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Keeping Up with the Kardashians During the past decade, TV has gained power over the years and became an assertive competitor for cinema. Specially, considering the fact that the quality of television products increased day by day and a lot of movie stars appear in TV shows. On the other hand, alongside TV series, reality shows have become an important ingredient of TV inbox. However ,there are a lot of debates about the reality shows being scripted and not actually visualization of real…

Reality is something humans define through sensory perception –what and how we see and hear all help create our experiences. Throughout the ages, storytelling been an art practiced by many and has taken several forms in order to appeal to these senses through such media as books, paintings, music, and film. When filmmaking first became an artistic medium capable of producing compelling stories, it took over one hundred years to reach the point technological advances the industry has reached…

Prior to our class, Peace Through Film, I had unfortunately not heard of the Global Peace Film Festival (GPFF). Last summer, I had the amazing opportunity to intern with a company that handles all of the publicity for the Sydney Film Festival (SFF). In certain ways the SFF differs from the GPFF, but overall they both have similar values as an organization. The Sydney Film Festival is larger than the GPFF and has a cash prize given to the best film selected by a panel of judges. The SFF is…

positive reasons a musical should be made into a movie. One example of this is preservation. Through preservation, musicals made into movies, can live on long after the show leaves the public eye and the actors pass away. According to the-numbers.com, 880.5 million movie tickets were sold this year, compared to the 2013-14 statistics from The Broadway League which indicated that only 8.52 million theatre tickets were sold. If a musical is turned into a movie, it has the chance to share its story…

represents a substantial market for films whose characters are a definition of Indian identity galvanized by globalization. In this paper, the movie ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’ is analyzed to show how diaspora has been represented through its lens. Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ) (1995) a Yash Raj production, is an iconic and a very popular Bollywood movie of the 90’s. DDLJ mark a sea-change in Hindi Cinema. The story is about Raj (Shah Rukh Khan) and Simran (Kajol) who meet in Europe and…

The movie, Lawrence of Arabia was considered to be a breakthrough in the film industry for it portrayed T. E. Lawrence’s life in the Arab world and how he influenced the Arabs. This of course was based on true events that occurred from 1916-1918. Despite being a biographical movie, not everything that appeared was truthful. Multiple movie critics stated that certain scenes were over exaggerated, unrealistic, scientifically invalid, and/or plainly made up for entertainment purposes. Before…

Filmmaking was the established forefront in media driven entertainment during the 1930’s and 1940’s. Once sought as a luxurious consumer product film ended up becoming one of the great national pastimes that told stories and allowed it’s viewers to escape their lives. At the end of World War II however things changed permanently for the film industry. No longer were they able to enjoy their assumed monopoly; they had to fight against the advent of television. Fighting against television film…

A movie entitled The Godfather is chosen as object in this analysis. Don Corleone as one of main character chosen as source data. Regarding utterance from Don Corleone this movie presents a numbered of presupposition in various context. Then relation between presupposition and context obtains a certain meaning of an utterance. As considering, statement from Stalnaker who said that context influences content, while content can creates a context because sometimes word that say has a function not…

SUPERNATURAL ELEMENTS IN PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK AND THE LAST WAVE Australian cinema has started to gain succes at the beginning of the 1970s. As well as the films that are screened in succession demonstrate varities in Australia, Australian cinema awake the attention in Hollywood. Picnic at Hanging Rock is a film that directed by Peter Weir in 1975 and is acclaimed worldwide. Actually this mysterious film is the adaptation of an Australian historical novel by Joan Lindsay. The plot is…

As the 69th Cannes Film Festival progresses, an attempt at revisiting the only Indian film to have won Grand Prix there In a year when no film from India has made it to the competition section at Cannes, it is interesting to note that the only time an Indian entry won the top honours there was a year before the country was born. Almost 70 years back, in 1946, Neecha Nagar by Chetan Anand shared the Grand Prix with 10 other films. Among the very first films to follow the approach of social…