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Classical Editing Technique in “The Gold Rush” Film

Charlie Chaplin's 1925 film The Gold Rush can be well discussed as the one of most outstanding examples of a classical editing technique's successful deployment, because the manner of how director went about connecting film's [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1772

The History of Mambo Music

Despite the fact that mambo was brought to the general American public in a bright commercial wrapping, the original mambo sound and rhythms gradually won the hearts of the devoted audiences.
  • Subjects: Music Genre
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2154

Strangers on a Train Analysis – Opening Scene

Thus, the introductory sequence of the "Strangers on a Train" is the best example to show all significant things and achievements of the director in the field of filmmaking."Strangers on a Train" is one of [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1690

“Gettin’ Religion” by Archibald Motley Jr. Analysis

The guiding lines are the instruments, and the line of sight of the characters, convening at the man. He accomplishes the illusion of space by overlapping characters in the foreground with the house in the [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 828

Ella Fitzgerald: How High the Moon

The song's duration is quite memorable as well, since it starts with a slow rhythm, and the song appears to be pulsing, synchronizing with the beat of one's heart.
  • Subjects: Musical Compositions
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1110

The Role of Ethics in “Gone Baby Gone”

In this paper, I intend to discuss Patrick's moral position through the lens of deontology and, thus, prove that Patrick was right in getting Amanda back to her mother. This is shown in the moral [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 839

Art Elements and Principles Project

A combination of hues of a certain color is defined as a chromatic value. Different chromatic values of blue and yellow are used in To Donna by Flavin.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 14
  • Words: 872

Traditional Korean Music and Culture

The most ancient type of this kind of music came up in the course of the invasion of the Japanese and it was called teuroteu. Today it is made of three holes in the front [...]
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1665

The Movie “Straight Outta Compton”

In general, Straight Outta Compton is a perfect combination of the ideas when people could be united with one goal and one challenge.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 640

Moon – Solo Dance by Yang LiPing

It could be defined as a large stage ethnic primitive genre if it was not for the complexity of the hidden innuendoes that the interpretation of the dance suggests.
  • Subjects: Dance
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 567

Sculpture and painting

A look at the military sculptures in many city parks shows that, they were meant to inspire patriotism while at the same time instigate and boost the pride of a country where the sculptures stand.
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  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 653

The “Hacksaw Ridge” Movie Analysis

Fundamentally, it is a story of determination and resolution in the face of suffering and brutality. For example, his brother almost dies at his hands in a fight, and it serves as a call for [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 284

Flare Guns Song by Quinn XCII ft. Chelsea Cutler

They sing in the song about drifting apart and going nowhere. Being in the woods is a world apart from society, and if they are going away from one another, they are "drifting apart".
  • Subjects: Musical Compositions
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 371

“Negotiator” by F. Gray: The Film Study

Unfortunately, the gun used in the killing was one of the guns Roman had used in the past, also, a search in his house led to the collection of enough documents against him. As a [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 676

Design & Composition in “The Godfather” Film

In films, the visual representation of characters and events in the context of a specific design plays a critical role in conveying a certain message and provoking emotions in the audience.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 838

Reflection Paper: “Blood Diamonds” by Edward Zwick

The movie shows the role played by developing countries in financing armed conflict in African countries. In relation to the movie, Collier discusses the four traps that the developing countries face.
  • 2.3
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 563

Prometheus Bound by Peter Paul Rubens

In creating the art, Rubens ensured that the major theme of the painting is shown through the boundary that separated the other parts of the cliff and the fire.
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1651

Modern, Modernism, and Modernization

Modern, modernism, and modernization are the notions which may be easily defined in human mind, it means that one can understand what modern, modernism, and modernization mean, however, when it comes to formulation of the [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 565

“The Two Fridas” painting analysis

The mirror-reflexion of the two Fridas constitutes the foreground of the painting. The two figures on the picture are being either linked in the inner world, which is being illustrated by the unity of the [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1099

Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong: Jazz Music

Louis Armstrong is described to be the man best known around the would as the founding father of Jazz while on the other hand, Dizzy Gillespie is reputed to have music that is a major [...]
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1175

Your Destiny Is in Your Hands

We will overview the film 'Far and Away' and the book 'The Kite Runner' to analyze the symbolic features in both.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1123

