The Unique Sound of Prince Born Prince Rodgers Nelson, aka Prince, boldly declared, “I’ve got more hits than Madonna’s got kids” (Prince). ALLMUSIC described him as “During the '80s, he emerged as one of the most singular talents of the rock & roll era, capable of seamlessly tying together pop, funk, folk, and rock” (Erlewine, ALLMUSIC). The authors of American Popular Music, Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman, made a statement similar to ALLMUSIC’s suggesting that Prince can’t be defined as
Film 4800 Media Conglomerate Time Warner Inc is one of the largest well known media and entertainment conglomerates in the world. Time Warner’s brand consists of endless magazines, books, recorded music, motion pictures, online services, and broadcast cable television programming and distribution. Over the years Turner has owned, started and sold companies such as AOL, Time Warner Cable, Warner Bros. Pictures, DC Comics, Mad, Atari, Warner Music Group, Sports Illustrated, Life, Fortune, and People
maturity, and decline. Introduction stage During the introduction stage, the product is initially launched and slowly grabbing the public’s attention (Solomon, 2008). Madonna’s career as an entertainer entered its introduction stage when the Warner Bros released her first self-titled debut “Madonna” in 1983. Madonna’s “funky, rhythm-and-blues-tinged sound” (Cengage, 2003) slowly caught the attention of New York underground club dancers and audiences. Madonna and her band members often visit the
The Studio System Key point about the studio system could be: Despite being one of the biggest industries in the United States, indeed the World, the internal workings of the 'dream factory' that is Hollywood is little understood outside the business. The Hollywood Studio System: A History is the first book to describe and analyse the complete development, classic operation, and reinvention of the global corporate entities which produce and distribute most of the films we watch.
Hello and welcome to the Circle. Today I will be interviewing the director of wonder woman, Hollywood’s Top-Grossing Live Action Title By Female Director, Patty Jenkins. So Patty, how did you first get into the film industry? After my family moved to Kansas, I became interested in the arts, I started studying music and photography in high school then I attended Cooper Union for painting, that was until I went to my first experimental filmmaking class, They had a Steenbeck editing bay, and the first
other. This movement is considered dignified and American people continuously support a congregation rising against unrighteous authorities. Even today, fighting against the intruders for their homeland rights remains a common American theme, such as record breaking Avatar, the popular Dances with Wolves, and the animated children’s film Ferngully. The Revolutionary war caused this reoccurring theme with Americans playing the rebels fighting against a controlling superior country. Casablanca portrays
have no way of stopping it. Works Cited Eastwood, Clint, dir. Gran Torino. Warner Bros., 2008. Film. 30 Mar 2014. Foucault, Michel. "Panopticism." Discipline and Punish. (1975): n. page. Print. Giroux, Susan Searls, and Jeffrey Nealon. "Subjectivity."Theory Toolbox: Critical Concepts for the Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences. (2011): n. page. Print. Jones, Charles M., dir. "Duck Amuck." Looney Tunes. Warner Bros. Pictures: 28 Feb 1953. Television.
