Essays on Movies

The strange thing about actors (male and female) is that the few that misbehave and give the profession a tarnished image are the ones that seem to get all the media attention. Wild parties, rude and offensive behaviour, assaults, infidelity, drug taking, including overdosing, and alcoholic binges are headline news. A famous actor living the ordinary life, happily in a relationship, grocery shopping, raising a family, paying taxes and appearing for charity is simply not newsworthy. We, the public, idolise these usually ‘normal’ people for the wrong reasons. A more disturbing aspect of being a famous’ actor is that ...

Masculinity is a set of qualities traditionally inherent to males. However, these features change through time. Some experts mentioned that the original idea suffered severely from the development of consumerism in 90s. Men were turned from the so called Caveman Masculinity to other behavioral patterns that would make them buy more goods. Levant and Kopecky are examples of authors who thought masculinity is in crisis. Like they mentioned in their book: “raised to believe that “real men” don’t feel fear, sadness or much of nay other emotions, we’re now told we should not only feel these emotions ...

Introduction

The paper attempts to provide a brief critique of the movie “the imitation game” in light of the leadership theories. Ahead of it, the RLP and RLR theories are also explained, and both have been related to the movie. The main character of the movie is Alan Turing, who leads a group under the supervision of the United Kingdom’s government. In addition to it, Alan Turing also exhibits some strange attributes which are entirely related to his personal life.

Critique of the Movie

The movie is totally based on the biography of the Alan Turing, who is a gay man by nature. ...

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French language is an intricate language that involves many rules that are quite different from the English language. For English speakers, learning French is not always an easy task. In many of the French words, some letters are spelled out but only remain silent for reasons that most French speakers don’t even understand. Moreover, special characters that are not part of the English alphabet are present in French language, like Ç, Ǽ, and Œ. Some letters or characters, on the other hand, take on multiple sounds. However, no matter how complex it is to learn the French language, the ...

Modern roads were developed in the XX century at the time cars became affordable for the Americans. As the society develops and people invent more advanced technologies the life gets more and more convenient and safe. It concerns roads as well. A modern road should be safe and provide the traffic safety. The road engineers should think about how to reduce the possible harm on the highways from traffic collisions. The construction, design, and regulation of the roads should be well thought out. Highway design is always based on the landscape principles and engineering principles of grade cross-section, right-of-way, ...

Cities in Cinemas: “Gone Baby Gone” by Ben Affleck

Gone Baby Gone is a film from 2007 and it is about the dark side of humanity, selfishness, but also about caring and about being moral and righteous. These themes are present in the film Gone Baby Gone and the film is successful in depicting major social and family issues. The story follows child kidnapping, two private detectives, the police and their attitude towards what means to do the right thing. The protagonist is a private detective, Patrick and he is a man of high integrity and moral standards, focused on doing his job consciously. The dark side of ...

Gone Baby Gone is a thriller movie that involves a working call neighborhood in Boston. However, it follows unhappily the footstep of two other crime movies in Boston, where it only depicts the famous characters as inherently unworthy and assumes their neighborhoods on one that involves a lot of crime scene in which everyone seems guilty of something since they all involve themselves in ‘ugly’ or ‘evil’ acts (Goldsmith 54). The adaptation involved in crime scene novels does the writing and makes the movie a typical hard-boiled motion picture to the point of being overcooked. For this reason, Gone ...

Article Review

Article Review I review such article as “Gender Flux: Transatlantic Influence on Fashioning the Cross-dresser in American Silent Cinema” by author Ricardo E. Zulueta. It has been published in the journal “The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture” in 2015. It should be noted, that until now, there is no single view of the nature of gender. On the one hand, gender is associated with the models, which are developed for the scientific description of the problems associated with gender issues. On the other hand, gender may be considered as a social phenomenon, which is created by people in ...

