Cinema and Technology: An Essay
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'The cinema of attractions directly solicits spectator attention, inciting visual curiosity, and supplying pleasure through an exciting spectacle' Gunning (1990), p. 58. To what extent does mainstream cinema today continue to operate as a 'cinema of attractions'? Illustrate this...
Introduction to Jazz: Miles Davis, his life and music
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Miles Davis is an American jazz composer and a trumpet player. He was born in Illinois in 1926 and died in California in 1991. Miles devoted himself to music throughout his life. He was and still is, even if dead, a key character in Jazz music. He has played all forms of Jazz, has created some...
The Lady of Auxerre and the value judgment of the Greek Archaic Art
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The Lady of Auxerre is a 75 cm high limestone statuette of a sculpted woman. The state of conservation is good except for the left half of the face and the arm, which was restored later on. There are red traces of painting on the breasts; She stands on a base 10 cm high in a very straight...
Hungarian Secession Style: An Art nouveau interpretation - The example of the Applied Arts museum of Budapest
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In 1858, John Ruskin (1819-1900) wrote influential essays that prompted architects to be inspired by the nature teachings. Two others figures were a decisive influence on the creation of this new modern style. They are the “Comte de Laborde” (1807-1869) and Eugene Emmanuel Violet-le-Duc...
The art movement - Abstract Expressionism
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Abstract Expressionism is a major movement, created in the half of the 20th century, when the international artistic scene moved from Paris to New-York. Actually, it was a kind of creative emulation of American painters in the 1940's 50's which was closely linked to the international and cultural...
Analyze the (critical) implications of how Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, Universal, USA, 1944) uses the conventions associated with film noir.
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Double Indemnity is widely regarded as a classic example of film noir by film critics and fans of the genre alike. In terms of genre Double Indemnity clearly belongs to the film noir category although it is due to the lighting and style that many believe, film noir should be classed as a style...
