Parallel Cinema

Seeing art remain utterly static from whom and where it came from over decades of analysis and adaptation is bizarrely unusual. The Mona Lisa has been exalted, stolen, and debated ad nauseam for its cultural substance. Shakespeare’s works have been dissected to bits in classrooms around the world. Even modern media still under the chains of copyright like Citizen Kane still gets parodied and adored by fans and critics alike. Their roles in society remain fluid and ever subject to changing…

characters into his films. He’s also well known for exposing those queer characters in a negative light, making them murderers, or simply reinforcing the thought of the time that gay persons had mental illnesses. Due to the laws at the time concerning cinema, directly having queer characters in your film was hard to do. Yet, Hitchcock made it possible by implying, through the use and manipulation of technical elements of cinematography, that the character(s) in front of our eyes were queer. In…

(?)It was only following the relaxation of censorship laws that enabled filmmakers to look back at the movement and tackle its sensitive issues through cinema. A Petal and Peppermint Candy deal with the 1980 Gwangju Democratization Movement, amongst other issues, from entirely different perspectives but it is possible to draw certain parallels between the way the two films deal with portraying the movement. These include…

Introduction In North Korea, everything in the media and the news is controlled by the government. The people are constantly bombarded with propaganda, and the majority have no access to any outside information. Most North Koreans get their information from the KCNA (Korean Central News Agency), which collects and distributes official North Korean news. Owning technology is taken very seriously in North Korea, as people need to be granted permission from the government in order to gain…

When directors adapt text to cinema, they do it for a specific reason in mind, not just to produce a text, but to make a point about society or a relatable issue that we all deal with. They have to make certain artistic decisions to help enhance and support the statement that they are trying to make to their audience. In Oliver Parker’s cinematic adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, the integrating of diverse camera work, editing, staging and close following of the…

The name they share is not their only similarity, far from it. Indeed the parallels of their lives are eerily comparable. Both had occupied the position of Chancellor of England, yet through conflicts arising between the state and their consciences both were killed at the hands of King Henry, Becket by the second and More by the…

assistant carry in a MacBook from the left side of the frame. From the right four other female assistants carry in a huge flatscreen TV. Logo & Claim.12’ Family ( Tandem-Spot to the TVC „Family“) We see the little brother, a little like Toto from Cinema Paradiso, with that same mischievous grin. He is carefully pulling of the sticker of his Happy Meal-box. Suddenly a surge of delight spreads across his face - utter astonishment. He has ALSO found a prize: -h elping to reinforce the likelihood…

relationships are viewed as being created by love at first sight and are shown as being easily maintained. This contrasts the ups and downs of the relationship depicted in the first twenty minutes of Up, which can only be described as “a masterpiece of short cinema, a twenty…

luminously against the non-specular backdrops of the drab brick work shops that border the streets of the cruising circuit. Moreover, many of the shots in the film are taken from cameras mounted on the cats themselves or another cat which is driving parallel to it. For the sake of the camera operators who could not obtain sufficient depth of field with the regular street lighting at night there are lights on the floors of the cats which point upwards[17] towards the people inside and subtly, but…

Since the beginning Australian’s silver screen - one of first cinema industries of the world in the late 18th centuries, many movies about the Indigenous people have been made but full of stereotypes and clichés. Byrnes (2006) argued that most early movies focused on Aborigines as social problems rather than issues…