Visual Arts & Film Studies Essays

Asian films gained worldwide recognition over the past years with exceptional storylines, sophisticated production details, and quality comparable to Hollywood films. Wong Kar-wai’s 2046 and Kwak Jae-Yong's Korean film My Sassy Girl are among the remarkable Asian films that earned positive reception in the international film scene. 

Science fiction is a popular genre in literature and film which is characterized by its setting in a world which has fantasy elements in it, usually involving some kind of imaginary science or technology. Often there are clearly defined good and bad characters, involved in some kind of struggle, and there may be aliens, modified humans, spaceships, etc. 

Len Lye was a well-known avant-garde artist from New Zealand. He had played his hands on many forms of art with equal rigor. In Free Radicals, he synthesizes all his artistic abilities and sensitivities in order to create a truly majestic work. This paper intends to read Lye’s doodling on film through an examination of the multimedia character.

The recurring theme of bees in the movie highlights the real-life leadership skills of interdependence, collaboration and cooperation, and fostering relationships. The leading figures in the movie are true to life and believable in the sense that it is not that they don’t get dejected, disheartened, and dismayed.

Today Samuel Beckett is regarded as one of the 20th century's most renowned writers. Born in April 1906, Beckett was a 20th-century modernist writer who explored various experimental genres and articulated several powerful existential themes. His writing reached such prominence and esteem that in 1969 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.

In terms of Pizzaro, it’s clear that among the major elements were the considerable advantages in weaponry. The Incan Empire lacked any form of steel, preventing them from developing swords. Other notable issues in this context include the access the Spanish Conquistadors had to write that included strategic accounts of Central American conquests.

In the film, Betty X is Malcolm X’s wife. But she does not have any particular influence upon her husband. Her role in the film is overshadowed by Malcolm’s character. From a different angle of view, Malcolm’s wife is entrapped within her domestic domain. Within this context, her role was to look after her children, not to influence her husband.

The original narrative Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption was written by Stephen King and it was printed in his collection called ‘Different Seasons’. The screenplay for the movie was written by Frank Darabont, who also directed the movie in 1994. The initial difference between the book and the movie is pretty obvious – their title and length.

The very same character, at a later stage, evinces not only a capacity to understand the perspective of one’s adversaries but rather undergoes a 360-degree change of mind. Not only that but Shlomo also depicts a willingness and the capacity to face the resistance and opposition of his family and community to stand for the cause which he believes to be just and fair.

The lighting is superb, and it keeps varying depending on various scenes. At the start when John was at the peak of his scientific ingenuity, the lighting is bright, but when problems set in, the producers have used a tinge of dark colors to highlight the changes. The producers can also be credited with using proficient camera angles which have ensured that no scene is missed.

Generally speaking, various cultures from different places across the globe deify female beings empowered with strength who can face battles. They are also vested with acumen crucial in preparing for impending trials. Along with their skills is beauty admired by their subjects and other deities alike.

Since the art was made in Athens, Greece, it is arguably true that the artist of the art succeeded in giving the picture its theme with enough and necessary succinctness. This is true as the art depicts all aspects of a community (Lylis 102). The political aspect is represented by the presence of the two kings as well as the presence of opposition or challenger to their ruling: Minotaur.

The movie The Princess Bride is an example of what it means to be a leader. The lead character in the movie, Westley, who is played by the English actor Cary Elwes, lives the life of a simple farmhand in the fantasy country of Florin. On the farm lives a young woman called Buttercup. Although Westley has a lowly position, he does not act like it at all. 

The challenge that faced the planners at the central command was the looming risks of urban combat after the fall of Baghdad and other cities loyal to the regime. This was particularly because most of the Iraqi cities were different from the Western cities in that they were sprawling and lacked tall skyscrapers.

It will analyze how each tells a different narrative about the same story about Palestinian and Israeli conflict. It will discuss how Western media try to create negative perceptions about Arabs through other mediums. This research will focus on the significance of what is said and left unsaid, the marked and the unmarked, and the impact that this information has on society and how civilians relate to one another.

In Run, Lola Run the use of jump cuts is continuous and repeated to produce a certain kind of onscreen chaos and enigma that tends to envelop the audience. This is done to ensure that the audience is caught up trying to figure out what the onscreen representation is depicting and is again characteristic of certain European cinematic traditions such as German cinema.