Before Sunset

A city is a natural habitation for people in the 21st century. People are born, they study, work and die in cities. A place, wherein people spend most of their time should be both multi-functional and convenient. Thus, city planning is of outmost importance for people to live in a comfortable and friendly environment. There have been numerous attempts to improve urban planning and to create a dream city. Some of such attempts remained to be theoretical developments only, while others were realized, for example, such utopian projects as Howard’s Garden Cities of Tomorrow or Le Corbusier’s ...

The use of cityscapes in cinema began in the mid-1920s with Berlin being the birth city of these new types of movies. Since then, cities have provided a production site as well as consumptions and distribution sites. The usage of cities in movies also assists in explaining different emerging issues within the modern urban society. Using cities as sites for shooting movies allows an understanding issues of the public sphere and social space (Mennel 32). Employing city landscape when shooting movies also help in promoting an understanding of modern aesthetics. Linklater’s movie Before Sunset tells a romantic story ...

Forwarding and countering are the techniques used for successful academic writing. The main goal of this essay is to show how Robert Rosenstone uses these techniques for discussing the works of other scholars. In order to achieve this goal, the information about these techniques was studied carefully and the chapter of Rosenstone’s book was examined. The first essay Rosenstone encounters in his chapter Mainstream Drama, is written by Gerda Lerner. In her essay, she analyzes three different films. Lerner tries to judge the films properly, but the essay goes back and forth between the variety of different judgments. ...

Introduction

This paper provides a review of a movie named “Training day” and critique of the movie in the light of the RLR and RLP theories of leadership. Denzel Washington is the main character in the movie “training day” who acts some leader. His made up name is Alonzo. He is a rebellious leader who has some villainous characteristics inside him. Alonzo is a cop in the Los Angeles police department. He always displays some unusual attributes while he is on duty.

Critique of the Movie

As a matter of fact, Alonzo is of the view that justice is not served on the court ...

Film Analysis Paper # 1 (Before Sunset)

The meeting of Celine and Jesse has taken place after 9 years, since their romantic walks through Vienna, and they seem to be complete strangers. Each has his own life, he possesses favorite books and the family, where the laughter is not heard; she has a friend, in which she is not sure. They met, complained to each other, remembered last meeting and talked a lot. Both became older, both are passionate about some particular things in life. They do not live in misery and are alive and well. While watching the movie, it is easy to see the ...

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Introduction

Oculus Rift is an application device from the field of Virtual Reality (VR) that potentially manipulates people's mind with a 3D experience. With virtual reality, it is now feasible to provide users with an experience that earlier would not have been possible. Virtual reality is a computerized simulated environment that through the help of some device gives the user an experience of that environment. The user through his mind experiences the virtual environment created and projected through the device enabling VR. The environment generated and perceived by ...

1-Introduction

There are different traffic light signal that controls motorists in Dubai City, one of the largest and busiest cities. Different light signals have been installed at designated pedestrian crossing paths on the main intersections. The three main signs are yellow, green and red lights, which every motorists plying on route in Dubai must be aware off. For example, the yellow light signal is an indication for pedestrians to slow down, while red releases all motorists on the go. Meanwhile, the green light allows motorist to go, and cross (Krane 188). However, violation to these traffic laws is subject to ...

There can be no denial of the fact that the novel, Great Expectations, is one of the finest works of literature. The novel has intrigued the literary critics as well as the avid readers alike, and it is deemed among the most famous literary works in the history of literature. The stalwart author, Charles Dickens goes on to exude his literary quintessence and aesthetic appeal in this novel that has left a lasting mark in the minds of one and all owing to its content and portrayal. Indeed, this novel in context is one of the most apt literary ...

Film Studies

The primary aim behind making movies is to visually communicate the cultural ideas, while leaving the articulation of the movies’ themes to a wide range of receptive audience. Although a particular film genre and its identifiable iconography can traverse across national boundaries, yet comprehending and understanding the intended message of a particular film still calls for a quite a bit of premonition and intelligence. An American scholar in the field of Japanese cinema, Donald Richie states that contrary to a few nations like France and the United States, motion pictures have been regarded as a highly reputable form of ...

