Not only is it, the largest nation in Latin America but in addition it is the most varied in geography, climate, population and culture (Rist 1). ... The years of the 1950s and 1960s marked the most significant time in Brazilian film history which is referred to as cinema novo (new cinema). ... Cinedia was founded in this period by Adhemar Gonzaga and was responsible for producing many popular dramas and burlesque musical comedies which were termed chanchada. ... Over the next few decades chanchada remained very popular with many examples to show for it however it slowly declined into vulgarit...

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It was hoped that the working classes would be the people to benefit most at the hands of Prohibition, alcohol consumption was thought to hinder the efficiency of the worker. ... The public flocked to see this depiction of street life and the problems facing society, and it proved particularly popular with the working classes. ... The major advantage of this method of film making was that production costs for each film were considerably cheaper than most of their rivals. ... There are many theories as to why the gangster cycle proved so popular with the working class masses. ... Despite most o...

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Perhaps the most original creations of the movement was Lindsay Anderson's young rebellious approach in O Dreamland, which gave viewers the confidence to ignore society's rules and live by their own. ... However it was very popular and attracted global attention. ... "Antonioni's first features broke away from the neorealist conventions to examine the middle-class milieu with which he was most familiar. ... L'Eclisee (The Eclipse, 1962) ended the trilogy and presented Antonioni's most sustained notion of the disorder and incoherence of modern existence. ... As popula...

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Although we are living in a time of "been there, done that"," it is important to see where we came from and see the development of our most lucrative industry and beloved past time: The movies. ... 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. ... This made movie-going more popular which in turn improved the standard of movie-making. ... One of the most effective uses of symbolism in the music of this film is found at the end when Gypo finally meets his death. ...

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Yet no work of Jane Austen reached the big screen before 1940's Pride and Prejudice – which, though highly popular, was the last Austen film for a long period. ... Not all adaptations fare as well; in fact, critics literary and popular, often resort to the following complain: "it wasn't like that in the book". ... The most evident challenges of adapting of a novel to the screen could be gathered in four branches, which are listed and discussed below. 2. 1. ... The one of the most essential differences between film and novel is that films show and novels tell. By its ...

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It all started in a small village in the early 1900's that developed into the most influential and wealthiest place in America. ... A full-fledged orchestra and organist to provide music and to underscore the narrative on the screen accompanied most early of them. ... In 1939, MGM produced two of the most loved films: Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz. MGM was now, undoubtedly the biggest, predominant, and most star-studded studio of all. ...

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This can be seen on most every television sitcom, popular music, and movies. ... The trailer was so popular on campus that Parker created a movie to go with, which caused him to be kicked out of school one semester short of graduating (Unknown p1). ...

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John Woo has re-mixed the basic ingredients of the Hong Kong action film and created a new recipe that others try to emulate. Like a great chef he has cooked up haute cuisine using the same basic materials as his contemporaries, but has shifted the measurements so that the final result is finer and...

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Truly representing the pinnacle of Hong Kong film, recently his most famous film Days of Being Wild, together with nine other very famous Chinese films such as Xiao Cheng Zhi Chun and Yellow Earth, were chosen among the Ten Best Films in Chinese history by the Hong Kong Film Critique Committee (Zhong, nd.). ... Growing up in a Hong Kong style education, most of the new Hong Kong directors had undergone vocational training in film schools in the West and had the opportunity to display their talents in television before they entered the film industry (ibid., p.160). ... Among them, undoubtedly ...

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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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