Parallel Cinema

constantly being leered by the male individuals around her. This culminates with Colin who constantly follows and phone calls her. Initially, Carol is the symbolism of the stereotypical female figure as described in the Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. She becomes the icon for Colin to be constantly admired and gazed upon. Even after her constant refusals to talk to him, Colin disregards her property, picturing her as an object, which has to be forcefully sought after. The movie seems up to…

audiences where the knowledge and information is being shared. Linear is something that is related to a straight line. It is characterized by line. In other word, linear is also a progressing from one stage to another in a single series of sequential, parallel. Linear storytelling is a story that is presented in sequential manner or order. By sequential order, the story is being told from the beginning until the end. It will be started with the beginning, forward to the middle…

telling a story and the effect achieved on his audience. Editing can be the most powerful tool in post-production. D.W. Griffith was the pioneer to modern editing. Three signature styles used by Griffith include: classical cutting, close-ups, and parallel editing. In order to create tension…

“ The theatre is not a hospital,” is what F.L.Lucas said, rejecting the idea of Aristotle, who while defining tragedy said that the function of tragedy is to arouse the emotions of pity and fear, and in this way to effect the catharsis of these emotions. The Greek word Katharsis reflects three meanings, “ purgation,” “purification” and “ clarification”. In the purgation theory of catharsis , the term catharsis has been used in medical sense, its like homeopathic treatment, where the like cures…

were these captured in actuality? His ‘fly on the wall’ approach inspired many documentary filmmakers throughout the 20th century resulting in the birth of direct cinema throughout the western world. D.A Pennebaker approaches his 1967 ‘rockumentary’ Don’t Look Back touching on similar notions to Vertov and finds the perfect direct cinema subject in folk singer Bob Dylan. In the 1920s Dziga Vertov experimented with a theory called kino-pravda or ‘film truth’. He strongly believed…

This essay will firstly discuss the main features of Iranian New Wave cinema that made it distinctive from any other around the world, whilst also providing information on the contextual conditions that allowed for this new genre of cinema to flourish amidst an atmosphere of state repression. The latter part of the essay will then be used to identify the similarities that can be drawn between the films of Iranian New Wave and those examined previously in the module, focusing primarily on the…

human curiosity and interactions. Throughout the film, L.B. Jeffries, played by James Stewart, is bound to his wheelchair and finds himself peering into the lives of his neighbors as a form of entertainment and a means to escape his own problems. The cinema, according to Laura Mulvey, derives its pleasure from “scopophilia,” where looking becomes the source of one’s pleasure. Jefferies’ action of looking out of…

nominations in 2004. In order to discuss the ways in which the movie relates to the ideas of ‘cosmetics of hunger’ and ‘cosmetics of violence’, I will begin by explaining the cinematic movement of Cinema Novo…

narrative and pictorial fiction. In the early decades of cinema, a period which media theorist Thomas Gunning terms ‘The Cinema of Attractions’, audiences were amazed by projections of films that were illusionistic in quality. These early films based themselves on an “ability to show something” that astounded audiences.6 Perhaps these early forms of cinema taught viewers a lesson about the medium: that it was not to be trusted. The “Cinema of Attractions” did not gain its reputation from being…

Romeo and Juliet Over the centuries, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet has remained a timeless work that has no doubt inspired a countless amount of literature, art, and movies. Music is no exception. The song “The World is Watching” by Two Door Cinema Club parallels Romeo's feelings towards Juliet as well as his own inner turmoil. “The World is Watching” is about a depressed lover who has fallen deep in love. The lover believes his beloved will “set [him] free” (8) of his sadness. However, they…