I. Introduction Cyber or computer crime refers illegal acts in which a computer or computer network is a: target of the act, a facilitator of the act, or platform on which the act occurs. Regardless of the category, computer crimes as a whole is one of the fastest growing areas of criminality. Moreover, as the world moves increasing online, computer crimes are likely to become one of law enforcement’s primary challenges. Law enforcement must take steps now to understand the threat that computer crimes pose. A better understanding will allow police to make the necessary preparations so that ...

In this paper, we will try to explain how the montage is linked to the images in the movie, because each image is associated by audience with a specific film. In addition, editing directly affects on the narration in the film. We will research the articles of the three different authors, Rudolf Arnheim, Andre Bazin and Sergei Eisenstein, which relate exclusively to the montage. In addition, we will analyze the film “Fist of Fury” in terms of art of montage. Let us start with Rudolf Arnheim. In his book called “Film as art”, he describes that the main thing ...

Remember the Titans (2000)

What does this statement mean to you – “Attitude reflects leadership?” Explain your answer!

ANSWER: “Attitude reflects leadership,” in the movie “Remember the Titans” (Yakin), mean that dispositional beliefs, values, and feelings of players was dictated by their leader’s own attitude. In the directive (task) dimension of leadership, a leader helps his team players achieve their goal through one-way communication using motivational speech, for instance. Examples include giving direction, defining goals, attaining a goal, and evaluating an outcome. In the supportive (relationship) dimension of leadership, a leader assists his members by means of two-way communication to feel comfortable among themselves. In the effective dimension of leadership, a leader ...

Winter bones

Teardrop Dolly is one of the main heroes of well-known book and movie «Winter bones». He is uncle of Ree Dolly who tried to find the way out of dramatic situation in her life. It is quite interesting to notice how her attitude to Teardrop evolved through the plot. Firstly, she was scared of him always looking as nightmare then after some events she started to see the real Teardrop who appeared to be the only person she could trust. He has amazing character that is impossible to understand without deep analysis. His three blue teardrops done in jailhouse ...

Children of Heaven

The film Children of Heaven is Iranian film released in 1997. The main theme in the film is family love and sacrifice they make for each other. The other important themes are dignity in poverty and effort that people make in order to survive as well as the contrast between urban and rural areas. The family is consisted of the parents, a son and a daughter and all of them are good people who happen to be poor and live in a poor neighborhood in Tehran. They are honest, hard-working and represent the society which is selfless and caring. ...

Blade Runner was released in 1982 and the director of the film is Ridley Scott. The main topics in the movie are the depiction of a dystopian world where people live in a hyper reality that is empowered through the scientific advancement and generated through media. Another topic is love and women who are femme fatales because love has survived and has a place in the new world order. The third important topic is courage as well as integrity of the protagonist of the film who is Blade Runner and has the task of hunting down and executing replicants, ...

We would like to analyze the movie “Children of Heaven” (1997) and more precisely the issues, raised in it (IMDb). This film, produced in Iran, is a very thoughtful picture, raising a lot of social and moral issues. If you look at the film from a philosophical point of view and if we dig deep enough, we will see that this movie is about the true moral values, about the sense of responsibility to the family, about a true self-dedication for the sake of the whole family. Here there are raised the questions that everyone, even the kids, must ...

Good Bye, Lenin

“Everything begins with Marx, continues on with Lenin, and ends with the refrain, Welcome, Mr. Brezhnev”, says the classics of critical theory. How come socialist revolutions begin with bright slogans and promises of the emancipation of every social group but soon end up with Stasi, KGB, Gulags, economic stagnation and deep coma? Why does it need the Wall to be built to prevent the people not from the intervention but from escaping if, by theory, everything is made in sake of people’s happiness? The destinies of the characters of Good Bye Lenin movie (like many of people from ...

This story resembles the example of successful romantic comedy which is concerned about the life of the people after the death when some of them, who has committed the suicide, meet at the way-station in order to exchange the experience and thoughts. The main idea of the film and message delivered by the editor is that everyone should have the worthy life. At the same time, the person should enjoy the life given, while it is highly important to find the person worth loving in order to add value to the personal life. Symbolism plays the important role in ...

