Cinematography Essay Examples and Topics. Page 17

This essay is an account of the rise of the Iranian cinema in the post-1979 Islamic Revolution era, and how it shows the present cultural and social norms in the Iranian society.

Both mediums require the use of technical hardware such as cameras for capturing the images, projectors for film presentation, lenses that allow the director to present various aspects of story sequences and scenes, and a [...]

Long considered to be two of the greatest directors in the world Steven Spielberg and James Cameron have both provided some of the greatest films in history.

Here appeared the contradiction of his ways of a court-martial; his death sentence was under the supervision of Lord Kitchener who commanded at that time in South Africa and then reported to the higher authority [...]

Then the woman feels a Puritan guilt before her husband, the part of that guilt is pictured by the spirit of labour.

While most of the movie is about the homophobia of the heterosexual people around Brandon, the blossoming of the love between Lana and Brandon suggests that heterosexuals can get past their homophobia and appreciate people [...]

The film was based on John Steinbeck's novel "The Grapes of Wrath", but to the word, the ends of the film and of the book are different.

The movie retells the tale of the Oklahoma family of the Joads during the 1930s that have lost their farm because of the Great Depression.

The Golden Globe awards, on the other hand, divide the Best Motion Picture category into the sub-categories of drama and musical/comedy, and in that second category, many of the great comedies produced in the past [...]

Our main task is to analyze this movie in terms of typical genre conventions, namely, we need to focus on such aspects as the development of the plot, the main characters, special effects, and most [...]

On the other hand, the killer who is featured in Alfred Hitchcock's 1972 movie, Frenzy, is seen to idolize his mother, while at the same time harboring a loathing for the rest of the women.

The events in the film take place in Poland in 1939 depicting the relocation of Polish Jews to the Krakow Ghetto.

So, let us consider the film "Dirty Dancing" in all its aspects through the prism of arts, including plot, screening techniques, the cast of the actors that played in it, and the influence it had [...]

It is easy to conclude that if the setting of Saving Private Ryan occurred at a later time like today it would have been so easy to locate the man who was the cause of [...]

The film seems to prove one of the principles of the Labeling Theory that states that deviance only exists when members of social groups label the violation of their norms as deviant.

Socialization being an ongoing and educational process begins from childhood, and the role of the family in the process of socialization is immense.

The socialization process of the youth by way of friendship is depicted in the film, in which case, the agents of socialization are friends and society.

The vast majority of African diaspora descended from people who were enslaved and shipped to the Americas during the Atlantic slave trade and the largest population are said to be in Brazil.

Griffith, the "father of film technique", "the man who invented Hollywood" and "the Shakespeare of the screen," "a film is a cooperative effort between the director and the audience.

The chances of giving a more correct description of hospital incidents and the weaving of crimes into medical life cater to the fancies of the public.

It is obvious that a better degree of the use of film sound improved the storytelling in modern cinema. In the "final mix" dialogue, music, and sound effects are brought together to create a complex [...]

Not accustomed to the discretion required for the desk job he is assigned to, he is again sent to the field and given the task of assassinating the emirate's foreign minister, Prince Nasir Al-Subaai.

There is no denying the importance of the fact that the desire to become a Christian minister in youth deeply influences some of the themes and images that could be found in Woo's films.

To make his way to the bus, to fake his death and to problem-solve scenarios to be with Leo and his family, Bob overcomes his fears or at least uses humor and a sense of [...]

Thus, Fiske concludes that the show quizzes are categorized in terms of knowledge and social class. The knowledge that is most used and grouped in terms of social power is factual and academic.

The training for such programs enable the candidate to become well versed with the different features in regard to handling time and frame based subtitles, checking and fixing of errors in the subtitles, getting frame [...]

There is a classic love triangle complicated by the serious problem of war and the danger that the heroine's husband is in from the enemy.

He gave the shark a signature in the sound track that warned the audience and set up what Hitchcock called that anticipation which was better than the actual act.

The movie deals with the upheaval in the South during that time and the plot is developed using the central character of Scarlet O' Hara.

The movie provided a sharp critique on the media represented by television in redirecting public focus and opinion as well as on the control and influence of advertisers on political matters.

