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In many instances, history has been recorded using literature materials that are through books, poems, and songs. However, there are a few instances when the history of some countries and nations has been recorded using films. Japan is an example of a country whose history has recorded in film cases. Yasujiro Ozu is an extraordinary director, and it is one of the most famous directors in the world. Through his films, he has been able to document the transformations the country experienced. From his unique using of language and other literary devices in this movie, he has been able to capture his audience and pass his intended message. This research paper focuses on how Ozu using his historical presentation in his films to record …show more content…
He was a man who was unmarried, and who never had an active relationship with a woman. He was expelled from boarding school as a teenager for writing a love letter to another male student. What Ozu seems to be criticizing in his films is the huge pressure society puts on people to marry, whatever their sexual orientation. Such pressure can be bad for some straight people who are temperamentally unsuited for marriage. But it is absolutely devastating to gay people who are pressured into marriage against their will. This hence is a clear illustaration of how Ozu illustrates the humanism and traditional family through his personal life and experience Many films of the Ozu is family stories. He left the world, is not only "on the tatami of the world," right image, and one of the joys and sorrows of Japanese households, daily chores, touches people heart is the serene quiet state of life. Ozu uses his view to record the history, and from the way of his film, it demonstrates his understanding and feeling. When we watch Ozu's movie, we will feel calm and peaceful. Ozu is an outstanding director, and though he left us, his works will keep forever and give people
Success in high school requires years of hard work and dedication to excellence. During her four years at Holy Trinity, Yasmeen Ettrick has proved herself to be a successful, and dedicated member of the Holy Trinity community. Yasmeen Ettrick
This report aims to make light of certain elements of documentary making that are perhaps more susceptible to influence on the director’s part, and once again explore the effect of these decisions on the audience’s reaction to the information presented.
Frank Baums, The Wizard of Oz is arguably one of the most popular films made. Even though it was released in 1939, nearly three-quarters of a century ago, the film continues to entertain audiences and speak to them in a personal way. The question that comes to the mind when analyzing this film is: What is it about this film that gives it such timelessness? When reflecting on the film’s timeless qualities, it seems clear the plot is one of the things that enable it to maintain its relevance. Primarily, the plot of The Wizard of Oz is timeless because it is such an excellent example of the heroic journey, both in literally and cinematically. This journey of self-awareness is a metaphor for growth, which is something we all search to discover at some time in our lives.
During the Genpei War, a young women who name was Tomoe Gozen was a Japanese women Samurai. She was born in 1157 to 1247 and in Japanese standards. She died at the age of ninety-one years old. Tomoe Gozen was one of the few women Samurai legends. She fought alongside her husband, Minamoto no Yoshinaka, then against her cousin Taira. Tomoe Gozen was famous as a swordswomen, a skilled ride, and a superd archer. She was her husband, Minamoto, first captain. Tomoe Gozen at least took one person head off during the battle of Awazu in 1184. Late in the Genpei war was a conflict between two Samari clans, the Minamoto clan and the Taira clan. Both of the families wanted to control the Shogunate. At the end, the Minamoto clan won and then established the Kamakura Shogunate in 1192. After the war, some people say that Tomoe stayed in the fight and died. Others say she rode away and carrying a man’s head. Still others says she married Wada Yoshimori, then she became a nun.
Film is an important source. There are hundreds of movies made during the course of a year. A lot of themes are explored and conclusions are drawn. History is a major subject in film,
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is more than just a mediated artifact it is breakthrough, said to be one of the most famous films ever made. The film was not a box office success, it only received 3,017,000 on a 2,777,000 dollars budget but it still receive a large amount of positive reviews and remakes (). This is important in terms of the audience it reaches because it was not just a children’s movie, or an adult movie, or a movie for teens, it was a movie for the entire family that targeted no specific audience. The Wizard of Oz has won critical acclaim by being nominated for multiple academy awards such as best picture, best original song and is often ranked one of the top ten movies of all time (). The creator Frank L. Baum is very much significant because this was not his first ball game. He was originally an author of children’s books but wrote many novels, sequels and made many attempts to bring his work to stage and screen (). He had a vision like no other and saw things in a different pe...
Alfred Olango, a black defenceless man, was shot dead by El Cajon police near San Diego, California due to a unacceptable opened fire. This was partly due to his race. A reason for the occurrence of this incident is that Olango, as stated by his mother, was suffering a “mental breakdown”, regarding the death of his best friend. Due to Olango’s “mental breakdown” he had began to wander among the traffic. Olango’s sister had contacted the police several times, yet they responded an hour later. At the arrival of the officers, it took them a minute, at the most, to begin this shooting. After reviewing the video of this unfortunate incident, the weapon thought to be was a 4 inch vape pen (electronic cigarette).
