Ethnographic film

Aladdin and F&J Essay The Jinnee is a myth that we have all heard about. We have all seen the movie Aladdin as well. Most of us probably have not heard about the story of the fisherman and the Jinnee. Well there is a big difference in both of these stories on how both of the Jennies are portrayed. One is a kids movie on one hand but the other is not so much a kid’s story but more or less a story for students in higher grades. The Jinnee is evil in one of these stories but we won’t spoil it for…

In this increasingly media-driven society, competition in the entertainment industry to create the next big hit is fierce; it seems as though new shows assault our televisions in a ceaseless stream. Despite this influx of shows, it oftentimes feels as though nothing exceptional is offered to viewers; ideas are simply reused instead of created. Every now and again, however, audiences are wholly captivated by a show with a brilliance that far surpasses its competitors. When thinking of notable…

children’s novels and became an accredit writer. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was one of his first books published and will always be his most well known. It was so popular that in 1939, it was created into what is still the most popular movie today. The films correlation with the novel's storyline had the American public mind blown. They could not believe how such an astonishing novel could be followed up by a movie just as brilliant. Baum used his own life struggles for a topic for his novel…

Initially, one would think that Flight is an action-packed movie about the life of an airline pilot, Whip Whitaker, who happens to abuse drugs due to some underlying personal reason. However, it becomes abundantly clear that the crashing of the plane symbolizes the direction of Whip’s life when it is determined that he had drugs and alcohol in his system while flying. Prior to the plane’s crash, Whip was only viewed as having leadership skills in which he possessed “the ability to use one’s…

world. The distinctively visual represented in ‘Run Lola Run’ (1998) by Tom Tykwer and ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ (2012) by Christopher Nolan are significantly strong as distinct images are constantly on the screen to create a suspenseful and thrilling film. Despite their disparate contexts, both texts share common themes such as the race against time and fate Vs chance. Through these……….. (thesis) Distinctively visual devices illustrated in Tykwer's Run Lola Run presents the conflict between the…

If one, five, twenty, a hundred, or even a thousand people from the United States are asked if they have been in a high-speed car chase, been shot up by a cohort of evil villains, or kidnapped and held hostage for ransom; it is expected to get a few, but not many yes answers. If asked instead if they went to high school, got married, or found a good job, the likelihood of getting yes answers increases exponentially. So why is it that people from foreign countries think that there is more…

Other films that focused on the gaze, sexual objectification and active women are Sex and the city, Magic Mike and The Blue Lagoon. Freud in his Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality argues that the gaze is a “function of desire,” one that successively creates desire in the gazer (Zolfagharkhani and Ramezani, 2012 p2). Furthermore, Zolfagharkhani and Ramezani defined gaze as remarkable and distinctive position among human’s senses from the old times. They also stated that “vision is not…

by inspiring one another to let their dreams run free. The film goes on to tell about some of these great men who contributed to the creation of science fictions writings and films. Forrest J. Ackerman is the fist man talked about in the video. He made his first contact with the Los Angeles Science Fiction League around 1935 to 1936. Ackerman is known as Mr. Sci-Fi to millions of people around the world. In 1932, he became a Sci-Fi films specialist, and published the first list of imagine…

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…

and that is highly accessible nowadays. Every year hundreds of new films are released and produced by filming companies. However, not all of those films would become legends and be highly appreciated by people from various generations. Anyway, there are also films that win people's hearts and bring much happiness to them. One of such films created once by Disney that has earned recognition within different cultures is the animated film “Toy Story”. The story of a small imaginative boy Andy who…