1954 in film Essays

Running head: FILM AS HISTORY 1 Review of the “Eyes on the Prize: Awakenings 1954-1956”Documentary Name: Institution Affiliation FILM AS HISTORY 2 Summary “E y e s o n t h e P r i c e ” i s a n a w a r d - w i n n i n g d o c u m e n t a r y s e r i e s t h a t i s m a i n l y b a s e d o n t h e civil movements formed in the U.S in the 1950s. “Awakenings”is the first episode of this documentary (Vimeo, 2012). The episode illustrates some of the factors that triggered the African Americans to fight

The 1959 French film The 400 Blows, the debut of director Francois Truffaut, changed the course of cinema within the span of less than 100 minutes. The 400 Blows, with child-like elegance, expresses the gentle yet callused nature of the writer/director through the use of authentic storytelling, superb casting, innovative production, and the effective molding of all of these traits to make one, powerful masterpiece. The story centers around thirteen year old Antoine and his life in 1950’s Paris. Antoine

Introduction Chiquita Brands International (formerly known as the United Fruit Company (short UFC)) was originally founded by Captain Lorenzo Baker in 1870, and officially established first in 1899. What started as a small business with a few plantations in Latin America, quickly grew into a multinational and highly successful company. By 1991, Chiquita Brands International had a net income of $128 million on sales of $2.6 billion (Spar, 2007). However, because of new economic policies on banana

The Battle of Algiers is a film that has captivated audiences for decades with its powerful and poignant portrayal of the struggle for Algerian independence from French colonial rule. The film depicts the conflict between the Algerian National Liberation Front and the French government, which took place from 1954 to 1962, and the guerrilla warfare that was used to achieve independence. The film's use of handheld cameras and natural lighting is particularly noteworthy, as it helps to create an immersive

University of Colorado where he studied film and mathematics degrees. Whilst at college Matt Stone met Tray Parker. Parker and Stone came together and produced a short animated film called The Spirit of Christmas (Jesus vs Frosty) in 1992. They managed to make their first film using only a 8mm camera, construction paper and glue. Stone and Parker attracted the attention of Fox, they paid the duo $2000 to produce an animated Christmas card. After the creation of the film, the animation went viral on the

Salt of the Earth is a 1954 film that is broadly viewed as one of the main works of Latinx film. The film recounts the narrative of a gathering of Mexican-American diggers who protest in New Mexico, battling against the harsh working circumstances forced by the white proprietors of the mine. The film was outstanding for the way that it was one of only a handful of exceptional Hollywood creations of an opportunity to highlight Latinx entertainers playing Latinx jobs that withdrew from the predominant

the period of the French occupation, and an association devoted to the memory of those deported to camps - In 1954 there was an exhibition on the camps in Paris, to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Liberation. The extent of the horror was still relatively unknown - Film coincides with the tenth anniversary of the Liberation and the exhibition - Alain Resnais, at the time a young film director, was approached by the official Committee for the History of World War Two which itself was a representation

One of my favorite movie genres is the kaiju film genre, which kaiju means “strange creature” or “giant monster”, that tends to have a giant monster destroying major cities and fighting the military and even other giant monsters. One of the most popular and the first kaiju films was Godzilla. Godzilla one the most iconic character in pop culture has been starred over thirty films including some American film adaptations. The most two recent films were legendary’s Godzilla (2014) and Shin Godzilla

In 1954, Alfred Hitchcock released a psychological thriller titled Rear Window. The film focuses on L.B. 'Jeff' Jefferies (James Stewart) who is a broken leg, wheelchair bound photographer. And out of boredom he looks out his rear window into the rear windows of his neighbors’ apartments. Hitchcock’s use props and camera angles, in the opening scene of Rear Window, gives reason and empathy to L.B. Jefferies’s actions. The opening shot begins with a clarinet and other instruments join to play jazzy