Most parents receive parenting information from informal sources. Those sources may include advice from family members or friends, social media influences or the internet or “popular” print sources (as opposed to academic sources). In general, people do not necessarily check whether or not the advising source is qualified to dispense parenting information, but rather if it rings true on an intuitive level. In researching six sources, three web based and three popular print sources, I was intrigued by what I had found. At www.parents.com there was an article titled “10 Books to Read by Kindergarten”. As a kindergarten teacher ...

Literature has always been an important aspect through time. Literature plays a significant role in our day to day lives too. From our daily interactions to our study of different events and occurrences through time. Just like art, it helps us escape from our unpleasant daily realities and also helps us interact with the world around us in a more liberal and open-minded way. It brings about the creative imagination of a person through written or spoken word, for instance, poetry, plays as well as fiction and non-fiction materials. Comedies and tragedies also form an important part of history ...

Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Overview Fast forward. There is a woman named Susan Collins. She wrote a book. Actually a whole series of books. People read them and liked them. Probably some executive in Lionsgate read it and liked. So they decided to make a movie out of it. Actually a series of films. The first movie “Hunger Games” was a success but the director – Gary Ross said to have a very tense schedule so Francis Lawrence was invited to film the sequel. For those who have seen both movies – the difference is obvious. It is also obvious that Francis Lawrence like his ...

In "Merchants of Cool", so-called "cool hunters" are featured. Cool hunters are marketers who, in search of the next "big teenage craze", attempt to scientifically research how and what to sell to the rapidly-growing teenage demographic. Cool hunters collect marketplace data about teenagers through exhaustive surveys, questionnaires, interviews, focus groups, and even personal visits at home. Of course, the goal of a cool hunter is to tap the teenage marketplace for about $100 billion a year (Rushkoff, 2001, internet). Moreover, the estimated size of this very large demographic -- about 33 million Americans -- makes it especially lucrative (Rushkoff, ...

Introduction

Netzly (2000) defines special effects as the process of turning the imaginary events of a film look so real. This can be achieved mechanically through makeup and visual manipulations of images. In the early years of film production, special effects were manually done but in the current generation, both visual effects and makeup can be achieved through the use of computer generated imagery (CGI) (Netzly, 2000). Use of specialized materials like silicone to creatively transform a film cast into what the director envisages and in accordance with the theme of the film is the work of the makeup and ...

Red Dawn is a movie directed by Bradley, Dan and written by Carl Ellsworth, Jeremy Passmore, Kevin Reynolds, and John Milius that was released in 2012. It is important to note that the film released in 2012 is a remake of a similarly titled film released in 1984. This movie feature prominent actors in its cast including Josh Peck (Matt), Chris Hemsworth (Jed), Josh Hutcherson (Robert), Isabel Lucas (Erica), Brett Cullen (Tom), Connor Cruise (Daryl), and Adrianne Palicki (Toni). In summary, this War film portrays an American City waking up to an invasion by Koreans seen through the paratroopers ...

Social media is, without a doubt, here to stay. But why would anyone be interested in a social media app where your messages disappear forever in 10 seconds. In her December 26, 2015 article for Pocket-lint entitled “What’s the point of Snapchat and how does it work?”, journalist Elyse Betters attempts to answer that question through a review and analysis of the popular “disappearing” photo and video messaging mobile computer application Snapchat. Ultimately, Betters argues that Snapchat interesting because it provides one of the simplest ways for people to tell stories. Betters goes on to try to prove ...

Abstract

The ‘Prime Suspect’, is an exceptional television series movie analysis, that provides a deeply profound and insightful picture of how a female officer, handles a murder investigation, with a murder squad of male comrades or counterparts on her team. In this movie, we find that DCI Jane Tennison, is the first available female officer of her rank, who is summoned by the higher authorities of the Metropolitan police force, to take charge of a murder investigation case, due to a crisis, where her superior DCI John Shefford, suffers an immediate cardiac arrest. In this review, we come across the ...

