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The Glass Menagerie by American Repertory Theater

Tiffany's production of Williams' play should be discussed as the tribute to the classic The Glass Menagerie because of valuing the traditional approach to interpreting the play; thus, the director's voice can be discussed as [...]
  • Subjects: Theater
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 597

Music Production: History and Changes

The birth of the music industry happened about a century ago during the time technological innovations started to appear allowing to capture, store of music, and replay the sound tracks within a retrieval system.
  • Subjects: Music Industry
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2385

Artistic Activism and Tactics

3 The outbreak of violent protests in the capital city of France in mid-1968 was because of the Student dissatisfaction at the Sorbonne University and the University of Paris. 9 Accordingly, the right to the [...]
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1992

Modernity Development in Art of 18-20th Centuries

In turn, romanticism and realism are aimed at showing that modernity can be viewed as the search for new topics or questions that have not been examined by the representatives of the previous cultural movements.
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 568

Red Zone Entertainment Company’s Decision Making

The two brothers entered the music business world in 1989 when one of the brothers opened a music company, viz.the "Minute Men Music", which offered writing and recording services.
  • Subjects: Music Industry
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1393

Archduke Piano Trio’s Live Concert

Thus, this reflective treatise discusses the elements of rhythm and composition in the music of the Archduke Piano Trio during a live concert on June 2014 at the Laidlaw Performing Arts Centre.
  • Subjects: Concerts
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1370

Feminist Movement Influence on the Arab Film Industry

The Arab human development report 2005: Towards the rise of women in the Arab world stated that the utilization of the capabilities of the Arab women through political and economic participation has historically remained bottommost [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2204

Creativity and Censorship in Egyptian Filmmaking

The intention of the media laws and other statutes censoring the film industry is to protect the sanctity of religion, sex, and the overly conservative culture of the Egyptian people.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1621

Buddy Holly Musician: Modern Marketing Plan

It is based on this that the campaign for Holly to begin entering into the music world will start with him creating YouTube videos and using Google Advertising in order to generate a level of [...]
  • Subjects: Musicians
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 827

Neoclassicism in French Revolution

As a matter of fact, the roles played by art in the social realms could not be ignored during the revolution years. The cruel nature of the French regime was depicted in the Marat's figure [...]
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 559

Film Studies: “Cracks on the Mask”

A number of issues pertaining to the developers of the art and the current status of the pieces are some of the themes explored in the film.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1983

The Role of Music in Films

The objective captures the musical composition by Philip Glass in "The Hours" film and Anton Karas in "The Third Man" film on the significance of these compositions and distinguish unique characteristics in each.
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 13
  • Words: 2390

Women in the European Art of the Late 19th Century

The woman becomes the main subject of the art works in the late part of the 19th century, but artists choose to refer to the traditions of the Middle Ages in depicting females.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 559

Market Readiness of Art Gallery in Saudi Arabia

As a result, the market of the art pieces that are made by the locals has increased over the recent past. Saudi Arabia has the potential to improve the state of art exhibitions.
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 595

Narration in “All About My Mother” and “The Matrix”

Such structure suggests the presence of three essential parts: in the first one the problem is introduced, in the second one the characters work on the problem, and in the third one the problem is [...]
  • Subjects: Films Comparison
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 1902

Digital Arts and Special Effects in Films

One of the reasons for this is that the concerned individuals tend to regard special effects, as such that represent the value of a 'thing in itself'.
  • Subjects: Cinema Art
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1950

Abstract Painters: Transforming the Reality

4 Subjective response: Reminding of a waterfall, the artwork introduces the audience to a world of the surreal. The mixture of colours creates the environment for developing a synaesthesia and literally hearing the colours create [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1383

Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait and Journal

It seems to me that this portrait will be of great interest to people who will study my works in the future. This is one of the main goals that I will always try to [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1106

Paintings of Cezanne, Seurat, Van Gogh, Gauguin

The artists behind the new movement rejected the notions and styles embraced by their predecessors. Georges Seurat was the first artist to reinvent the use of pigment and color in different paintings.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 568

Napoleonic Portraiture in David’s and Canova’s Art

David's "Napoleon Crossing the Alps" is a masterpiece because it gives the true picture of Napoleon Bonaparte. Although this was not the case with Napoleon, the painting achieved its purpose because the emperor was always [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 574

