Cinema of Germany

The purpose of propaganda in Nazi Germany between 1933-39 embedded totalitarian ideologies, which reinforced existing engrained values within German history and society. Riefenstahl used subtle inferences through films that aligned with Nazism. Thus, she exerted a significant role on Nazi…

Westdale Movie Theatre is the only single screen theatre remaining in Hamilton (Wilson, 2012). It was built in the 1930s and is the only theatre constructed in that period to still continue to function as a cinema today (Wilson, 2012). The 1930s and 1940s were known as the golden days of movies; during this time there were over 20 movie theatres within Hamilton that served the public and consisted of theatre that were small and contained roughly 400 seats, to medium sized theatres that contained…

Hollywood is such a competitive place, actors’ jobs are simply to make movies and such, however, this is not exactly a stable job. The Hollywood limelight is such a competitive place, unfortunately, some people who actually have what it takes to make it big, don't get their chance simply because, there are some who are really just more famous, but just because they're famous, doesn't mean they're exceptionally talented. When people talk about great actors, they would immediately think of Tom…

Before the 1940s, Hollywood and the Studio System, was one that carried the American Film Industry to new heights and brought on different visions from aspiring filmmakers and film companies. What was once just a convenient place to escape the grasp and control of The Trust, became the place to be during the 1920s. Hollywood was thriving with the system it created. The Big Five film companies created movies that made those years the Golden Age of Hollywood. But of course a system that gave the…

Best filmmaker in the 1920’s? Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin changed the way films were produced and how they were seen. Compare what technology is today to what it used to be. Imagine watching a black and white movie with no talking nor outside sounds. Watching a movie today at the movie theater you can almost feel the vibration from how loud it is. Chaplin was able to produce and star in silent films and he still was able to get his point across. Today when people watch a movie, there are multiple…

During the Studio era of Hollywood, the studios had monopoly control over the entire industrial process and revenue stream of the filmmaking business. The big studios raked in nearly all the movie industry’s total gross revenues, which benefited both the corporate interests profiting form the business and the filmmakers that were under contract with the studios. The Big Eight Studios held nearly all the power in the industry and the government didn’t like that. Around the time WWII broke out,…

How were the Jews treated between the years 1933-1939 in Germany? In 1933 January 30th Adolf Hitler was became the Chancellor of Germany, And by the year 1934, he was officially in full order of Germany. Before Hitler came to power Jews lived calmly in Germany, they were viewed as Germans and had imperative impact of their economy with numerous specialists. Jewish, However when Hitler came to power he needed to disengage the Jews of the economy. At first Hitler had utilized hostile to semantic…

mass media and propaganda by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party. Germany was ruled by a dictatorship under the control of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, under Hitler's instruction, Germany was transformed into a totalitarian state in which the Nazi Party controlled nearly all aspects of life. Nazi propaganda had a supreme director, Joseph Goebbels, and a supreme star, Adolf Hitler himself (O'Shaughnessy, 2009). Propaganda…

weapon used in order for the male to retake control of a situation. We also retried various points from Mulvey’s other resource on ‘Visual Pleasures and Narrative Cinema’ [4]. To create a style similar to that of classic hollywood films, we read up on David Broadwell’s chapters the Classic Hollywood style in ‘The Classical Hollywood Cinema’ [5], helping us to create the tension and adrenaline in the chase…

allows for them to be entertained. The film industry in Latin America has had a more challenging time creating films that are as commercially successful which would allow the films in Latin American countries to be able to create a stronger national cinema identity. Though much of Latin America appears to be further underdeveloped than the Western world, the film industries in these Latin Americans countries have a remarkable ability to make social commentary as well as adapt their strategies…