psyche, politics and the social conditions in Hong Kong. His aesthetics are quite similar with Jean-Luc Godard and the French Wave, in general, particularly because he also took apart the traditional conventions of filmmaking, that include linear narrative, smooth camera movement and concept of the protagonist-hero. For his prowess, he has been hailed as one of the most importatn modern filmmakers of the world and his films have screened all over, winning a…
the status quo bias, and a call to action for causing social concern. In order to criticises the injustice of racial and social, La Haine, a black-and white film directed by a French filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz in 1995, articulately makes use of narrative style and character traits in order to portray more realistic scenes that connect to audiences. Fruitvale Station also addresses similar social purpose; however, slightly different in the way of…
Eerdmans, 2013), 26-38. And these represent only a small sampling.] Most notable is the apparent incongruity between the narrative framework and the poetry, some of the finest but most difficult in the Hebrew Bible. Job’s character as described by God (Job 1:8 and 2:3) seems inconsistent with his turbulent speeches. How could the pious and accepting Job of the prose narrative be the same anguished and angry Job who unleashed torrents of accusations against God? In addition, apart from Job 12:9,…
Its projected in 2014 a mass of 21.0 million student 's are to further their academic lives in American universities and colleges and I was one of the fortunate ones to choose to advance my educational experience. I entered this English Composition one course with the thought so long as I let the word 's flow out using a source which has been called a “Stream of Conscious” I wouldn 't have any difficulty. Only to learn the hard way that these form 's of writing are unacceptable. To add strain to…
into a deep, death-like rest after taking a bite from a poisoned apple. My impression about this narrative was an innocent little girl who had her step-mother hating her because of her beauty and kind-heart. The Little Snow-White by the Grimms Brothers is a fairy tale that reveals the goodness and the beauty of a little princess who is loved by all, however,…
the film there is no protagonist, not many close ups, and the story is being told by the perspective of an eight year old girl. The history seems inaccurate which creates uncertainties because the event does not come from a single perspective. For example, the scene where the little girl is about to get killed by a solider and she closes her eyes then, they turn into accident roman fighters. This affects the viewer’s experience of history because it is dramatized and fantasized, the viewer knows…
Masters of Cinematic Technique In Kubrick’s Paths of Glory and Hitchcock’s Psycho, each director successfully utilizes unique camera movements to communicate important thematic and narrative information to their audiences. In each film, the consciousness of the camera encodes not only the director’s authorial vision, but it also serves as a device for communicating power and suspense. Kubrick begins to display his impressive command of camera movement in the opening minutes of Paths of Glory. An…
impressive short film. While only seven minutes long, Svankmajer is able to project creative yet disturbing images that many critics struggle to give single meaning. The short is full of attractions created with stop-motion editing that creates a strong narrative on humanity. The film begins with darkness just as the title suggest. A door creaks and suddenly a light appears that is shown to be turned on by a clay hand flipping a switch on the wall. The camera pans out to reveal the set is a…
including historical details of his family background, personal life, natural history and historical events. Here, we could also refer to Linda Hutcehon ‘s essay “The Pastime of the Past Time”, in which she specifies that literature and history are narrative form and how they rely more on verisimilitude rather than objective truth (Hutcheon, 111). By verisimilitude, Hutcheon relates to the truth to life and is interested in making readers examine historical texts as a means of authenticating…
meaning in a novel. Perspective, for example, can show what a single character or multiple characters are thinking and feeling. It describes their commonalities in the psyche and their differences. Published in 1932, by William Faulkner, The Unvanquished, a Civil War novel, was written more than sixty years after the war ended, and deals primarily on the repercussions of the war on people’s psyche and actions. Unsurprisingly, Faulkner uses the first-person narrative to achieve three main…