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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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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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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INTRODUCTION Wong Kar-wai, a Hong Kong film auteur, has an exceptional style in that he creates highly individual art films in a very commercial market. ... In this case, Wong has created his own special brand of Chinese art film. ... These films seek a balance between commercial success and art innovation. ... Actually Wong's brand forms a system of symbols, which lie in each of his films and makes his films clearly and easily recognized. ...

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As time passed the type of music found in films developed into a fine art, containing specific guidelines and techniques that most composers tend to follow. ... By this time the music was ceasing to be merely and extra job for Vaudeville musicians and had actually become an art that needed and was given thought, time, and talent. ...

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In an interview conducted at a film retrospective shown at the Seattle Art Museum, John Woo offered extensive insights into the ingredients and influences of his upbringing that we now recognize as the essence of his directorial style. ... It is from Zhang that he learned the art of directing violent swordplay and kung-fu scenes. ... Woo transformed the image of gunplay from death at a distance to a choreographed art form in which he integrated the acrobatics of martial arts and the deadly face to face grace of classic swordplay. ...

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Thus such a move from telling to showing and specifically, from a long and complex novel to any form of performance is usually seen as the most fraught transposition. ... Light and dark have conventional associations built over generations of visual art and story telling. ... The consciousness can be presents in one of the following forms of narrative, among which are "camera-as-narrative", "witness-as-narrator", "protoganist-as-narrator", or "subjective camera narration". ...

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By the implementation of sound in the 1920s actors would perform behind screens and sing while their voices were being dubbed and these forms of films thrived as the means of entertainment of that time. ...

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James Cameron6, who directed and produced "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" used CG graphics to create"T-1000", an evil metallic robot which chased after the characters, changing from one form to another seamlessly. ... The faces are arranged in such a way that they form the outside surface of that object. ...

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/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. ...

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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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