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Jazz Music in American Culture

The origin of jazz is associated with black communities in the United States whose culture influenced the musical elements of the genre.
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2161

Film Studies: The Sequences of Camera Movements

The director manages to convey the idea of the woman's passion which is also pure and innocent. This is the symbol of the chaser's passionate desire to kill the fleeing woman.
  • Subjects: Films Comparison
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1274

Comparison of Two Sequences

The sequences taken from the films To Live and The Road Home can present a different use of formal elements; however, one can argue that both of them eloquently portray the despair of women who [...]
  • Subjects: Films Comparison
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 811

Picasso’s Blue Period

One of the paintings was that of his friend Casagemas in his coffin. Pink was used to bring a different theme to the great paintings that he had in his gallery.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1360

The “Touki Bouki” Film

Delusion is also portrayed in the soundtrack of the song 'Paris', which seem to capture the mind of the viewer too.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1184

The Comparison and Analysis of Sequences

Thus, the sequence from Red Sorghum is started in red in black colors to reflect the tension of the characters' feelings in the mise-en-scene when the sequence from The Road Home is in vivid and [...]
  • Subjects: Films Comparison
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1102

American Psycho

Apparently, the director wanted the character of Bateman to be perceived, as such, that allegorizes the very source of the America's prosperity, concerned with the fact that American richest bankers are being in the position [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 574

Hung Liu Artistic Work and its Contribution to Human Life

Some of the paintings used by Hung to explain the vital nature of culture include the portraits of Chinese self, Buddha's hand, the rainmaker, and the controversial fortune cookie that symbolizes the importance of Chinese [...]
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1383

Photography: Jimmy Nelson’s Piece of Art

According to Nelson, the Maasai are part of the few tribes in the world that are quickly fading due to civilization and the increasing need for the world to form a global community.
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 1468

No One Is Perfect

Bertie is a prince of one of the most powerful states in the world, while Logue has a humble background. Bertie is under pressure from his father, King George V to satisfy the high expectations [...]
  • Subjects: Historical Drama
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 601

Classical Music: Composer Philip Glass

Classic music emerged in the beginning of the 11th century in the West. Conclusion Philip Glass is a great composer who has helped conserve the unique nature of classical music.
  • Subjects: Musicians
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1362

Why Are Horror Movies So Popular?

The audience is also aware that horror movies are nothing more than fiction and, therefore, nothing could happen to people watching these movies.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 548

Mise-En-Scene the Design of Elements in Film

With the creeper's eye on the movie's cover page, the director introduces the movie's genre. Through this, the audience can predict the movie's settings as treacherous and classical, even before the movie commences.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 810

Flags of Our Fathers

The narrative construction of Flags of Our Fathers is an enigma with the development of the themes of heroism and nationalism.
  • Subjects: Historical Drama
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1644

The Elements of the O’Jays’ Success

During the 1960s, the O'Jays were especially popular with the lovers of the soul music, and group's songs took the highest positions in the R&B charts.
  • Subjects: Singers
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1630

Neil Young – “My My, Hey Hey”

It is crucial to understand various provisions of this song in the context of its meaning and symbolic aspects. This is an interesting provision in the context of human life and how people relate.
  • Subjects: Musical Compositions
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 825

Peter Pan and Hook

There is also a major difference in the atmosphere evoked during the story retelling and in the attitude or the way the storyteller presents the participants of the action.
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  • Subjects: Films Comparison
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1417

The Issue of American Horror Story

Thus, examining the information about this controversial situation with determining the category for American Horror Story, it is necessary to pay attention to such aspects as the speaker or the person who provides his vision [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 817

Analyzing the Main Character in Two Latino Films

Tita acts rebellious after receiving the news that the boy died on the way to the US and after a confronting with her mother that leads to her breaking her nose and stating that "there [...]
  • Subjects: Films Comparison
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 2211

Visual Analysis of King Kong Representation

Apparently, the skull island and the insidious ape depicted as solitary, primitive and full of pride which is symbolic of prehistoric culture while the empire state building and the beautiful girl present in all sequels [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1948

Louise Bourgeois’ Artistic Work

Louise Bourgeois is a legend in the field of art; despite her death, her works continue to inspire and motivate fellow artists.
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1373

