This chapter analyses the relationship between 17 Dutch films produced in 1934 and 1935 and their popularity with Dutch filmgoers. Starting from the concept of cultural nearness and appropriation, I have examined recurring character types, themes, and plot developments, arguing that those can reveal...
The Late Qing's Other Utopias: China's Science-Fictional Imagination, 1900-1910 This research paper examines the genesis and mechanism of China's imagination of the future at the turn of the 20th century, a time when the country's current socio-political reality was seen as being in many ...
We present our round-up of the best French films of the 1960s, which includes some of the masterpieces of French cinema.
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根据第二段“The idea for the project came from Chicago-based collector Dwight Cleveland, who was introduced to the silent movie advertisements, also called lobby (大厅)cards, as a high school student in the 1970s. He then fell in love with the colors, designs and other elements used in ...
The filmRaiders of the Lost Ark(1981), set in 1936, introduced Dr. Henry (“Indiana”) Jones, a young professor of archaeology and history at fictional Marshall College, whoseextracurricularactivities include grave robbing and swashbuckling and whose one great fear is snakes. In the film, he ...
Set in a seedy, strip-lit London populated almost exclusively by predators and prey, this is the one film in which Leigh drops the idea that life is sweet: his characters are mostly either cruel or pathetic, and drifting above them all – or crawling beneath – is David Thewlis’s Johnny...
You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. Portrait of a Lady on Fire [Official Trailer] – In Theaters December 6, 2019 Watch on Set in 18th century France, a young painter named Marianne (Noémie ...
Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tar. She is widely considered as one of the greatest living composer-conductors and first-ever female music director of a German orchestra. It is an unfolding thriller about a brilliant artist who’s destroyed...
Gangster films as a genre essaysFor this exercise, I have opted to take an in depth look at a particular genre, this genre being gangster films. In order to see how a film from this genre fits into the category of "gangster" I have also opted to study a