On that basis, technology is shaping the way stories are told in the digital era. ... Are VFX used as a substitution for good story? ... The Whitney brothers invented CGI in the 1960s when they used computers and optical printers to generate short films (McClean 2007). ... However, it was criticized for depending too much on the computer graphic without offering an attractive story or characters (McClean 2007). ... Most stories will involve a problem that disrupt the Ordinary World and call the Hero to the adventure. ...

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From dog-fighting in Mexico to issues of transsexuality in Cuba, contemporary Latin American cinema covers a diverse array of topics. Lauren Mulvey, British feminist film theorist, uses pyschoanaylitics to offer a feminist critique of all classical narrative cinema. She establishes that narrative cinema is viewed from the male gaze and women are coded for their "to-be-looked-at-ness". She offers that female characters add nothing or very little to actual elements of plot and character but rather are subjected to male scopophilia, the fetishistic and voyeuristic, due to phallocentrici...

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