The Peculiarities of Degenerate Art

The main feature which combined all these pieces was their development as the examples of the modern art which did not follow the principles of the Nazi ideology and, thus, such art was considered as [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 859

Fu Baoshi as One of the Most Famous Chinese Artists

Fu Baoshi is one of the most famous Chinese artists who contributed greatly into the development of the national art. One of his works reveals aspirations of Chinese people who lived in the middle of [...]
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 579

Leonardo Da Vinci’s Last Supper

The painting of the last supper draws the attention of any admirer to the center of the work, which is Jesus Christ's head.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1821

A Review of Bringing Up Baby 1938 (K. Hepburn)

This movie employs a madcap heiresses, to give the needed sense of humor, fun, irresponsibility and the irrelevance that develops the story to its intended context, contrary to the logic, seriousness and the dignity that [...]
  • Subjects: Comedy
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 725

Edward Ruscha’s exhibition at the Denver art museum

This piece of work is inspired by the works of Jack Kerouac novel published in 1957 that was critical in defining the Beat Generation and it is a limited edition of Ruscha's artistic version of [...]
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 557

American History X: Film Analysis

The factors which can influence the result of the evaluation and interpretation of the film and their specific features can be examined with the help of the study of American History X of 1998.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 614

Movie Making: Movies That Take Place on the Ocean

As the Waterworld was "one of the most troubled productions in Hollywood history" and the filming of Pirates of the Caribbean was easy and quick, it possible to notice that the filmmakers got the success [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 854

“David” by Donatello

This sculpture is based on the story of David and Goliath as it appears in the bible. The first "David" sculpture was commissioned in the beginning of the 1400s by a cathedral in Florence.
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  • Subjects: Sculpture
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 862

Our Latin Heritage Concert

It is hypnotic and sensuous, with what seems like an unvarying single beat, surrounded by the swirl of a melody that stays largely in major key.
  • Subjects: Concerts
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 881

History and Development of Ballet

This became the production of the dance, the court ballet, and an earlier and initial version of the current / modern ballet.
  • Subjects: Dance
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 812

“Casablanca” by Michael Curtiz

This is due to the excellent matching line of actors and the sweet synchronized sound that brings the reality of the movie in action.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1776

The Film “Citizen Kane”

For example, for duration of three minutes, after movie's beginning, the viewers continue being exposed to the shots of Kane's residence, which prior to them having been introduced to Charles Kane, establish movie's main character [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1669

Anne Truitt: An American Minimalist Sculptor

And the only reason I need the gravity is to set the color so it will move the way we do on our feet"[13] One of Anne Truitt's popular exhibitions was in Danese Gallery, New [...]
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2106

“V for Vendetta” (2005) by James McTeigue

Although in the surface, the Norsefire government in V for Vendetta is dedicated to the people, in actuality, they protect the government from the people's free will, which is completely opposite the ideals of the [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1417

A Manmade Christmas Tree

The lines used by the artist are obscure, but the shape of the work of art resembles a conventional form of a Christmas tree.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 569

The Movie and the Song Strange Fruit

The research focuses on the movie, and the song Strange Fruit. The film Strange Fruit touches on the issue of racial discrimination during the 1930s.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 695

Graffiti as a Complex Social Interaction Problem

However, graffiti is vandalism and requires the authorization of the property owner. Moreover, graffiti reduces the value of properties and costs the citizens a lot of money in cleaning it up.
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 529

Strange Fruit’ Music and Social Consciousness

The movie under consideration is the Strange Fruit directed by Kyle Schickner which aims to show people the social problems and their arousal by means of the appearance of one song, from the day of [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 548

Syntagmatics and Paradigmatics

The setting for the original presentation occurs in the nineteenth century, essentially displaying the existing elements of the time. The timing of the presentation necessitated the change as majority of the characters, presented in the [...]
  • Subjects: Theater
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 540

The Adoration of the Shepherds by Andrea Mantegna

The picture reveals images of Christ, Maria, Joseph, two shepherds in the foreground and two figures of poor people in the background. Maria is depicted in the center of the painting which hints that the [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 563

Asian Horror in “A Tale of Two Sisters” (2003)

Naturally, horror movies are known to exemplify traditional and uncouth characteristics, and the directors of the films are perceived to non-conversant with the changes in the society.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2181

