Cinema of the United States

Throughout the United States’ participation in World War II, the American film industry was called upon by the federal government to produce film after film to inform the public of the events overseas and to emotionally influence the American people in order to keep them invested in the war efforts. From films of live combat during the Battle of the Midway, to cartoons promoting the donation of resources like rubber for military purposes, to dramas of romance between a soldier and his lover back…

turned down. An angry Preminger decided to take matters into his own hands. He released his film anyways without the seal of approval. He of course was fined for it but the way he released the film made the fine inconsequential. Preminger and The United Artists used the fine to advertise their movie. It was a selling point that they had to pay a fine just to show the movie and it became a box office hit. The movie itself was no masterpiece; critics called it “a pleasant harmless adult comedy. (W…

Ang Probinsyano The King of Philippine Teleserye brings to life one of the most unforgettable screen-to-television stories in movie history, Coco Martin is Ador/Cardo brings to life Fernando Poe Jr.’s Ang Probinsyano. ABS-CBN and Dreamscape Entertainment Television’s TV presents a modern adaptation of one the country’s movies classics Ang Probinsyano which airs from Mondays to Fridays after TV Patrol at Primetime Bida. Ang Probinsyano is a fitting tribute to the King of Philippine Movies,…

In Hollywood, stars are not only known for acquiring plentiful identities, but also several distinctive types of identities, which are determined by the diverse traits of their characters, along with the various characters that they depict (Shingler, 121). This has made it fundamentally impossible to distinguish between the star, the character, the private personality and the public persona of the actor, especially since these distinct and overlapping identities are both exposed and concealed at…

The film version of the ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’, is not only known for winning Academy Awards for the several categories, it was also known for its casting cinematic appearances. The film version, though retaining most of the novel’s motifs and themes, possesses differences from the novel in significant ways. Although there film exhibits pronounced differences from the content of the novel, it retains the natural verses the institutional themes, the creative nonconformity battle…

The film Daughters of the Dust(1991) was written and directed by Julie Dash whom broke barriers and was the first woman to direct an African American film in the United States.(Ilearn essay). Each woman had their own story and where they had came from and only three will mentioned briefly. The Main character was Nana Peazant, in the film she is what holds all the ancestors together. Her indigo palm represents where they…

Film Noir, launched just before USA’s entry into the World War II and peaking during the Cold War, was a hybrid of glamour and grittiness, exposing a seamy underside of America during the mid century. Film Noir was cast with wised-up men and wordly women who might not have had the right answers, but certainly had all the right moves. More than often, they held mixed motives and malign agendas. The name ”Film Noir” was coined by french film critics whom, after the trade-blockade following the…

statue. This films use of a classical opening and closing, the way it develops its characters, the omniscience of the narrator, and causal linearity combined with the continuity editing system define this film as an example of classical Hollywood cinema. The opening of the Maltese Falcon represents the exposition used in Classical Hollywood (Bordwell). It begins by displaying a prologue explaining what the Maltese Falcon is. It then introduces when…

repeatedly. The origins of the technique date back to early photographers in the late 1800’s and the technique was translated into filmmaking very soon after the birth of cinema. The first use of the double exposure in film was in The Great Train Robbery, which was released in 1903, but the technique exploded in the 1920’s when cinema became a more well-known art form. The double exposure technique is unique to celluloid film as it is created by exposing a film roll twice with another strip…

Media content analysis was introduced as a systematic method to study mass media by Harold Lasswell (1927), initially to study propaganda. Media content analysis became increasingly popular as a research methodology during the 1920s and 1930s for investigating the rapidly expanding communication content of movies. In the 1950s, media content analysis proliferated as a research methodology in mass communication studies and social sciences with the arrival of television. Media content analysis has…