It is the defining mark of a great director, however, who is able to take that camera, and create a true work of cinematic art. ... By the final scenes of the film, the rhythm has remained present but in different forms. ... All directors, not just Dreyer and Griffith, are forced to take a simple, two-dimensional medium and create a visually thrilling three dimensional work of art. ...
The term 'genre' has been historically referred to as the classification of literary texts and forms. In modernity and postmodernity it has been extended beyond literary boundaries to encapsulate (among other 'art forms') the classification of film/cinema. ... In contradiction to an older form of thinking which saw the purpose of art (including popular art) as moral tract, entertainment was a more secular notion that emphasised an art devoid of serious moral or didactic purpose, and given over instead to allowing the audience a pleasurable, even escapist, engagement with th...
There has never been a more popular art form that gives people such intellectually satisfying experience than literature and motion pictures do. These two have become the dominant industries in art business, frequently each other's opponent when it comes to deciding whether books or movies are the better art. ... Motion pictures can arouse such immediate response from spectators, which is something beyond all other art forms' capability. ...
At this point, poetry began to assume its modern form as the gold mine in which previously unimagined forms of expression are brought for the first time to the light. Beauty became, as one great practitioner observed, a form of truth -- to put it another way, anything described with sufficient beauty could conceivably be passed off as true. ... In truth, classical music's aegis covers a vista of inspiration, ecstasy, innovation, tradition, and departure so vast as to establish it forever as the West's colossal monument to art. ... Classicism countered with emphasized form, melodic c...
It has been said before that "the form will set you free", this is possibly why Iran has, as the text states it, produced state-supported and independent films of extraordinary quality. Because Iran has an extraordinarily strict set of rules when it comes to filmmaking, the filmmakers that blossom from that country are forced to abide by a "form". ... Because of this "form" that they are forced to abide by they are pushed past their limits to do things that otherwise they would never have done. ... There are many filmmakers that believe "the form will set you free" and would have it no othe...
Elements like economics, politics, war, aesthetics, art, literature and culture also played a big role within these movements and will also be touched on. ... In Europe, the concept of cinema as art had appeared early and developed in tandem with the concept of cinema as business. ... In Germany, UFA set about consciously raising the aesthetic standards of German film and producing films that were not only popular but also carried with them the cachet of art. ... It is more analytic and less synthetic, and it also carries with it a strong sense of the importance of functions as well a...
Because of the interaction of musical and visual experience in film soundtrack phenomena, and the fact that music and film are art forms which require perceptual and cognitive processing, the domain of musical soundtrack research is vast indeed. ...
And knowing the mindset, they would think it is a form of witchcraft and try to burn everyone at the stake. Movies, just like other art forms, have been continuously and consistently changing throughout the years; however, one of the first drastic changes the film industry has experienced was in the late 1920s when there was a transition from silent movies to what was known as talkies. ...
Alfred Hitchcock is known for his distinctive directorial style, innovative film editing, and pioneering the use of the camera movement mimicking a form of voyeurism. ... Part 3: Director's Work Hitchcock mastered the art of purposeful camera focus, movements, and placement as elements of his film techniques. ...
Taking the Sin out of the Cinema Since its invention, the motion picture quickly paved its way into American society as an acceptable art form and a style of mass entertainment. ... From the introduction of Will Hays as president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) to the enforcement of the Production Code, the motion picture industry has struggled to appease its unvarying opposition; however, it has still managed to continue its success and to develop into a popular form of mass entertainment. ... It was during this period that there appeared a risk to th...
An additional allusion to a specific filmmaker in Waking Life is found in a scene involving a chimpanzee sitting behind a film projector screening footage of a rock performance as well as scenes from renowned filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's film Dreams, while the chimp speaks about subversive micro-societies and possibilities of art. ... It explicitly explores the implicit factors of the cinematic art form. ...
This is not apparent specifically in films alone, this is apparent in art, film, music, videos, and especially in advertising. ... The pleasure and fascination of looking at the human form as well as the pleasure of being looked at is part of three essays on sexuality written by Sigmund Freud that further discusses how scopophilia is an important element in the instincts of sexuality which exist as it drives quite independently of the erotogenic zones. ...
/Nettezza urbana about street cleaners in Rome, it wasn't until the fifties where he began to form his style and focus on middle class malaise. ... To continue this elicited emotion, Antonioni made two more films in which he combined with L'Avventura to form a trilogy. ... As the use of color became prevalent, these filmmakers began to typify a new European art cinema, expressing a distinctly contemporary ennui. ...
