Film Studies

Italian Neorealism After the World War II, films technique begin from the Italian Neorealism. The World War II affecting the cinema industries in economic and stability. Cesare Zavattini was the theoretical founder of neo-realism in 1942. Theory Discussion Italian Neorealism is a new form of Italian Cinema that abolishes contrive and planned plots, use real people and locations to show the realistic of the movie. The pursuit of neo-realism is the reality of life, which demands the expression of the suffering of the Italian people through the war, suffering of life, and denounces the injustice in the society. This film technique mostly shot on-location in the ruins of the war. They also tend to use mixture of professional actor and non-actors but mostly non-actors able to bring out more realistic. For the film of Bicycle Thieves, after the World War II, Rome like many other country, was flooded with unemployment and poverty, people often fought for a job opportunity, and t...

Theory Discussion French Impressionist Cinema was popular on 1919 until 1928 in French. It is a films term applied by a group of French films and filmmakers. French Impressionist basically explores psychological causes; gives narration considerable psychological depth, revealing play of the character’s consciousness. In short, French Impressionist emphasis on what character thinking, saying or acting. French Impressionist also manipulates plot time and subjectivity; showing flashback or memories to show it. This is one of the hint can give the audiences know what was happened before. Besides, the characteristic of French Impressionist also tend to use visual depiction of mental states via cinematography and editing. This can be the guiding for the audiences and know what the actor trying to express. The film of In The Mood For Love is directed by Wong Kar-wai and released on 29 September 2000.This film is using a lot of French Impressionism technique to bring out the two main cha...

Postmodernism  Bricolage in postmodernism theory is genre bending & hybrid genres. Bricolage creating an art form existing resources that is different compare to the pass. We tend to classify a genres to movie such as horror, comedy, romantic and more. Classifying films into genres is a form of modernist structuring. Bending genres is to bending the classification of a films, we can also know as to mix two genres or more film genres. The developing  of the characteristics of genres creates an evolving effect, churning out new generic characteristics.  Paranorman is directed by Sam Fell and Chris Butler. This movie released on 3 August 2012 in Mexico. Paranorman is a stop motion that combined with the latest 3D technology. Synopsis This story is about a boy, Norman an 11 years old boy who live in a small town of Blithe Hollow, he does not like to talk with other because of his ability. He can see and talk with people that already pass away what we call...