Cinema of India

First Motion Pictures by The Lumiere Brothers With the invention of the Cinematographe, Auguste and Louis Lumiere were the pioneers to hold one of the first screenings of, also, the first motion picture in the world, which also gives birth to the implementation of charging for admission to which we have until today. In Paris, December of 1895, the first screenings of the Brothers’ movie was held at the “Salon Indien du Grand Café”. Salon Indien was in fact, a rather small sized hall that…

GALLARDO, Monica J. INTFILM- A52 Prof. Rica Leticia Arevalo October 26, 2015 Silent Film to Talkie: Singing in the Rain Film Review (1952) The transition of silent films to talkies lead us to a more creative and entertaining side of the said media. The film, Singing in the Rain revolved mainly on how they worked things out by using Selden’s voice to dub the squeaky voice of Lamont. The loved musical turned film, Singing in the Rain was directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly and Stanley…

Since the mid 19 century, Hollywood film production has been the most dominate movie cinema throughout the world. Hollywood also produced motion pictures, for this was very innovating and creative in the film production industry. This type of filming industry has become important to the American society, and there are beliefs that Hollywood has influential effects on a society as well. Howard Zinn, was a professor and currently is a book publisher, a play, and musical writer. Howard soon…

Hamid Naficy’s work in An Accented Cinema offers two major aspects of modern filmmaking. The first, Naficy offers a clear and thorough classification of the term “accented cinema”. Naficy’s distinction between exilic, diasporic and postcolonial filmmaking in order to categorise Irish exilic and diasporic films according to their varying relationships a homeland. Second, he remarkably engages the notions of cultural politics of diasporic, exilic and postcolonial filmmaking. And at the same time,…

Sociopathy—A State of Grace Within Mind-Game Film Reality The use of mental disorders as tools for deductive reasoning and detective work are frequently used throughout contemporary cinema, specifically in psychological thrillers and crime films. By portraying the sleuth-like use of sociopathy as a “productive pathology” as well questioning reality and social control through implicating the main character’s self-navigation and determination of his own identity and destiny, I Am Not a Serial…

I will be discussing the aspects of development from a historical perspective of the film and television industry. To help achieve this I will be focusing on musical genre in Hollywood by analysing the following clip shown of ‘Singin’ in the rain: Good Morning’. This clip shows how the musical conforms by having general conventions of the genre and also shows the development of Hollywood musicals and it’s importance to genre in a particular time period. Musicals had become an essential to…

“It was 34 years ago, on May 25, 1977, that “Star Wars” (later known as “Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope”) thundered onto the big screen and changed the course of Hollywood history.” (Hero Complex Star Wars) The budget that the crew had was eleven million dollars. It became so popular that it had made over four million dollars in the US but had made over seven million dollars world wide in the box office which put it as the number one movie of the year in 1977 by about four million dollars…

Ani Hovhannisyan Enoch Anderson English 101 03 December 2015 The US Army in World War II within 2:00 Minutes Aundrey Hepburn, one of the most famous British actresses, once said, “Everything I learned I learned from the movies” (Lamoureux). The role that motion pictures have in people’s lives is distinct and undeniable. As a matter of fact, being a mixture of art and technology, movies have always been considered to be the core part of a nation’s culture and the whole country itself. “So it is…

The term Bollywood is relatively new title that congregates various types of films that stem from India and sadly get put into one single category, often times the films being underestimated by US pop culture. The film’s subject matter and themes have continued to evolve as does the country of India, and the change is all seen reflecting from the films social and political themes and concerns. When the industry began the films plots spanned from all acros the map, in order to compensate for…

represented through its lens. Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ) (1995) a Yash Raj production, is an iconic and a very popular Bollywood movie of the 90’s. DDLJ mark a sea-change in Hindi Cinema. The story is about Raj (Shah Rukh Khan) and Simran (Kajol) who meet in Europe and fall for each other. Raj then follows her to India, so as to win her and her strict father’s…