Cinema of China

Hero Persuasive You may have been told stories about heroes like you and me. Growing up you loved to hear how the good guys beat the bad ones. You felt proud to know so much about these heroes. As you got older, you wanted to be just like them. You worked so hard to be the best of the best. You wanted to please everyone. You studied the different wars and leaders, you knew who the allies were, the enemies, and the neutral countries. As you counted down the days until you finally became…

1.Introduction In retrospect, the Chinese motion pictures industry has been growing exponentially from 2012 to 2015.Drived by the integration of the whole cultural industry, penetration of financial capital and participation of Internet economy, the Chinese movie industry has been stepping into an era with vigor and vibrancy. The overall box office reached to 5.1 billion in 2014 from 2.2 billion in 2010 and the trend of national box office is still upward as shown in Fig.1.1.below.…

But the cinema of the body implies also a social gest. We see this in how people react to the monk: sometimes with indifference, but other times they stare, try to interact with him, see him as a performer. We are not the only seers in the film, the people in it are voyeurs of something they do and see everyday (walking), but the fact that the monk’s walking is at a different temporality breaks the sensory motor link and affects us: makes us think the unthought. The ceremonialization of the body…

In Japanese film there is a flowing trend of a desexualized mothers. In this essay the interpretation is of both Japanese Horror, and Japanese Noodle Western. In movies such as Like Dark Water and Tampopo the reoccurring trend of the asexual mother is shown. Through the articles of The Ambivalent Self of the Contemporary Japanese, Filming “Chinatown: Fake Visions, Bodily Transformations, and Introduction to Japanese Horror Film the mix of the Western, Japanese and Chinese’s cultures intertwined.…

may be represented. Certain stars would flock towards certain personalities and images, some may be sexual heroes and other overwhelmbed and stressed men that were cursed by the concept of thought and life crisis. There were also moments of Hindi cinema no longer being used as a political tool and became a utopia or an escape where ideas were glorified and over exposed. This would lead to the era of the angry young…

to look for content to expand their business or to sell their products (Lang, 2017). Third, the funding sources for the movies are reducing, some channeled to the works at the Silicon Valley, and others were fearful losing money. The new money from China for investing in the entertainment industry is also restricted by the Chinese authorities, though some venture capital is interested in emerging forms of popular entertainment such as virtual reality (Lang,…

The Battle Cry of China (Scott, 1941) is a lost Oscar-winning film produced during the Second World War. In April 2015, the Academy Film Archives sent an incomplete film print of Kukan back to China. A grand ceremony observing the arrival of the film was held in Chunking, China, one of the most grievous battlefronts of the eastern hemisphere during the war. The film itself, although “crudely made,” was one of the handfuls of documentaries that captured Japan’s invasion of China from a western…

They labelled it the cinema de papa (old fogies cinema). They put forward and discussed many different propositions and ideas in the pages of the cahiers du cinema in the 50s. The most significant one which had the greatest influence on new wave films was la politique des auteurs (The policy of authors). Largely created by Truffaut in his famous essay a certain tendency in French Cinema he argued that a film, through the way in which its images are presented to the audience on the screen,…

C6.3 Media Awareness Demonstrator 3 Introduction 1. Give the following information: a) the name of the documentary or short film Cliff The name of the documentary is called The Cliff Hangers. b) the year it was made The documentary was made in 1950. c) the website address The website address is https://www.nfb.ca/film/cliff_hangers/ d) the producer/filmmaker The film was produced by The National Film Board e) the length of the documentary or short film The total length of the video was…

Slumdog Millionaire, a movie by Danny Boyle, set in Mumbai, tells the story of Jamal Malik, a contestant on India’s version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’. Jamal was born in the slums of Mumbai with little education and was on his way to win the grand prize on the game show. Whilst on the show, he is suspected of cheating but little do his accusers know that Jamal’s life experience provides him with essential clues to answer each question. The movie alternates between flashbacks from Jamal’s…