Parallel Cinema

The Westerns The Genre As a Whole I will be researching how old style westerns have influenced modern day superhero movies from their editing, writing, and their aesthetic appeal. I will be going through the history of westerns as well as discussing what makes a western a western, how they’ve changed through the years, and why they’re still relevant. I will then talk about superhero films and how they have started, their brief history, how they’ve changed, and how westerns have influenced them…

Tarrantino’s Paved Artistic Style: Pulp Fiction Acclaimed film critic, Roger Ebert made an unflinching statement in 1997 of then gaining prominence, Director Quentin Tarrantino, “Reservoir Dogs (1992) announced Tarantino 's talent and Pulp Fiction [1994] suggested his genius” (Ebert). Subsequently, crime infested terror and off-color humor married a peculiar auteur, and delivered in every Quentin Tarrantino film. A self-taught enthused director, screenwriter, and schooled actor (Tuohy and…

The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham. The title is taken from Percy Bysshe Shelley's sonnet which begins "Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life". The biographer Richard Cordell notes that the book was influenced by Maugham's study of science and his work as a houseman at St Thomas' Hospital. The novel was first published in serialised form in five issues of Cosmopolitan (November 1924 – March 1925). Beginning in May 1925, it was serialised…

this time. It was always James Bond vs. The Soviet Union. Same goes for any spy movie during this time. These spy movies provoked paranoia between both the Soviet Union and the United States. However, the United States were not the only ones to use cinema as a weapon. The Soviet Union started using this tactic in 1946. In fact, 45.6% of the Soviets movies were portraying the bad guy as either American or British. However, the Soviets’ movies were not very popular because of the popularity of…

MAJOR THEMES IN THE NOVEL Individualism A white tiger symbolizes power and majesty in East Asian cultures, such as in China and Japan. It is also a symbol for individualism and uniqueness. Balram is seen as different from those he grew up with. He is the one who got out of the “Darkness” and found his way into the “Light”. Throughout the book, there are references to how Balram is very different from those back in his home environment. He is referred to as the “White Tiger” Freedom In an…

Filmic interpretations of the apocalypse often focus on the anxiety between progress and destruction, because the way we see different technologies is intimately tied to how we see ourselves. Technology is shown alternately as our savior in trying times, a testament to our intelligence, or a testament to our mastery, but also as an accident waiting to happen, an isolating force, or a feeble attempt to raise ourselves to the level of deities. The stories we tell about technology, (especially…

CTCS 469: The Genius of Billy Wilder Part 2 of Notebook (due July 1st) Professor: Dr. Drew Casper TA: Isaac Rooks Jinghan Mao Tel: 608-770-1992 5) The Lost Weekend (1945) shows six “noir” style thematic and formal components that are discussed by Professor Casper in his book Postwar Hollywood 1946—1962. First of all, there are two visual narrative flashbacks in the film. According to Casper, the narrative flashback is “an indication not only of the use of the past to explain the present…

Exhibit 4 ABOVE-THE-LINE ADVERTISING SPEND1 Category Daily newspapers Weekend newspapers Black/Coloured/Asian papers Community newspapers Consumer magazines Trade, technical, financial Total print TV Radio Cinema Out-of-home Direct mail (unaddressed) Internet Total 1999 % R million 1,241.5 15.6 505.5 6.3 164.6 2.1 453.3 5.7 780.2 9.8 337.0 4.2 3,482.2 43.7 3,236.6 40.7 925.7 11.6 66.1 0.8 250.4 3.1 Not monitored Not monitored 7,961.0 100 2008 % 2009 R million…

Chapter-1 Performer’s rights: new dimension of copyright laws INTRODUCTION Performer’s rights with respect to cinematographic films have always been an area of dispute, this is because the producer is considered as the owner of such work and he can exploit the work for his economic advantage. A cinematographic film consists of a different rights associated to it and producer is considered as the holder of the bundle of rights only because he takes the initiative, like in a company’s case a…