A short film “Ghost Recon: Alpha” is the background to the game “Ghost Recon: Future Soldier”, released in 2012 (Alaux et al.). The French company, engaged in the video games production, Ubisoft performed the adaptation of the given film. After a bad start of the game Prince of Persia on the big screen, Ubisoft came to a more serious approach to this issue. Ubisoft decided to perform shootings of the acclaimed video game series “Assassin's Sreed” through its own efforts and at its own expense, thereby fully preserving copyright movies. Such a move is quite expected, as this will ...

Organization of work with case study

I chose case study as a qualitative method that can be applied to analyze characters of movie “Running with scissors”. The purpose of this case study - defining different mechanisms of psychological defense used by various characters in the film and better understanding of Freud`s theory of psychological defense`s mechanism. Students will need to answer following questions for this work: 1) What mechanism of psychological defense did you notice in the behavior of characters of “Running with Scissors.”? 2) How do you think what are purposes of using defense mechanisms by different character?

Brief summarizing of mechanisms of defense`s characteristics

The central mechanisms ...

The music videos and their content has always been a major public concern. This is because some of those videos have been accused of communicating strong messages that can easily influence teenagers and adolescents. The music videos can impact gender stereotypes, body image, aggression and other areas in the developing youth. The essay makes an analysis of the Centuries music video ”Centuries“ from the band Fall Out Boy. The band comes from the suburbs of Chicago, which is known as the blandest place. The band was picked up by a record label, and they became famous. The main audience ...

The classic novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald follows the life of Nick and Jay Gatsby in their pursuit to live life in the fast lane. Gatsby had eyes on Nick’s cousin, Daisy since the teenage years but lacked ways in which he would approach her. However, their future together does not come true because Daisy finds love in another man and marries him. Their marriage is on a rocky climb, and she rekindles her affair with Gatsby behind her husband’s back. All goes well till the husband knows of the secret affair and aims to end it ...

In her article The Hunger Games, Lisa Schwarzbaum tells about a movie adaptation of a famous bestseller The Hunger Games. She portrays the main heroes of the story and discusses whether the cast was successful. She suggests that Jennifer Lawrence was a generally great choice for Katniss, the main heroine while the choice of Josh Hutcherson as Peeta may be controversial. Her main thesis is that the movie is an overall good adaptation of a book with a great cast, however, possessing slight differences from the book. The main thought that flows through the article Why Mad Men Is ...

Article Summary and Analysis

In this article, White explores the concepts and logic behind making of horror films. He explains that the concepts used to describe horror films might not be enough to explain the horror itself or the manner in which filmmakers produce the desired horror effect. This does not mean that horror films are merely a sum of the various concepts used in making them. Rather, horror films derive their identities from the combination of the pieces from which they are constructed and the nature of the manner in which the various pieces are combined to cause the desired effect (White, ...

Charlie Chaplin’s performance in The Great Dictator (1940) In the history of soundless cinema, The Great Dictator still stands unbeaten as a marvel among all of the Charlie Chaplin’s greatest works. The unique element of surprise in this movie comes from the fact that the movie exerts a satirical comedy over perhaps the cruelest historical figure, Adolf Hitler at times when he was on peak of his action plan coming into reality. This essay is intended to analyze the various aspects of Charlie Chaplin’s character and role play in this movie to understand what elements made ...

According to the Directory of Supermarkets, Grocery, and Convenience Store Chains, Ralph is a supermarket series in the southern area of California and the biggest subsidiary of Cincinnati-based Kroger (469). It is the oldest series of its kind in the western part of River Mississippi. Kroger also operates stores under the Foods Co. and Food 4 Less labels in California. During my visit to the store, I found out that Ralph runs two programs to reward its customers. There is also contribution program where a customer uses Ralph’s Card during shopping, and a share of their buying sum ...

