History of film

The article I chose to critique is Bring out your dead: people, pots, and politics by Don Brothwell (2004). I think this is a fairly well written article with a few minor parts. One problem I have is how he mentions other cultures and their time scale. Some cultures that we don’t know much about would be hard to tell if this was the case. In other culture their time scale is stranger, if a person in the group gets older it is said they are 100 years old. It would be smart to radiocarbon date…

II. What is History? History is a record of events and times, especially in connection with the human race. Everything in the universe has a history. It is critical to inquire about the particular brand of history being used as a framework in either written pieces or conversation. Traditional history, or rather the discipline of history, was founded by Leopold von Ranke. Ranke believed that its was a historian’s job while studying the past to be somewhat detached from it. This is necessary…

represents history and culture in its films, most will agree that Disney’s portrayals are highly inaccurate. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is that Disney is working to better portray non-American cultures and history in their films. Whereas some are convinced that Disney has and still is inaccurately representing the history and culture of many other people such as the Chinese and Native Americans, others believe that Disney is now beginning to accurately portray Polynesian history…

Conspiracy theories come from all different types of mediums whether that is through written material or even something of higher quality such as a film. The film “J.F.K.” directed by Oliver Stone is a perfect example of both film and conspiracy rhetoric. So what are the affects of a high quality Hollywood film as conspiracy rhetoric on its audience? Popular culture plays a huge role in the affects of conspiracy rhetoric. Media is a powerful tool, which like a hammer can be used in two ways as…

Should we watch the historical films? Some people seldom care about their countries’ cultures or history because they think that it has nothing to do with their lives. However, it could help people to build patriotism and occur with the controversial tensions at the same time. The film called Spirits’ Homecoming by Cho, Jung Rae is an example of how the historical movies could present various pros and cons at the same time. It talks about how the Korean young women were badly treated by…

When you see a historical movie, do you think about if it is accurate. Today Hollywood has revised history to make it an appealing story line for the audience. On June 27, 2000 the movie The Patriot was put out to the public. The Patriot has earned many awards such as BMI film and TV award and the Blockbuster entertainment award. It was a phenomenal film back then and today. But critics like Robert Ebert states “ None of it has much to do with the historical reality of the Revolutionary War.”…

explaining history, and that relativism ends up removing any sense to criticizing culture at all. In terms of grand theories, Bottomore points to postmodern historians construct difficult language or jargon in their attempt to explain and construct the narratives in history (8), all of which service a singular conception of history based on a theoretical framework. This singular conception derived from one supposedly valid interpretation is so pervasive in the construction of history that…

During the Golden Age of Hollywood, studios controlled not only the resources of production but also how the films were released. The most prominent of these studios, known as “The Big Five,” consisted of Paramount Pictures, RKO, Warner Brothers, Fox, and Loew’s Incorporated. Again, during that time, they controlled the development, production, and distribution of films which lead to the studio system. The Paramount decision, stemming from the United States Supreme Court Hollywood Antitrust Case…

to keep his film at the time period; and brought a lot of props that would feel like the things that happened back in the day. He also did a good job on making the characters form his film act and dress like what happened in the history. He worked hard gathering a lot of details on the characters he had searched up in the true story, based on the book. McQueen balanced out the facts he portray in the film for his viewers. Event Accuracy: Steve McQueen did a lot of work for this film. He had to…

“Amistad have their fair share of the true history behind each film. In “Amistad” Spielberg somewhat abuses history to make the film more entertaining. A prime example is the scene where we see the salve on the slave ship going through the middle passage and we witness how they are being treated. While that the film tells a true story of a group of Mende people from Sierra Leone, who take over a Spanish slave ship named A La Amistad, it is mainly A film of white hero worship. Much of the movie…