Metropolis

individuals in different parts of Africa, Arjun Appadurai’s “–scapes” (ethnoscapes, mediascapes, technoscapes, financescapes, and ideoscapes) manifest themselves in similar/universal and different forms between three films: “Price of Love”, “African Metropolis”, and “A Screaming Man”. Along with these “-scapes”, one of the strongest themes throughout the movies was the conflict or cohesion of Westernization in each culture and how the main character(s) and society chose to balance it with their…

one of the classic moments of the American imagination. Years that appears as “happy” nowadays, while then they appeared, as all the times, full of contradictions and tears. Every event is seen in the key of consumption, absorption, chaos of the metropolis par excellence, New York. They wrapped in the light of real-time communication, the intermittent performance, the ephemeral elevation to the idolatrous level, the reckless illusion of omnipotence, sex as a pure fun of prostitution and…

United States. I learned many things about paintings, sculptures, writing, and much more. I had visited the Alternative Dreams: 17th-Century Chinese Paintings from the Tsao Family Collection, Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters, Miracle Mile, Metropolis II, and Agnes Martin exhibitions. In the Alternative Dreams: 17th Century Chinese Painting for the Tsao Family Collection exhibit, I learned about Chinese art. Chinese calligraphy…

During the two world wars, there was a popular art design movement between the 1920’s to 1930’s. It was a combination of different artist styles; neoclassical, constructivism, cubism, modernism, art nouveau, and futurism. These styles affected all types of art such as architecture, interior, design, sculpture, furniture, industrial design and other mediums like clothing, jewelry, graphic arts, paintings, and films. This movement was one of the reason why the twenties were known for “a world…

trilogy and tells of a post-apocalyptic country where a sophisticated metropolis has gained political and military power over the rest of the nation. This metropolis divides the country into twelve districts and designates that every year each district must produce a boy and a girl for the annual televised reality show. These boys and girls must fight to the death for the amusement of the upper class that makes up the metropolis. The book and the series are widely acclaimed because of the…

In ancient Rome, the development of concrete and the arch played an integral part in the shaping of Roman culture. In order for Rome to create the metropolis she would become, strategic use of concrete and the arch was necessary to deploy. The following paper will discuss how important Rome’s creative use of concrete and the arch was in shaping Roman culture. Rome, whom would fulfill all her heart’s architectural ambitions, faced tough challenges before she could realize her potential.…

in Stalinist Russia. The contrast between Winston’s “rotting…and sordid” flat and the towering “vast and white” Ministry pyramids reveals the subjugation of the lower class under the Party’s control. This is similar to the dystopian structure in Metropolis where the workers are exploited by the capitalist elite. The Party’s paradoxical slogan, “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength” exemplifies their psychological control over…

Director Zack Snyder’s “Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice” took its hype train to terminal velocity with a too-big-to-fail marketing approach that eventually crashed into a cinematic cacophony that might just be best to the deaf viewer. Like dropping names of high-brow friends at a posh party, Snyder lobbed out a pitch some years ago to pin the world’s two most revered superheroes against one another in a sort of theatrical cage match that any unsuspecting moviegoer could sink his or her teeth…

Luckily, Superman happens to fly by. He saves the girl and returns her to their house. All's ends well as we watch the young lady and Frisky vanish over into her Metropolis townhouse. The camera doesn't follow her inside; however, we hear her voice as she enthusiastically tells her mom what simply happened: a flying man saved me. On contrast man of steel is a movie with numerous scenes of violence. In some scenes loud…

anticipated movie of Batman V Superman stars Henry Cavil as Superman and alter ego Clark Kent, Ben Affleck as Batman, Amy Adams as Lois Lane and Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor. The movie starts a year and four months after the tragedy in the fictional Metropolis with General Zod who was from Krypton and wanted to destroy Earth to make a planet for Kryptonians. Superman is still doing his righteous duty and helping others who are in need but is also seen as a controversial topic.After the attack,…