Ethnographic film

Hitchcock, Fritz Lang and Orson Welles. Each film was an exercise in honouring great filmmakers, and any other hero of the director: writers, great thinkers and even Hollywood actors, through countless references in style, mise-en-scene or even dialogue. Roy Armes notes this constant intertextuality, and how it was in essence, a way for these educated artists to make sense of life, and to trade, through the code of careful references, their opinions and film preferences…

2010 and the trend of national box office is still upward as shown in Fig.1.1.below. Figure.1.1 Total box office revenue of Chinese films from 2010 to 2015 Data source:Entgroup Box office track(EBTO) The success of the box office revenue over the last past years can be attributed to both macroscopic factors such as government…

Hollywood has many influences on people 's views and opinions. Hollywood has a way of stereotyping individuals in a vision they believe is true. Latinos have been in Hollywood films for a very long time, yet they are typically cast in supporting roles in every film they have ever acted in. For example, in Beverly Hills Chihuahua, the main leads are white actresses while the supporting male lead is a Latino, playing a Gardner. Latinos are never given a main role; the roles they do have are always…

Groening picked the characters of the Simpsons by using people he grew up with. The parents in the Simpsons are named Homer and Marge, the same name that Groening's parents have. He named Lisa and Maggie after his two younger sisters. Groening thought it would be too obvious if he named the oldest son after himself, so Groening decided to name the last child Bart which is an anagram of brat. Homer's father also received the same name as Groening's grandfather, Abraham. Groening returned to…

The book is very repetitive; the movie pushes you through the story swiftly, still getting the valid points across. Ida, Victor’s mother isn’t the greatest role model for a child to have. She is a junkie, criminal, and we later find out a kidnapper. (Throughout the story we see her kidnapping victor from his foster families, but the big surprise doesn’t come until the end when we find out that Victor isn’t even her child. She stole him out of a stroller in Waterloo, Iowa when he was a baby. )…

it, but makeup is necessary for every person seen in the film. There are many different kinds of makeups, but they can be generalized into the categories of basic or corrective makeup and character/special effects makeup. Makeup is critical to the film industry because it shows not only the actors appearance, but also helps to portray aspects of their lives and the setting they are in. The many different kinds of makeup are…

Introduction Windowing was originally used as the film industry’s strategy to garner more revenue based off of one film’s release dates. A film would originally get distributed in a theatrical release. There would then roughly be a four month gap, or window, between when the film was taken out of cinemas and released via DVD (Miller, 2015). In having a gap between cinema and DVD release the film industry thought it would generate ‘hype’ surrounding the film. They thought it would create this…

the wonders of technology, our society has found a way to unwind: movies. While movies have been around since the 1890 's, the world has only recently taken leaps of faith into the industry, creating film after film of fantastic CGI animations, action-filled plots, and heart-wrenching characters. Films have become a way for individuals to relax after a long day 's work, and the ease of which you can access them has become beneficial to our 'busy-bee ' lifestyles. While cinemas have offered the…

directed and produced a short experimental film back home in a small town in Southwest China called “Eat Me.” “What is an experimental film?” my family and friends always asked me. I came to the United States when I was thirteen as a sophomore in a private Christian high school in suburb Chicago, and that is where I discovered my passion in filmmaking. However, by that time, I still had no idea what experimental films were all about. I was making films in an extremely sheltered environment, but…

substitutes in for its incredibly stylish persona of John Wick, as well as a more than healthy heaping of high intensity, gut wrenching violence. On the other side of this twisted coin films such as Blue is the Warmest Color completely mesmerizes me with its incredibly raw and uncensored story telling, which most foreign films do exceptionally well. A miraculous blend of the arts, love,…