Essays on Cinemas

The Exorcist is a 1973 horror film, directed by William Friedkin. A potent adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s novel, The Exorcist tells the story of a young girl who is possessed by a demon. The film caused a great deal of controversy when it was released as many people felt that the violence, blasphemy and young protagonist were inappropriate and damaging for audiences and for society. Admittedly, the film does not have the same shock value today as it did in 1973, partly because the cinematography and special affects now look dated and unrealistic, and partly because many ...

The Samurai Ethics: A Paradigm for Corporate Behavior by Shinya Fujimura

In this article, Fujimura advocates for the adoption of the samurai moral and ethical values into the corporate world. The author suggests that the integration of these values by corporate and businesses in wealthy countries such as the US and the UK would aid them in dealing with economic vicissitudes. Apparently, the ancient Japanese samurai culture exemplifies the importance of a society that is driven by loyalty, benevolence, and duty. Fujimura studied for his master degree in public administration at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government where he focused on social change (Fujimura 212). Fujimura also ...

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International Management Abstract The film and music industry have both evolved drastically during the past decades. From vinyl records to CD’s to digital mp3 files in the music industry, and from cassette tapes to mp4 files in the film industry. The evolution in both the film and music industry is most likely a result of the practicality demanded by the society. Individuals often seek easier and cheaper alternatives. In both of these relevant industries, the most practical solution is of course to have instant access to demanded content that is merely software and requires no type of disc. ...

The hacking of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) computer networks and confidential databases in 2014 is considered the worst and most damaging corporate cyber terrorism attack in the history of the United States. The responsibility for the attacks was claimed by a vigilante group that called itself the Guardians of Peace (GoP), whose motive for the attack was to block the release of the movie ‘The Interview’ on December 25, 2014. The movie’s plot revolved around two journalists who get an assignment to interview North Korea’s controversial dictator Kim Jong Un and are subsequently ordered to assassinate Un ...

Throughout history, Bollywood films have illustrated a representation of women in India in various forms. Arguably, it is certain that Bollywood films comprise of gender-based stereotypes. The female characters, situations, and plots concerning women in Indian films have been steered by stereotypical ideologies. Across the globe, extensive research had indicated that Indian films top the list of undermining women. Moreover, a sample survey established that Indian females, for an extended period of time, have portrayed females in sexualized roles. It is well-known that the notion of objectifying women on the screen has been a conspicuous issue that the films ...

The Arabs Portrayal in American Cinema

Introduction The problem in the development of misconceptions about the Arabs can be traced largely on how they were portrayed in western movies. As people do not generally meet Arabs in their everyday lives, the films play an important role in providing conceptions about them. Unfortunately, stereotypes and other factors proved to have shaped the way that the Arab images are depicted in cinemas. According to Michalack, it is the American popular culture that offered the lushest and most comprehensive perception of American stereotype about the Arabs, and this started as early as the 20th century until today (Michalak, ...

English

The movie and film industry has for a long time produced and brought up stars and celebrities across the world. These celebrities excel and improve in their life by selling the movies that they produce. The economic developments of many countries can be based on the movie production and sell. When the internet was introduced and developed to reach many people, it was one of the major boosts that movie stars and producers had on their careers because of the easier access to the fans and potential customers. However, the internet has become a major blow to the movie ...

With the gradual advancement in technology and the Internet, the need to automate most processes in a company is becoming more of a necessity than an option. The benefits of automation are ever increasing and helping the companies to save on extra expenses. However, its adoption lead to the increase in cyber crimes and attacks, where hackers steal information from companies and dump them on the internet or sell it. Due to the nature of these attacks, no one has an idea of when or who will be targeting them. Hence, large and mid-sized companies invest heavily on securing ...

“Shocking cinemas of the seventies “by Xavier Mendik focuses on specific films from the 1970s, and I feel that majority of those films lie forgotten or hardly discussed. He sheds light on the social and cinematic issues that made the films from that era. Mendik provides the information to attract both consumer and academic readers. However, at times, his style becomes a bit too wordy and lengthy. Still, the book is readable, maintains a consistent tone and most readers can dig into useful information on the movies from the seventies. The chapter –“Another one from the fire” is from ...