The protagonists of the story are two brothers Honore Butera, who works for the racially prejudiced Radio Television Libre des Mille Collines, and Augustin Muganza, a captain in the Rwandan army. It's a deeply touching [...]

With the intent of ensuring her promotion, Lily goes into the most secluded areas of the mountains to amass the songs.

The ending scene of the movie shows the consequence of Wong's choice: she betrays the loyalty to her country for the sake of her lover's life.

Born in Austria, von Stroheim was considered a military expert, and his popularity was such that he could get away with making long films of up to eight hours duration which remained popular for the [...]

Dana Scully, also a special FBI agent and a partner of Mulder, is working together to solve the cases in the movie and the series.

One of the significant differences between the X-Files and The Matrix, is that X-Files emphasize the potential of alien control in the end while The Matrix is more optimistic as it shows how one man [...]

Benedick is an in depth character and he plays a key role in the movie in a variety of ways. Benedick was unmasked when he overheard Leonato, Don Pedro and Claudio in the garden talking [...]

Cultural issues on sexuality have now been changed because media has made the issue open for everyone so that it is now fun to have the feelings and desires of the "other" brought to the [...]

In the film, one of Plainview's workers dies in the oil fields and the man's son becomes an orphan that Plainview takes under his wing.

In analyzing the characters, it should be mentioned that due to the style of narration of the film which is divided to chapters the cast of characters is very diverse and viewers can decide which [...]

Jacob, being the seasoned man that he is portrayed as being, takes the opportunity in keeping the spirits of his people in high mode and begins a fabricated account of the consistent and regular advancements [...]

The members of the family are one in saying that they have been watching Big Brother since it was introduced in TV.

Cry Freedom is actually the story of how Woods' is influenced by the philosophy of Biko and how he helps for the cause of the black movement until he had to eventually flee from the [...]

In the current paper I will speak of two of them: the call for actions of the US government concerning the video games and the way the US government reacts to emergency situations.

In this paper, both of the movies various perspectives would be analyzed and contrasted n order to determine the way they portray relationships and the way people are caught at cross roads.

LITTLE BUDDHA is a well-represented film by Hollywood that tells the story of Jesse Conrad and has a major parallels story of a prince Siddhartha in which the story talks about the birth of Buddhism.

To begin with, it is necessary o mention, that Hollywood had attained a reputation as the propagandist of the American ideals and American way of life.

The plot of the film concentrates on the attempts of the person to hold his family together. The father is gradually sinking in the eyes of the public; his wife Ling intends to leave him [...]

It involves the knowledge of numerous techniques and methods of filming used together with the background of the film and the two contexts the one in which the film was created and another one in [...]

In science fiction movies such as The Terminator I and Terminator II and Blade Runner, by creating characters that are half-human and half-machine, the might of technology is explored as something to be both celebrated [...]

The main protagonist of the movie is Forest Gump, whose life has been shown in the movie and the villain is Gump himself.

The use of jokes, irony, and metaphors throughout the program makes it an easy-to-watch and fascinating work and renders different meanings of the issues the director paid the viewer's attention to.

In the movie Spanglish, Flor wanted a better life for her daughter and for her daughter to keep her native language and heritage.

The 1932 film adaptation of Hemingway's novel is centered on the theme of love that will endure everything in the world.

The focal point of the paper is to evaluate and analyze the National Geographic movie China: Beyond the Clouds. He is also the photographer and the producer of the movie.

The point is that at the very beginning of the movie, it seems to them that they will hardly talk to each other when their detention is, however, it happens to be just the opposite [...]

The advent of computers through digital television and online publications transformed the old into the new media, in which new media practices range from the conceptual to visual arts, from performance to installation.

The feature is that the story is already fully visualized, and the movie director is both restricted by the fiction images, and on the other hand does not have to bend the fantasy and think [...]

The dialogue between the narrative that constitutes the bulk of the movie indicates that expeditions are only a form while human relations are the main focus of this film The main limitation and a negative [...]

The actors like Charlie Chaplin made a great contribution to the development of the film industry on the whole, and to the development of the comedy genre in particular.

The story reaches a point where Bud begins to plot the takeover of the airline by Gekko and uses the savings from the union to restructure it.