In the middle of the 20th century, after the World War II, all countries were highly disturbed and scared of a new war which could appear. United States, being a powerful country, the influence and power of which helped to end the WWII, were a kind of an enemy for the other countries, who lost at the war. After World War II United States and its enemies and Soviet Union were in the state of a Cold War. According to John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum “Soldiers of the Soviet Union and the United States did not do ...

Article critique

Introduction The body of the male, particularly the body of the white male in the article becomes a vessel of display of explosions, beauty, musculature and physical feats. This is the main direction taken by Susan Jeffords in her article, “Screening the Male”, to explore the theory of masculinity. As implied by Susan, the externality of the male body in itself confirms that the outward parameters of the white male body are primarily focused on the capturing the attention of the audience. Consequently, this present an avenue for exploring the dominance of masculinity in Hollywood cinema in line to ...

Social Justice issues:

The Verdict captures the growth of Frank Galvin, a character who goes from being a keen law graduate to a chronic alcoholic after being framed by his firm’s senior partner for jury trampling, when Frank tried to expose the corrupt practices his firm employed. Post this incident, Frank loses interest in his career. He defines a person who has given up on his life. The defining moment in Frank’s life occurs when he takes up a case of medical negligence in which, a woman developed complications during child-birth and was rendered permanently vegetative due to lack of ...

In 1920, Oscar Micheaux directed the release of an American silent film known as Within our Gates. The film portrayed the existence of racial discrimination and prejudice in the early 20th century. The film is also regarded as a race film, and it was produced during the era of Jim Crow, the Great Migration of the Blacks to Northern and Midwest Cities, and the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan. The director incorporated massive stereotypes that are associated with the black people in the US. The paper will entail a detailed analysis of Within our Gates film by providing ...

Forwarding and countering are the techniques used for successful academic writing. The main goal of this essay is to show how Robert Rosenstone uses these techniques for discussing the works of other scholars. In order to achieve this goal, the information about these techniques was studied carefully and the chapter of Rosenstone’s book was examined. The first essay, which is forwarded and countered by Rosenstone, is written by Gerda Lerner. In her essay, she analyses three different films. Lerner tries to judge the films properly, but the essay goes back and forth between the variety of different judgments. ...

Within Our Gates

Oscar Michaux’s film, Within Our Gates, has become one of the best films that show the real life of African Americans. This movie is an example of cinematic art that depicts difficult lives of people who suffer from discrimination. At the same time, it was thought to be an answer to D. W. Griffith’s movie, The Birth of Nation, that was full with stereotypes about black people in America. The core heroine of the movie is a young woman Sylvia Conrad, whose parents were lynched. She is engaged to a man who is a secret love of ...

The main task of media is to give people the opportunity to interact and communicate with people from different countries. Social media is the platform where we can send and receive different kind of information. Social media includes television, Internet, smartphone, etc. Nowadays these media tools are available to everyone from adults to adolescents and even children. So, modern families have problems because of the effect of social media. There are three sociological perspectives from which family relations can be analyzed: conflict perspective, structural functionalism perspective and symbolic interactionism perspective. All perspectives give explanations about the social behavior of ...

The Domain of the Documentary by Nichols

Nichols argues that lovers of documentaries are meant to enjoy both the documentary aspects as a film and as a form of philosophy. Therefore, understanding the role that people play when developing solutions for films is one of the main ways through which documentaries have been noted for playing a significant role in enforcing the way people think and what they view. As such, creating numerous problems is developing a love for the documentary. In this context, documentaries play a major role in contributing to our understanding of various problems in the society whereas movies play a role in ...

Essay #1 (Rough draft)

The purpose of this documentary essay is to provide significant insight of the movie ‘Born to Be Wild’ alongside exploring the criteria of the documentary which are entailed as rehabilitation of species into their natural habitat, destruction of natural habitat, nuanced animal behavior, and spreading awareness about saving animal lives. It is an American documentary, which was released in the year 2011. The documentary is based on the heartwarming efforts put forward by two women for the protection of wildlife. The story is entrenched with the essence of love, dedication, and the commendable bond between humans and animals as ...

