Zhang Huan’s performance piece, Seeds of Hamburg, was performed in 2002 in Hamburg, Germany. In the performance, Huan entered the wooden-chicken wire cage after being covered in honey and birdseed. Inside the cage, Huan moved around in various motions and 28 birds were released into the cage. Then Huan proceeds to sit on this throne-like structure constructed out of crates. After sitting on the throne structure for a while and allowing the birds to nibble from the birdseed on his body, a bird finally
Censorship in the 1950's: How did this affect the making of “Night and Fog” one of the first ever cinematic documentaries on the Holocaust? A film by Alain Resnais. The ‘Night and Fog Decree’ was issued by Adolf Hitler on December 7th 1941. The ‘Night and Fog Decree’ (Nacht und Nebel Erlass) bypassed all forms of basic law and was an order from Hitler to his secret police to murder anyone in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe who was deemed to be a threat. The decree stated that such people were
Sion Sono, having directed 46 films since 1984, is one of the most prolific filmmakers of Japan, excelling, since the beginning of his career, in everything grotesque, abnormally erotic and exceedingly violent that can be found in a movie. He is considered one of the artists that finally modernized the preterit genre of J-Horror, transforming it into something closer to the ero guro style that includes, besides terror, eroticism, sexual corruption and decadence, both physical and spiritual. Sono
are from the soundtrack of the film Menace II Society and correspond directly to the hardships that people are given when growing up in the ghetto and when surrounded by a life of violence. Because they know nothing other than this aggressive and brutal way of life, they continue this violent cycle and rarely break away to begin a new way of life. Twin brothers Albert and Allen Hughes direct the film. The Hughes began making movies at age 12, but their formal film education began their freshman year
Critique La Ventura La Ventura is widely regarded as one of the greatest films to date. Michelangelo Antonioni didn’t win the Palme D’or, but it did get a Special Jury Prize during the Cannes film festival of 1960. No surprise he didn’t win the Palme D’or, but why give him an award in the first place? The reason for winning the title seemed unclear at first because the film had serious issues with breaking the rules of standardized filmmaking. For example having his actors enter the scene from
Nowadays film festivals have become common in our culture; from the Sundance Film Festival in the middle of January to the Rome Film Festival at the end of October, there is barely a day in the calendar where some Film Festival is not being celebrated in some part of the world. The most famous ones, such as the Venice Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival, began their history in the 30's and despite critiques and negative reviews, they continue to be held every year. As a consequence, film festivals
however, we only excuse his extreme reactions because of our overall exposure to violence and desensitized conscience. This type of brutal and unplanned violence becomes the protagonist’s way of making peace throughout the movie. The title of the film reflects not only the history of violence of the protagonist, but the history of violence in America. This simple movie gracefully indicates how movie violence prevails as a reflection of American culture. “The History of Violence” is not just another
international film and study it thereafter. We are to identify its genre and its particular conventions such as themes, sub-themes and etc. However, the main idea of this assignment is the film theory. We are to apply one of the nine film theories into our film choices and analyze it thoroughly in terms of mise-en scene, narrative structure, character interaction and any other criteria. For our film selection, we have gone through and watched a few international films which included Chinese films, Bollywood
The Road by Cormac McCarthy, is set in a post-apocalyptic United States. A father and his son have survived the event that cause the destruction and death of so many. The two of them follow a road that will lead them to the coast where they hope to find and untouched landscape that they can live in. Through their journey they encounter others that are just trying to stay alive, one’s who will steal, enslave them, or even kill them. An ecocriticism is is a lens that looks at the relationship between
Survive, to remain alive or existent, to function and prosper, to prevail. The true definition of survive, is none other than remaining alive, at all cost, people can go to lengths they thought was not possible. Some survive because maybe they have strength, smart, or just because they did what they must’ve needed to do, to prolong their hour of death, that will end their legacies. A quote that represents survival is, “Survival of the fittest”. The movie Hunger Games capture the quote very well