Gender and Art: Female Role in Visual Art

In the beginning of the period of Renaissance a lot of restrictions were placed on the women that saw the Western society witness a decline and invisibility of female artists.
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 14
  • Words: 3780

Comparison between Nefertiti and Shabti Sennedjem

The portrait has an elegant bust, which means that it may have be comparing to a flower, which is still on its stalk that is slender, but is embroidered by the weight of the crown [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1388

How a Film Interprets Hamlet

Laurence Olivier's need to focus on less traditional approaches, his need to shorten the production, and the need to perform a psychological analysis of the characters determine his interpretation of the play 'Hamlet'.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2085

A Documentary Film and a Real Cinema Dramatization

This is however disapproved by the league after weighing and measuring the bat and finding that it meets the requirements.[6] Roy is called to a meeting by the principle owner of knights, The Judge.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2261

«Twelve Angry Men» Synopsis

11 is seen to question the move of juror no.7. It is evidenced from the movie that juror no.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 705

Rani Singam Thrills her Fans in a Memorable Concert

The performance remained one of the greatest highlights of the singer and her fans. As Rani made her way to the stage, it was evident that the fans were filled with enthusiasm about her performance [...]
  • Subjects: Music Industry
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 591

Urban Planning Issues About the Movie “City of God”

This is where he also discovers corruption and collaboration in between the Kenyan government, the pharmaceutical corporation, and his fellow British colleagues. The main cause for lack of social mobility is limited of education.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 453

Woodstock Music and Art Festival

In this paper, we will explore on Woodstock Music and Art festival, the challenges that were faced, and the impact of the festival to the music industry.
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1364

Racial Stereotypes in Movie Industry

The character of Tom Hanson in the movie thought he was not racist but at a subconscious level he too was affected by the racial stereotypes just as many of us are unaware of how [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1518

The King’s Speech

The film, The King's Speech is a story filled with intricate anti-stereotypic images and paradigm shifts within a larger plot of the British royal family.
  • Subjects: Historical Drama
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 512

Religion and Cinematography

From the satirical portrayals of the biblical stories in films, the use of films to represent contemporary religions, the representation of Roman Catholics and the Legion of Decency in films, as well as use of [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 604

White Zombie and The Thing on the Doorstep

The discussion will explore the similarities and differences between the two works, with regard to the plot, characters, themes, and how these are used to bring about the effect of horror.
  • Subjects: Films Comparison
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1082

Korean Sense of Aesthetic in Cinematography

The girl endures the suffering subjected to her by Yu-bong, the "pansori" artist and eventually achieves success."Seo-Pyon-Jae" also depicts the power the elderly members of the society have over young people.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 602

Views on Chromophobia by David Batchelor

The point Batchelor was putting across is that in order to communicate using colors, it is imperative that the artists in question go the extra mile to excavate the meaning and all aspects of color, [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 677

Legally Blonde: The Female Ambition

Movies like "Legally Blonde" reinforce the idea that a woman's primary objective in life is to get a husband and get married and that a woman's intelligence, capabilities and talents are of not much use [...]
  • Subjects: Comedy
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1347

Export to World Project: Formalism in Art

In export to world, the form of the virtual object is of the main importance. In export to world, the real life object is usually forced to correspond point to point to the virtual object.
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 612

This is not a Test

The film and several others were produced as way of increasing awareness about the possibility of a nuclear war between the two nuclear superpowers: the United States and the Soviet Union.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 666

My own private Idaho

He will do this by taking on his rightful place in the kingdom; a decision that will prove to his father and other people in the kingdom that he is worthy of his title.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1086

The Saga as Old as Time: Romeo and Juliet, Vampire Style

Basing partially on the plot of Romeo and Juliet story and partially on the problems that modern teenagers face, The Twilight Saga offers a number of issues that are quite topical nowadays, such as the [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 987

Les Miserables The Musical

Musical analysts argue that the pleadings of Jean Valjean in this song got prompted by the suffering of the young man's wife. The two are the main characters in Les Miserables and represent the evil [...]
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1406

Music Argument: Composing Music

For them to appeal to the audience, artists can use any of the three categories of persuasion, that is, ethos, pathos and Logos in their work.
  • Subjects: Musical Compositions
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 969