Death of Socrates, Painting Analysis

The setting of the painting is a prison that has arches on the window and an arch in the hallway. On the right-hand side of the painting, the orange tunic echoes the red and yellow [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1211

“The Butler” by Lee Daniels

In his 34-year tenure, he is a witness of the views of the various ways in which the presidents make decisions involving blacks, and how the movements have affected these decisions and the lives of [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 560

Moneyball

Management is the reason the A's are in so much trouble both financially and in terms of performance, which is when Beane comes in.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2032

“When a Man Loves a Woman” by Leslie Mandoki

The popularity of the topic in the 1990s can be explained by the fact that alcohol consumption significantly increased in the previous decade in comparison to the overall XX century situation in the States.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1946

“2012” by Roland Emmerich

Negative for its lack of realism and positive in that it is a real thriller, entertaining and will have you glued to the screen to its end to know the fate of the actors.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 870

The “Yellow” Song by Coldplay: Arrangement Plan

Orchestration and arrangement require advanced knowledge of the arranging concepts and the role of all instruments in the orchestra. However, the aim of the current arrangement is to improve personal professionalism and skills via the [...]
  • Subjects: Musical Compositions
  • Pages: 14
  • Words: 864

Gender Issues in the Movie “The Stoning of Soraya M.”

Gender roles and the discrimination of women have been the main topics of concern in most movies in the recent past. The movie shows women as inferior to men as illustrated by the differentials in [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1104

Christian Metz’s Imaginary Signifier

He also argues that the perceived is not the reality but acts as a kind of mirror to it and this aspect is unique to it in comparison to the different field of arts.
  • Subjects: Cinema Art
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2498

Analysis of Group Identity and Norms in Ocean’s Eleven

In this respect, the members of Ocean's group reveal their ability to think in accordance with group's objectives and contribute independently to the success of activities they were engaged in. In the search of oscillator, [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 808

Difficult Cinematography: “Millennium Mambo” Film

In her essay Looking for Nostalgia: Memory and National Identity in Hou Hsiao-Hsien's a Time to Live, a Time to Die, Wu holds that "Hou Hsiao Hsien consistently drew on his personal life experiences and [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2443

Positive Impact of Islamic Art on Society

Its impact of social and cultural development of the Islamic World and other cultures can be considered to be positive because it has introduced uniqueness, originality, and unity of Islamic culture, architecture, media and politics.
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 832

Spider-Man and The Hero’s Journey

After the death of the boy's uncle, he recognizes the latter as a mentor figure and follows his words. He realizes that Parker is Spider-Man because the injury is identical to his enemy's.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 406

Photography Exhibition: Examples of the Works

This is an outstanding piece of art which made me, for instance, think of our world and humanity: first of all I thought about the perfection of the both, and then I passed to contemplations [...]
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1137

Ansel Adams “Monolith, the Face of Half-Dome”

As well, Ansel Adams skillfully incorporates the background imagery in the photo and catches the minor images of trees to better contrast the large and the small, the sufficient and the minor in the photo, [...]
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1117

Participation in this Music Group

However, I was greatly touched by Sara's performance on the flute and her ability to engage me and all the other members of the group, which enabled me to understand her at a deeper level.
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2193

Scene Analysis from the “Deadpool” Film

With this in mind, it is advisable to introduce the term communicative elements of film production, understanding those elements of film production, the presence or absence of which affects the probability of the viewer perceiving [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1430

Codes in “10 Things I Hate About You” Movie

In the movie, "10 Things I hate about you", it is fundamental to note that the characters, Bianca and Cameron have been used to show how codes and conventions can be used to define the [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 721

Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626

This paper offers an overview of the Requiem in D minor, analyzing the musical composition, examining the orchestration's expressive devices, and providing a historical frame.
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 827

Beijing Opera vs. Traditional Western Opera

For example, the Beijing opera reflects the culture of the nation. The rest of the paper is structured as follows: Chapter two highlights the origins and development of the two operas, Chapter three is an [...]
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 26
  • Words: 6999

Steve McCurry’s Photographs

This approach has revealed the impacts of war on the lives of many people across the globe. McCurry had the opportunity to capture the portrait of a monk in Tibet.
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1392

Music Sampling: Concept and History

While the producer uses a sound track to establish the best music genres to combine, the sampler, which is the machine records, keeps, controls, and rewinds music.
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2843

