Film

Detour Detour is a 1945 film noir directed by Edgar G. Ulmer starring Tom Neal and Ann Savage. The film starts off by a piano player Al Roberts drinking coffee at a diner while hitchhiking east from California and song plays on the jukebox which reminds him of his former life in New York City. In the flashback, we learn that Al was bitter about his talent going to waste in a cheap nightclub and so was his girlfriend, so she decided to seek fame in Hollywood, leaving him behind. Later, he decides…

have already seen that photography carries a connotation of realism, film is not burdened with the same notions. A documentary film is labeled as such, to distinguish from the cannon of narrative and pictorial fiction. In the early decades of cinema, a period which media theorist Thomas Gunning terms ‘The Cinema of Attractions’, audiences were amazed by projections of films that were illusionistic in quality. These early films based themselves on an “ability to show something” that astounded…

write about is the short film Cargo. This film had my eyes glued for 7 minutes. It was mind blowing and very touching in my opinion. The summary I have wrote answers a few questions including why the character did a few things he did in the film, and why he is motivated and dedicated to save his daughter. This paper includes a few strengths, I have included a large summary and response based on my sincere opinions and explanation on why these events happened in the film. The intended audience…

article BLACK AND QUEER VISUAL CULTURE: An Annotated Filmography and Reference Guide argues that: Many in the professional field are unaware that Black lesbians and gay men have created a substantial body of work in film and video. Given the existence of Black gay men and women in film, the history of the production of Black queer images is not as recent as many may suppose, but it is a very recent historical phenomenon if one looks at Black gay men and women behind the camera.…

According to the film, Max Cady is a sexual predator of young girls. Gregory Peck acts well by playing Sam Bowden, a lawyer, under which an ex-con terrorizes his family against whom the lawyer had initially testified in a rape case. As the tensions become more intensive, it is clear that the intended victim by Cady is not actually Bowden, but Nancy, a fourteen-year-old girl who is his daughter. Therefore, the main point of the film in regards to suspense is whether a man can assault a…

Taste in film is a very personal thing and can say more about a person than they can say about themselves. For example, if someone were to glance through my movie collection, they would learn a lot more about me than with any journal or scrapbook that could be kept. Even I can see more of myself contained in these plastic cases than I can in old photographs. Revisiting old favorites jogs memories that probably never eves made it into an elementary school English assignment. Early in life I was…

overall length of the short film affects its structure, characterisation, plot and especially story. ‘The longer a short film lasts, the more the audience wants it to be a story. They want it to mean something.’ (Cowgill (2005 :9)). This means that shorter films, up to 5 minutes, are usually a comedy sketch with a punch line, such as in Knob, or a horror with a twist, like Selfie From Hell. The reveal or surprising ending seems to be common in the under 5 minute short, as the film has little…

Being an auditory learner it is easy to say silent films are not my thing. I like to know every word of every conversation in a film. Although I had watched few silent films prior to City Lights I didn 't really have a great perception of them, I just assumed i disliked them all. City Lights was a great film which I really enjoyed. My conceptions of silent films prior to this film were that they were boring, tried too hard to be funny, and difficult to understand because of the lack of dialogue.…

and off for about six years, and I credit her for making me the dancer I am today. I grew up watching all those wonderful old MGM musicals with Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, and Fred Astaire. When I was ten years old I saw Bob Fosse's autobiographical film, All That Jazz, and was introduced to what would become my favorite style of dance. At ten years of age, All That Jazz was a movie which was a bit inappropriate for my to see. Now that I am a parent, I'm not sure I even want my thirteen year…

Suspense thriller is one of the subgenres of a film that is popular for its excitement and tension. It usually includes crime scenes that trigger audience’s curiosity. Not only that, it also has been known to give a sense of tension that can cause the audience to feel uneasy and disconcerted. One film that can be taken as an example is a film titled Fracture (2007) by Gregory Hoblit. This film tells about an attempted murder case of the wife of an aeronautical company owner named Ted Crawford…