...of the most struggling and outstanding autobiographical documentary that I have ever seen. I had even considered it to be a horror film during the first half of the movie since it has many scenes that are riddled with violence and bloodiness. It features mental illness, rape, abuse, and homosexuality all wrapped up in the touching chronological framework of family love. With the development of the film, my emotion just flowed with Jonathan’s story. I was taken through a broad range of emotions, which include fear, surprise, excitement, and upset as I witnessed the ups and downs of the story. Being the storyteller as well as the filmmaker, Jonathan opened the whole personal world to us and shared all his views about life with us without doubt. “Tarnation” is a man’s bold expression to tell the story of his own life, and for me, it just shook my heart and my mind. As with Renov’s first thesis about autobiography and documentary where “the very idea of autobiography reinvents the VERY IDEA of documentary”, Jonathan brought us a very unique, bold, creative, and extremely stylish way to watch the documentary films. “Tarnation” differentiated itself from most other traditional documentaries in its truthfulness root from the inner self – “private truth and inner realities” (Renov). Unlike documentary films, which rely on different sources of interviews and researches to enhance their arguments and facts, autobiographical films rely on audiences’ judgment and confidence on how people...
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...Go to the cinema - to see Hollywood blockbuster movies, Bollywood movies (from India), art films, animated films. You can also say go to the movies. Some film categories are: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller, Action, Science Fiction (Sci-Fi), Fantasy, Documentary, Musical. Watch TV - Different types of television programs are: The News, Soap Operas, Criminal Investigation Dramas, Medical Dramas, Reality TV, Situation Comedies (Sit-Coms), Talk Shows, Documentaries, Cartoons, Game Shows, Sports programs, Movies, Political programs, Religious programs. Spend time with family - You can do many things with your family. Usually, the fact that you are together is more important than the activity. Go out with friends - You can also do many things with your friends, like go out to a bar, go dancing at a club, have dinner at a restaurant, play a sport, sit down and talk, go out for a coffee, have a barbecue, or any other activity that you all enjoy. Or sometimes when you don't do anything specific, you can say hang out with friends. Surf the internet - On the internet, you can research a topic you are interested in using a search engine, visit your favourite websites, watch music videos, create your own video and upload it for other people to see, maintain contact with your friends using a social networking site, write your thoughts in a blog, learn what is happening in the world by reading news websites, etc. Play video games - You can play games on your computer or...
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...of the Cinematic Con Orson Welles' 1974 "film essay" F for Fake opens with a scene of Welles, in the role of a magician, performing a sleight of hand trick with a young child, "transforming" the key the young boy has presented him into a coin and then showing how the young boy had the key all the time in his pocket. The magic was the perfect illustration of Welles' purpose in the film. F for Fake was a film about fraud and deceit, about how the makers of art (and, in particular, film) use "trickery" to fool their intended audience into believing something that is not true. The film focuses on three known "charlatans" (Elmyr de Hory, Clifford Irving, and Welles himself) who used their talents to produce such magnificent forgeries that they were able to fool everyone (even so-called "experts") into believing in the truth of their claims. Despite the status of this film as one of Welles' "minor" films from late in his life (it was one of the last films he completed prior to his death in 1985), it has had a tremendous impact on filmmaking, both in a technical sense (the film's complex editing of various film stocks and styles) and in a textual sense. Welles' identification of the ways in which an audience can be manipulated into believing anything as long as it has the "air" of authenticity has had a tremendous impact on current filmmaking, especially in the realm of horror filmmaking with the current crop of "found-footage" films that have appeared in the last thirteen years...
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...Essay films are arguably the most innovative and popular forms of filmmaking since the 1990s”, Timothy Corrigan claims in his diligent new study, The Essay Film. Corrigan may have an agenda to press, and a thesis to justify, but the recent critical and commercial success of the genre is hard to ignore. A cinematic wave that arguably has its contemporary roots in the late 1980s, when American filmmakers such as Michael Moore and Errol Morris rose to public prominence, reached an apotheosis with Moore’s hugely popular, though hugely flawed, Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) and Davis Guggenheim’s information-heavy An Inconvenient Truth (2006), which conjured a compelling piece of screen drama from Al Gore’s Powerpoint presentation. Nowadays, the Award for Best Documentary Feature at the Oscars is one of the most highly coveted. For Corrigan, the essayistic film “describes the many-layered activities of a personal point of view as a public experience”. While this is a perfectly good starting point, the author is so convinced of the elasticity of his subject that he has trouble constraining it under the broader umbrellas of documentary, non-fiction or even fiction. At times it appears that, for Corrigan, all filmmaking is essayistic. Nevertheless, he traces a convincing history of the genre(s) from D. W. Griffith’s prototypical A Corner of Wheat (1909), which contrasts the lives of the agricultural poor with those of their capitalist exploiters, via Dmitri Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein to...
