Expanded Cinema

Since the 1920s, scholars have explored the representation of ethnic groups in United States television, cinema, and alternative forms of media with the purpose of achieving “fair representation” of such groups with strategies ranging from government regulation to public criticism. For decades, culturally endowed critics, as well as Latina/os themselves, have strived to mollify the demeaning and negative images presented in mainstream media in addition to achieving a demographically…

Harry Potter film is an illustrative example of how vertical integration works in practice in the film industry. The Deathly Hallows Part Two was created by Warner Bros. pictures in association with Heyday Films; Warner Bros. used their International Cinema Chain to distribute and easily showcase the movie worldwide. The marketing of the movie was done by Time Warner’s companies, which is again owned by Warner Bros (CITE). Vertical integration is well used by the bigger multi-national Film…

ranking number 2 in the world, even though it is science fiction and its’ plot is battling for free movement in Pandora which turns into a battle for the survival of the Na’vi woman (Zoe Saldana) who Jake Sully falls in love with. Romance genre has expanded its popularity in various taste by creating subgenres, such as comedy romance, action romance, drama romance, suspense romance genre, real life romance. Love takes place in every genre of film or literature with romance surrounding the theme…

Traditionally, literacy is used to mean a person’s ability to read and write. However, scholars have expanded the scope of literacy to mean the capacity to use computers, visuals, language, and arithmetic to communicate. Researchers explain that access to information and knowledge through technology is also part of literacy in the modern society. Roser and Ortiz-Ospina explain that a population 's level of education can be measured by the degree of literacy in the society. The world data…

Autobiographies sound like they could be potentially really boring in the sense that it’s easy to just ramble on about event after event with no real purpose. However, I plan to use my knowledge of this fine English language to make this the least boring autobiography ever. So where do I start? Well, I guess my life starts out like any other normal human being. I was born. I mean like, who wasn’t? Anyway, on March 9, 2000, at 7:54pm in New Milford Hospital, my life and this autobiography begin.…

In Robert Stam’s introduction to Literature and Film, titled “The Theory and Practice of Adaptation,” he addresses and discusses the numerous differences, limits, and elements of adaptation in film and the source novel. One of the topics in theory that he discusses towards the end of the introduction is the “point of view” and its impact on adaptation. Stam claims that when discussing “point of view” in the context of an adaptation issues will arise due to the instability of the term as it…

American Culture? The origin of midnight movies started with the film El Topo in 1970. Alexandro Jodorowsky wrote, directed, and starred in the movie. Playing the lead role of El Topo, Jodorowsky had to transform with the character, taking on different physical looks, as the story plot drastically changed as well as the cinematic style. “The film begins as a western. Jodorowsky, bearded and dressed in black leather, comes cantering across the desert on a black horse with a naked child (his…

had a factory in Mumbai, now it wants to expand to Rajasthan. With regard to this expansion the assesse hired Messrs. Dorr Oliver Ltd and obtained project report and market survey for which on a whole Rs 3,70,000 is paid. As the business is being expanded , initiation of new business is taking place hence it would be capital in nature. Hence no deductions according to sec 37(1). V. Final Analysis : The expenditure incurred on feasibility studies, consultation charges on relocation of a plant…

John founded the Quarrymen 1956 and recruits his best friend Paul McCartney. He named the band after the high school they went to Quarry Bank High. The Quarrymen played at school dances, parties, cinemas, and amatuer skiffle contests. 18 year old Lennon wrote his first song called, “Hello Little Girl”, a UK top 10 hit. In 1958 a 14 year old named George Harrison joins the Quarrymen. The band created their first amatuer recording themselves in 1958…

During the 1960s and 1970s in Germany, there was a new era beginning. This era started with student’s movement. During those years, the younger generation start asking questions. They believed that their parents didn’t do the right thing, and instead of fighting Hitler and not letting him do whatever he wants, they just stayed quiet and so he did whatever he wanted. One of the groups that were fighting the government and generally older generation, and were hoping for a change, were Lefties. But…