American films

America was era which changed the views on a certain issues and interpretation of these issues of american people. With the rise of communism, suspicion of spies in government and visions on space exploration, American civilians were introduced to number of unexplored and unexplained inside story of unknown terrene for them. I think invasion of body snatchers perfectly describes the situation of the american people in that era by taking concepts of real spies in government, Russian space…

how they’ve changed through the years, and why they’re still relevant. I will then talk about superhero films and how they have started, their brief history, how they’ve changed, and how westerns have influenced them as a genre. How it started. Westerns have been around in novels before film in books such as “The Lone Ranger” The American Film institute describes films as "set in the American West that embody the spirit, the struggle and the demise of the new frontier."…

Apocalypse Now is the quintessential war film. Apocalypse Now is one of the most powerful anti-films to emerge from the Vietnam War Era. It is Francis Ford Coppola's most ambitious film yet and it is easy to see why. The film took over 10 years to make and is nothing short of a masterpiece in storytelling, visual themes and direction. The story of Apocalypse Now is loosely based on loosely on Heart of Darkness, a novel written by Joseph Conrad in 1898. The film follows Captain Willard on his…

confirmed, that the American movie is affectionately received by audiences of all races, cultures, and creeds on all continents”, was said by the President of MPPA Jack Valenti and he was correct in saying so. The fourth installment of the Transformers: Age of Extinction, may have missed the mark at U.S. box offices, but there are many countries around the world where the film profits did not disappoint specifically China. The international success found in China from this film can be closely…

discrepancy in the film industry, to no one person's surprise, massively favors males over females. Which is why we have less female leads, according to the 2016 Hollywood Diversity Report, 74.2% of lead roles in the top 163 films released in 2014 were played by a man, leaving only 25.8% to be played by women…

animated films and cartoons, Disney can generate commercial interest in film merchandise and promote racial stereotypes. For example, the release of the Toy Story film coincided with the release of Toy Story related merchandise. Furthermore, Disney’s Aladdin teaches children the underlying themes of “Arabian barbarity” “Aladdin clearly portrays the ‘bad’ Arabs with thick, foreign accents, while the anglicized Jasmine and Aladdin speak in standardized American English” (Giroux 109-10). With films…

Soon movies brought the dry dinosaur bones to life, featuring dinosaurs as the biggest villains of the film industry. America’s love affair with lost worlds, super-sized villains, and industry leading special effects, helped to make dinosaurs on the big screens biggest stars. Dinosaur movies have captivated our imagination, haunted our dreams and entertained Americans since the early days of film. Prehistoric Cinema: Old Bones Live on the Silver Screen The early mass discoveries of dinosaur…

Thomas Edison and his assistant, William K.L. Dickson, created a device called kinetoscope. It was small box that that had film roll and a peephole. People would look in the peephole can see 90-second black-and-white films. The last gentlemen to change the technology of moviemaking was Auguste and Louis Lumière. These two brothers developed a new device that could show film on a large screen. Thomas Edison created the first movie premiere in America with the new Thomas Armat’s Vitascope.…

The beginning of film making is important event that has helped shaped our media in today’s society. Back during the early 1900’s, the world was dramatically changing and this process needed to be captured. Through early pioneers who accepted a challenge to change the way citizens view the world, they found a way through different styles to capture the changes of the world with film. These pioneers used their creative minds to bring their personalities to life with the films they produce about…

Douglas Sirk and was produced by Ross Hunter in 1959. This movie is an American Drama that shows the love and hardships between mother and daughter while juggling the tasks of work, love, and personal problems. The french term mise-en-scene is shown throughout the film in many different ways through the camera angles, the setting of the movie, props, lighting, staging, makeup, and costumes. These elements play a huge role in this film and help show little details about not only the characters,…