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...What is PUBLIC BROADCASTING? Exercising of media broadcasting by the nations’ Government is broadly known as Public Broadcasting. It is financed and controlled by the public, for the public. It is neither commercial nor state-owned; it is free from political interference and pressure from commercial forces. It includes radio, television, internet and other media outlets whose primary mission is Public Service. In broadcasting, public service includes the social welfare of people, spreading information, speaking to and engaging as a citizen. Public Broadcasting is wide ranging in its appeal, reliable, entertaining, instructive and informative, who serves only one master – Public. It strives to engage all communities through evocative broadcast programmes and outreach projects. It channelizes the information and ideas to help improve communities socially, culturally and economically. Through public service broadcasting, citizens are informed, educated and also entertained. Public service broadcasting can serve as a keystone of democracy when it is guaranteed with pluralism, programming diversity, editorial independence, appropriate funding, accountability and transparency. What are the Public broadcasting institutions in India? The Major institution for public broadcasting in India is Prasar Bharati. Prasar Bharati through All India Radio (AIR) and Doordarshan (DD) networks provide maximum coverage of the population and are one of the largest terrestrial networks in the world...
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...The Clowns: A Quintessential Fellini Film I Clowns (1970) was a documentary by Federico Fellini that was commissioned by RAI, an Italian television broadcast service, to discover the public’s fascination with the circus. In true Fellini fashion, however, the film is not a true documentary, it blends elements of fantasy, memory and reality together in such a way that it makes it difficult for the audience to decipher whether they are watching a work of pure fiction or the truth of a documentary. It is for this reason that I Clowns has been credited as being one of the first mockumentaries in film history. Fellini created one of his most Felliniesque works and made his artistic style noticeable particularly in I Clowns by focusing on the circus and employing a wide variety of common motifs and stylistic technique. Clowns and circuses have famously been a common, reoccurring subject in many of Fellini’s films. This film is Fellini’s exploration of his personal obsession and it was made in an attempt to discover the public’s changing interest in the circus. Unable or unwilling to merely stick to facts and make a true documentary, Fellini melds fact, fiction and his memories to create something unique and distinct within this movie all together and is considered one of the first mockumentaries. A young boy in Rimini in the opening sequence of the film is intended to be autobiographical of Fellini’s youth and modeled after his own memories. I Clowns could be recognized as Fellini’s...
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...For over a century now, film has risen as a medium of choice to present war information. War films has risen as a genre particularly depicting warfare using themes and concepts such as naval, air or land battles. War films also focus on the themes of prisoners of war, covert operations and military training. War films do not always, however, depict battles. Sometimes, war films may choose to focus on the day to day military or civilian life in wartime without necessarily depicting battles. War film may be fictional, based on history, biographical, alternative history, or even docudrama. Many historical events particularly since mid 1800’s to the end of the cold war have inspired this film genre. The shifting political climate in America in the last half of the 1930’s for instance influenced the rise of the war film genre (Maland 159). War films more often than not been categorized as wartime propagandas other than classic war films or historical documents. Maland also describes the shift of attention was a change in the Communist party's political strategy that influenced war films during that era. War films that rose in the Second World War era were particularly very much associated with war propaganda. Why we Fight (1942-1945), Air force (1943) and Men at War (1957) are three war films from this time that were thought to be tools of wartime propaganda. A famous actor during that era, Charlie Chaplin, depicted the role of Adolf Hitler in the war film The Great Dictator. "After...
