Expanded Cinema

My Hero Do you have a person in your life that you look up to as a hero? Through tough times and hard decisions my dad has inspired me to make good choices to better my life. Growing up Albion, my dad grew up with his two brothers and his mom. After high school he face many challenges which lead to prison. I am thankful that over the years, since he’s out, that I have been able to develope a relationship with him. My dad, Charles Gaddis, is my hero because through his wrong choices, hard work,…

“Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog” is a super-hero musical tragicomedy produced with a really low budget; however, it still won the People's Choice Award for "Favorite Online Sensation" in 2008 and Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 2009. Depending on my own opinions, the socko performance of Dr. Horrible character in this 40-mins miniseries played by Neil Patrick Harris is the main reason, which made “Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog” become specially, and leads to the successful of the…

forgotten. Bibliography Anthony, Sebastian. "How digital technology is reinventing cinema." 8 May 2012. Extremetech. Article. . Belton, J. "Digital Cinema: A False Revolution." The Film Theory Reader: Debates and Arguments. Ed. M. Furstenau. London: Routledge, 2010. 282- 294. Bolter, Jay David. "Transference and Transparency: Digital Technology and the Remediation of Cinema." History and Theory of the Arts, Literature and Technologies. 2005. 13-26. David Pool, Sophie Le-Phat…

may be represented. Certain stars would flock towards certain personalities and images, some may be sexual heroes and other overwhelmbed and stressed men that were cursed by the concept of thought and life crisis. There were also moments of Hindi cinema no longer being used as a political tool and became a utopia or an escape where ideas were glorified and over exposed. This would lead to the era of the angry young…

AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. In the last century, there have been many forms of entertainment that dazzled and gained people’s attention. As time goes on, viewing leisure has evolved to paying an admission to a once-in-a-lifetime performance to visiting a theater anytime someone wanted to escape the day-to-day pressures for a couple of hours. Fortunately, there was a man in the Midwest who fashioned such an establishment for the populace to relax their minds and have their imaginations come…

Hollywood and Bollywood has also come to stand for auxiliary aspects of film production which includes such as choreography, music, songs, costumes, makeup and even hairstyles. In the past it was known as Hindi cinema, Bombay cinema, popular cinema, and now it’s called as Bollywood cinema. Before 1931, the Bollywood movies were in black and white, and also had no sound effects. Ardeshir Irani was the first one to introduced sound in 1931 in the film Alam Ara, which was…

“One person’s craziness is another person’s reality.” - Tim Burton. This quote is unquestionably shown in Tim Burton’s twenty seven movies in addition to various short films and TV shows. Tim Burton uses a mix of cinematic techniques corresponding in his films to replicate outcasts living in a so called normal world. This is exemplified in both “Mrs. Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” and “Edward Scissorhands”. Tim Burton uses similar techniques in lighting, sound, and camera shots to…

House cinema, as one of the film houses in Nigeria, was established to promote, preserve, protect and present the culture of the entertainment industry. Urban generations in post-colonial cities have been characterised by the development of certain movements, architectural edifices and socio-cultural infrastructural facilities. Most of these have, over time, gone into extinction though their relevance to the urban milieu is not in question. Restoration of these legacies, in particular the…

For some, Toshiya Fujita’s revenge film “Lady Snowblood” will inevitably be linked to Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill vol. 1”, for which it was a major inspiration; Tarantino borrowed aspects of the plot and narrative structure, used the song ‘The flower of carnage’ and let the cinematography inspire him. For all the influence “Lady Snowblood” had on Tarantino, it might be surprising to conclude that the two “Lady snowblood” movies have an anomalous character in Fujita’s oeuvre, as nothing he…

Influence is something that can have a huge impact on many. It is through observation and training from experts that one can become highly skilled in a craft which can create a large impact on others. In the film-making field, a person could consider the actor-director, Charles Chaplin as an expert through his various films and shorts. His works are enjoyed yet there is something beneficial to one interested in entering the entertainment industry. However, Chaplin did not gain his skills out of…