Media

The world constantly changes, from one’s daily activities, to the events happening around them. Sometimes, people tend to find themselves out of the loop because they cannot follow the changes happening around them. However, they do not need to do heavy research to return them back to the growing changes happening in the country or in the globe as an immediate source is available to them. This source is seen in a variety of mediums, from paper to visual, they call it media. The term “media” is the plural form of the word “medium”, noted as a source or method ...

Pepsi versus Coca Cola

Coca-Cola Coca-Cola is a US multinational beverage company, manufacturer, marketer and retailer of alcoholic-free drinks. The company has it’s headquarter in Atlanta. A pharmacist known as John Stith Pemberton in 1886 invented the Coca-Cola drink. In 1889, Coca-Cola formula was bought by Asa Griggs Candler, who used it to found the Coca-Cola Company in 1892 (Bodden, 2009). Under Cander’s leadership, the company grew and increased its distribution beyond Atlanta. In 1894, due to high demand for the drink, the company, through Joseph Biedenharn, installed bottling machinery that enabled the bottling of the drink.

Large scale bottling of ...

Gender equality is significant in every field especially the modern days unlike aerial where on male gender that was vied as the superb gender in everything they do.One find that the female gender are thriving on any given field and to some extent they are even doing grate in some of these field than even their counter parts from the male gender. Similarly the in the construction of cinemas or the in the field of film the female gender is no longer left behind. Research on field of film acting has come to agreed with one of the essay ...

INTRODUCTION

In this information age, the digital revolution has transformed the industry to an information based economy. Since the late 1970s, the day to day evolution of technology has shaped the modern society by introducing globalized communication. The UK mobile phone network industry is developing day by day by introducing the new-tech systems in the market. O2, Vodafone, EE, T-Mobile, and Orange are the biggest mobile phone network providers in the UK (Rushton, 2012). This report has presented a thorough economic analysis of mobile phone network industry in the UK, considering the biggest network providers in the country.

ANALYSIS OF MOBILE PHONE OPERATORS IN UK

Mobile Phone Network ...

International Marketing

Introduction

The geography of Kenya is highly diverse. The Western and Central Kenya is categorized by the Kenyan Rift Valley, Mount Elgon and Mount Kenya. Kenya is present across the equator within east-central Africa, on the Indian Ocean coast. It is two times the total size of Nevada (Central Intelligence Agency, 2014). Moreover, Kenya borders Ethiopia in the north, Somalia in the east, Uganda in the west, Tanzania in the south and lastly, Sudan in the northwest. Additionally, in the northern region, the land is barren while the southwest area is within the lush Lake Victoria Basin. The climate ...

Research paper

Educational institution

Introduction

Globalization has made a significant contribution both socially and economically. Although, the focus was mainly on the socio-economic impacts of globalization, it is important to consider globalization from the cultural point of view. Since the 80’s in 20th century, Hollywood has been putting a lot of efforts in promoting strategies toward globalization, through which Hollywood movies have virtually reached each and every corner of the planet in an unprecedented speed and scale. Globalization in Hollywood films portray the inevitable result of globalization of world economy, where the “Chinese elements”, in particular, have become an epitome in the trend ...

And Chan-Wook Park

Given the increasing globalization of the film industry, Hollywood directors have begun to pull increasingly from international sources for their creative output. Looking into the small-but-potent international film markets, often directors from other countries are given the opportunity to cross-over into Hollywood. This is certainly the case with Asian cinema; many Asian film directors who have achieved success in Japan and Hong Kong have been given the chance to make films in America in order to provide a rapidly-consuming film market with the variety and quality it desires. In the 1980s and 1990s, two Asian directors in particular crossed over ...

Annotated Bibliography: Definition of a Monster

Introduction Considering that particular focus of this research is defining what a monster is. The sources incorporated herein essentially work to define the term monster in relation to film literature, and personal perceptions. In a bid to accomplish this, sources that are to be used in the research establishes the chronology of the term monster, culture perception of the term monster, and finally the relation of monstrous characteristics to human behaviour. The most important ideas in understanding the subject of the research evident from the sources below include myths, history of monsters, magic and believes. Asma, Stephen T. On ...