Authorship Concept in the Film “Django Unchained”

Overall, the concept of authorship is important for discussing the visual elements of this movie, its promotion, and the key ideas that are conveyed to the viewers. In part, this argument can be applied to [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2497

The Film “Boyz N the Hood”: Gun Violence

This essay explores the theme of gun violence in the movie, 'Boyz n the Hood.' The Boyz n the Hood movie is a two-decade movie that reveals some miserable lifestyle that the teenagers of the [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1164

Lindy Hop Dance: Development, Events, Figures

Besides, all the aspects of this dance are going to be taken into consideration the movements, the music, and its origin, dressing styles of the performers throughout the years, public perception of this form of [...]
  • Subjects: Dance
  • Pages: 11
  • Words: 3036

Picasso’s Guernica and Conrad Bo’s Artworks

For instance, it is possible to compare a modernist artwork and work pertaining to contemporary art to identify the discourse and the way the society has evolved.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 693

Music Band “Mahotella Queens”

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The band took South Africa and the whole world by storm during the 1970s. The goal of this paper is to describe the band and its music as world music.
  • Subjects: Musicians
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 981

The Bill Shreeve Band and Its Success Factors

The music played in the city varies from one event to the other with local bands specializing in entertaining the various groups of individuals based on the nature of the event.
  • Subjects: Musicians
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1372

Chinese Art, Fashion, and Mass Production

Such attitude invokes the lack of individuality creating the mass production products, proving that along with the promotion of the new artists in the world and sharing ideas the large trade and political institutions can [...]
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 492

Contemporary Art at Saatchi Gallery of London

The work states the idea that the "location of the soul was not necessarily in the body", and the focus is not on the man trying to breathe above the water, but on the vivid [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1133

Hine’s Indianapolis and Kruger’s Help! Photography

Nevertheless, unlike Lewis Hine, Barbara Kruger chooses to combine different media, and in this way, she departs from the canons of the modernist art. Overall, this comparison indicates that the works of Lewis Hine and [...]
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 750

Negro Slaves in the Film “Twelve Years a Slave”

If there was an argument to the contrary, this was brought to a decisive end when Solomon Northup was kidnapped from his home in one of the northern states, and dragged into a life of [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 835

Frank Zappa’s Life and Music

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Nevertheless, his debut album with his band "The Mothers of Invention" is the one that introduced Frank Zappa to the world of popular music.
  • Subjects: Musicians
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1679

Graffiti and History of Street Art

Statues of antiquity and great canvas of the New Age and many other works appeared due to the set of reasons which made this very kind of art the main characteristic of the epoch.
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1940

Development of Studio Recording Technology

The invention of the phonograph record at the end of the nineteenth century, for instance, radically and irrevocably changed the nature of the musical performance.
  • Subjects: Music Industry
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2103

Paul Simon’s Music Style

The combination of the different musical styles, the different genres, and the mutual impact of the different cultures gives birth to such a notion as world music.
  • Subjects: Musicians
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 824

“The Street Life in Lagos”: Film Analysis

In the street life in Lagos film, the two are shown to arrive in Lagos to look for their affluence, reside, and work in one of the greatly renowned slums across the globe, Makoko.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 558

Film’ Episode Analysis “A Bite of China”

This paper presents a discussion of the meaning of food as a part of culture in China based on a chosen episode from "A Bite of China" series. In the Chinese and the Mongolian cultures [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1111

Nineteenth Century Romanticism

The works of early composers, writers, painters, and poets evolved from the onset, and in the increased quest for perfection, a spirit of romanticism was born.
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2761

The Great Exhibition of 1851

The main of them had to do with the ideas of: The presumed natural dominance of the West over the rest of the world.
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1407

The Photography Gallery in Melbourne

The photos are mounted on glass and owing to the fact that the setting is indoor, a lot of lighting is applied to prevent any darkness.
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 502

“Embrace” a Painting by Pablo Picasso

This particular painting stays true to Picasso's motif of incorporating sexuality into his works as it can be seen by the obvious representation of male and female genetalia in the work itself.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2050

