Narrative

Director Curtis Hansan reaches his audience through stars of the film Eminem, Mekhi Phifer, Kim Bassinger, and Brittany Murphy. The main target audience would be fans of Eminem, as he…

Through the years, Scottish film has tended to fall into repetitive structures in terms of representation. The ‘Scotch Reels’ (1982) were chartered as a means for identifying this “set of…

The opening of Paul Auster’s Ghosts combines elements of classic American detective fiction with literary originality to create an effective beginning of a post-modernist novel. Cliches in popular pre-modernist narrative…

In his essay ‘Introduction to Film Studies’ (Oxford Guide to Film Studies), Richard Dyer draws a distinction between two main approaches which have been developed: the ‘formal aesthetic’ and the…

George Sluizer’s The Vanishing – the original one, that is, rather than the much inferior Hollywood remake by the same director – is, in generic terms, an interesting hybrid. It…

The relationship between film and popular music has been a very successful one for over a hundred years: From musical accompaniment in silent films to short film clips of musical…

Of all the different forms of art, none are more problematic when dealing with the issue of representation than music. When dealing with pictorial art it is common place to…

Watching the opening section (first 15 mins) of ‘ Fort Apache’ it becomes clear when analysed that it both conforms to and diverges from typical western models of genre and…

After extensive study of the Romantic and Neo-Classical period in literature, I have found two works that I would like to compare and contrast. I have chosen two texts that…

Before the Rain, and Independence Day are two films that greatly differ in an overall sense. Through direction, acting, plot of story, symbolism, and heart of story, I can clearly…

Michael Moore’s 2002 Film Bowling for Columbine conforms to and extends the category of documentary film. While many would claim that the film breaks the rules of the genre, even…

For A2 practical work, I chose to work in the medium of television, in the hope to produce a short film to be broadcast on television. For my A/S, I…

‘Film Noir’ were originally films that portrayed a dark, seedy side to the criminal underworld. They were often thrillers containing police detective and gangster characters in them. They came about…

Alfred Hitchcock is renowned for his films, which are full of suspense. Films like psycho, rear window and birds demonstrate many of his cinematic techniques. The techniques Hitchcock uses include…

Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys is the most technical film of Austrian director Michael Haneke. Haneke is known for his minimalist approach both in technical and artistic terms….

Scorsese is widely regarded as an auteur of the cinema. This is because of the way he links certain aspects of the film making process. He combines the different layers…

Waiting for Godot is an extremely important play. In terms of the development of absurdist drama and of academic theory entering popular thought, this work is very significant. The play…

Citizen Kane ranks to this day as a classic masterpiece of cinematic form, with its many remarkable scenes and performances; it’s cinematic and narrative techniques and in it’s experimental use…

Technical aspects chosen by the director in a film, if used correctly, can generate meaning and create a response in the viewer by generating different meanings. The narrative and time…

‘The Shawshank Redemption’ is a real movie. It is a movie that makes you think. It is a film that will leave you in deep contemplation hours after watching it….