Tectonic Theater Project

Keeping Up with the Kardashians During the past decade, TV has gained power over the years and became an assertive competitor for cinema. Specially, considering the fact that the quality of television products increased day by day and a lot of movie stars appear in TV shows. On the other hand, alongside TV series, reality shows have become an important ingredient of TV inbox. However ,there are a lot of debates about the reality shows being scripted and not actually visualization of real…

The Harlem Renaissance, was a time where art, music, poetry, and theater came alive. Jazz could be heard from every corner , the sounds of poetry lifted every ear. The migration of African Americans from the south to north in search of a better life. Changing art from something basic to a masterpiece full of color, design, and rhythm. Since the spark of the Harlem Renaissance, music, art, and poetry of African-Americans has evolved. “Driven from their homes by unsatisfactory economic…

Reality is something humans define through sensory perception –what and how we see and hear all help create our experiences. Throughout the ages, storytelling been an art practiced by many and has taken several forms in order to appeal to these senses through such media as books, paintings, music, and film. When filmmaking first became an artistic medium capable of producing compelling stories, it took over one hundred years to reach the point technological advances the industry has reached…

Prior to our class, Peace Through Film, I had unfortunately not heard of the Global Peace Film Festival (GPFF). Last summer, I had the amazing opportunity to intern with a company that handles all of the publicity for the Sydney Film Festival (SFF). In certain ways the SFF differs from the GPFF, but overall they both have similar values as an organization. The Sydney Film Festival is larger than the GPFF and has a cash prize given to the best film selected by a panel of judges. The SFF is…

Should musicals be made into movies? That is a pivotal question of our generation. There are many reasons why musicals should not be made into movies. There are many justifications of this point including accurately depicting the musical, choosing to use well-known actors over those that have true talent, and the loss of uniqueness of each live performance. There are many reasons why musicals should be made into movies, such as preservation, reaching a broader audience, and convenience. There…

Bollywood takes a new significance in everyone’s life. It reflects various themes through the public elements for Indian diaspora. The Bollywood diaspora often represents a substantial market for films whose characters are a definition of Indian identity galvanized by globalization. In this paper, the movie ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’ is analyzed to show how diaspora has been represented through its lens. Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ) (1995) a Yash Raj production, is an iconic and a very…

The movie, Lawrence of Arabia was considered to be a breakthrough in the film industry for it portrayed T. E. Lawrence’s life in the Arab world and how he influenced the Arabs. This of course was based on true events that occurred from 1916-1918. Despite being a biographical movie, not everything that appeared was truthful. Multiple movie critics stated that certain scenes were over exaggerated, unrealistic, scientifically invalid, and/or plainly made up for entertainment purposes. Before…

Filmmaking was the established forefront in media driven entertainment during the 1930’s and 1940’s. Once sought as a luxurious consumer product film ended up becoming one of the great national pastimes that told stories and allowed it’s viewers to escape their lives. At the end of World War II however things changed permanently for the film industry. No longer were they able to enjoy their assumed monopoly; they had to fight against the advent of television. Fighting against television film…

A movie entitled The Godfather is chosen as object in this analysis. Don Corleone as one of main character chosen as source data. Regarding utterance from Don Corleone this movie presents a numbered of presupposition in various context. Then relation between presupposition and context obtains a certain meaning of an utterance. As considering, statement from Stalnaker who said that context influences content, while content can creates a context because sometimes word that say has a function not…

SUPERNATURAL ELEMENTS IN PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK AND THE LAST WAVE Australian cinema has started to gain succes at the beginning of the 1970s. As well as the films that are screened in succession demonstrate varities in Australia, Australian cinema awake the attention in Hollywood. Picnic at Hanging Rock is a film that directed by Peter Weir in 1975 and is acclaimed worldwide. Actually this mysterious film is the adaptation of an Australian historical novel by Joan Lindsay. The plot is…