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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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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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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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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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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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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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...

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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. ...

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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. ...

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Hitchcock's movie, Vertigo, is a twisted story about a police detective dealing with a deep fear of falling (Acrophobia) while being played like a pawn. Retired police detective, John "Scottie" Ferguson, meets up with an old college friend, Gavin Elster, who influences him to take on another assign...

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Miss Hearing Aid and the bachelor composer are also loners, focusing their attentions on their art. ... Some of the window frames form vertical prison bars, some blinds and shades also reflect that entrapment. ... We see things, we see Jeff or Lisa's reaction to them, we form an opinion. ...

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Filmmakers do not have the moral duty to depict the Holocaust in the way it took place because they should be able to recreate events that occurred in an elaborate style and design a form of art that captures historical pieces as a background, which allows the audience to appreciate matters that go beyond the facts of history. ...

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 How The Kid Made Film What It Is Today Amanda McDermott ARTH 204 Dr. Iden 29 October 2015 This analysis is going to discuss how The Kid (1921), directed by Charlie Chaplin, to American culture as well how the acting, editing, and production design playe...

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Movie Violence and Society It's everywhere. It's all around us. We cannot escape from it because it's who we are. It is violence. "By the age of 18, the average American child will have seen 200,000 violent acts on television (and in movies), including 400 murders," according to Thomas Radecki, a r...

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