The current paper is devoted to comparison of the two portraits of the famous artists: Rembrandt's Woman with a Pink and Hans Holbein the Younger's Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap.

Comparing Wang Kai-wai's "Happy Together" and Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain" clearly state the social, political,cultural or cinematic relevance of the chosen place and period or value.it should also include and overview of other films representing [...]

We see the frustration in the face of Sgt.Ryan. But certainly, it is a mirror of the archetypes that persist in American society.

The current research paper deals with the analysis of interconnections between experimental current in cinematograph and artistic subjectivity of directors, scenarists and other people who are engaged in the creative process of film-making.

However, Sara Connor who is the only human protagonist in the movie is the central character and the one who is most motivated and she determines the direction the story takes. She is with a [...]

In early decades there were no roper studios for film production but by the end of this era, number of film studios were in queue and produced number of films.

The film has targeted the widest possible audience in firstly condemning the Vietnam War, secondly in being a love story and thirdly in recording the polarization Vietnam prompted in the people in regard to coming [...]

The clearing of forests by mass burning, which is happening at a phenomenal rate in the tropical rain forests, is decreasing the amount of CO2 that is absorbed and increasing the amount that is added [...]

The invention and subsequent innovation and evolution of the television may not be the greatest since 'the invention of the wheel'.

There came a time when people started calculating and observing the relations between mass and energy and the basic matter that may have made particles that in turn make up other things.

The movie presumes that people feel bitterness and prejudice towards members of different groups, and helps its viewers see the consequences of such mentalities."Crash" combines the stories of blacks, whites, Koreans, Iranians, Latinos, police, criminals, [...]

In the movie, director Alien Berliner plots the Ludovic character of a small boy who crosses dresses himself and generally behaves like a girl, and he wanted to marry his neighbor's son.

In most cases, it could be seen that the rights of the defendants could be lowered, if not compromised, in the event of trial proceedings going public, since community opinion could play a major role [...]

The movie was mostly shot in France upon the insistence of Frederick Loewe as a condition of his writing the lyrics for the score by Lerner.

The movie is woven in and around the lives of a diverse group of people in Los Angeles connected together by a car crash.

His sense of pride is pricked as he struggles not to tell a lie but when he is confronted by the armed men who were informed that he had entered the place with his guns, [...]

The image seems to be that of a maid and not of a Princess - an extremely sexist depiction of females.

Poor Vincent and the rest of the 'love children' are condemned to be the new under-class of society confined to jobs like custodian services and denied the opportunity to advance in life.

In traditional societies, the family system tended to take the form of the extended family. Thus, the gender aspect is reversed and the male is found to be dominated by women in the movie making [...]

The dialogues of the boys in the playground as they talk about the lack of schooling they have had make one's heart go out for them. In the face of all the pain, past and [...]

The study of class and how this is achieved had been viewed as the means in comprehending the structure of social society.

The movie appealed to the conscience of the people of the world and explained how poverty broke human relations, created vulnerabilities, and seriously affected human society.

The main theme of the movie as told by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern is the illustration of a search for freedom by the two heroes in the conventional and fraudulent land of [...]

Men have been exploited by the community, and it is from side to side the Fight Club that they can preserve their physicality and consider themselves lively.

First, the author argues that drama and film have a different understanding of conflict, and in its nature film is closer to the novel in terms of conflict progression and the time that can be [...]

Derne' S writes that, a research done by Tiffany A Boveland of Loyolla University on the effects of a movie clip on change in love concept showed that, romantic movies did affect people's perceptions and [...]

It is natural to feel overwhelmed by the intricacies and complexities of the many environmental problems confronting society and by the belief that an individual is at the mercy of all the variables that threaten [...]

The film originates from the Broadway musical "The Sound of Music" adopted from the novel "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers" by Maria von Trapp.

The deep involvement of the residents with the team and the winning-is-everything attitude is a theme common to the book and movie.

In the sequels, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Schwarzenegger reprises the role, but with a twirl: Schwarzenegger is the hero but not the criminal, playing a dissimilar but visually [...]

The patient is generally misdiagnosed over the route of the episode and treated with medicines appropriate to the misdiagnoses. The only one, who has such a credit is Gregory House.

