Film

The world held its breath during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, as the United States and the Soviet Union pushed each other to the brink of nuclear war. The…

The text is a graphic advertisement for the film The Mummy, probably found on billboards and in magazines of different genres. The image denotes possibly the characters in the film….

Most films use stereotypical characters that give very narrow definitions and do not allow for variation, this is created by the representation of the character. When ‘Thelma and Louise’ was…

The introduction of The Lord of The Rings is displayed with a wide variety of moods. Peter Jackson, the director of the film, helps to develop these different moods so…

The Scene starts when Lila Crane is reaching the bottom of the main staircase in the Bates house. When through the window she sees Norman Bates hastily approaching the house.Lila…

We are energy sources that are harvested by computers. Our world is actually a virtual reality computer program called The Matrix; its reality. We live in the 22nd Century and…

In the film Less Than Zero (1987), director Marek Kanievska depicts his view of teen culture by emphasizing, like Nicholas Ray’s Rebel Without a Cause (1955) triangular relationships, rebellious behaviors,…

Film, being a very powerful medium, often raises strong issues about the possible effects movies may have on an audience. What the BBFC and the public worry most about in…

The genre of the film “snow white-a tale of terror” is clearly horror. This is conveyed by the director very quickly in the introduction. The use of techniques available builds…

The director of the film ‘Gladiator’, starring Russell Crowe, has chosen to make the opening of the film very powerful by using various techniques which have an effect on the…

I have chosen three scenes that I think display similar emotions, but they have different backgrounds and settings. The first of the three is the first scene after the beginning…

I feel the word ‘British’ is a positive term. Being British doesn’t mean being white and upper class although these connotations instantly come to mind to a majority of people,…

It is best known for the fact as it breaks many traditional conventions of the war film genre such as the graphic portrayal of wounds such as the man in…

In the short clip I saw of Jurassic Park 3, there were many different uses of mise-en-scene, special effects, sound, editing and camera use to produce an exciting and suspense…

In films, the horror genre is characterised by the attempt to make the viewer experience dread, fear, terror, disgust, and horror. Its plots often involve the intrusion of an evil…

The opening and closing scenes in ‘Run Lola Run’ directed by Tom Tykwer depict the growth or development in the relationships between characters, in particular that of the lead characters,…

It is unlikely to look under stones for heroes and to revere those we may catch a glimpse of in the back alleys of some anonymous pub on a foggy…

The two areas I have decided to look into for my assignment are genre and narrative, firstly I will begin to look at narrative, and the media text I am…

My brief was to investigate whether the images of black women in film have changed in the last 75 years. This topic is both relevant and controversial due to the…

Together with the 70s revival in the 90s, came a new interest in Blaxploitation movies. But this did not result in clearly defined Blaxploitation movies. It was more like an…