Essays on Film Study

Introduction We live in the time of information where a question living inside our heads has a tendency to be answered, obviously with the utilization of the most prevalent remote medium of correspondence, the internet. The internet gives all that we have to know, beginning...

In a film, sound and lighting plays an important role as it helps to portray the necessary mood and emotion (Jackman, 2010).For example, when filming for a horror scene, there will be a use of creepy background music and filming in dark or low level...

Upon the emergence of the cinema at the start of the 20th century, the landscape of material culture became a more widespread phenomenon and film productions became a profound artefact due to the information it provided on the culture of users and creators. Induced by...

Francois Truffaut, director of the film The 400 Blows (1959), concerns himself with the delinquent child abandoned by the education system and even the family. As a French New Wave director, Truffaut’s motive is to represent the real-life drama of an iconoclastic protagonist who searches...

Although the term “national cinema” is popularly applied to numerous film theories and critics, there is a lack of recognition to the characteristics of national cinema and to how national cinema is conveyed. I argue that national cinema is reflected by films associated with a...

In her essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”, Laura Mulvey argues that a movie audience derives pleasure from the artform by identifying themselves in the characters on screen (Mulvey, 3). Like cinema, the theatre isolates the audience, making the confrontation strictly between them and the...

The most universally accepted feature of narrative is the representation of a sequence of events (Herman 2007, p. 25). It is not tied to any one medium and most communicative situations feature a narrative whether it is a book, a joke or a news report....

Teaching is universal around the world. Beginning teachers can learn not just from teachers in their own society but also from those in other countries, such as in the foreign film Les Choristes (2004). This French film revolves around Clément Mathieu, a failed musician and...

Introduction In the film industry, there have been so many changes, development, and advancements over time. The technology in film making is changing, also meaning that the quality, elements, and coverage of the films of recent times have changed too. This paper will compare two...

Injustice often breeds opposition. There isn’t always an immediate violent outbreak, but a sense of alienation from as well as anger towards those in power builds up over time. Even as early signs emerge, those in power are not often willing to give up their...

Life of Pi and The Great Gatsby are both superb pieces of literature which can be exactly said with each of their respected films which embody each of the themes of the book with superb visual presentation in their use of colour scheme to the...

Introduction Stephen David Daldry was born on the 2nd of May, 1960. He is an authority in filmmaking and theater arts. Daldry has cut a niche for himself in the movie industry. He has won numerous awards; his work in the West end earned him...

Introduction Deepwater Horizon is a 2016 film directed by Peter Berg based on the real-life Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico which occured on April 20th 2010 killing 11 employees out of 126. It is the worst oil disaster in US...

This paper discusses critically the codes and conventions of three different genres of film and how they effectively communicate to an audience. You might wonder, “What is a film genre?” Well, simply put, a genre is a category/group of films characterized by a particular style,...

Film is one of the largest art forms across the globe. The idea of using films to draw attention to important social and political conversations is a common theme in all areas and cultures of film. In Portuguese cinema, specifically within the films ‘Saint George’...

Generally speaking social-realism and populist films reflect the life of the common man. According to Raymond Durgnot writing for Film Comment, there have been at least four significant eras that celebrated the so called “salt of the earth” in film. These include the French poetic...

Nowadays people consume film differently as compared to the previous decade. The advancement of the digital technology and availability of high-speed internet has played a prominent role in the way people consume film. People can watch a movie anywhere in the world provided there is...

One’s existence can be “approved” when that identity has been recognized in society; and what does that mean if identities are fluid and constantly changing throughout or lifetimes? Intersecting Identities are a normal part of life, as long as we recognize how and why our...

The revolutionary cinematic movement of the 1960s and 70s ‘Third Cinema’ was developed as a response to the realities in Latin America (and Europe’s other former colonies) at the time, be it economic, social or political. It challenged the very notion of filmmaking that had...

The Matrix Reloaded is a 2003 fictional futuristic film written and directed by Lana and Lilly Wachowski. The film is set in the future were artificial intelligence reigns over the rest of the world. As a second sequel to the matrix, it builds its story...

Introduction The Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl is a 2003 movie the first of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. It follows the story of Captain Jack Sparrow’s quest to retake control of the Black Pearl. Captain Barbosa commands the Pearl...

Movies have been filmed in several different ways, styles, and framing. However, a new form of cinemetagrophy that appeared flourished after the movie paranormal activity was released sparked the growth of the style popularly known as “found footage.” Using a more commonly used form of...

Normalizing Violence Against Women Films are a bigger part of society than ever. It is a great and simple way to entertain ourselves when there is nothing on television to watch. Violence has become a huge part of movies in the past decade with almost...

Introduction The end of the second World War in the 1940s meant the beginning of an era that was wrought with major socio-political and cultural changes for Italy, one of which was the fall of Mussolini and the fascist regime. In a post-war Italy that...

“Every myth is psychologically symbolic. ” Joseph Campbell (1985) argues that myths are an allegory for everyday life and should not only be taken at face value. That there are hidden ways that characters written from hundreds of years ago resonate with people of the...

Since drugs have been shown in films, people have had strong opinions about if this is okay to do. In 1987 President Ronald Reagan once said “the film industry should be part of the solution, not part of the problem”. The Depiction of drugs in...

Introduction Communication has many components that create one to transfer information to another by using a set of skills that makes it either verbally or nonverbally interpreted by the one you communicating to. One topic to consider in the communication stages is cultural diversity. Another...

Crazy Rich Asians, directed by Jon M. Chu and based on the popular novel by Kevin Kwan, is a cultural achievement. Chu has directed many popular films like Justin Bieber: Never Say Never and Now You See Me 2. This movie is the highest-grossing rom-com...

Stranger Things, released in 2016, pays homage to the 80’s and cult classics from that era. Brought onto streaming service Netflix, it took the world by storm, not only through the nostalgia of the show but also through the lovable cast, who have since gone...

Introduction Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark is one of my top favorite movies of all time. (I personally think that it is the best of the film series for being the most creative and least ridiculous. It’s a classic.) It is a movie...