Legend & Myth in Himalayan Art

Taking a closer look at the painting Shantarakshita and Scenes of His Life in Tibet and the Drowa Sangmo mural, it can be stated that the color scheme, proportion and scale of these objects are [...]
  • Subjects: Visual Arts
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1175

Photoshop Beauty in Modern Society

In the case of modern day photographers the use of extensive photoshopping in order to change the appearance of models can be likened to the actions of history's artists in that their very survival depends [...]
  • Subjects: Photography
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1546

Georg Baselitz’s Orange Eater

These changes in the individual's views of arts and artistic works explain the different generations of arts that have been witnessed in the recent past.
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2036

Analysis of Art Works in De Young Museum

The combination of lines conveys the required feeling of movement and defines the two-dimensional shape and form of the image that were inherent to the art of the 19th century.
  • Subjects: Art Exhibitions
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1415

The Secret in Their Eyes

Through memory, the film becomes a political narrative of the terrible violence, murder rape and other forms of injustices associated with military rule."The Secret in Their Eyes" is particularly important as it is among the [...]
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 826

Tillich theory of art

Inspired by the theological mindset and thinking he interrogates the concept of depth in narratives and similar art works and constructs a hypothesis that great art reflects a conscious awareness of the problem associated with [...]
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2354

The Piano’s Designs and Qualities

The manufacturing of the piano became popular towards the last phase of the eighteenth century especially in Vienesse School. Broadwood is the company a credited for the formal manufacturing of the piano instruments.
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 564

Election (1999) Film Review

At the beginning of the film, Tracy is involved with her teacher, Dave, who ended up suffering the consequences as he is fired from his job and his wife divorces him as well. Unlike Tracy, [...]
  • Subjects: Comedy
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 817

Do The Right Thing Analysis

That, human beings have a choice to live positively and all the ills that the community in the film embodies can easily be avoided by only doing the right thing.
  • Subjects: Comedy
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 892

The Baroque Period of Art

In essence, the church played a major role in spreading baroque architecture because it was used as the vessel for conveying the emerging trends to the public.
  • Subjects: History of Art
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 730

Song report (Metallica – Enter sandman)

The band is considered to be one of the initiators of hard rock as a type of rock music. All these albums were relevant to the mode of the rock music of that time.
  • Subjects: Singers
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 559

Music as a Contemporary Art

Creativity involves manipulating words to appeal to the audience and for the audience to be able to relate to the music easily.
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 969

What jazz is and what jazz is not

As a result, due to the spreading of jazz music in different regions of the world, variety of elements were fused together resulting to existence of different genres of jazz such as the Latin jazz [...]
  • Subjects: Music
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1966

“The Wild Bunch” (1969) by Sam Peckinpah

The movie is a 1969 movie directed by director Sam Peckinapah centered around a group of outlaws, an outlaw gang, on the border of two states that of Texas and the state of Mexico.
  • Subjects: Film Studies
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1072

The Gothic Architectural Style

Most of the sculptures from in this style were influenced by the Romanesque style which was widely used at the beginning of the 11th century.
  • Subjects: Sculpture
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 861

The Mimir Chamber Music Festival Concert

The three characteristics were the dynamics, intonation and ensemble where the intonation was brought about by the string quartet playing, the dynamics brought by the careful modulation and the ensemble bringing in a complete experience [...]
  • Subjects: Concerts
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 839

Dallas symphony orchestra teen concert

There is a smooth rhythm between the audience, the artist and even the venue of the concert. I felt strongly connected to the rhythm of the music and I was moved to the point of [...]
  • Subjects: Concerts
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 870

Romantic and Neo-classic Art

This paper will highlight the differences between Watteau's painting of the storm from the neoclassical era and Delacroix's storm painting from the Romantic era.
  • Subjects: Art Movement
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 808

Peter Paul Rubens: Life and Works

He is one of the famous artists of Baroque period. One of his famous paintings is "The history is the raising of the cross" a triptych, painted in 1609-1610.
  • Subjects: Artists
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 571

The Last Moments of Saint Mary Magdalene

The setting of the first scene in the frame is a place of worship, probably a whole church or a section in a church. There is evidence to this in the presentation of priests in [...]
  • Subjects: Paintings
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1538
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