Cinema Paradiso

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…

Singin’ in the Rain (1952) directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen is one of Hollywood’s most famous musicals. As a big fan of musicals, it’s surprising that I have never seen this infamous film. I had preconceived notions about what it would be like and I thought that I wouldn’t enjoy it. However, the movie was nothing like that I thought it would be and I enjoyed the “behind the scenes” style of film that the director used to show the transition between silent films to talkie. Due to this…

positioning within the mise-en-scene to portray that Lisa desires Jeff but he doesn’t feel as strongly of her. Furthermore, these elements help the audience to analyze the film for larger significance and to see that during the Classical Hollywood Cinema era, women are often sexualized in their roles and are subjected to or become objects for the male characters…

“Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg” have made the “The terminal” a delicate and sweet comedy building the film to a point where it makes one to hold the breath since it is precisely devised. The author tries to analyze a product of Hollywood through applying a cultural approach with the aim of revealing some pre-occupations and concerns of the citizens of the United States which involve commercial consumerism, progressivism, and their discrepancies. He also attempts to expose the relationships that…

to, it plays with odd ideas and its characters are not everyday people. However, if one understands the film and takes time and concentration to read into the subtext of the film, they will find that it is a Classic Hollywood Film with a tad of Art Cinema to spice things…

‘Casablanca’ was released during the golden age of Hollywood film; “a visual and narrative style for making motion pictures and a mode of production used in the American film industry between 1917 and 1960”. It is a style in which falls between formalism and realism. Casablanca makes the shots realistic at the beginning by making the voice over resemble a radio reporter - drawing the audience in and making them feel apart of the story. But the the film is then also filmed in controlled studio…

To do it, filmmakers start to use widescreen and 3-D processes (Alan, 78). It provided a new way of viewing films and attracted more and more audiences to sit in the cinema to watch the movie. Bonnie and Clyde used 1.85: 1 as its aspect ratio (IMBD), which was so-called “flat widescreen” and was distinct from aspect ratio of television (4:3). The using of widescreen stopped Hollywood movie to be replicated on TV. In…