Parallel Cinema

By today’s standards, this is a lighthearted romantic comedy. However, Otto Preminger encountered a great deal of resistance when he tried to distribute his film. In the Production Code files archive there are several letters between Otto Preminger and Joseph Breen (the director of The Production Code Association) discussing the denial of a seal of approval for The Moon is Blue. Among these are letters between Preminger and the heads of many studios that also refused to distribute the film due…

The Motion Picture Association of America and their ‘rating system’ (Motion Picture Association of America, 2016) serves as an industry backed form of self-regulation for the content of films for the American consumer. However, amongst the changing times of the Country following World War II and leading into the turbulent 1960’s, Major movie companies were willing to forego industry-approved regulation for major films, forcing the MPAA to change from the Production Code towards the modern-day…

In Hollywood, stars are not only known for acquiring plentiful identities, but also several distinctive types of identities, which are determined by the diverse traits of their characters, along with the various characters that they depict (Shingler, 121). This has made it fundamentally impossible to distinguish between the star, the character, the private personality and the public persona of the actor, especially since these distinct and overlapping identities are both exposed and concealed at…

The film version of the ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’, is not only known for winning Academy Awards for the several categories, it was also known for its casting cinematic appearances. The film version, though retaining most of the novel’s motifs and themes, possesses differences from the novel in significant ways. Although there film exhibits pronounced differences from the content of the novel, it retains the natural verses the institutional themes, the creative nonconformity battle…

Priscila Chivalan CART 329 1 November 2017 Commentary #2 Question 1 The Films The Trip (1967) and Taxi Driver (1976) are two films that were created during the time Hollywood was having set backs and during the time that they created new ideas that eventually took them out of the struggle. This was considered Hollywood's fall and rise They are both similar in a way due to the way the movie films were shot. Both of these films were created to allow us to see what the…

Film Noir, launched just before USA’s entry into the World War II and peaking during the Cold War, was a hybrid of glamour and grittiness, exposing a seamy underside of America during the mid century. Film Noir was cast with wised-up men and wordly women who might not have had the right answers, but certainly had all the right moves. More than often, they held mixed motives and malign agendas. The name ”Film Noir” was coined by french film critics whom, after the trade-blockade following the…

statue. This films use of a classical opening and closing, the way it develops its characters, the omniscience of the narrator, and causal linearity combined with the continuity editing system define this film as an example of classical Hollywood cinema. The opening of the Maltese Falcon represents the exposition used in Classical Hollywood (Bordwell). It begins by displaying a prologue explaining what the Maltese Falcon is. It then introduces when…

repeatedly. The origins of the technique date back to early photographers in the late 1800’s and the technique was translated into filmmaking very soon after the birth of cinema. The first use of the double exposure in film was in The Great Train Robbery, which was released in 1903, but the technique exploded in the 1920’s when cinema became a more well-known art form. The double exposure technique is unique to celluloid film as it is created by exposing a film roll twice with another strip…

Media content analysis was introduced as a systematic method to study mass media by Harold Lasswell (1927), initially to study propaganda. Media content analysis became increasingly popular as a research methodology during the 1920s and 1930s for investigating the rapidly expanding communication content of movies. In the 1950s, media content analysis proliferated as a research methodology in mass communication studies and social sciences with the arrival of television. Media content analysis has…

Singin’ in the Rain (1952) directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen is one of Hollywood’s most famous musicals. As a big fan of musicals, it’s surprising that I have never seen this infamous film. I had preconceived notions about what it would be like and I thought that I wouldn’t enjoy it. However, the movie was nothing like that I thought it would be and I enjoyed the “behind the scenes” style of film that the director used to show the transition between silent films to talkie. Due to this…