Visual Arts & Film Studies Essays

The distinction between space and place varies since there are mediated places that do not exist in geographical space such as online environments that enable interaction without being physically present in the same place. This means interaction happens in space and not in a place. Mobile phones create a Spatio-temporal effect to the use of time and place by redistributing presence in people’s simultaneous interactions.

The film Gallipoli is about the lives of two young men who went to war to fight against the Turks. The movie starts with Archie being trained by his Uncle as he is preparing for a big race that could jumpstart his running career. At the race Frank meets Archie, Frank placed a bet that he could beat Archie, Archie won and Frank lost his money.

One of the most notable reasons is the United States' support for Israel which through the years gradually increased Arab's detestation over the Americans. However, according to Rubin (2002), there are doubts that Arab anti-Americanism is just mainly about the actual U.S. policy on the region since it is known to have a strong link with Arabs and Muslim countries over the years.

Pinter also stressed that the American citizen should accept the responsibility of allowing an illegitimate president to take power. Pinter also considers Tony Blair as a “deluded idiot” and should resign because of continually ignoring the protests by the Britons. He returned to the limelight, after his operation for cancer, speaking against Americans' belligerence.

Fashion illustration can be considered one of the most important elements in fashion design and functions as a means of visualization.  Based on the different studies that were conducted, fashion illustration can have different importance, one of which is aesthetic value.  This can be attributed to the fact that illustrating is a form of visual art.

Still, the news reports did not show any sign of downplaying the role of women in politics by not showing an image of downgrading the character of Mckew’s like a female political candidate that is traditionally done to female politicians before such as focusing on their looks and clothes than on political issues they spouse.

In the tradition of the neorealist films that sprang from Italy after the great world war, De Sica utilized the purist stance of this movement such as 1) the story is set among the poor, working-class people; 2) opposes big studio production but filming in mostly poor and impoverished locations; 3) nonprofessionals or untrained performers for primary and secondary roles.

There are many issues that were not addressed prior to the ceasing of operation of the Council for the Aboriginal Reconciliation. In fact, the key eight issues identified by the Council as crucial to the reconciliation process have not been fully addressed particularly in the areas of social justice and human rights.

Although the 1955 Love a Many Splendoured Thing did not exploit the name of a region in China, and it did not engage in the exoticism or onomatopoeic value of the region’s name, there is still a resounding manifestation in its point of view. The film revolves around the 1950-1953 North and South Korean War, in which the Peoples' Republic of China and the Soviet Union supported the North.

In 1984, the so-called Fifth Generation Chinese Filmmakers released Yellow Earth, a film depicting the life of the people in twentieth-century China. Although it leans on the dramatic side of the people’s struggle, Yellow Earth was highly praised in the Hong Kong International Film Festival in 1985.

The movie has been recognized for a long time as a suitable representation of mental disabilities in parenthood. Through various cultural models, Sam has been used to represent various views. In this movie, he fits as a disabled person, within social paradigms. Through the Movie, a cultural model is suitable in the evaluation of traditional acuities of disabilities.

Generally speaking, the overall concepts which are noted in each of the sequences are based on creating specific responses that relate to communicating a message, such as emotion.  The audiovisual theories and statements show how the use of specific techniques work together to create this same implication.

Both Bunuel and Dali were young men then and wanted to break away from the avant-garde genre of artistic films that had become popular with the French bourgeois society. The main trait of surrealism, a genre that painters like Dali continued to use in their paintings even later, was its deliberate attempt to shock viewers with gory images that were nonetheless borrowed from reality.

American filmmakers like Robert Altman and Quentin Tarintino and others owe a debt of gratitude to the originators of this style that rebelled against the formal style of film that had been the dominant form up until then. This paper will look at the conditions that led to the creation of the New Wave style, its leading innovators, its stylistic changes, and the influences it had on films.

A story that evokes passionate love and made its viewers shed tears in their eyes, “The Notebook” is a film directed by Nick Cassavetes inspired by the novel with the same title written by Nicholas Sparks. The theme of the story falls under the category of drama. It has something to do with mainly the idea of the complexity of human relationships and a little of the idea of human nature. 