I. Andrew Higson, “The Concept of National Cinema” (written 1989) 1. According to Andrew Higson, the author of “The Concept of National Cinema” (written in 1989), four criteria can be defined to measure a country’s production of its “national cinema”, such as following: - Economic based criterion. It is related to “defining cinema in economic terms” (132) concerning dominating and expanding film products to the domestic and international market. - Content based criterion. It is related to regarding the concept through its content (texts, characters, scripts, etc.) - Consumption based criterion. It is related ...

Reflection on Hotel Rwanda

Film and cinema production has been recently in the rise having improved technology over the years. This has been one of the trending factors in the music industry. Movie production in the 19th century was low and due to the lack of efficient technology to aid in production of films. Many individuals watch films with the main aim of getting entertained but today there are films which are considered to be educative, provide warning, as well as reflecting on what is trending in the society. This paper would focus and look at the film Hotel Rwanda. The film ...

Introduction

Bollywood Abroad: South Asian Diasporic Cosmopolitanism and Indian Cinema by Jigna Desai is an essay which has as its motive the need to demonstrate the importance of cinema in forming a Diaspora (South Asian) in Britain and America (Desai, 2006). Although this is the case, the film takes a feministic approach. Desai’s analysis is based on aspects such as circulation, production and reception of films from the Diaspora from which Desai theorizes sexual, gender and the racial mechanisms through which the Diaspora was formed. In essence, Desai’s research on how Bollywood was globalized covers the rise of Bollywood dating ...

Economics

Why movie prices are the same, but different for live concerts It is a good entertainment experience to watch a film or concerts on causal occasion. However, there is an unanswered question as to why all seating prices are the same for a film in a cinema. Why don’t cinema industry set different ticket prices for different seats from the first row to the last row in a room that is available to hold almost 200 audiences? While different seating prices vary greatly for concerts, the highest prices at concerts are over hundreds of dollars more expensive than the most expensive cinema ...

Introduction

Economic consequences are extremely essential for the sake of an organization, and there will be no chance exists for a company to have effectiveness in the market accordingly (Bello-Imam et al., 2004). Economics is known as the view of earning and consuming the money in a powerful and organized manner. Adam Smith and Alfred Marshal, the fathers of economics are the one who presented the most important definitions of economics and according to them the existence of markets in the economic structure are essential for an organization, and it has a direct impact with the financial and strategic position of the company ...

Movies on War can be associated to the origin of the cinemas, and both are comparatively as old as each other. War has been a fundamental product in Hollywood, and such movies on war can be seen since decades, and they continue to be huge block-busters even in the contemporary world. The movies on war provide outline and structure to war, define war cultures, identify enemies, form objectives, and allow the audience to remotely get familiar with the danger and enthusiasm of the front line. In America, the movies on war were central to the global publicity campaigns waged during ...

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Introduction

In contemporary times, films with local Asian themes have become highly popular in Western media formats, especially those produced in Hollywood. A crucial factor to think about when it comes to the popularity of local Asian themes is the constant lookout of Hollywood producers for new themes that they deem as “exotic” or outside the typical Western contexts they have produced for so long a time already. Such is understood within the idea that Western media is much more popular compared to East Asian media, mainly because of the fact that English has ...

INDIVIDUAL EXTENDED EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

A cinema company, Hoyts, is looking to expand through more franchises in Australia. Hoyts is currently holding around 18% of cinemas across the country. It is tied with its subsidiary Val Morgan, an advertising agency focused on the cinema business, in capturing 95% of the market. With the emergence of the Internet, that percentage faces the threat of declining market share. Also, the profitability of expansion would be in question, as people shift to a relatively easier and cheaper access to movies than buying tickets in the cinema. In this regard, Hoyts seeks to recapture the market. Thus, it ...

Entities are subject to depends upon the effectiveness, both economic effectiveness and strategic effectiveness. In fact, whatever the organization does is to enhance their productivity from both financial and non-financial aspects. There are hundreds of organizations are working in the world, and every organization depends upon the working of their departments, hence every department matters for an organization, because every department works to push the organization towards the prosperity and effectiveness. These strategies are crucial to enhance the strategic well being of the organization, not for increasing the bank balance of the companies, but these strategic decisions would ...

