Alfred Hitchcock is among the few directors to combine a strong reputation for high-art film-making with great audience popularity. ... He pioneered the art of cinematography and special effects, which along with his cameos, are what he is most often associated with. ... He soon began to study art at the University of London, which led to being promoted to Henley's advertising department to design cable ads. ... In April of 1926, Michael Balcon told Hitchcock he wanted to make a movie of the 1913 mystery novel The Lodger, and felt that Hitchcock's sense of character and narr...

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Films are probably the closest medium we have to experiencing the inexplicable quality of the dream in our waking lives. Rich in symbol, metaphor, movement and mystery, films, like dreams, enable us to participate in another reality, and, through that participation, to be transformed. Films are like dreams and dreams interpret symbolism in ways science has not even fully discovered yet. The images and symbols within a film are unending and unaccountable. Even the creators of films themselves cannot be aware of the unconscious impact of them all. ...

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A genre is a categorization of certain types of art based upon their style, form, or content. ... Another example of a drama is American Beauty (1999), which is about the behavior of a not so perfect American family and the price of beauty in a superficial society (Deming, "American Beauty" 1). ...

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Annie Hall In this essay, I am going to discuss a certain way of viewing Annie Hall to you. This lecture has two purposes: both to illuminate some of Annie Hall's central concerns, through analysing both its aesthetic and narrative structures; and to allow you to consider a way in which a film can be approached as a visual text. "A nervous romance" Annie Hall is a film about a modern romance, a "nervous romance", as the marketing of the film puts it. What might be meant by this term? The word romance has a long and complex etymology, originally meaning something written in Fren...

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He claims Lisa is too perfect and unadventurous for him, but we really see how frightened he is of being trapped. ... Miss Hearing Aid and the bachelor composer are also loners, focusing their attentions on their art. ...

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Computer Animation Introduction Computer animation has been around longer than I have. You may not realize it, but it was on the minds of film directors since the 1970's. Each director longed for an easier, more effective way to enhance the graphics of their film. Computers have been used in...

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French film theorist Louis Delluc would call these filmmaking techniques and methods cinematic formal elements, or those elements unique to film as an art form, such as editing and camera movement (Jaramillo). ...

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(pg. 536) " This untold story of their disappearance exemplifies the impermanence and fragility of personal relationships while providing a perfect formula for a trilogy whose theme is about the hopelessness of love in contemporary life. As the use of color became prevalent, these filmmakers began to typify a new European art cinema, expressing a distinctly contemporary ennui. ...

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Atlantida studios were established in Rio in 1943 by Moacyr Fenelon, it was here that chanchada was perfected on the premise that Brazilian films did not have the technical ability of Hollywood films and it was at these studios that the careers of Oscarito and Grande Otello were natured and developed (Rist 1). ...

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