What Is Film Noir? surveys the various theories of film noir, defines film noir, and explains how the genre relates to the style and the period in which noir was created. It also provides a very...Park, WilliamPark, W. (2011), What is Film Noir?, Plymouth: Bucknell University Press....
What is a feature film? Afeature filmis a film that typically has a run time between 80 minutes and 180 minutes long. This distinction, however, can depend on who you ask. The Screen Actors Guild defines a feature as a minimum of 80 minutes whereas The Academy defines a feature as a ...
The far-from prolificJack Claytonhas the right to be considered a great filmmaker purely on the basis ofThe Innocents,The Pumpkin EaterandThe Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, but only the first of these is well-known, and the rest of his scattershot career shows little of the thematic consis...
Film montage appears to have emerged in the work of Sergei Eisenstein, a talented Russian filmmaker. He often used this technique to create a symbolic effect which was meant to trigger a specific response in the user, while Hollywood picked up the concept and used it to illustrate the passage...
Due to a recent review backlog we have not been actively soliciting reviewers; as a result, much recent SF media is still available for reviewing. If there is a film you are interested in reviewing, please contactgerry.canavan@marquette.eduand let him know the name of the film and what ...
Side light can be a good way to create some shape, tone, and texture; because it scrapes across your subject from the side, it defines highlight and shadow detail in the face and body. Side light is also a great way of hiding or highlighting certain features. For example, if your ...
“I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang” (1932) – For 1932, this film is as politically charged and controversial as Hollywood could be, taking a long, hard look at the dehumanization of the criminal justice system and how it defines those who have been in it. This film is brutally hone...
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«[The name “Alpinismo Molotov”] simultaneously defines a set of practices in constant evolution and the people who make them evolve […] We look at the mountains as part of the world around us: mountaineering is “molotov” [ie conflictual, TN] insofar as it unveils its own contradictio...
Its appeal to the youthful is self-evident. YOLO as a shorthand mantradefinesyouth, on a certain level. What is teenagehood if not the adventurous, often foolhardy, desire to test the limits of acceptable behavior—because hey, why not? YOLO!