The paper seems to be more of a documentation of quotes on art reproduction than an essay on art reproduction. ... Benjamin is unclear in his decision of whether photography is an art form or not. He just sees the ease of reproducibility as being a downside to the art form. The fact of the matter is that photography is just as much of an art form as painting and sculpture. ... Art is very controversial when it comes down to what is and isn"t art. ...

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As the vivid form of art developed, people from all over the world experimented with animation and developed it, such as the Italian painters and artists from the Italian Renaissance who started to apply a three dimensional perspective to drawings and paintings ("Meep! ... "The materials by themselves [can] not generate a vision when remaining in their static, physical form" (Trung Pham, 1). ... Now, how do art and animation relate to each other? ... "I believe the art form of animation developed as a way to reflect our own physical and mental evolutionary process...animat...

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Given the Theory of Aesthetic Hedonism, Grave of the Fireflies will not be considered as art. ... Grave of the fireflies was embraced by the Japanese and even the westerners despite its tragic ending, therefore the question is: since there is an agreement that the film is indeed an art as a form of pleasure, how is the film considered pleasurable when it's a tragedy? ... Although for some who say that it is the least bit amusing nor entertaining, it can still be a true form of art, as art can be amusing but not all that's amusing is art. ... Based on my perspective, the film Grave of...

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Grave of the fireflies was embraced by the Japanese and even the westerners despite its tragic ending, therefore the question is: since there is an agreement that the film is indeed an art as a form of pleasure, how is the film considered pleasurable when it's a tragedy? ... Although for some who say that it is the least bit amusing nor entertaining, it can still be a true form of art, as art can be amusing but not all that's amusing is art. ... The film Grave of the Fireflies is a form of a higher pleasure. ... Serious art engages aspects of the mind that lighter art does not addres...

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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. ...

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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...

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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. ...

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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...

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Examples of art exist within the film. ... Another art form within the film was music. ... A final example of art is song. ... Art forms such as music, song, and dance, existed throughout Spy Kids 2. ... The film also used art forms throughout the story. ...

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The narrative form and closed ending of Shadow of a Vampire assists in portraying the story of a director's passion for creation of film. ... The story is formed latter in the movie as the plot reveals aspects to place back into the story. ... It leads one to ask if Murnau had used them just as he had every other person as a pawn for his art. ... The central idea of creating such a film is answered and the subject matter that was Murnau's incredible passion for his art is emphasized. ... The film's content concerned filmmaking as an art and the vaiours shots of cameras suppor...

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Films were a great form of entertainment from their debut in the early 1900's and continued to grow more popular over the years. ... It was a time when movies came and went quickly and films that had no pretense of being art were made in mass. ... It took decades to develop movies as a concept of art. ... He soon began to study art, economics, drawing, history and painting in the evenings. When his employers discovered he was taking art courses he was switched to the advertising department. ...

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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...

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Taking into account the fact that our dreams often take the form of a story in which we are the protagonist, the totally egotistical nature of dreams, it would make sense for us, as an audience, to identify with the protagonist on screen when we are in a dream enduced state such as in the cinema. ... This process makes us more suggestive to imagery as a form of communication since we could not communicate verbally when we were young enough to have our first memories of being in our mothers arms. Also visual form is the most archaeic form of communication and brings us back to the very most b...

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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...

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If there is one thing that links us all as individuals it is the art of music. It is easily one of the most pure forms of expression that we have. ... That lesson alone is one we can all learn and take, from one of the oldest and most powerful forms of expression, music. Art imitates life, and music is without a doubt art, isn't life beautiful?...

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TV is one of the most popular way to spend our time. Nowadays more and more teenagers spend twice as mush time in front of the TV than reading books or playing games outside. As far as I know there is a great variety of opinions about television: some say that it's very useful, and the others th...

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Traditionally his name is associated with the birth of cinema art. Early works of Griffith formed and achieved a high level of short films. ... Yet, his work is has repetition in miniature form that made ​​Griffith. ... His First art of style is Close-up and parallel assembly. . ...

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The term Pure Cinema is one that embodies many different meanings and carries many implications that help give us insight to what cinema is, as an art form. ... With the invention of cinema came new hope and exiting aspirations for visual art and documentation. ... A complex world of film requires the ability of a viewer to look closer to find the art among the entertainment. ... Art and Entertainment. ...

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Genres have been used to classify various art forms well before the creation of films. ... Ultimately these genres were linked to the stage, and the most popular genre of the 19th century melodrama was formed. Through the creation of these different forms, three function began to tae shape: to provide models for producing other works, to direct audience expectations, to create categories for judging or evaluating a work. ...

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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. ...

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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. ...

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He had grown up with the Jewish faith and has a life long, deeply held aversion to anything that might even indirectly encourage any form of anti-Semitic thought, language or actions. ... We had experienced a kind of art that is a rarity in life, the kind that makes heaven touch earth." says Mr. ... I do not agree that this movie is the kind of art that is a rarity in life, the kind that makes heaven touch earth as Mr. ...

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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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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. ...

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She mainly directs art films with a social aspect in it. ... He goes to a nearby village and takes a train to Bombay, following some half-formed plan to return to his native village and his mother, who perhaps sold him to the circus. ... But there is much in the book beyond technique: It is a work of art, dance and philosophy, and Maya proves a good student, telling her teacher: ``I want to learn the rules of love and how to use them. ...

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