Of all kinds of entertainment, movies are, by far, the single most popular type. People are so used to watching films cablecast on TV that they cannot envision the time when no sound was to be heard coming from beyond the screen. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine soundless motion pictures, which used to be a reality more than 100 years ago. Cinematographic was an infant industry in the second half of the 19th century. However, in the early 20th century, experts created the first movie with a synchronized sound coupled to image reproduced on the screen. Actors and film directors ...

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Palace Theatre

Frostburg Palace Theatre is a non-profit organization. The movies shown here are mainly the classic, foreign films, independent and documentaries as well as used for holding various charitable events and shows. Frostburg Palace Theatre is located in Frostburg, 31 East main street. The theatre was started as a non-profit organization in 1985 after threats to close. The residents had to come up with a method of how to save the building and the method was the starting of a theatre house where the members of the society ...

Executive Summary

The mission of Londonderry Theaters is to provide an exceptional entertainment experience to our customers. By offering current and popular titles, 3D movies, exceptional facilities, and outstanding customer service, our customers will be thrilled with their experience. Londonderry Theaters will establish itself as the area’s premier movie theater complex. Londonderry Theaters will be located in Londonderry, New Hampshire. Londonderry Theaters serves clients in the Londonderry and Derry area of New Hampshire. Customers live in these towns and the surrounding areas. Our target market is anyone who loves movies, males and females ages 2-100. These movie goers are ...

New German Cinema was a profoundly "national" cinema with reference to the administrative and financial structure of West Germany's film industry New German Cinema is a group of films that were filmed in West Germany in the 1960s to the early 1980s. There are three common elements that critics have identified which unite the films. Firstly, the directors of the film were born during the period of the 2nd World War and they grew up in a divided Germany. Therefore, they can be referred to as directors from one generation. Secondly, the new cinema had a funding criteria and opportunity which was ...

Arguably, both Mainstream and Independent cinema in the United States have had a profound effect on the nation’s entire cinema and film industry since the beginning of the 20th century. It is coherent to note that since the 1920s, the film industry in America has had remarkable progress and has grossed more money annually than any other country. There are numerous changes in film production since its initiation in the early 1920s to date. Notably, independent and mainstream films have had similar changes in stylistic traits and have over the years gone a step further to broaden their narrative form ...

- Psycho (1960) - Alfred Hitchcock The movie is about a couple who meet in a hotel in phoenix Arizona to discuss their marriage plans. They discuss about the scarcity of finances to afford a decent marriage. Upon returning to the offices the lady, Marion, gets a client who brings $40000 to buy an apartment for his daughter. Marion devises a way in which she can elope with the money where she succeeds. The movie director shows how desperate Marion is to get finances. She embarks on a long journey out of town. She has a lot of troubles on the way from suspicion by ...

Nicholas Mirzoeff (3) defines visual culture as the process by which visual consumers seek meaning or pleasure or information from visual events as presented on a technological interface. Visual technology is any medium designed to purpose of enabling or augmenting the visual experience. This paper will interrogate the relevance of visual culture in everyday life. A recent image captured in Egypt will be used to test the application of the concepts of visual culture in post modern images. The study of visual culture is necessitated by the great divide that exists between contemporary visual experiences and the ability to ...

Laura Mulvey is renowned theorist of films who has written several articles about different aspects in the film industry. One of her most famous essays is “Visual pleasure in the Narrative Cinema” that generally explores the roles played by women in the film industry. Mulvey in this essay states that there are two general roles of women in the film industry. Women in the “Visual pleasure in the Narrative Cinema” excite their audience from their erotic antics as they also gain satisfaction from the feeling that they are attracting attention from the opposite sex. Their dressing styles and general ...

The sector of production of cinema in respective countries is what defines such cinemas as National Cinema. This can be described as a term used to introduce a film or theatre productions in relating them to their country of origin and production. Several theatrical productions in the have been associated with their country of origins and their origins sometimes influence how their production and setting will be portrayed. The cinema industry in German like any other national cinemas have been characterized by a distinct revolutionary change as compared to the cinema industry before the World War II and the end of the ...

With respect of the launch date for Harry Potter and the deathly hallows II, Warner bros is expected not to change the dates. There exists Nash equilibrium at this point. This is because based on research, moving the debut date would welcome competition from other debuts. However, this would not help either company. The biggest bet would be to stay put and not change the dates for the production of the new Harry Potter movie since it would be closing on a series of movies they have produced. If Harry Potter’s Deathly Hallows is moved forward even a week from ...

