Edward Zwick is an intelligent movie director who is known for making movies that explore themes of social and racial issues. He has directed many famous films such as: Blood Diamond; The Siege; and Courage Under Fire. This essay will focus on two films that are not only well known but also show Zwick’s passion for themes of social and racial significance – these films are The Last Samurai and Defiance. Zwick is skilled at using many film techniques to emotionally connect with the viewer and to get
Audrey Flack Audrey Flack is an American artist born in 1931. She lived in New York for most of her life where she studied Fine Arts. She then went onto travelling the world displaying her artworks. Audrey Flack started out with photography and progressed from film based photography to digital photography throughout her career. (1) This painting, Madame Jolie (1973) is a still life oil painting that depicts jewellery, a jug, many trinkets, fruit, a glass and what could be old perfume bottles.
In Station Eleven, a novel written by Emily St. John Mandel, art serves as a bond for survivors in the post-collapse world. Simply surviving is not enough and characters use art to remain sane. For some, art provides an outlet for escaping the hardships in this post-apocalyptic world, while others use it as a way to cling to the past. Visual arts—the comic book, Dr.Eleven, and the Museum of Civilization—and performing arts such as plays provide characters Kirsten and Clark, and the traveling symphony
The Making of a Man into a Legend El Cid, a historical film produced in 1961 tells the story of Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, a Spanish hero reverently titled El Cid for his prowess in battle, patriotism, and acceptance of Moors in a time when different religions divided Spain. As the tales of El Cid are transmitted through oral tradition, poems, plays, and movies, the man is lost and the legend of the Cid is born. In the movie starring Charlton Heston as the title character, Rodrigo Diaz can do no wrong
Although mummies themselves are not art, the objects surrounding them are. The coffins the mummies were contained in, statues, and even the tombs they were buried in were all intended originally to be powerful works of art, as they aesthetically demonstrate different values and systems of beliefs in a society while displaying a significant amount of craftsmanship. Through comparing many different statues found, art historians can create a clear understanding of art styles. For example, the Painted
Autoethnography, according to Mary Louise Pratt, is defined as, “a text in which people undertake to describe themselves in ways that engage with representations others have made of them (319).” Those who tend to write autoethnographies share their personal opinions oh how the dominant see them and how they, “the other” see themselves. Over a two week period of time of reading and analyzing an essay written and taken from John Edgar Wideman book “Brother and Keeper” had a significant meaning. Wideman
Movies create distinct feelings in the eyes of the viewer not only because of what story the film is telling but because of how it displays it. Moreover, there are many characteristics of film that must synchronize in order to create such feelings. Narrative configuration, or the structure and framework, is one such property of film that is essential to the movie and its script. A clear narrative configuration when telling a tale is crucial to interpreting the writer’s storyline effectively while
Film style includes numerous techniques such as sound, mise-en-scene, dialogue, cinematography or attitude. In the film Good Will Hunting, directed by Gus Van Sant, you can easily see these aspects. They give off a specific vibe or mood adding change and value to the director's work. Van Sant's use of color and distortion really portray the mise-en-scene feature. The use of camera switch movement was very creative and different in this movie. As his use of angles and shots show the mood, attitude
A good movie can be a numerous of things, such as excitement, boring, or captivating that makes the viewer want to continue more into the plot. The film Super 8 (2011) is a film that displays acceptance widely, growing up, and secrets therefore captivating on the question what will happen next? This film is produced by Steven Spielberg and written and directed by JJ Abrams that portrays the year 1979 in a small Ohio town of Lillian. At the start of the film there has just been an accident at the
Sir Edward Boyle produced these essays in order to shine a light on Rossetti’s personal life and how her life influenced her works. Her background and experiences impacted her works greatly. For example, Rossetti had a close relationship with her sister during the early years of her life, the author believes this relationship had a great impact on her work “Goblin Market”. This impact is clear to see and the theme of a close sisterly bond is an important theme as revealed toward the end of the work