Hollywood was redefined under the Fordist regime and in doing so it differentiated itself from the cinema industries around the world. The cinematic tradition can be traced back to the early parts of the twentieth century for most major cinematic establishments around the world. This stands true for the cinematic traditions in India, Egypt, Great Britain, Germany, and the United States.

Que viva Mexico has provided a historical and dialectical understanding of Eisenstein’s representation of the Mexican revolution and also shows how Mexicans fought against oppression. It shows the collective actions of the natives and how they made contributions towards ensuring the revolution took place.

Michael also has had the luxury of growing up in a wealthy family, so money has never been an issue when it comes to pursuing his dreams. However, despite all his fame and fortune, Michael feels incredibly lonely at times. His father, Phil, is virtually never around the home because he spends a large part of the year travelling around the world as a symphony orchestra conductor. Up until now, Phil has been able to make up for his long absences with expensive gifts from the four ends of the earth.

He was assigned the post of court painter in 1789. From 1795 to 1797, he was appointed as the director of paintings at the Royal Academy of San Fernando (Castro). In 1810, he started his famous series of war paintings. The first war painting he created was Los Disasters de la Guerra -The Disaster of Wars (Castro).

Again, it is evidently clear that the police tactical approach of finding linking evidence seems to have been coercive enough to deliver untruthful and incriminating confessions.  These tactics include telling the witness lies about the facts of the case, physically abusing the defendant and so forth.

Technology is increasingly becoming part of humanity. The latest developments in technology have proved that humans are capable of doing things that were once considered impossible. Although technology is beneficial to development, our identity is facing a crisis. It is evident that such a crisis will soon reshape our relationship and attitude towards technology.

The Little Mermaid is a Walt Disney film directed by Ron Clements and John Musker. It is an animated movie that revolves around a young mermaid, Ariel, and her desire to explore the world above the Oceans and the Seas. The presence of a mermaid depicts that the film is fictitious and certain characters are illusionary.

The movie is structured and intended for greater purposes than coaching for basketball. It shows the transformation process of the players in his basketball team and giving them lessons to look beyond the scope of the game when they are out of high school. He imbibes within them the positive qualities of respect, confidence and discipline.

Set primarily in the 1920s, the film is about the life and travails of a young Chinese woman who becomes a concubine in the household of a wealthy man. Raise the Red Lantern is Zhang Yimou’s fourth film and is considered as the last film of his trilogy, all of which were highly critical of the Chinese Culture as well as Confucian thoughts.

The film suggests that no positions are fixed and that the fluid nature of reality demands for a back and forth movement, which cannot sustain rigid views or hierarchies. On this matter, some of the issues that could be called into question include the manner in which the film ends with some grey areas. Some parts appear to be inconclusive.

The 4th century AD saw a high resurgence of Hinduism. The history of the culture can also be traced back to the Gupta Empire that considered Hinduism as their official religion during this time. Hinduism soon witnessed tremendous growth spreading to other parts of the region accompanied by the emergence of countless images of Hindus Gods and Goddess.

Jim Garrison filed charges against a businessman, Clay Shaw, (Tommy Lee Jones) alleging that he had participated in President John Kennedy's plot to assassinate conspiracy. According to the two investigations conducted by the government through the House Select committee on Assassination and the Warren Commission, Lee Harvey Oswald (Gary Oldman) was found responsible for the shooting.

The concepts and themes comprising Sleeping Beauty and Enchanted help form the skeleton that describes what the film is all about. In Sleeping Beauty, the themes of love and conviction are highlighted by the way the main character, and the heroine, Princess Aurora preserved her character despite the many struggles that struck her.

This film represents a form of black hat hacking, where the individuals are involved in tampering with the security and privacy of other computer systems intentionally, in order to benefit inappropriately. Therefore, WarGames (1983) is a fictional film narration presenting various categories of computer and network crimes such as cybercrime, privacy violations, and breach of security systems.

In real life, such circumstances indeed happen. Perhaps, they might not be as obvious as those portrayed by Mr. Bean but, they nearly as rude. It is believed that literary works such as the story of Mr. Bean are not just simply made for people to just laugh at but that, they are deliberately composed to show some objective.

Consumerism has affected spending patterns and buyer’s behaviors significantly all around the globe. There are prominent brands that occupy major market share by strategizing techniques that appeal to the youth. The Television sector is not far behind in this race and they also strive to increase their viewership.

With Lysistrata leading the Greek women group, she organized a forum where all the Greek women would converge to proffer possible solutions that would restore peace and end the long raging war. She planned to use the sex drive to force their husbands into a treaty that would put an end to the war.