This essay is the comparison and the contrast of two romantic comedies. In this essay, we are supposed to show all the similarities and differences of these movies (Roen, Glau and Maid). This goal is achieved with the help of relevant sources. One of the films, which is compared and contrasted, is called 500 Days of Summer. The main characters of this movie are Tom and Summer. Summer works as the assistant at the greeting card company. Tom works at the same job and when he sees her, he understands that Summer is the most beautiful girl he has ...

Her diagnosis was Borderline Personality Disorder and it meant that she was a threat to herself and that she suffered from severe depression. Other patients in McLean Hospital are girl similar to Susanna although some of them are in worse condition, while the others just seem to be different than what is considered normal. However, they are labeled as sociopaths only because they do not fit in within the regular norms of the society. Fictional patients from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s nest are men and they are similar to Susanna and the girls in McLean Hospital because ...

The Documentary, "Taxi to the Dark Side" was created by the BBC World Service and produces by the Discovery Channel. The directory and the writer Alex Gibney takes an investigative journey to show the disturbing details concerning how the United States' military were working with their subjects during the period of War in the Afghanistan. The documentary focuses on the detention center called Bagram that is located in the southern Afghanistan. The paper would show why I view this movie as an excellent documentary. Over the years since the "war on terror" began hundreds of prisoners, who have been ...

Mainstream media have evolved greatly since its inception since the beginning of the twentieth century. Today television and radio stations use a rating system during broadcasting which started as a need for sponsors to know how many people watched their advertisements. It was invented and first carried out through telephone interviews and surveys to project daily estimates of audience size of the nation’s networks (Thompson). This method was also used for radio programs. The ratings are used to estimate whether these programs will be canceled altogether or whether the advertisements are reaching the intended targets. There was a ...

The onset of revolution in American cinema started at a time when moving pictures started gaining traction. The film industry was based on technological advancement experienced during the 19th and the 20th centuries. Phenomenal growth in the film industry was exhibited by the transformation of short videos into comprehensive production features. The creation of what is today popularly known as the movie star; Hollywood generated renewed interest way past the confines of the modern theater. In consequence gossip surrounding the celebrities in addition to their lifestyle has become the order of the day. Though the attraction of Hollywood celebrity ...

The topic regarding the destiny of a genius occupies a certain niche in cinema, simultaneously appearing neither exclusively rare nor especially popular. This topic, unfortunately, is most likely to be marked with a known moral estimation, including both the cases of positive genii, such as writers, composers, musicians, and the cases of negative genii represented by criminals. In a manner, this topic reminds other thriller movies, with the exception that in the first case the hero has the real life prototype. David Helfgott, the piano virtuoso, is a well known musician whose popularity has spread far beyond his homeland. ...

Music videos have always been criticized for having huge amount of sexual content, especially to those of the rock videos by the start of the 21st century. It started to go enormous on the sexual side sometime in the 1970s, until it burst in the 1980s and went wild. By the 1990s, almost every music video had sexual content. In these videos, women were being portrayed as sexual objects, with stereotypical attitudes between genders, and the erotic content that, they say, captured the heart of the adolescents. This was seen in the music videos of two rock groups of ...

Brief Commercial Analysis

Cine World is one of the largest movie theater and cinema operators not only in its home country, the United Kingdom, but also in Europe. Specifically, it is the second largest in its industry, in terms of sales volume, net income, and number of branches. It owns several chains and brands of cinemas, the biggest of which would be Picture House Cinemas with 24 branches and Cine World Cinemas with 82 branches. All in all, however, the company has more than 800 branches, with some of its newest screens being opened in foreign European countries like Jersey and Ireland. ...

Throughout human existence, countless discoveries and innovations have contributed to improved human conditions. In the realm of technology and communication, innovations such as the television have increased contact and communication between the world’s cultural diversity, but it is apparent the discovery of the telephone by Graham Bell remains one of the most notable innovations that revolutionized human society in that century and beyond. The telephone brought down one of the mankind’s greatest communication barrier, distance, as improvements on the telephone made it possible for people to communicate over long distances with ease and convenience. Today, the emergence ...