Expanded Cinema

With the evolution of technology rapidly increasing and becoming more and more advanced, in correlation, the accepted knowledge concerning film and media are also changing just as fast. Since the birth of the cinema and Hollywood style movies, many philosophers and theorists have shared their knowledge concerning film theory. However many theories are having to be updated and even ruled out due to the advancement in technology. For many years these theories were commonly accepted with minor…

policies share is the overwhelming influence that the United States had when determining these policies. Cultural exchanges happen on a micro level and manifest through music, movies, theater, news, and other forms of entertainment. Transnational cinema focuses on the films created by Mexican directors and the movie’s journey across political boarders. These…

the cutting edge of American society and imaginative innovation. He has worked together with a number of the greats of the business and has been assigned for 44 Academy Awards (winning 16 Oscars). More than anybody working today, George Lucas has expanded the visual and mechanical possible outcomes of the mainstream silver screen, and he keeps on charming groups of watchers far and…

your world may not be the first choice for an audience. So I just do the best I can.” Those were the words spoken by director Steven Spielberg when he talked about his life as a film maker. The film making industry has changed since the start of the cinema in the early in the 1890s, from the creation of the first motion picture cameras, to the grand computer-generated imagery we have today. But, it is a fact that without certain films from the past we wouldn’t have the films we have today.…

Race and ethnicity massively has changed over the past few decades in the media world. Initially because the population has become more culturally diverse and expanded. Decades ago, if you were to be racially different from the ‘white man’, you would most certainty be segregated from all society, as well as being classed in a way deemed inhumane/ inadequate to the white supreme culture. This sadly existed hugely in the UK and USA. Race was a construct that functioned a political class in…

The American Dream: the classic rags to riches, something from nothing story. The concept is countlessly repeated in literature, cinema, and real life, and it raises speculation about what makes the idea limited to the United States. Is this common anecdote exclusive to only the US? The “American” Dream is integral to American culture but is just as applicable to other nations and foreign individuals that do not fly the Star Spangled Banner. The American Dream has common themes that are not…

Society has set a standard for high school graduates to complete their education through attendance of a university. Personally I aimed to fulfill that standard by attending the second largest university in the state. When applying to the University of Central Florida, applicants were given the opportunity to prove to the reader that they are a respectable, independent, and well-rounded student in around 500 words or less. Which, because there is so much to talk about yet we are restricted by…

the conventions it initiated appealed to authors and people in the twenty-first century (Kowalczyk). Ann Radcliffe, the fount of gothic romanticism, exemplified gothic setting in her classic novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho. Later, gothic fiction expanded the significance of setting with Emily Bronte’s, Wuthering Heights. Shifts in the setting offer readers presumption about the nature of innocence and evil…

has been responsible about me he left me and my family in order to serve military in the Yemeni War. In fact, being alone with my family without my father and being in Saudi Arabia which is a place that you do not have entertainment places such as cinema, bars, nightclubs, and others funny thing because it is conservative society, so it would be anticipated thing to smoke and have fun while that age. Even though I developed the habit of smoking early in my life, I hope that by using effective…

conglomerate. In 1996, AOL began charging a flat rate for its service, which increased its popular- ity greatly but also resulted in busy signals and network congestion. Also that year, AOL launched its AOL Canada subsidiary and, through a joint venture, expanded to Japan. Rapid growth in subscribers continued through the end of the 1990s, and AOL had over 20 million members by the end of 2000. By 2003, it appeared that AOL’s membership had peaked; membership actually declined from 24.7 million…