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...Running Head: KUBRICK Stanley Kubrick G138 Introduction to Film There have been many different directors that have had an important influence on modern film. Yet there have only been a handful that not only influenced it, but truly changed how an entire genre of film was perceived. Like no other before him, Stanley Kubrick forged a path that no other had treed. He had an eye for a story and a way to retell it in a manner that was uniquely different and memorable. On the quiet evening of July 26th 1928, in the Bronx of New York City Stanley Kubrick was born. At a very young age he showed a passion for music and especially photography. This same passion was not seen in his basic school work though. By the time he graduated High School he only had a 67 average. This low score made it very hard for him to find a college to attend. So instead he moved on to become a freelance photography for the magazine Look. As a photographer he was able to travel a great deal, an experience that helped in opening his eyes to everything around him. It created a thirst for knowledge and the desire to learn more. This desire brought him to the doorsteps of Columbia University where he enrolled as a non-matriculating student. While attending Columbia he became even more influenced by photography, which turned into a growing passion for the understanding of the film process. Often times, he would sit in during classes taught by Lionel Trilling, Mark Van Doren and Moses Hadas (SK-TMF, 2008)...
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...The war Game is a dramatized documentary that relates to the story of a possible Russian missile attack and its aftermath in southeaster England, during a limited nuclear war. There were several different reasons given for the ban including graphic scenes, its apparent left-wing bias and its controversial fusion of journalistic fact ( Rolinson,___ ). This paper will discuss the ways in which Watkin’s Peter Watkins filmed this feature in such a realistic manner that it was banned from BBC for 20 years. The method in which this film has been shot The War Game (1965) This documentary is one of the most controversial films ever to win the Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature. Produced in 1965 by BBC television, it relates the story of a possible Russian missile attack and its aftermath in southeastern England, during a limited nuclear war. This stark and powerful work continues to move audiences and incite debate some forty years after it was made 1. Is The War Game a documentary? Each of Peter Watkins 14 films (both shorts and features) operates in a vein that can be called staged documentary.” The method used in his films is to address historical and contemporary issues through recreations, using chiefly non-actors. In this case, the participants were selected through a series of public meetings in County Kent where the film is set and where it was primarily shot. His stated purpose, “was to involve ‘ordinary people’ in an extended study of their own history… the...
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...CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION A. Background of The Study Every individual has problems in their life. The problem that appears is complex. Most of them related to human psychological condition. One of the basic problems of individual is feeling inferiority. This emerges as the result of psychological and social weakness. Inferiority feeling also arises for imperfection in doing something. Those feelings include subjective feeling, which is experienced by people because of their social disabilities. Thus, human beings try to compensate for their inferiority feeling by striving to overcome their feeling. Inferiority feeling influences human being life style. In other words, inferiority determines life style involving how people attempt to defeat their weakness. Commonly, individual applies their inferiority in social life. However, they tend to be motivated to overcome feeling of inferiority by building relationship with others to get their life’s goal. Sometimes, the goal of life will become difficult thing to be reached since there are many problems in human life. The problems in human life cannot be separated from thinking, feeling, and acting. Those are actually bringing up influence for the literary work. Therefore, literature closely related to psychology in human being including experiences facing the life. A work of literature is created not only to entertain but also to convey values and meanings to human life which can be discovered in the problem...
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...His first novel was Everything is Illuminated (2002) which “received a lot of praise from major publications and well known authors and won The Guardian's First Book Award and The National Jewish Book Award, and it was named Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times. It was also adapted to a film starring Elijah Wood in 2005” (Gale). His other novels include Tree of Codes (2016), Here I am (2010) and Eating Animals (2009). Along with Everything is Illuminated, two of his other works were turned into films or documentaries; both Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close and Eating...