“The Kid” a Film by Charlie Chaplin

Speaking of the aforementioned compositional qualities of the movie, one should mention that the mise-en-scene, in which the Tramp, the lead character of the movie, strolls down the street, is, perhaps, among the most powerful [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1377

Drama: Staging “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell

In its turn, this explains why in Glaspell's play, the characters strive to act in the manner fully consistent with what used to be assumed accounts for the social roles of the representatives of each [...]
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  • Subjects: Theater
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1700

Aspects of the Film “Bonnie and Clyde” by Penn

With Bonnie and Clyde, a fictional film that heavily modifies the story and lives of actual events, the source materials transformed to suit the youthful American audience.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1659

Picasso’s Painting “Guernica”

Guernica is a painting by an influential 20th-century artist, Pablo Picasso, that was created in 1937 in response to the bombing of the city of Guernica in the Spanish Civil War.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 582

Michelangelo’s “Bacchus” Sculpture Analysis

Furthermore, the specified size of the sculpture allows for experiencing the magnitude and power of the challenging ideas that Michelangelo introduced in the specified art piece.
  • Subjects: Sculpture
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1412

“The Devil Wears Prada’s” Movie by David Frankel

The Devil Wears Prada is a movie that helps young people stay motivated and never give up, to understand the essence of hard work and promotion, and to learn to use their personal uniqueness to [...]
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  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 677

Film “Spirited Away” by Hayao Miyazaki

The secret of the mentioned scene is that it is close and understandable to everyone like the journey to the fairy tale that is designed not only to amuse and amaze, but also to compel [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1109

Social Issues in “Frankenstein” Film

Frankenstein's monster represents the mangled and depressed soldiers returning from the war only to find an economy in crisis, given that the Great Depression was in the offing after the war.
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  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1704

Pottery and its Role in the Lives of People

Pottery could have even developed from the process of wrapping foods in a skin of clay and placing them in the embers of a fire or on heated rocks to cook.
  • Subjects: Pottery
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2711

Analysis of “The Falling Man”

The theme of the article was unified by the photograph of the falling man which branched out to several stories surrounding it.the story of the photographer who took the picture, the story of the family [...]
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1306

The Future of Music Production

However, in order to determine whether quality in music is lost in using modern technology, we need to compare analogue and digital music production systems that many claim to be the cause of the deterioration [...]
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  • Subjects: Music Industry
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 828

Social Issues in the “Thelma and Louise” Movie

The film focuses on the scenes and events that show the experience of females. In other words, "Thelma and Louise" ruined the stereotypical representation of women, which was revolutionary for that time.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 332

The “Harriet” Movie by Kasi Lemmons

The movie shows how Harriet, a woman who was enslaved for years, risks her life for freedom and helps others escape slavery by leading them to the North through the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman was [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Drama
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1123

Muriel’s Wedding as a Representation of Australian Culture

The cultural identity of an individual is formed through the perceptions and traditions of the whole country. Muriel admires the typical glamorous girls and wants to be part of the community and bear a group [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1941

The Agony in the Garden by El Greco

His important works include: The Disrobing of Christ; The Burial of Count Orgaz; The Agony in the Garden; View of Toledo and Laocoon.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1672

Nudity vs. Pornography When Used in Artwork

Nude art forms date back to the ancient Greeks who had the utmost respect for the sanctity that is the human body even though the same cannot be said in the present day where artists [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 752

“Little Buddha” the Film by Bernardo Bertolucci

Judging by the examples of such movies as The Last Emperor and The Sheltering Sky, Bertolucci has always been interested in exploring the connections between the modern and traditional, the everyday and exotic, and between [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 826

“American Beauty” Film Critique and Scene Analysis

Happiness is something elusive for most of the characters except Ricky and Lester, at the end of the movie. It takes place at the beginning of the movie and Jane, Lester's daughter is the point [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1135

Traditional Chinese Lion Dance and Its Styles

The first performer adorns the head of the lion and the other moves the body of the lion. The Japanese Lion Dance is used in traditional and religious festivals.
  • Subjects: Dance
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1660

Painting: “The Great Wave off Kanagawa”

In the far distant center of the painting, is a mountain, still and motionless, in contrast to the dynamic furious sea wave. The shape and size of the wave create the imagery of force in [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 841