There reigns the feeling that the faintly sensual revealing of one’s body adds to the charm of the person. It gives the wearer a feeling of being more irresistible and hip. It also gives the additional consolation that you will always be stared upon; whether with admiration or repulsion is another matter.

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Derek Vinyard laments the fact that the federal government has to spend a colossal sum of money on services of people who have no right to be in the country.  Derek is irritated by the fact that illegal immigrants have to be locked up in correctional facilities leading to more spending by the government. He recommends to the authority to screen for convicted felons before locking people up.

The movie shows how in the early days, American society did not embrace diversity but in modern-day, diversity is being embraced fully. Multi-cultural families are a true representation of this diversity. People are allowed to marry from whichever race they want without any racist opposition from the extended family.

The film “Days of Being Wild “ is based upon the playboy exploits of Yuddy, played by Leslie Cheung. Yuddy is a complex character who seems to be superficial and somewhat heartless as he uses and then discards women in his life. However, as his own history unfolds, the film reveals his nature as a reaction to the way in which his early life was a set of conflicts.

The personality of the director and star of the film “Insee Thong“ is very evident within the film. The film is centered on his character, a great deal of the filming showing his position within the action. While there are many other characters, the longer scenes are on Mitr, his apparent connection to the character clearly coming through from the way I which he develops his character arc.

This domain has always been controversial because the knowledge secured by human interests tends to differ from those of religious traditions. Even in the modern age of reason, censorship "is an enduring feature of all human communities" (Jansen 1991, p.4).

Various film aspects such as the mood, character development, lighting, sound, and tone are all done exceptionally, which makes the film a memorable one. Ex Machina’s plot is almost similar to the plots of other films such as Ghost in the Shell and Metropolis, but Garland makes a number of distinctions that set the film apart from the others. 

Whatever happens in the studio and it is difficult for a photographer to make a good portrait, he can try to capture your image and steal your soul. People record good and bad times and photographers play a role of a mediator between their past and present. From this perspective, taking a photo is a complex cultural link between two people or a group of people.

The leadership of Jiu’er puts the Red Sorghum solidly under the good footing of the communist ideology having overthrown the evil capitalism castigated by Li Datong. After some time, Yu drunkenly returns to Jiu’er and proclaims himself as the new husband though at first, she throws him out. Later he claims his prize after he urinates at the wine vats the fact that improves the flavor of the wine.

Renoir and Gauguin were able to take advantage of the technical advances of the time – the new colors and tube paints that had come in the 1840s and the ease of transport that had come with the expansion of the French railways by many thousands of miles that opened up the whole country as a potential studio.

Of late, a refreshing attitude of pluralism is seen in Europe and America with regard to the various other cultures of the world, which has, in turn, encouraged the popularity of ‘World art’ in general and ‘Asian art’ in particular. Today, one could see exclusive museum collections and university departments dedicated to these art forms.

The womna characters in this film also conform to the tendency of the Director to present them in a negative light, either as victims of exploitation or as the doers of heinous evil. The film also demonstrates the Director’s tendency to explore the dark side of the human psyche and to dwell upon it through the use of trick photography and shocking details.

Adapting Broadway musicals for the cinema -- examples of which are Oklahoma! and On the Town -- is extremely challenging and complicated for the film-makers. The difficulty lies greatly in choosing the approach in making and producing films whose manuscripts are largely derived from drama plays: realism or artifice.

Some critics have dubbed the genre responsible for such films as 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933 and Footlight Parade have even gone so far as to refer to them as being within a genre of “escapists”, “No attack on the musical has been so persistent and forceful as that which brands the genre as escapist.

The revolution makes the audiences quite active in the movie or video they are watching. It is quite similar to the concept of simulation and modeling where people actually participate and assume that whatever they are watching is not just a visual effect but they are experiencing those things live and sitting on their comfortable seats, they can enjoy those experiences fully.

Dear fellow actors and members of the production crew, my name is Peter, a director from the Gold Coast Production Company. I am delighted to welcome everyone and congratulate you on being part of the most extraordinary play of our times; “Stolen” by Jane Harrison. It is a great honor for my company and me to work with such an experienced team.

Paul Schrader truly creates cinema going beyond the affirmation of directorial vision. He produces films driven by “issues of obsession, memory, and the difficult nature of experience”. George Kouvaros has rightly said, “Schrader was a representative of a new generation of writer-directors of the 1970s.