In my first paper, I defined “the grain” as the dominant voice that dictates the conversation that is writing or authorship that contributes to the metaphorical and limiting City of Norm. I went on to argue that “writing against the grain” involves working to navigate out of this City of Norm and into the marginalized suburbs, into a form of writing that aligns with one’s identity and values based on personal social location, a form of writing that is true to oneself. Having now read Marjane Satrapi’s
The Significance of Juxtaposition in Persepolis It is not possible for a country to function when it’s people are against their own government. Persepolis is an example of just how problematic this can become, a world where the rule of the government is no longer accepted by the people. The people of Iran desperately search for solutions by revolting against their strict government, however their plans are often violently shut down. In the story of Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi the juxtaposition
Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) a traditional prose-fiction novel, and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis (2000), a graphic novel, explore the significant impact the external world has on an individual’s sense of self, using similar techniques despite their different textual forms. Lee and Satrapi show their main characters Scout and Marji growing up in respectively 1930’s racially-segregated Alabama and 1980’s post-revolutionary Iran, negotiating the progressive ideologies of their families
Great Expectations. From pages 60-61 the history shows us that what they wore sort of reflected on what they were selling like when Pip describes the corduroys that the shop keeper is wearing to the seeds in one of his draws because he sells seeds it says about this " I hardly knew which was which". Also the shop people have longer hours of work they run from 7:00am to 8:00pm. What Pip also found strange is that all the shop owners used to look at each through there shop windows apart from
When analyzing Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel, Persepolis, under a Marxist Literary Lense, one can see an apparent irony in the protagonist’s support of revolution and left-wing ideologies like communism. Marji’s family is a fairly affluent family, seeing that they live lives of relative comfort and luxury. Seeing that the family is a part of the class of Iranian society that has money, it is strange that the family calls for a destruction of the current society that they live in. It seems that
Persepolis is a graphic autobiography by Marjane Satrapi that describe her childhood up to her early adult years in Iran during and after the Islamic Revolution. The title is a reference to the ancient capital of the Persian Empire, Persepolis. During the whole book, Marjane Satrapi is changing. The reader follows her character development. On panel 113 the last frame is illustrative of the contentious aspect of Marjane's relationship with her mother. While most of the book shows a tender and loving
Columbine is an American documentary film, released in 2002, and was written, directed and narrated by Michael Moore, which also utilizes a variety of persuasive documentary techniques for the purpose of provoking a response from the audience. The purpose of bowling for columbine is to show audiences issues made by the American gun laws such as violence e.g. The Columbine massacre. Moore presents the audience with new ideas and the issues facing America. It is a film about guns and America's culture
'To Build a Fire'; In Jack London's, 'To Build a Fire';, it is obvious to see that as the story progresses, the man becomes more bestial. However at the same time the dog seems to gain the human quality of good sense. This quality of good sense, which the dog acquires, allows it to away from the same fate of the man. There are many examples of how this is portrayed as the story makes headway. The first example of how the man becomes more bestial occurs after his first fire fails. After his fire fails
Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel, Persepolis, makes important strides toward altering how Western audiences perceive Iranian women. Satrapi endeavors to display the intersection of the lives of some Westerners with her life as an Iranian, who spent some time in the West. Satrapi, dissatisfied with representations she saw of Iranian women in France, decided to challenge them. In her words, “From the time I came to France in 1994, I was always telling stories about life in Iran to my friends. We’d see
Marjane Satrapi wrote the graphic novel, Persepolis, in a way that indicates that there is a wide gap between the realities of Marjane Satrapi’s childhood and the reality of the reader. She achieves this in many ways. Firstly, Satrapi writes Persepolis in a graphic novel and illustrates its pictures in a simple and childlike way. Secondly, the black and white images represent zero uncertainties which disconnects the reader because that is far from the reader’s reality. Another important point is