In the words of Michael O’Shaughnessy, ‘narratives, or stories, are a basic way of making sense of our experience’ (1999: 266). As a society and a culture, we use stories to comprehend and share our experiences, typically by constructing them with a beginning, middle and an end. In fact, the order that a narrative is structured will directly impact the way it is understood, particularly across cultures. This idea originated through Claude Lévi-Strauss’s concept of structuralism in anthropology which ‘is concerned with uncovering the common structural principles underlying specific and historically variable cultures and myth’ in pre-industrial societies (Strinati 2003: 85). In terms of media studies, structuralism’s inherent objective is to dig beneath the surface of a media text to identify how the structure of a narrative contributes to it’s meaning. Structuralism encompasses a large range of analytical tools, however, this essay will examine Joseph Campbell’s monomyth and Claude Lévi-Strauss’s theory of binary oppositions. Through analysis of Victor Fleming’s film, The Wizard of Oz (1939), it will be shown that although the monomyth and binary oppositions are useful tools with which to unveil how meaning is generated in this text, structuralism can undermine the audience’s ability to engage with their own interpretations of the film.
Films provide escape from daily life, opportunity to solve mysteries, chances to identify with powerful, competent heroes and discussions of morality that are comfortingly unambiguous. By opening a window on exotica, films enable us to become voyeurs, secret observers of the personal and even intimate lives of characters, even when we know that the stories are largely fantasies. The present thesis proposes to focus its attention on film studies, subsumed within Cultural Studies, to examine Alfred Hitchcock’s oeuvre. Cultural Studies evident in the study of cultural artifacts (films, music, novels) and examination of practices (sports, national events) is a holistic approach that seeks to understand the ways in which meaning is generated, disseminated and produced through various practices, beliefs, institutions and political, economic or social structures within a given culture.
Films are necessary in our time period because the human eye can articulate the message intended through sight allowing visual imagination to occur. In the book, world 2 by Max Brooks, he creates a character by the name Roy Elliot who was a former movie director. Roy Elliot manages to make a movie titled “Victory at Avalon: The Battle of the Five Colleges” and some how it goes viral. Similarly, Frank Capra’s film, “Why we Fight” expresses a sense of understanding the meaning of wars. Films do not inevitably portray truth because they display what the film director views as important and beneficial for people to know.
Despite an awkward start of their love affair, both escapees become enraptured with each other and show genuine concern and care to one another. Despite difficulties they go through, Osan says :“You make me very happy” and “You love me more than your own life” implying that she is happy with her choice (Saikaku, 75). Even when their relationship is exposed and they are condemned to death, “they live their last moments with such dignity that they became a legend” (Saikaku 82). Indeed, Osan is not ashamed of her love, she has the courage to break the norms and resist the ties of marriage in her pursuit of
Most of the fantasy stories that were produced made use of film as a tool to expose the shows. Study proved that the world of film has a various capacity in persuading and changing the perspectives of a viewer. A film functions as an int...
Toru Iwatani was born January 25, 1955 in Meguro ward of Tokyo, Japan. He is known to be the creator of the world famous and most popular arcade game called Pack Man. When he was 22, in 1977, he joined the NAMCO LIMITED company- a computer software company in Tokyo who produces video games. At the time their focus was on projection based amusement rides and light gun shooting galleries. He is also completely self taught without any training or schooling in computers, visual arts or graphic design.
Kevin Nguyen Chrysta Giffen Photo 40 Hiroshi Sugimoto Hiroshi Sugimoto is known for his concept of time and surrealism in his photographs. Sugimoto wanted to express his art through photography because he believed in preserving art. That is why you will notice some reference to history through his photographs. He was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1948.
Classic narrative cinema is what Bordwell, Staiger and Thompson (The classic Hollywood Cinema, Columbia University press 1985) 1, calls “an excessively obvious cinema”1 in which cinematic style serves to explain and not to obscure the narrative. In this way it is made up of motivated events that lead the spectator to its inevitable conclusion. It causes the spectator to have an emotional investment in this conclusion coming to pass which in turn makes the predictable the most desirable outcome. The films are structured to create an atmosphere of verisimilitude, which is to give a perception of reality. On closer inspection it they are often far from realistic in a social sense but possibly portray a realism desired by the patriarchal and family value orientated society of the time. I feel that it is often the black and white representation of good and evil that creates such an atmosphere of predic...