IFC Part 3: Exercise 3.4
What is Documentary? The documentary film no matter it styles is a powerful way for a filmmaker to put forward their point of view – they are also very successful on how they influence the audience and how they…
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Tag Archive: Propaganda
Fishing Without Nets (2012)
Fishing Without Nets (2012) Director: Cutter Hodierne Cast: Abdikani Muktar, Abu Bakr Mirre, Ali Daudi Osman Summary: Pirates in Somalia, from the perspective of the pirates. Review & Reflection: This short film packs a lot into is 17 minutes and was…
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Roger Corman analyses the “Odessa Steps” scene from ‘Battleship Potemkin’ (1925)
Roger Corman analyses the “Odessa Steps” scene from ‘Battleship Potemkin’ (1925) While researching analysis and reaction to “Battleship Potemkin” (1925) I came across this interview with famous B-movie director Roger Corman where he describes the action of “Odessa Steps” sequence far…
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Battleship Potemkin (1925)
As Battleship Potemkin (1925) Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein Summary: A dramatised account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resulting street demonstration which brought on a police massacre (ImDb) Synopsis: Summary: Perhaps yje most famous example of Soviet propaganda…
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Mother (1926)
Mother (1926) Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin Synopsis: One woman’s struggle against Tsarist rule during the 1905 Russian Revolution. Summary: In this film, the mother of Pavel Vlasov is drawn into the revolutionary conflict when her husband and son find themselves on opposite…
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WW1 and Cinema
How the First World War was affected the Film industry http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2010/08/holl-a05.html The above two articles a view of how the film industry was affected by WW1 from 2 very differing opinions. I his 2000 Article in the New York times…
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The Birth of a Nation (1915)
The Birth of a Nation (1915) Dir: D.W. Griffiths Synopsis The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposing armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to…
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IFC Part 3, Project 2: The Birth of Propaganda
The films of the Spanish – American War. Interestingly the Spanish-American War was the first war to be covered by cinema cameras, and there is an extensive library of footage shot from the available at the Libriary of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/collections/spanish-american-war-in-motion-pictures/about-this-collection/)….
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