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Discuss Bazin's idea that 'realism in art can only be achieved through artifice'. What are the implications for film of his approach? Make reference to films in your answers.
... reality. (pp 339. As one of the most sincere and substantial defender of realism in the cinema, Bazin believes that films should represent the reality of ... neo-realism was the product of the Second World War and the defeat of Italian and German Fascism. ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Guests Of A Nation
... kills any of their Irish prisoners. The next day this occurs and they are faced with the reality of fulfilling their ... between two English prisoners of war and their Irish guards. Belcher and Hawkins are English prisoners of war; Noble and Bonaparte, with ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Comparing The Lives Of Sheila And Eva Smith
... refusing to accept the harsh realities of the outside world. Sheila is one of the most complex characters of the play. She has been ... predictions about the impossibility of going to war and the Titanic as unsinkable. "The Germans don't want war." Not only is ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
An analysis of the character Le Ly in Oliver Stone's "Heaven and Earth"
... their simple, ideal way of life to the fast paced, harsh realities of modern life that would soon overtake it. On top of that, they had ... of War" In Oliver Stone's Heaven and Earth, Le Ly is born into a time of tranquility, in which the people of her village ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Science fiction is the search for a definition of man and his status in the universe which will stand on our advanced but confused state of knowledge
... the shifting polarities of revolution mark the novel, which reflects the clash of the so-called "sensualism" with the brutal reality of the ... about the time of the Second World War we've increasingly done so many things that we think of as civilization. ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Genre Study
A Critical analysis of The film Platoon.
... of college, joined the army, and volunteered for Vietnam. His idealism and view of war in general rapidly change during the course of ... portrayed as a caring, intelligent leader who escapes reality through the use of drugs. His nemesis, Sergeant Barnes, is ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Ancient Greek Theatre.
... gave their feelings equal weight. He showed the reality of war, criticized religion, and portrayed society's forgotten -- women, ... of assuming the right to seek vengeance (Orestes). Whatever the root, the protagonist's ultimate collision with fate, reality ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama
The accuracy of the 1994 Rwandan genocide portrayed in the film 'Hotel Rwanda'
... of the movie is the reality of what took place at the Milles Collines hotel in 1994. Let's say 10 percent is just in hints of ... threatening the general with the fact that he was known as a war criminal and no one except him could tell the Americans about ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Movie Review: "Empire of the Sun"
... reality and emotions that come out with growing up at the cyclone-center of a war, without sweetening it or drawing convenient moral conclusions. In one of ... movie, and, fittingly, he struggles in the brutality of war. By the time he is reunited with his ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Glory of women
... of war, in contrast to By tales of dirt and danger fondly thrilled. Sassoon believes that women perceive war as a heroic story, where in reality it is full of ...
Subjects: Art Essays