Egypt Great Cry in “The Ten Commandments” Film

In this part of the film, the director tries to explore the vulnerability of Ramses. This scene is a part of the prologue to the prologue describing the Biblical narrative.
  • Subjects: Historical Drama
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 425

Frank Zappa and His Contribution to the Music Industry

Zappa brought about a lot of positive changes in the music industry by improving the music quality through incorporation of various aspects that make music appropriate and attractive to the majority of people in the [...]
  • Subjects: Musicians
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1673

Japanese American National Museum

The authors of the museum comprise of the staff, consultants, and scholars who put emphasis on multi-ethnic partnership in the process of planning and safeguarding of the museum.
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2560

The Film “Independence Day” Analysis

The general wave of fascination by space adventures has started in the fifties and sixties when humans started to make the first steps on the way of studying the universe and deploying spaceships, satellites and [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 620

Who Are Protagonists in Film Bamboozled (2000)?

In essence, the essay will identify the protagonist, give reasons why the identified character is a protagonist, and detail evidence from the movie, which support the character of the actor.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1406

Performance: Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill

Listening to the music performed at the stage, I believed that I managed to understand all the difficulties a woman had to experience. The music in the performance was amazing, the voice of the woman [...]
  • Subjects: Theater
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 830

Ancient Chinese Arts Comparison

On the right is The Seated Buddha, a sandstone carving from the Northern Wei Dynasty obtained from a cave along the Silk Road in China.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1632

Art History of Nineteenth Century

Each of the boats is under the control of a standing person, but their identities are indistinct because of the mist, the morning dusk, and the distance between the viewer and the subjects.
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 662

African Art and Lega’s People Legacy

As Bravmann explains, the culture of the Lega society blends the elements of the colonial Bwamis and the elements of other African cultures: "it is through initiation into Bwami, and through the gradual movement through [...]
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1657

French Impressionist Cinema: “Coeur Fidele” and “Nana”

It should be noted, though, that the advent of new stylistic tools presupposed the emergence of an opportunity to view traditional plots and scenarios through a different lens, which preserved the originality of the storyline [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1121

The New Hollywood Cinema Development

The changes have led to the emergence of new business models in the industry. The location of the major filmmaking companies in New York City remains a historical fact, which led to the development of [...]
  • Subjects: Cinema Art
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 895

Expressionism as an Art Form

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The given way to look at expressionist art both broadens the definition and narrows it down in that it stretches the concept to the idea of art being used as a tool for creating the [...]
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1135

“Death of Socrates” a Painting by Jacques-Louis David

The scenes of the prison and the emotions of the students in this picture refer to the memories of the abandoned attempts of reform in France, especially the 1787 dissolution of the Assembly of Notables.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 832

“Le Grand Voyage” a Movie by Ismaël Ferroukhi

A lot of the movie shows the road trip and how the father and his son communicate. The element that reinforces the scenes and the theme of the movie is the way the camera is [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 867

Films Comparison: Inch’Allah Dimanche and Slumdog Millionaire

Nacify claims that the perspective followed by accented filmmakers is similar to that of Third Cinema theorists, except for the modifications made by the former to address specific aesthetic and thematic concerns pertaining to transnational [...]
  • Subjects: Films Comparison
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2070

The Hunger Games: Time and Space in the Movie

The major themes of the story is that people can sometimes get more of what they bargained for in helping someone, that the reality of the world is very perceptive and individual, and that fiction [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 992

“Taken” a Film by Luc Besson

The scene where Bryan arrives at the card game of the kidnappers and demands money is filled with sounds that prepare the viewer for something to happen.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 840

Street Art as a Political Protest

Street art is a traditional means of communication it is utilised by a cross-section of collectives and the state to inform and persuade.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1117

“Frances”: Film on Real Event

In other words, the doctors had to analyze the thoughts of the actress concerning her life; they had to examine her attitude towards the world and people around.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 596

Robert Wilson: Artist and His Beliefs

It is possible to say that by examining these qualities, one can better appreciate the achievements of Robert Wilson. This is one of the challenges Robert Wilson is ready to face.
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 584

Film Studies: “The Godfather” by Francis Ford Coppola

Some of them, as listed and explained below, include; The business touch to every aspect as distinguished from a personal perspective, the difference in the worlds of men and women then, and the difference that [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1565