The director has explored various facets of imagery and the act of seeing and tries to portray the concept that the gaze the detective puts on an object is basically flawed and that while the [...]

The term determinism states, the all the processes in the world are determined beforehand, and only chosen may see or determine the future.

The character of Randle McMurphy serves as an unwilling witness to the inhumane treatment that the hospital staff gives the patients.

In fact, the abundance of comments and the close depictions of the characters point to the fact that they have plenty of time to get to know one another better because of the boredom of [...]

Both Lost in Translation and Broken Flowers feature Murray in a dramatic role infused with some innate sadness and sense of loss and, unlike many of his less successful colleagues, Murray's talent with the genre [...]

While comparing the adaptation with the original novel, first of all it is necessary to mention, that inspite of the similarity of main ideas in the movie and in the novel, the dissimilarity of authors' [...]

The viewers feel like the actors are just in the same scenario as them and every development is a success to both the actor and his viewer.

However, looking at the present state of the US electronic consumer market, it is a surprise to note that in the twenty-first century, the availability of the HDTV is not at par with the set [...]

During the last generation the term has acquired a central position in psychological and social theory due, perhaps, to greater awareness of the dislocations in the relationship between individual and society that characterize the process [...]

It is so far out of the circle that when Ted Koppel held a "Nightline" town gathering in the armed force stranglehold of Decter, Mich, after the violence, the language blockade was so said he [...]

For Ditie therefore to attain his dreams, he has to have knowledge to be the best of what he wanted. The story of Ditie's had become more interesting with his meeting the girl in his [...]

In the analysis, the filmmaker tried to show how the two concepts can be used to the benefit of the company owners but to the detriment of the workers.

In meeting Lawrence Bender at a Hollywood party, Bender encouraged Tarantino to write a film which then became the Reservoir Dogs, a dialogue-driven heist movie that is said to have set the tone for Tarantino's [...]

Expose of the Italian Mafia sub-culture has been the subject of many films, among the most prominent Scarface and The Godfather and The Godfather II.

The database that is also indexed by the country name has a provision to find the title of the TV series or the movie by the first alphabet of the title.

Homosexuals are feeling more comfortable and open with their sexuality mainly due to the rise of new shows on American television that feature gay individuals and this exposure has resulted in a deep awareness of [...]

It's an unusual film because it is set all in one room and the courtyard. I enjoyed the film and thought Hitchcock did it very well.

Although the acting is strong and the plot is realistic, the movie's victory of Academy Awards is doubtful and reflective of the state of the cinematic industry at the time.

They take place in between the show and before the show after the show. The show majorly is meant for lovers of logical thinking and youthful in nature.

It is targeting no social issues or discussions of psychological complexities, rather it is the food for weekend entertainment, filling the appetite of the imagination and fantasies of a country that is gradually finding its [...]

This paper explores the aesthetic importance, artistic style and appeal as well as other aspects of David Lynch's three films Eraserhead, Lost Highway and Inland Empire basing on Michel Chion's ideas and perspectives as well [...]

On the right, her son Harry unplugs the television and asks his mother for the keys to the padlock, chaining it to the radiator; on the left, Sara, her nerves frayed from having seen this [...]

As culture is defined as the processes that produce behaviors, practices, meanings, and institutions of our social existence, movies being a modern cultural communicator have a direct effect in shaping the society's beliefs and practices [...]

In order to properly describe the technical setting that includes the color palette and set design for the movie Pan's Labyrinth, it is necessary to understand the most about the film why such set design [...]

The rest, as the saying goes, is history.'Jaws,' a movie based on a novel of the same name by Peter Benchley, featured a killer shark viciously attacking people, with Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss in [...]

At the same time, his ability to be a successful gambler is threatened because of the spotlight on his wife's personal and public life.

In The Prestige, the effects of film noir are employed to create a mood of mystery, suspicion and the darkness that is at the heart of passion.

Its symbolic theme is set in the world of an authentic mental hospital, a place of insurgence exhibited by a vigorous, flamboyant, wise-guy anti-hero against the Establishment, institutional authority and status-quo attitudes.[Forman himself noted that [...]