Parallel Cinema

initial unwillingness of a film studio to transition to the new age of sound during this silent period, the dance scene serves as a connection to that era while providing the audience with an understanding of the benefits of this new technology to cinema. These benefits included the arrival of sound, and although the Singin’ in the Rain’s production date was much after this event, it remained an important factor to the plot of the…

The narrative design of this scene in fragmentary is in the sound and shots that are taken. For a while, the microphone on Makhmalbaf is not working properly and the conversation between Makhmalbaf and Sabzian is unheard. In “Kiarostami and the Aesthetics of Ghazal” it says “It is not known if the sound was meant to be turned off,…but in any case it has a distracting effect on the audience, who are left to guess about the conversation between the two men” (Sheibani, 49). When both Makhmalbaf and…

In the genre of film musicals, there was never a better time than during the 1950’s. They have been considered the most escapist of all major film genres and are full to the brim with songs and dance routines centred on the main idea of romance. In these musicals there is a main point of focus for these films,, which was an escapist vision of reality given to the audience members, which, shows them searching for love, success, wealth, and/or popularity. This aspect is a major in film musicals,…

Hero Persuasive You may have been told stories about heroes like you and me. Growing up you loved to hear how the good guys beat the bad ones. You felt proud to know so much about these heroes. As you got older, you wanted to be just like them. You worked so hard to be the best of the best. You wanted to please everyone. You studied the different wars and leaders, you knew who the allies were, the enemies, and the neutral countries. As you counted down the days until you finally became…

“ ‘Movie’: How a Single Word Shaped Hollywood Cinema.” Specifically, Rhodes argues that the audience has power over the corporation in this industry. He explains how the word “movie” is a major representation if this idea. Rhodes presents this argument because he has seen how common it has become to accuse corporate Hollywood of finessing it’s viewers. However, Rhodes pushes the idea that the audience is responsible for the way that Hollywood cinema works today. The author uses his vast…

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…

But in Norton’s Theorem the equivalent circuit has a current source and a resistance in parallel with the load resistance (R_X). Continued on next page: HOW IS IT USED When using Norton’s Theorem the load resistance is removed and replaced with a short (wire) and points labeled A and B. The reason to label the points A and B is to show…

Home is word that most people are familiar with, usually the place in which someone lives. Although, home is still a concept and some people stretch to a wide term such as a place with family or even other realms recognizing themselves as the omnipotent watcher. However, in Sook Nyui Choi’s book Year of Impossible Goodbyes home is quite different, home is something that most people do not think of having to value for it is a place where freedom exists. In this novel ten year old Sookan, a…

“The Birth of a Nation” by D.W. Griffith was the first blockbuster film in American history. It was an amazing feat of cinema and nailed its place in history. However, while “The Birth of a Nation” boasts these achievements it is without question one of the most racist movies of all time. This movie not only show glorifies the Ku Klux Klan as heroes of America, but also shows the misrepresentation of black people and the role that black people will have in films. Looking back at the time the…

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…