Film genre

convince my audience how the show can be seen as a Drama even though it is considered a Female Gothic. I did this by comparing the Drama genre to some of the scenes in this first episode of American Horror Story that enable the show be considered a Female Gothic. This enabled my audience, who are people who would typically seek Dramas, to branch out of that genre and try something new. The first thing I tried to do was to address people who would typically seek Dramas by asking “Looking for a…

John Carpenter’s original Halloween (1978) premiered at a time when the horror film genre was undergoing distinct changes. As Ernest Mathijs notes in a Flow forum post on the ritual of Halloween horror viewing, monster films and other classic horror were being replaced at the end of the 1970s with “stories about the ‘horror within’, the evil amidst the community.” Some predecessors of Halloween, such as Brian De Palma’s Carrie (1976) and Charles B. Pierce’s The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)…

romance. Anytime I get a chance to sit down and watch a movie I typically choose horror. The Genre horror comes with plenty of sub categories for the viewer to have a better selection of what type of movie they want to watch. My top three favorite subcategories are slasher, mystery, and paranormal. Slasher films have been around for decades and are always a top choice, a great example of slasher style films is Halloween series. Mystery…

robot, space, etc. Furthermore, science fiction sometime talks about other issues like political, social, and philosophical. According to Vivian Sobchack, an American cinema and media theorist and cultural critic said that “Science fiction film is a film genre which emphasizes actual, extrapolative, or speculative science and the empirical method, interacting in a social context with the lesser emphasized, but still present, transcendentalism of magic and religion, in an attempt to reconcile man…

Sandev Randhawa Unit 22- Developing Computer Games Assignment 1 563000 UNIT 22- DEVELOPING COMPUTER GAMES ASSIGNMENT 1 BY SANDEV RANDHAWA Introduction In this assignment task, I have been asked to explain the impact of computer games on society, describe the different types of computer games and to examine the psychological effects of computer gaming on individuals and the society. P1 Impact of Computer Games on Society Benefits…

Prior to the 20’s, film had slowly expanded from an experimental technology to a widespread form of entertainment. Thomas Edison’s assistant William K.L. Dickson was the inventor of a motorized camera that could record motion. Once he tested it and finalized it in 1892, Edison began setting up parlors where interested viewers could pay to watch 20-30 second videos, mostly of dancing groups and battle scenes. Inspired by this, the European film industry began with Auguste and Louis Lumiere. The…

influenced art prior to the film industry also made an imprint on films from around the Western world. Because of the emphasis on capitalism in America and England, the films of English speaking directors tended to be aimed at making as much money as possible. These films were widely publicized and spread around the country during release. The production companies wanted to create as large a demographic for their movies as they could; these companies created more comedic films that families…

Student’s Name: Prof. Name: HUM333: Photo and the Other Date: Diane Arbus and the others in her photos The world of art is full of several labels. In an effort to reduce obscure individuals to a particular category some specific labels have been generally applied in the art world, whether for religious, territorial, ethnic, sexual or national. For an all-purpose rationale, these labels are not applied in order to single out, but are an effort to give an identity to the minorities who have long…

There are many ways to classify film noir, but in order to condense it for the purposes of writing the EE, I have chosen specific aspects to asses. Roger Ebert, noted film critic and former writer for the Chicago-Sun Times classifies film noir using 10 distinct aspects (some important ones are listed below) (RogerEbert.com): o At no point does the film trick the viewer into thinking there will be a happy resolution, there is always a sense of a bleak outlook o Love and death are highly…

successful scary movie that still gives us nightmares even today. The Exorcist is intense and excels in fear factor. The horrific images of the film deliver the scares every time and will haunt your dreams forever. In a genre exhausted with cheap imitations, The Exorcist remains in a class by itself. The movie was innovative and groundbreaking, leaving a mark, the…