Category: Cinema

Policymakers and scholars acknowledge that the media plays a fundamental role in the life of young people. The media shapes the dynamics of the cultures embraced by the youth. Youth everywhere, the Arab world not an exception, are frequent users of technology and watching movies being one of the main uses (Kraidy, 2008). The occurrence…

Table of Contents Goals and Thesis Spanish Dishes as Semiotic Objects Food Preference and Rituals Popularization of the National Cuisine Variety of Meals and Locations Summary Goals and Thesis I will be talking about the aspects of Spanish cuisine as a cultural element and its role in Spanish cinema. I want to highlight why Spaniards’…

Review The movie ‘A Thin Blue Line’ is quite a sensational movie in a non-traditional sense in that it reveals the hidden world by letting the characters involved talk about this world. The movie investigates the murder of a police officer, Wood. Harris gives his account of the story, claiming that his friend Adam shot…

Table of Contents Introduction Roles of the Directors How the Movie Applied the Use of Lightning Movie Setting Make-Ups and Hair Styles Reference Introduction No one can deny that movies are therapies for culture for many viewers. The cool world which was a smash hit in 1992 was produced by Frank Mancuso, Jr. who has…

The modern world in its social, political, and economic manifestations has gone through a series of ideological changes throughout centuries of its existence. Overall, the search for an ideal type of government has always been a never-ending process due to the evolution of thought and constant willingness to change the existing regime (Gray, 2011). Neoliberalism…

Blood Diamond is an adventure drama film directed by Edward Zwick. The film was nominated for Academy Awards for the Best Actor, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Djimon Hounsou. The film goes back to the event of 1996-1998 when Sierra Leone Civil War took place. In that period, the country experienced the most severe struggles between the…

Introduction The most obvious thing that can be traced in the Hollywood movies is the yearning for making money; as a rule, filmmakers do not always benefit from making unprofitable movies and vice versa, sometimes movies that were characterized as noncommercial gain success and popularity which brings them to the top positions in terms of…

Modern cinematography is the world that perfectly reflects the problems of people and the situations that are created in the world now. It may be said that cinematography reflects the problems which are urgent to modern people or have some relation to appeared situations, such as poverty, war, money, love, desire, world crisis, and other…

The screenwriter of the Paradise Now and its director, Hany Abu-Assad, created the movie about two Palestinian men that wanted to detonate bombs at the military check point in Israel. Two suicide bombers were to sett of their bombs one after another, to injure as much people as it is possible. Still, during their trip…

Avatar (2009) is a highly successful science fiction film created by James Cameron. It stars Sam Worthington, Michele Rodriquez, and Stephen Lang among others. The film has both human and computer-generated actors. The temporal setting of the film is the year 2154 when human beings are presumed to own a mineral known as unobtanium. At…