Although viewers and thinkers are deeply at odds regarding who was at play, the event has raised hopes that the pace of reform has been accelerated in the State.  Another notable aspect was that the responses of the officials toward the event were rather passive and no one raised questions about the unusual act.

One could perhaps be considered a good man who walked the straight paths while the other was a prodigal son who has grown to be a wild and carefree person. The older son became a professor in Chicago, married his first love, and lived a more serious life while his younger brother chose to stay in his hometown in Montana.

The movie Taken, released in 2008, is an action flick directed by Pierre Morel and features Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Leland Orser, and Famke Janssen. This research paper focuses on the main theme of the movie, where Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) puts everything in line to save his daughter, Kim Mills (Maggie Grace).

Talking about family melodrama usually means American family melodrama; this analysis of the Wedding Banquet challenges the assumptions that the American or Hollywood family is general or a defaulting category. The wedding Banquet draws attention to family and familial relationships in Chinese culture of the late 20th and early 21st century.

Klein looks at the life of Vincent Van Gogh with a lot of depth and candidly gives the full description of the kind of life that he had and whom he used to associate with. Klein looks at the sources of his inspiration and the evolution of Gogh’s artistic capabilities from a young age to his old age.

A key difference between complex narratives/plot lines and those that are much more simplistic has to do with the different viewpoints and/or approaches to a particular issue that is presented to the viewer. Unfortunately, many films do not leverage this approach, and oftentimes come across as rather one dimensional.

Mise-en-scene in film criticism does not simply mean a set of propositions, which are readily detached from the film. This is a very vital element in visual arts and therefore inevitable for the development of any successful film. However, this means a complex combination of the film’s thematic concerns and its simultaneous embodiments in a number of elements.

Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura’ is an American based television series. Jesse Ventura is the host of the conspiracy and broadcasts on truTV under the title ‘Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura’. To this end, the television series has three seasons out with twenty-two episodes. The TV series premiered on 2 December 2009.

According to Deborah Shaw’s Babel and the Global Hollywood Gaze, world cinema is strenuously promoted and lends respectability to DVD collections, academic publishing, academic courses, and film festivals. In the academic field, world cinema refers to the canon of great cultural text. In commerce, global cinema has links to world music.

On the other side, Susan Sontag's views on art support Bruegel's viewpoint because easier Interpretation of art destroys its content to an extent. Thesis statement:  The critical analysis of the artwork The Peasant Wedding by Pieter Brueghel proves that it unveils the social and cultural contexts of peasant life and supports Susan Sontag's view that critical Interpretation is against art.

James Cagney, for example, who had initially been popular because of his abilities as a stage dancer and singer, was unable to display the talent he had because of repeated casting as a gangster tough guy. His ability to sing and dance again in Yankee Doodle Dandy paved the way for him winning an Academy Award.

Through making replicas of original pieces, new scenes and experiences are captured which in turn adds value to the original piece and lets the reader see through the eyes of another.  Interactions of ideas, inviting of varied opinions, and points of view not only bolster poetry but also ensures the intellectual thrive of the players in the artistic circle. 

This exposition will focus and unite four fine arts, photojournalism, painting, structural engineering, and model. The in-profundity examination of the consequent expressions will be thought to the accompanying: The impact of technology on the development of each of the works of art: construction modeling, photography, figure, and painting (Brit, 2008).  

The period is best defined by Picasso’s ‘Girl with a mandolin’. The last phase of cubism gets referred to as the synthetic stage. This stage emphasized majorly on collage. Picasso’s ‘Still life with chair caning’ can get used to describe this phase accordingly. The phase was called synthetic as subject created during the phase were not made up of paint entirely.

The realization that no matter what happens during the detention: however much they bond; they shall return tomorrow their previous lives was and remains to date, the highlight of the film. The entire movie is ingenious because it holds no promise to the future; it was all about the present moment; in this case, the detention.

A total of 6 million Americans are gun holders. Whereas they should be using these gadgets for safeguarding their security, it is unfortunate that a good number of them have abused this privilege by compromising other people’s security. In fact, 30,000 people lose their lives to gun violence every year.

Chinedu has used styles such as symbolism, irony, Dialogue, editing, to arrange the message and themes such as conflict, patience amongst others as it will be discussed in this summary. The plot of this film is set in a public place most likely a mall, with less regard to public interference as people are seen passing by.