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...A documentary topic, I would like to pursue is Online Dating. Main areas in my research, I expect to conduct is online dating statistics, dangers of online dating and advantages and disadvantages of online dating and finding out if anyone has been successful or unsuccessful at using online dating sites including Tinder, Match, eHarmony, PlentyOfFish, OkCupid, Zoosk, ChristianMingle and BlackPeopleMeet. The relevance of this film is to show the experiences of people whether good or bad through the use of online dating. What motivates me to explore this topic is, I have participated in online dating and have been unsuccessful in finding someone. Dating sites, I used are Tinder, OkCupid.com and ChristianMingle.com. Creative models that have impacted my thinking are Dan Slater (Author) and Laura Scotty (Filmmaker). Dan Slater is the author of “Love in the Time of Algorithms: What Technology Does to Meeting and Mating”. Slater believes the use of online dating has changed society. In the book he explains how a basic need for human intimacy has transformed into a two billion dollar industry and how technology fits into this traditional methods of dating. Laura Scotty is the director of Digital Dating, which is a documentary film about the immense popularity of online dating. Laura explores the massive appeal of online dating sites from Tinder to Plenty of Fish and meets users who use the sites. Some questions that interest me is finding out what do people look for in...
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...‘History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again’ Born on April 4th, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1935, the children were returned to the care of their mother in Chicago, Illinois after her and her brother Bailey Jr. were sent to Arkansas to live with their parental grandmother, Annie Henderson, and their uncle, Willie. Later in 1935, the children were returned to the care of their mother in Chicago, Illinois, but were sent back to Stamps after it was discovered that her mother’s boyfriend had sexually molested Maya. He was arrested and kept in a cell for 1 day, however after his release he was later found dead. While living with the Grandmother, Maya became an elected mute; she felt her words had such power that they caused the death of others (her mother’s boyfriend) and as result choose not to speak at all. While living with her Grandmother, she responded with the following words: “Sister, Momma don’t care what these people say, that you must be an idiot, a moron, ’cause you can’t talk. Momma don’t care. Momma know that when you and the good Lord get ready, you gon’ be a teacher.” As a teenager, Dr. Angelou’s love for the arts won her a scholarship to study dance and drama at San Francisco’s Labor School. At 14, she dropped out to become San Francisco’s first African-American female cable car conductor. She later finished high school, giving birth to her son, Guy, a few weeks after graduation. As a young...
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...Dr. Maya Angelou is one of the most renowned and influential voices of our time. Hailed as a global renaissance woman, Dr. Angelou is a celebrated poet, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist. Born on April 4th, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Angelou was raised in St. Louis and Stamps, Arkansas. In Stamps, Dr. Angelou experienced the brutality of racial discrimination, but she also absorbed the unshakable faith and values of traditional African-American family, community, and culture. As a teenager, Dr. Angelou’s love for the arts won her a scholarship to study dance and drama at San Francisco’s Labor School. At 14, she dropped out to become San Francisco’s first African-American female cable car conductor. She later finished high school, giving birth to her son, a few weeks after graduation. As a young single mother, she supported her son by working as a waitress and cook, however her passion for music, dance, performance, and poetry would soon take center stage. In 1954 and 1955, Dr. Angelou toured Europe with a production of the opera Porgy and Bess. She studied modern dance with Martha Graham, danced with Alvin Ailey on television variety shows and, in 1957, recorded her first album, Calypso Lady. In 1958, she moved to New York, where she joined the Harlem Writers Guild, acted in the historic Off-Broadway production of Jean Genet's The Blacks and wrote and performed Cabaret for Freedom. In 1960, Dr....
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...History (European TV channel). History, formerly known as The History Channel, is a US-based international satellite and cable TV channel, owned by A&E Television Networks. It originally broadcast documentary programs with fictional and non-fictional historical content, together with speculation about the future. Now it broadcasts a variety of scripted reality television and other non-history related content. Programming covers a wide range of periods and topics, while similar topics are often organized into themed weeks or daily marathons. It is seen in more than eighty million households. Subjects include mythical creatures, monsters, UFOs, aliens, truck drivers, alligator hunters, pawn stores, antiques and collectible "pickers", religions, disaster scenarios, and apocalyptic "after man" scenarios; a number of these documentaries were narrated by Edward Herrmann when the channel ran them. Some of the aired programs compare contemporary culture and technology with the past, while other programs focus on subjects such as conspiracy theories, religious interpretation, UFO speculation, and reality television. In particular, History has aired a number of films on Nostradamus,[3] as well as a special series on doomsday that promulgates various popular 2012 theories, including films such as Decoding the Past (2005–2007), 2012, End of Days (2006), Last Days on Earth (2006), Seven Signs of the Apocalypse (2007), and Nostradamus 2012 (2008).[4] The channel now mostly features mainstream...
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