Parallel Cinema

becomes a hit and instantly makes him a hero, but the original author of the manuscript discovers and confronts him over the plagiarism. The second part of the book depicts the fallout in Rory’s personal life over the plagiarism and examines the parallel course in which the book runs with Hammond’s own life.…

It is often difficult to do justice to a novel through a film adaptation especially of a classic novel like Rebecca in which the characters are layered, subtle and subject to so many interpretations that the explicit cinema can never potray them accurately. Furthermore, it becomes difficult to make a film in a limited time not losing the soul of the novel. The novel Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier published in 1938 has never been out of print. Many attempts have been made to revive the classic…

relationship with the musician Gao Jianli, and his attempt to take control of the arts to further his cause. While a tendency towards melodrama is prevalent throughout the film, it maintains an authenticity that is often absent from contemporary American cinema. In comparison to foreign film, the American industry seems to be plagued with an overreliance on visual rhetoric, choosing to polish the form with grandiose effects to divert attention away from the subject matter’s overall lack of…

Is Quentin Tarantino an Auteur? What even is an Auteur? Those are two questions I plan to address in this paper. The auteur theory, in this essay, will refer to a director's role as auteur, and designating his ability to establish a continuous essence, look, and feel common to all of his works as his signature on his films, indicating him as such, an auteur. Does Quentin Tarantino fit that mold? Many say yes and many say no. We will discuss in this paper and let evidence show. Auteur theory is…

[2] Five years after hooks’ published her essay, artist Kara Walker’s etching “Untitled (John Brown)” expands the essay’s ideas to apply to more mediums than simply cinema. Walker’s piece is a physical embodiment of the very skepticism hooks has theorized. The seemingly unfinished sketch is her take on the moment when radical white abolitionist John Brown is being led to his execution for leading the infamous Harper’s Ferry raid. A famous lithograph that was distributed throughout the nation…

film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that when shown on a screen create an illusion of motion images” (Wikipedia). According to Oxford Dictionary a film is, “A story or event recorded by a camera as a set of moving images and shown in a cinema or on television.” The way the things or the plot is perceived and the way the dialogues are written and delivered all lend an authority to films being an art from. This research paper aims to unfold the artistic technique used by Rakesh Om…

However, he says that the elements of the eastern religions should not be “overemphasized,” in order to grasp the Christian images. So, the religious elements from the eastern religions are not explored. As a result, the commentary of the religious parallels and religious elements can appear to be suppressed and incomplete. This is where Matthew Bortolin’s The Dharma of Star Wars picks up the slack, although he appears to do it in a slightly different manner. Instead of using elements of a…

of Light versus Dark, in which the light prevails gloriously. The Lord of the Rings is prime example of redemption theory in film through its parallels to the Christus Victor theory of atonement. Throughout the films, we can find the embodiment of this theory in the characters of Gandalf, Aragorn, and Frodo. The first, and perhaps the most obvious parallel to Christ, is the character of Gandalf. Throughout the films, Gandalf displays many Christlike features though his appearance and actions.…

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16 In Babel and Babylon, Hansen argues that it is against the back-drop of the mass upheaval in the spheres of American culture, technology, and labor that cinema emerged as both literal and symbolic refuge from the “traumatic” effects of industrial modernity. Although the cinema for Hansen no doubt participated in the “historical upheaval of traditional coordinates of space and time” marked by the experience of modernity, “it also offered a refuge in which the violence…