Sicko by Michael Moore Film Analysis

The solution to the problems of the healthcare system is important for every country because it is the sphere the quality of which directly influences the life span of people and the quality of their [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 857

Analysis of Inherit the Wind Film

Even through the producers of the movie state in the beginning that the movie does not represent the chronology of events, it is shown clearly that the movie portrays a historical account.
  • Subjects: Historical Drama
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1344

Growing Popularity of Science Fiction Films in 1950s

Most of the science fiction films reflect the socio-political environment in both the US and the rest of the world. Science fiction has presented not only some of the greatest stories in the contemporary literature, [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2673

The Historical Drama “Thirteen Days”

The president is reluctant on the decisions by the Joint Chief of Staff; to invade Cuba and destroy the missile site, as this will make the Soviet Union to invade Berlin, which was supported by [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Drama
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 804

Concert Analysis

The performers who looked fabulous with black and white suits rounded up with a variety of musical attires rocked the hall and kept the audience anticipating the show.
  • 4.5
  • Subjects: Concerts
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 809

Hip-Hop and the Japanese Culture

The prevalence of soul dancing in Japan in the earlier years also formed the basis for the wide acceptance of the hip-hop culture into the Japanese culture because soul dancing was common in the streets [...]
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2063

The Black Madonna of Breznichar

The prominence of the Black Madonna is majorly due to the miraculous character it poses to the pilgrims. Since the black Madonna is a representation of the Virgin Mary, there are people of Catholic denomination [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 863

The Art Piece “The Sacred Heart” by Damien Hirst

The questions prompted by the observations of the "Secret Heart" are some of the many that follow from Damien Hirst's indictment of religion as viable means of ascribing meaning to human experience.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 840

Chicano Art as a Form of Identity Expression

For example, Americans of Mexican descent created Chicano art as a colorful and striking method of conveying their perspective of life and social position to the world.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 338

“The Intern” by Nancy Meyers

Even though the director seems to romanticize the main characters of the story, the outcomes that are being shown at the end of the movie resonate with the audience and provide them with a deeper [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1934

Carlos Schwabe’s “The Death of the Gravedigger”

He also drew the image of "Death" in his masterpiece painting The Death of the Grave-Digger from her. The figures of the woman angel and the old man standing inside the grave are in the [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1214

African Influence on Brazilian Music: The Samba

In Brazil, just like in the USA and other nations that had African slaves, the slaves had a profound effect on the culture of Brazil and most noticeable in the music.
  • Subjects: Dance
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1642

Frida Kahlo’s Paintings Analysis

Although the first painting is a symbolic self-portrait and the other one is a realistic portrait of a woman, both of these works strike the audience with the powerful depiction of the women's experience of [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1393

Leadership in the “Invictus” Movie

The movie's storyline is based on the book "Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation" by John Carlin.
  • 3.7
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1401

Film Critique: The Shawshank Redemption

The movie is excellent in the way the story of self development and hope is crafted to give an array of hope to all watchers and critics.
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  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2133

“Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen Analysis

Then, there is a change of tempo, and the song transforms into an opera with references to the main lyrical characters of the Bohemian period.
  • Subjects: Musical Compositions
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 401

The Song “My Shot” by Lin-Manuel Miranda

As the songs are the product of the human mind, they reflect not only the values of their creators but the values and traditions of the society and the time they were composed.
  • Subjects: Musical Compositions
  • Pages: 1
  • Words: 339

Biographical Profile of Jamaal Barber

Notably, he won the JOSA Award of Excellence in Drawing in 2002 and got first place in the graphic design competition of the Rebel Magazine.
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1702

Japanese Film Influences on Modern Hollywood Cinemas

Hollywood is continuing to develop Japanese images in their films for example "Back to the Future" film that has changed American perception towards Japan and the Japanese people.
  • Subjects: Cinema Art
  • Pages: 28
  • Words: 9115

Bruegel’s “Children’s Games”

Bruegel's paintings portrayed the life of peasants during that time.'The Children's Games' and 'Winter Landscape with Skaters and a Bird Trap' are some of the most famous paintings of the artist.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 10
  • Words: 2854

“The Last Judgement” by Michael Angelo

The painting conveys the act of the second come of Christ, and the apocalypse. It is explicitly seen the way Christ is depicted in the light, in the middle of the painting; just the way [...]
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  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1118