Monsters On the East and West Godzilla 2014 is a remake that takes the same basic idea as the original but applies it differently for a different audience and era. The original movie, which I will be referring to by it's Japanese name Gojira, is a 1954 film about a giant monster that wreaks havoc after it was spawned from the nuclear bombs that were dropped on Japan near the end of World War II. The 2014 American remake, known as Godzilla retains the giant monster element of the original, changes the

over time to portray the illusion of motion. Before the invention of film, humans depicted motion in static art as far back as the Paleolithic period. In the 1st century, several devices successfully depicted motion in animated images. Eastern European Animation Fighting the Cold War (1954) The first feature-length British animation to be released was a version of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Created by Halas and Batchelor, the film was thought to be secretly funded by the CIA as Cold War propaganda

his work, from his first films in the United Kingdom to his last American films, Alfred Hitchcock has produced an own style that has influenced, consequently, not only in the rest of the filmmakers but also in society. As shown in the Exhibition HITCHCOCK, BEYOND THE SUSPENSE

unknowns, movie makers are able to exploit how society feels about technology and push the boundaries of what 's right and wrong. From the first movies being about cowboys and romance, movies have started to explore the unknown nature of technology. Film directors knew that during the time that these movies were being made there were many things not known about technology. People were skeptical, they were

defined his film Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954), as the story of a man who cannot move and looks through a window, what he sees and how he reacts to it (Truffaut, 1986). For this reason, Hitchcock constructs the character of the protagonist of the film, Jeff (James Steward), not only by using cinematographic devices but also through Jeff´s interpretation of what he sees related his own life, showing a dichotomy between what he looks at and what he lives. At the beginning of the film, a camera movement

With Wagner who helped with the script Steinbeck traveled to Mexico for the filming ; on this trip he would be inspired by the story of Emiliano Zapata, and subsequently wrote a film script (Viva Zapata!) directed by Elia Kazan and starring Marlon Brando and Anthony Quinn. In 1947, Steinbeck made the first of many trips to the Soviet Union, this one with photographer Robert Capa. They visited Moscow, Kiev, Tbilisi, Batumi and Stalingrad, some of the first Americans to visit many parts of the USSR

passed on from one person to another through the oral tradition and the visual arts. In our society today, film is the dominant form of storytelling. Films shape and inform our opinions of the world. Many people’s only source of information is from films. This can be harmful when the information is false or misguided. Like the representation of Native American’s in film. In early western films, Native American characters were not played by Natives but rather white actors. This gave a false image of

Opinion on the melodramas of Douglas Sirk has flip-flopped since his key films were released in the 1950s. At the time, critics ridiculed them and the public lapped them up. Today most viewers dismiss them as pop trash, but in serious film circles Sirk is considered a great filmmaker--a German who fled Hitler to become the sly subverter of American postwar materialism. One cold night this winter, I went up to the Everyman Cinema in Hampstead, north of London, to see a revival of a restored print

Chicano Cinema, scholars of Chicana/o cinema used to identify the criteria of Chicana/o cinema as "films BY Chicanos, films FOR Chicanos, and films ABOUT Chicanos" (Johansen 303). The Salt of the Earth film (1954) attempts to expand this definition because it achieves more than being for and about Chicanos, it can also be for other minorities fighting injustices and inequalities similar to Chicanos. The film is still for Chicanos because it illustrates an actual account of Mexican American mining workers

I got some feelings after I watched <> and I am going to tell you gays what I got in the article. Also, there are lots of history events happened in the film. I will talk about these events on my article. I will talk about the plots of the file as well. Report A fool called Forrest Gump that come from South Alabama, a lifetime love with a woman called Jenny. When they were young, Gump and Jenny were good friends, they studied together, grow up together. Finally, though far apart from each other

Hitchcock’s latest feature film, North by Northwest. Hitchcock has become one of the most influential auteurs to live, causing a major impact on how cinema has involved. The master of suspense thought for the art he loved, fighting against censorship in parts of his movie. (Robb, 2010) Hitchcock adored suspense and mystery, implementing it into the art form he had such a passion form. His made hits including 1954’s Rear Window, 1958’s Vertigo and his most notorious film Psycho (IMDb, 2016).Hitchcock