In ‘Music and the Silent Film’ by Patrick Miller the writer comments that from the earliest days of the cinema, commercial films were accompanied by music. From the fairground nickelodeons where player pianos churned out popular favourites to the glittering movie palaces where large orchestras accompanied the images on the silver screen, film music flourished. Music for the movies not only heightened the emotional response to a picture, but also served the practical purpose of drowning out the whirr of the projector. This helped the researcher to understand from a different angle how the music adds to the value of the films under consideration for the purpose of this research. (Miller, 1982)
In ‘The Film-Maker as Romantic Poet: Brakhage and …show more content…
Also McBride’s skill in giving a detailed note on each of the figures along with a filmography has been commended by the author. This gave the researcher an insight into what are the factors that go in to making a film with reference to the films considered for the research. Also this being a take on Joseph McBride’s view, it helped the researcher to use these different perspectives to analyse the making of Shyamaprasad films. (Callenbach, …show more content…
They are also marginalized given the economic, social and political roles they are assigned. Despite the fact that the first feature film was made by a woman, Alice Guy (1896 ), film - making remains predominantly a male profession. In Egypt, voices upholding women's rights go back to the nineteenth century, but they have not been reinforced by the Seventh Art. At worst, women were presented unrealistically, stupidly, sentimentally and exploitatively. At best a more positive image was presented, but with it went the reduction of a woman's problem to the question of her relationship to man. The Third World, however, has offered fine alternatives in films that present intelligently and artistically the question of women. Two examples, one made in a revolutionary context and the other in a reactionary one, show how feminist issues can be sensitively depicted in their complexity on screen. Lucia by the Cuban director HumbertoSolas and Yol (1982) by the Turkish director YilmazGuney attest to the possibility of a new vision of the question of women. This helped the researcher to gain perspective of the depiction of woman characters in the films under consideration, woman centric themes, the importance of woman roles and the like. (Darwish,
In ‘The Film-Maker as Romantic Poet: Brakhage and …show more content…
Also McBride’s skill in giving a detailed note on each of the figures along with a filmography has been commended by the author. This gave the researcher an insight into what are the factors that go in to making a film with reference to the films considered for the research. Also this being a take on Joseph McBride’s view, it helped the researcher to use these different perspectives to analyse the making of Shyamaprasad films. (Callenbach, …show more content…
They are also marginalized given the economic, social and political roles they are assigned. Despite the fact that the first feature film was made by a woman, Alice Guy (1896 ), film - making remains predominantly a male profession. In Egypt, voices upholding women's rights go back to the nineteenth century, but they have not been reinforced by the Seventh Art. At worst, women were presented unrealistically, stupidly, sentimentally and exploitatively. At best a more positive image was presented, but with it went the reduction of a woman's problem to the question of her relationship to man. The Third World, however, has offered fine alternatives in films that present intelligently and artistically the question of women. Two examples, one made in a revolutionary context and the other in a reactionary one, show how feminist issues can be sensitively depicted in their complexity on screen. Lucia by the Cuban director HumbertoSolas and Yol (1982) by the Turkish director YilmazGuney attest to the possibility of a new vision of the question of women. This helped the researcher to gain perspective of the depiction of woman characters in the films under consideration, woman centric themes, the importance of woman roles and the like. (Darwish,