn to the work of Jeff Thomas. The piece titled, “Culture Revolution” left a key interest in where my attention was drawn. The photograph brings a tense feeling and draws the viewer’s attention to the details amongst the figure in it. When looking at the photograph, there is a sense of wonder to it. Jeff Thomas gives his audience a way to wonder what the meaning behind the photo is; while it seems as if the artist is trying to understand that as well.…
Tom Wolfe’s “In Our Time” uses drawings along with stories to illustrate life in the 1970’s transitioning into the 80’s. Wolfe uses his illustrations to show different types of people, events, and interactions that take place in the daily life of people in the 70’s. His artwork shows the shifting morals in the 70’s in examples like “The Birds and the Bees”, “Boyhood Dreams”, “ The Evolution of the Species”, and “The Modern Mother.” The fact that he is using his art to express the shift in society shows the evolution of art. His collection of work could be described as political cartoons; they are very opinionated and the writings accompanying the drawings are emotional.…
In any film produced, in one way or another it reflects the society where it was set in. It can also incorporate various ideologies as well as philosophies that are shaping the world from different societies in the world at large. I conducted this study with the aim of analyzing how the ideologies of Marxism are portrayed in the movie the Trainspotting and whether they are evident in American society. The methodology that I chose to apply was qualitative methodology through content analysis and interview. The data that was collected was analyzed and presented in a coherent way.…
Ina Blom in her essay discusses both Nam June Paik’s work with video and also Raoul Hausmann’s Optophon. The differences in their art and the visual/auditory implications put their viewers/listeners in a position that allows them to experience art in a more refreshing manner. Blom also explains details of Paik’s video art and his television work in context to the social aspects of art making. Blom also mentions a term in relation to Paik’s work, “presentism.” Blom also mentions other art movements that have a relationship with “presentism” and Paik: Futurism, Dadaism, and Constructivism.…
In a society where people often become comfortable in everyday routine, artists who invoke controversy and change always break away from the pack. Rebecca Taichman and Sholem Asch both incite tensions into theatre to promote change and acceptance. Taichman and Asch challenged the views of audiences by including different races, religions and sexual orientations in shows that they write and produce. They faced adversities and criticism, but did what they loved despite the inevitable negative responses and backlash from audiences and their peers. Sholem Asch was a Yiddish novelist and playwright best known for his extremely controversial play, God of Vengeance.…
Writers and artists share this trait: they must be as exposed and transparent as their hearts will allow if they want to connect with and inspire their audiences. That is part of what makes all of art’s forms so captivating and transcendent; there are few actions more deeply revealing than art, and artists of every form display who they are in their entirety through the smallest details, attempting to drag their audiences by the arm into their own flesh. I can connect to Roy Nachum’s Metamorphosis, an oil painting, through the ways in which it shows the aforementioned artist’s openness and the ways in which it shows, inversely, human guardedness with clever and unconventional visual methods. I can connect to this painting because I understand…
For this writing workshop, I will use three critical approaches to discuss the film, The Bicycle Thieves (De Sica, 1948). Of the six approaches, I chose the “National Cinemas”, “Auteur”, and “Ideology” approaches. The “National Cinemas” approach to analyzing film takes into account the culture and national characteristics that influence how a narrative is filmed. To understand and fully appreciate a film, one must understand the historical and cultural conditions that surround it. The writer must distinguish what makes a particular film different from those of another culture from the same time period (Corrigan, 2015).…
The abstract expressionism movement emerge right after the World War II and it all began in the United States. There was finally a movement that would put the country on the spotlight of the world of art; Harold Rosenberg believed Americans had discovered something new, techniques that were not used in European art. He attempted to define this new art and to let everyone know that this movement was a developed version of art from americans. Correspondingly, Action painters like Jackson Pollock found their own americanized style and their own definition of abstract art.…
Due to the extremist group’s action, the entire Muslim community was dragged down. In “Great to Watch” by Maggie Nelson, she talks about the connection between mediated images and image flow and how it is connected to human relations. Nelson also discuss how individual’s existence is influenced by these image flows due to how violence and sadism is portrayed. She discusses and provides solutions to the different issues of autonomy and control in her…
First published in 1895, H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine writes to the fears of the Victorian age. Divisions in class between the workers and their employers was a cause for high tension, while the publication of Charles Darwin’s The Descent of Man brought fears of degeneration of the entire human race. They are both addressed and confirmed in H.G. Wells’ dystopia. However, by the 1960s, the dominating fears had changed and consequently, so did The Time Machine.…
Roy Lichtenstein’s Oh, Jeff…I Love You, Too… But is one of his most well-known paintings, and some even dare to call it the most famous painting he has ever made. This piece depicts a teenage girl on the phone with her boyfriend Jeff as their relationship appears to be threatened by some outside force. Lichtenstein came up with the subject of this painting and many of his other paintings by copying and distorting single panels from comic books.…
In the essay Casablanca:cult movies and intertextual collage, from the collection of essays titled Travels of Hyper Reality,Umberto Eco has taken the case of the 1940’s popular American movie Casablanca,directed by Michael Curtis to explain how and why it gained the status of a ‘cult’ movie. He has given a number of reasons in the essay as to why people liked it so much. Eco begins by making it clear that the movie according to him is not a very artistic movie and that despite that the movie has been repeatedly viewed and appreciated by the audiences. In the essay he looks into factors that are required for a movie/text to attain cult status.…