Advertising from my viewpoint refers to promotional means of goods, services, or product to the public, with an aim of sales increases by drawing the attention of people through positive campaigns of their target products. Advertisement has changed into a compound form of communication, where thousands of businesses make new advertisement each year targeting their consumers, by conveying messages, which promotes their products. Methods of advertising are common in our daily lives, and the early Egyptians, and the ruins in Pompeii saw signs of the first form of advertisement from paintings in caves, and writings. Advertising has come a long way ...

Vista Entertainment Solution’s organizational structure and management

Vista Entertainment Solutions, an Aukland based company, is a global leader in providing entertainment software solutions. The company produces softwares such as for more than 1000 cinemas in over 50 countries around the world such as USA, Mexico, UK, China, and Australia among others. Some of the company’s clients include Greater Union, Cinemex, Apollo Cinemas, and VUE Cinemas among others. In addition to providing software for cinemas, Vista also offers solutions for beverage and food outlets with a particular emphasis for those associated with entertainment attractions and avenues (vista.co.nz.)

Until 2010, the company was coowned by SKYCITY Cinemas- 50% and ...

In the 1930s, American culture was at a crossroads. In the middle of the Great Depression with a failing economy, still reeling from both World War I and Prohibition, crime was on the rise. Organized crime and gangs were a part of the media zeitgeist, as Al Capone, Chicago mobs and other big-city trades peddled drugs, alcohol, and sex. The presence of these vices, and their increased prevalence in American culture, demonstrated the need (or at least the desire) to combat them through preventative measures and cautionary tales to make sure the youth of America did not get lured into these same ...

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1. Executive Summary.. 4 1. Introduction.. 4 2. Porters five forces (Task 1). 5 2.1. Threat of Entry 5 2.2 Power of Suppliers. 6 2.3 Threat of Substitutes.. 6 2.4 Competitive Rivalry. 6 2.5 Power of Buyers. 6 3 PEST Analysis 7 3.1 Political Aspect 7 3.2 Economic View.. 7 3.3 Sociological View.. 8 3.4 Technological View 8 4. SWOT Analysis.. 8 4.1 Strength 9 4.2 Weakness 9 4.3 Opportunity.. 10 4.4 Threat 10 5. Marketing and Positioning strategies (Task 2) ...

Life in East Berlin was quite different from that of West Berlin. Most of the citizens of East Berlin saw the state as being illegitimate, it was artificial and as a puppet of the Stalin regime. They were very opposed to the enforcement of a single party state of the ruling Socialist Unity Party. They viewed the state of West Germany as being more attractive. Most of the East Germans commonly viewed the Socialist Unity Party as the Russian party not as a German party (Ross 25). However this was not the only aspect of life in East Germany, in fact life ...

1. Introduction

Cinema business has been developing in India for over a century, however it has been traditionally based on manual labour and very simplistic processes. However, the entry of the entertainment software leader from New Zealand, Vista Entertainment Solutions, has changed the situation in the market and has initiated a large wave of technology integration into cinema operations (Vista, 2012). The aim of this paper is to explore the success of Vista in the Indian market. Firstly, it analyzes the overall market environment in the cinema business in terms of the opportunities and threats it poses for Vista. Secondly, the paper examined ...

1. Introduction

Cinema business has been developing in India for over a century, however it has been traditionally based on manual labour and very simplistic processes. However, the entry of the entertainment software leader from New Zealand, Vista Entertainment Solutions, has changed the situation in the market and has initiated a large wave of technology integration into cinema operations (Vista, 2012). The aim of this paper is to explore the success of Vista in the Indian market. Firstly, it analyzes the overall market environment in the cinema business in terms of the opportunities and threats it poses for Vista. Secondly, the ...

War and technological innovation have often gone hand-in-hand. Advancements in weaponry are, of course, inevitable under the circumstances of armed conflict, but the necessities of logistical concerns like supply, transport, communication and medicine are likewise sources of invention. World War I, a global conflict the likes of which the world had never seen, yielded an unprecedented number of technical advances, the magnitude of which were commensurate with a conflict large enough to destroy the old world order. This was the first war that brought entire citizen populations under fire. As such, it was inevitable that the world’s governments should turn ...