“ I like ideas, especially movie ideas, that you can hold in your hand. If a person can tell me the idea in twenty-five words or less, its going to make a pretty good movie.” Steven Spielberg.’ For this essay I intend to discuss how Hollywood as an industry has used the marketing strategies of blockbuster films to significant advantage in film merchandising. Along with the use of mass merchandising as a form of marketing films, with the hope of creating awareness among the public. As merchandising
Casablanca is a film set in Morocco during the Second World War. Because of the setting, the characters are under French rule and therefore are not allowed to support the Allied movement. Things however get interesting when Victor Laszlo and his wife Ilsa Lund come through Casablanca in hopes of escaping to America. Their arrival stirred up many remarkably painful memories for the major character Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart). Rick is an American saloon owner who lives in Casablanca. His café is
material such as Richard B. Jewel’s The Golden Age of Cinema, Hollywood 1929 – 1945 to go into detail in explaining my points. Para 1 – Exhibition Many of the studios in Hollywood owned their own cinemas, in fact the big five, MGM, Paramount, RKO, Warner Bros’ and Twentieth Century Fox owned 80% of all first run cinemas in the US with complete control of them in 78 of the 95 main cities. This meant that the studios had a lot of say in what pictures they wanted to show their audience. Throughout the 1930’s
Lewis explains the far reach of media conglomerates who at the time were called The Top Six. AOL Time Warner whose entertainment holdings were the largest of all others by late 2005, is a great example of the synergy conglomerates held. Film studios, television networks, magazines, AOL online services, a baseball team and a series of theme parks were all under the ownership of AOL Time Warner, and under this blanket of ownership were thus able to utilize every form of entertainment to market their
We all know superheroes like Batman, Superman, and Spiderman, but what about female superheroes? In movies, women are usually damsels in distress, princesses, or the classic manic pixie dream girl. It is rare to see a woman play the leading role of an action movie, let alone a superhero movie. This stereotype of women being weak is what keeps women’s roles in society fixed. Movie producers and writers in Hollywood assume that they won’t profit if they have more women in leading roles. I believe that
Working Title Drive in movie theaters were the a pretty popular thing from the 1940s through the 1960s for many friends and families across the United States. They were reportedly created because the creators mom had a hard time fitting in traditional indoor theaters, and so he played a movie with a projector on the hood of his car and a screen. The first official dive-in movie theater was created in New Jersey Drive-in movie theaters were the star of the 1940s-1960s for groups of friends and families
been known for not giving enough credit to people that had worked with him (Friedman & Notobohm). The magazine Forbes, says that he has long been the wealthiest director in America, but it was not until he knew Steve Ross, the late chairman of Time Warner, that his pockets began to open (Friedman & Notobohm). Steven donated $750,000 to the American Red Cross.80% of what he does is anonymous but he also has a couple of buildings with his name, there is always place for the ego (Friedman & Notobohm,
The coexistence of films in America can be broken down into two categories the blockbuster film and the independent. Blockbuster films according to Lewis is a film that is enormously popular or was so costly to make that it must be successful to make a profit. An independent film also known as indie are films that are produced outside of the typical studio systems and are distributed by independent agencies. Blockbusters usually have a large marketing campaign to ensure the success of the film. Independent
I will discuss the mental skills involved in the movie Space Jam for this paper. I’m addressing concentration and leadership as I believe these categories played a significant role in the development of this movie. In summary, Space Jam portrays an amusement park owner who intends to bring new attractions to his park by employing Looney Tune characters. He is tricked into having a basketball competition as a wager for their compliance. The amusement park owner has underlings who will compete in the
Desirable Distractions: Entertainment of the 1930s Many people have heard of Frankenstein, Dracula, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and the Wizard of Oz. All of these classic movies come from the 1930s. The 1930s were filled with hardship as the country going through the Great Depression. Different forms of entertainment were used to distract people from their problems. In the well-known novel To Kill a Mockingbird children and adults use entertainment as a temporary solution until their problems
Popular music’s affect on a film’s narrative is demonstrated in the film Casablanca released in 1942. The film uses a song called “As Time Goes By” to create a transportation affect for the characters and audience. The song was written by Herman Hupfeld in 1931 and gained modest popularity through its inclusion in the Broadway musical Everybody’s Welcome. In Casablanca, there is a scene inside a restaurant where a woman, Ilsa, runs into an old friend of hers named Sam who is a pianist at the restaurant
The Michael Curtiz’s 1942 film Casablanca depicts Richard Blaine as an isolated individual obsessed with his memories of his former love. He begins to challenge his own policy of isolationism with the return of his love, Ilsa, and the spread of Nazism; his conflict with himself over his ideals forces him to consider the future of others and helps him overcome his past. Throughout the film, Richard begins to internally battle himself to overcome his own differences and help not only himself, but others
Music composition for film and television is a broad style that surrounds a wide variety of moods and genres. The origins of film music can be traced back to the era of silent film in the early 1900s. Pianists, and in larger theaters, entire orchestras, were initially hired to lead the action on the screen with sound in order to mask the noisy projector. However, it soon became clear that the ability of music to enhance the audience’s experience extended far beyond this practical purpose. With the