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to be created so that the people of the Middle East could have a film to cherish about their culture. The film was scripted, animated, and released all during and within a year of the gulf war. This film, just as Disney has done since the world wars, was used as a form of propaganda and a method to gain nationalism from the people when we entered a foreign land for war. Therefore, Disney had to incorporate western values into the film to display what actions are correct, and how the Arab culture…

or not films can be used as a historical source. People such as Ian Jarvie, an English philosopher, argue that films are nothing more than mere entertainment. He said that “At best, film is a visual aid.”. On the other hand, you have people like French theorist, Pierre Sorlin, who said that “historians have admitted for a long time that films are important pieces of evidence for any study of the twentieth century and it is no longer necessary to justify an incursion into this field”. Films…

demand and the Big Five were making money hand-over-fist. They controlled everything that had anything to do with movies from production to exhibition. In 1946 the studios had made an astonishing $121,000,000 in profits. The years after World War II, the film industry changed radically and Hollywood began a period of decline. In 1950, the studios’ soaring profits dropped to $31,000,000 (Lewis, 2008). This paper will take a look at two of the major factors that contributed to the decline of…

Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War is well worth watching because it is very well rounded. This climatic film ties together many of Marvel’s previous movies and thus is packed with reputable actors. It is a humorous movie with a powerful plotline. The plot even goes beyond just superficial fun and actually makes viewers question themselves with some deeper meanings. As an extra bonus for watching the movie, viewers are then able to keep up and not be left, in the dark, when their friends and family…

The film I chose to do a critical analysis of the cinematic elements of is "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly." The Good, The Bad and the Ugly is a 1966 Spaghetti Western film, directed by Sergio Leone, it was marketed as the third installment of what became known as the Dollars Trilogy. The film is about three outlaws during the civil war that try to outsmart each other in a journey to unearth a fortune in stolen gold buried in an unmarked grave. Clint Eastwood stars as the main character…

Introduction Windowing was originally used as the film industry’s strategy to garner more revenue based off of one film’s release dates. A film would originally get distributed in a theatrical release. There would then roughly be a four month gap, or window, between when the film was taken out of cinemas and released via DVD (Miller, 2015). In having a gap between cinema and DVD release the film industry thought it would generate ‘hype’ surrounding the film. They thought it would create this…

War Horse: From the Book to the Play to the Film There are several challenges a film can face when it is adapted from a written piece. Whilst some critics will defend that film adaptation tend to vary several aspects of a story, others, may object there are techniques, which help to recreate and maintain the plot alive within audio-visual frameworks. This paper will discuss two of the main difficulties of adapting War Horse and the different methods that were used in the pursuance of visual…

An Analysis of Cinematography and Sound in the Explosion Scene From ’71 (2015) Dir. Yann Demange ‘‘71’ is a film about a young soldier, Gary Hook, who gets stranded in Belfast in 1971 during the Troubles. He accidentally becomes the target for all parties involved and the complexity of the good and the bad in the Troubles become apparent. In the sequence I’ve chosen, Hook has his first glimpse of safety when he gets picked up by a young Protestant boy and taken a Loyalist pub. After mistakenly…

critical engagement with science fictional aspirations at a time when space travel was exciting and new. To compare and contrast the two films,…

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 makers turned to some interesting traits such as the film matter, changing of the production code and…