Midterm Answers Question 1 One characteristic of Italian Neorealism is the avoidance of a well plotted story. The story of Neorealist films is always not very dramatic or theatrically. The story is told in a humanist way that a Neorealist film depicts a life of ordinary people and ordinary things. (lecture) Thief, which is a typical Neorealist film, is a good example. This film basically tells a story that a man named Antonio lost his bike which is needed for his job, and he tries to find his bike
The book under review is Steven Ricci’s Cinema and Fascism: Italian Film and Society, 1922-1943. Ricci’s book seeks to explore the influences upon Italian cinematography during this period, focusing upon the impacts made by Fascist politics, economic restraints and Hollywood connections. Throughout the book Ricci is keen to widen the focus upon Italian cinema and expand the inquisition beyond the common preconceptions of all Italian film during this period being dominated and controlled by Fascist
“We’ll Do It like the Italian Job” By: Tatyanna Hunter “The Italian Job” was released on May 30th 2003. The original movie, also titled “The Italian Job,” is a British film that was made in 1969. Troy Kennedy Martin wrote the screenplay for it; the movie is not based on a play, novel, or any other adaptation. The director is Corey Yuen and Donna and Wayne Powers did the screenplay for the movie. Wally Pfister is the cinematographer and there were two editors: Richard Francis-Bruce and Christopher
has been on Italian Neorealism, a style of film designed to show the viewer what it is actually like to live in the time it was set in. Bicycle Thieves (1948) by Vittorio De Sica is set in the Italian city of Rome after World War II. Central Station (1998) by Walter Salles is set in the Brazilian city of Rio during an economic meltdown. Both films are based around the idea that poverty is a problem that could easily be fixed by sharing the wealth. Many principles of Italian Neorealism are used in
European Cinema Like the other major innovations, cinema has also emerged in most of the Western countries. Europe has produced a great number of movies. Louis Le Prince, The Lumiere Brothers and George Melies are the roots to the European Cinema. There are four important movements that took place in this cinema. 1. German Expressionism 2. French Impressionist Cinema 3. Poetic Realism and 4. Italian Neorealism German Expressionism In 1893 an
As the “New Latin American Cinema” burst onto the scene into the 1950s and 1960s, so did a new generation of filmmakers who benefitted from the modernization processes that were taking place in capital cities around the region. Hand-held cameras and the influence of Direct Cinema and Cinema Verité had a significant impact on filmmakers like Argentine Fernando Birri, whose training in Europe brought new techniques that would later be expanded and adapted to different Latin American contexts. Although
CHAPTER 2 Literature Review In Chapter 2 the film industry is analysed with special focus on the Marketing Mix. The chapter is introduced by the cinema industry sector. Furthermore it gives a detailed description of what an experience is what leads to the importance of marketing and makes clear why the 4Ps have been chosen to structure the literature review. The central theme is to discover the most appropriate film industry elements for the four different variables of the Marketing Mix to provide
Bordwell expresses ‘art cinema’ as a principal mode of narration that became popular as an alternative model during the decline of Hollywood dominance. According to Hayward, the term – art cinema, ‘refers predominantly to a certain type of European cinema that is experimental in technique and narrative’ (2013: 23). Hayward also outlines art cinema as ‘Second Cinema (European art cinema and the cinema of the auteurs)’ (Hayward 2013: 383), which incorporates various issues that were faced by post-war
This photo titled ‘untitled film still #35’ was taken in 1979 by photographer, Cindy Sherman. Sherman is known best for her conceptual portraits where she photographs herself in a variety of different costumes and poses to show herself as a different character with a completely different persona. Sherman usually shoots in her studio alone and so in order for her to create these photographs she must take on many different roles including the director, the hair stylist, make-up artist, wardrobe stylist