Short film

“La Luna” and “Paperman” are both great short films. These short films try to convey a message throughout the whole production. Some of the ideas that can be seen is to be daring or think differently. It is amazing to see how a work that is relatively short can produce such a huge message. “La Luna” and “Paperman” are impressive because they try to deliver people a positive message that can be used in life. “La Luna” has a great underlying message. One idea it shows is that families can argue…

escapism but a way of analysing the world around you, looking at what’s happening and questioning the norm. Be that subverting aspects of a genre or satirising all of society, there’s something special about the ways literature, and more recently, film, can analyse a something in such a way to make anyone who views it analyse their world also. The first book I read that showed me how subversive literature could be was Un Lun Dun by China Miéville. As part of the New Weird movement, Miéville’s…

and discussions that we went through in class is what exactly is the meaning of genre. To me personally, the word “genre” is it describes either a novel, film, video game or music by certain generic ideas or “rules” of what defines that specific genre. Stories can be described through narrative forms, such as if the writing piece is either a short story, a novel or even a poem or narration. Accordingly, stories can even be characterized by either similar themes or settings and/or if they follow…

RESEA RCH TOPIC A ROSE FOR EMILY THESIS: The presumption that “the book is always better than the film” is as old as the practice of adapting written texts for the screen. While the assertion may be in true in some cases, a matter highly subjective either way, the position of the argument is often misguided and, at the very least, detracts from the cinematic experience--which, necessarily, ought to be different from the reading experience. This dilemma is evident in the…

In the films Erin Brockovich and My Week with Marilyn the audience becomes acquainted with the main female characters of Erin and Marilyn. In both of these films Erin and Marilyn are developed quite effectively with camera angles, lighting and sound, and how these aspects change to suit the main character and their effects on other people in the films. The audience gets a strong sense of Erin Brockovich’s character in the opening scene when Erin is in a job interview, where the screen changes…

Musallam Almashali Professor. Michele Desmarais INST-4140-856 December 11, 2017 Short Assignment #3: Chinese Traditions in Film Jia Zhangke’s 2015 film, “Mountains May Depart,” tells the story of Tao, Zhang and Dollar over three parts. In part one, a young, vibrant Tao is courted by poor but kind-hearted, coal miner Liangzi, and the brash, wealthy entrepreneur Zhang. Zhang eventually wins out, although Tao’s feeling for Laingzi remain. Zhang marries Tao and they have a son, whom Zhang names…

As with all pieces of written works, there are those that are neutral, those who support it and those that oppose it. One literary critic that opposes Chopin’s short story is Daniel P. Deneau who wrote “Chopin’s ‘The Story of an Hour.’ (Deneau 210-213).” In Deneau’s critical review, he discusses the self-assertion, irony and freedom. Where some may see Mrs. Mallard has an oppressed woman longing for her freedom…

There exist particular elements in the film Crouching tiger, the Hidden Dragon that the audience from the western world are unlikely to comprehend. Foremost, the film title is derived from a Chinese apothegm which means hiding strength from our world. The movie story is centered around a four hundred years sword which is referred to as the Green Destiny. The movie director avers it to be referred to as such as the green color represents yin which in this respect is the female mysterious nature…

ISANG TIKBALANG KA LANG: A CRITIQUE PAPER By: Izelle Josef Li of ABM 11 This paper critiques the short story, titled “Isang Tikbalang Ka Lang,” from the book “Wag Lang Di Makaraos” by Filipino writer, Eros S. Atalia. Atalia grew up in Cavite City. He got his Bachelor’s Degree on Secondary Education major in Filipino at the Philippine Normal University in 1996 and got his Master’s Degree on Arts in Language and Literature at De La Salle University – Manila in 2008. His poem “Maririing Tusok…

Author Edgar Allen Poe has his own ideas when it comes to writing an effective short story. One of his works, The Tell-Tale Heart demonstrates these ideas; the first being Totality due to the short length of the story. Here are the ways that the story meets his ideas on effect. He begins the story with the narrator telling us, “True! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses - not destroyed - not dulled…