Home cinema

For as long as I can remember, in my household, my parents were very traditional. My mother stayed home and looked after the kids, cleaned the house and my father went to work to provide for the family. After the course of observing, I have discovered how things maybe have not changed as much as we think they have. Through my findings, I have seen the stigma of “women staying home and doing housework and men work” in my experience. Although women like to believe we have advanced from difficult…

The setting in Cleófilas’s new home in Seguin, Texas and her old home in Mexico, both of these settings contribute to the overall significance of the social role of women and the relationship between men and women. Cleofilas leaves her family in Mexico and moves across the border to get married. She…

Hollywood cinema is widely viewed as narrative with most viewers seeing films only as entertainment and nothing else. And most movies are for entertainment, providing a story with a narrative form or also called Classical Hollywood Cinema. This includes forms of narration, sound, editing, cinematography, etc. Anything you find in the normal classical cinema such as the Marvel movies, Disney movies, or the endless remakes of Planet of the Apes movies. All these films are similar in style because…

How do you know if tackling a home improvement project is right for you? How do you know if you have the skills that will be needed to accomplish the task ahead of you? How do you choose the right home improvement project? There is no simple answer to the questions above. Most of the time, choosing a home improvement project is based on need. What needs to be done around your house? Once you have determined what needs to be done, ask yourself if you feel capable, and comfortable doing the task…

The Reign of Consumerism in Fight Club: Film analysis of Fight Club Fight Club (1999) is a film directed by David Fincher based on the same name novel of the by Chuck Palahniuk in 1996. Films are not merely art form or product for consumption. They are also a form of social practice that conveys and constructs meanings for its audiences; in its narratives and meaning we can understand the ways in which our culture makes sense of itself. Fight Club hits audiences to question their habits…

Paper 1 Describe the classical Hollywood narrative structure. Use examples from the film Shadow of a Doubt to illustrate the structure The Narrative structure of cinema has been ductile through history. Today we have a very wide spectrum of different plotlines and structures that directors and writers get to choose from; however, the classical Hollywood narrative structure stuck to one consistent narrative structure that follows a linear timeline through 3 basic steps: equilibrium, disruption,…

How do the Westerners perceive the Asian culture? How does an audience viewing a movie made in their own country see the film? And how does cult cinema make an impact in the history of film, bringing in vastly different cultures together to appreciate art. Those are the questions I'll be answering. In this essay let’s talk about the cultural differences and consumption of the movie; Ichi the Killer, directed by Takashi Miike, originally a manga made by Hideo Yamamoto. I will be talking about the…

to, it plays with odd ideas and its characters are not everyday people. However, if one understands the film and takes time and concentration to read into the subtext of the film, they will find that it is a Classic Hollywood Film with a tad of Art Cinema to spice things…

There exists no parallels somewhere else on the planet for the route in which relations between the organizations of silver screen and governmental issues have developed in post-autonomy India. In two of the four south Indian states, film stars hosted and propelled their own political gatherings and accomplished incredible discretionary triumphs. Even after their end, the gatherings they established have held a mass base and are in a place of quality opposite the national gatherings and other…

started at 172, 000 to 1 million by the next year. And ever since then, the number has increased. So by the end of the fifties, close to ninety percent of American homes had a television in their household. Television had become the dominant recreational activity compared to movies to the American people. But this increase in TVs in homes was very destructive to Hollywood. The lost of money was a huge impact to film companies and the movie industry. Theaters had to increase ticket prices, due…