Cinema is now considered seriously as a structured platform like that of a language. That is to say, the notion of film language is already a familiar field in the writings of some of the earliest theories in cinema. The analogy between language and film is a much-debated as well as the researched topic in terms of developing poetic and linguistic qualities of cinema.

A chance happening is an incident is one in which no reason can be identified to explain its purpose or cause. It is also called an accidental event. “Destiny implies that there is some Power which decrees or determines the course of events beforehand” (Is Destiny a Matter of Choice or A Matter of Chance?).

The director has adopted and implied the technique in his works successfully and it becomes evident from the creative traits of his films that aim to shock the audience with a realization about their actual existence. Individual imagistic representation has never been encouraged by the director, rather he has always been more focused on providing a totalitarian perspective to the audience so that they can ponder over the situation according to their varied perspectives to interpret the film.

The author states that the award-winning building is designed by an international architect, Daniel Libeskind. The museum is a talking figure of our world that has been torn apart by differences and conflicts over the years. It is situated at The Quays, about 2 miles from Manchester city center.

The paper will explore the contribution of illustration and its evolution of the modern-day application. An illustrator depends majorly on different aspects to draw his or her inspirations and these aspects will form the basis of the paper. The illustration is an art that can be traced from the mid-1880s.

Before consolidating visual supports into addresses, the speaker ought to comprehend that if utilized inaccurately, the visual won't be a help, yet a distraction planning ahead is essential when utilizing visual helps. The motivation behind the visual support is to enhance the presentation (Visual-memory.co.uk, 2014).

The author states that Lau prides himself with his artistic approach to comics as well as his interest in creativity that is able to give a message to others who are interested in the up and coming entertainment of the next generation. Lau pointed out that regional artists are community-oriented.

The film has had an excellent impact on people all over the world, especially those trying to study filming techniques and camera direction. It has become a very important part of all film studies as the way Ray does it, it is almost as if it signifies the flow of poetry or the flow of water lazily down a river.  

The author states that the artistic techniques were recorded regarding his use of color and light to create more realistic, dimensional images on a flat surface. The word ‘Renaissance’ literally means ‘rebirth,’ but “the term ‘Renaissance’ might now be defined as a model of cultural history.

After the call, Jean accidentally falls the stairs and breaks her foot with no one to attend to her but her Mexican maid, Maria. Her best friend for ten years who was available at that time but did not help her because she was having a massage. With the care Maria showed her during this time of need, her attitudes towards her changed. 

According to famous French writer Andre Malraux who had also adorned the post of Minister of Culture in Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle’s administration; the film is a twin of art and industry. Considering the dual-idea of film that has cultural and industrial reception, her observation is very true.

The author states that the fils starts as Henry is driving a car with something loud and disturbing bumping occasionally from the trunk and two other men in the front section of the car with him, who he identifies as Jimmy and Tommy while he asks if they hear the noise too. A badly beaten and bloody man is in the trunk trying to get out.

The author states that the movie brings out the childhood of a person living in the slums and the challenges he faces throughout his life. Living in the slums these boys face many challenges from being chased by cops for playing on private land to being beaten up by their school teacher, losing their mother in communal rights.

This essay analyzes that by mixing truth with conjecture and historical records with staged and choreographed scenes, Oliver Stone in JFK has created a film that nearly defines its own genre. Through his use of historical footage, recordings, and photographs, Stone is able to capture a sense of the historic in JFK.

Benjamin defines mechanical reproduction as the process of reproducing something new from an original work by way of imitation. In the description, he gives the examples of the earliest forms of work to be mechanically reproduced which included the woodcut graphic art even before scripts could be reproduced by print and lithography.

The film product type that I will be using is 35MM which requires the cinematographer to pay particularly close attention to exposure. As the story progresses through different forms of mood such as happy, sad, angry, loving, my objective will be to calculate the exposure with the resource for lighting in various locations.

It also used a lot of humor to get its point across, including acute skit featuring characters that looked like they belonged in The Simpsons. There were a lot of graphics and other visual aids to keep it interesting, and the movie did not attempt to talk over anybody's head. The intended audience was anybody who is interested in this subject.