The Invention of Cinema at the End of the XIX Century

First attempt to introduce the idea of moving pictures traces back to middle of the seventeenth century, when Athanasius Kircher "who projected crude hand-painted images of the Devil...on the wall of a darkened chamber by [...]
  • Subjects: Cinema Art
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1950

Lost in Political Philosophy

This is evidenced in naming of the movie's characters and profiling of the episodes which serve as an encouragement to the viewers to appreciate the philosophical themes in it.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1659

Filmmaking History of the USA

Blockbuster films refer to the big budget films that hinge their success on the identity of the stars in the films as well as the advertisements surrounding the release of the films for extended periods [...]
  • Subjects: Cinema Art
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2778

Lyme Disease in the “Under Your Skin” Film

The online video evokes many thoughts because of the challenges people are going through with the disease. The other challenge with the disease relates to the inability of people to recognize its long-term dangers.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 565

Music Video “Mockingbird” by Eminem

Considering family as one of the aspects of American culture, the music video Mockingbird by Eminem perfectly reflects the situation in the US society.
  • Subjects: Musical Compositions
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 298

Baroque Mark in Today’s Music

Music is one of the performed arts which use the medium of sound both from the instruments or accompaniments and the musicians.
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1163

Ballets: “Carmen” and “In the Upper Room”

The ability of the dance to captivate and touch the viewer's heart is striking and overwhelming in this particular performance."Carmen" impressed with the contrasts and breathtaking professionalism, and "In the Upper Room" made the viewers [...]
  • Subjects: Dance
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 620

Modern Music Development in the USA

The current rock music has experienced metamorphosis and has the characteristics of disco in term of explicit content and glorification of satanic regalia.
  • Subjects: Musical Compositions
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 609

Zombies and Special Effects in “World War Z” Movie

An intriguing and tense movie, the World War Z is definitely worth checking out at least for the sake of the special effects that, much to the audience's surprise, were pretty well integrated, even though [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 344

The Silent Film “Metropolis”

The film is very significant in the history of film because it represents the golden age of the silent film era.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2238

Sand Animation Works by Kseniya Simonova

The show of a sand artist includes a video that allows the audience to see the process of the creation of the piece; it also is accompanied by special music, and, of course, the art [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1671

The Legendary Opera “Parsifal” by Wilhelm Richard Wagner

The creation of Parsifal, the last and most considerable dramatic work of Wagner, lasted from 1857 to 1882, embracing the last third of the composer's life, and thus absorbing his most mature and thoughtful ideas.
  • Subjects: Musical Compositions
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1487

Dystopian Future in the “Blade Runner” Film

The foremost aspect of how the urban landscape is being represented in Blade Runner is that the director made a deliberate point in accentuating the perceptual unfriendliness of the environment, in the foreground of which [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 749

Film Studies: “The Shawshank Redemption”

This identifies well with the parole board as the crime was committed in is youth and that he has accepted his mistakes and is changed for the better when he talks of not being able [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 637

Los Angeles and Seattle’ Music in 80-90s

This paper explores life in South Central Los Angeles and Seattle in the late eighties and in the early nineties based on musical productions in the sub-genres of Gangsta Rap, and Grunge.
  • Subjects: Music Genre
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1692

Chinese Cinematography: “I Love Beijing” by Ning Ying

The scene of the meeting responds to developing the idea of the people's interactions and gender opposition in relation to the changing urban life, and it is characterized by rather long shots and by the [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 815

Islamic Art: The Pilgrim Bottle and Nasrid Plasterwork

The chronological history in the development of Islamic art has been featured both in the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum through various displays of scientific instruments, metalwork, calligraphic decoration, and glass mosque [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 939

The Bach Variations by András Schiff

In this regard, Schiff turned the piano into a tool of accomplishing a great piece of a concert. This created a sense of unity in the concert performance.
  • Subjects: Musical Compositions
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1373

“Attack on the Iron Coast” a Film by Paul Wendkos

The proliferation of global events that compose true-life stories triggered the move towards the improvement of the movie and film industries, immediately after the global events of the last world war that saw the American [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2737

Horror Film Studies: “Nosferatu”

The emergence of Nosferatu on the deck of the ship and the one in which one of the characters is shown against a range of crosses in a cemetery are the scenes chosen for the [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 832