SWOT Analysis - Walt Disney
Case study - 5 pages - International marketing
The Walt Disney Company is an American company founded in 1923 and specializing in the field of entertainment. It was originally a cartoon studio created by two brothers, Roy & Walt Disney. Success was quick, and the group quickly grew in size. In the 1950s, the company turned to the production...
Porter's Five Forces - Disney
Case study - 4 pages - International marketing
The Walt Disney Company is an American company founded in 1923 and specializing in leisure and entertainment. The Walt Disney Company was originally a cartoon production studio, created and supported by the two brothers of the Disney family. Disney studios are the source of many cartoons that are...
Irresistible - Jon Stewart (2020)
Dissertation - 2 pages - Film studies
Irresistible is an American political comedy film written and directed by Jon Stewart and released in June 2020 in the US with as main characters: Steve Carell, Chris Cooper, Mackenzie Davis, Topher Grace, Natasha Lyonne, and Rose Byrne. This movie speaks about the political world...
General trend in the way american movies portrayed american leadership in the last seven decades
Essay - 2 pages - Film studies
Leaders are generated in small numbers. Some are born to be leaders, while others work so hard that they eventually assume the role of leadership. Nevertheless, most leaders share similar characteristics. Over the last seven decades, several films have revealed the identity of leaders in...
Activities on a construction site
Internship report - 15 pages - Architecture
For the purpose of obtaining the degree in Mechanical Civil Engineering (GCM). At the end of the third year, each student must complete an internship in a company (or communities or design office). It is an opportunity for the student to discover the world of work and to really understand the...
Presentation of 9/11
Essay - 2 pages - Modern history
A hero is a person who is admired for their courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities. It can be the main character in a book or a film or a person with superhuman qualities. It can also be a modern-day hero, a person who has performed a heroic act or simply our own personal...
The Screenplay
Worksheets - 3 pages - Film studies
This document is made of ten corrected questions about screenplays.
Marketing Mix - Disney
Case study - 4 pages - International marketing
Walter Elias Disney co-founder of the Walt Disney Company with his brother Roy since 1923. Originally few people know that Walter had created a production company alone which unfortunately went bankrupt, during which time he produced Alice in Wonderland. However, he did not let that hold him back...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey (1962) - The 3 main characters
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
At first sight, this quotation makes me think that in reality it is our acts which determine the person that we are. We can be judged by our acts. It is particularly true in Ken Kesey's novel... The example of the three main characters: The Chief, the Big Nurse and McMurphy.
Case study: The spitfire grill- Reasons why characters apply lies and secrets
Case study - 1 pages - Educational studies
The Spitfire Grill is a cinema's finest that is deeply theological in its film category and it is mainly packaged as a feel-good drama panned by a large figure of secular critics. They pay most of their attention to emotional tonalities and at the same time ignoring theological content and...
Fidelity and Infidelity (to Tolstoy's Novel) in Duvivier's and Zarkhi's Anna Kareninas
Tutorials/exercises - 15 pages - Literature
A viewer watching the 1948 and then the 1967 film versions of Anna Karenina (directed by Julien Duvivier and Aleksandr Zharkhi, respectively) for the first time might think that there is much in common between the two films. They look very similar, and this is due in large part to...
Service marketing in multiplex
Case study - 110 pages - Services marketing
The magical word in cinemas today is - multiplex. It caters to the busy, fast moving and variety-loving consumer who wants more than just one film under a single roof. Multiplexes have become just a rage that most of the old cine complexes are converting to multiplexes. Cinema cannot be an...
Jane Eyre - Franco Zeffirelli (1996) - The issue of adaptation
Artwork commentary - 18 pages - Film studies
Zeffirelli had to combine several, sometimes contradictory constraints: he had to update the text, to maintain a specific filmic transcription of the novel, and to negotiate a delicate balance between recognising the influence of the source text and the need for a specific creativity in the...
Doris Wishman
Essay - 5 pages - Film studies
In 1959, after the unexpected death of her husband, Doris Wishman decided to begin making films. With a background in distribution, she became aware of the genre of “nudist camp” films through an acquaintance with Walter Bibo, producer of Garden of Eden (1954), a...
They Live: Underestimating Camp
Essay - 4 pages - Film studies
Distinguishing a film as “campy” is, arguably, as difficult as determining whether or not a film is “good.” The definition of “camp” is utterly malleable and, moreover, exists almost purely in the eyes of the beholder. Similarly, a film is rarely...
Fellini's Otto e mezzo
Thesis - 5 pages - Film studies
Since the dawn of cinema, there have been numerous film directors who have garnered the reputation of innovator, auteur, even genius of the medium. Only three directors, however, have created such unmistakably identifiable styles as to warrant film terminologies based on their very...
Subverting the Mainstream: The Postmodern World of David Lynch
Essay - 5 pages - Film studies
During the first half of the twentieth-century, a movement known as “classical Hollywood cinema” thrived; this was the dawn of truly “mainstream” films. The movies created during this time operated largely within metanarratives; all-embracing laws which governed human...
David Lynch
Essay - 4 pages - Film studies
Storytelling, since the dawn of time, has served as an invaluable means in which human beings are able to create, sustain, and relay emotion, identity, and ideology. The stories people tell allow them to simultaneously connect to, and differentiate themselves from one another. Arguably more...
Michael Curtiz: Case study
Case study - 7 pages - Literature
Being director in Hollywood in 1940, is a curious business, midway between the foreman and the artist. Led studios, artists who are appointed to this position must obey a number of injunctions while using their authority on teams assigned to them. They have a particularly drastic specifications...
Hitchcock, Truffaut and Godard:New wave's brothers from another motherland
Essay - 13 pages - Film studies
Alfred Hitchcock's fascination with French culture emanates in nearly all of his films. Conversely, many aspects outlining the fundamental guidelines of the 1950's French film movement adopted quintessential “Hitchcockian” devices. Hitchcock's influence on French...
Avoiding Disaster: The Day the Earth Stood Still
Essay - 5 pages - Film studies
Disaster movies are often associated solely with cheap thrills; nothing more than vehicles for big explosions and even bigger budgets. The modern perception of this film genre (as well as its subgenres) seems to be nothing more than that of a means for movie studios to spend a lot of...
National cinema and tropes of horror: Guillermo del Toro's "The Devil's Backbone" - Representing fascism through hauntology
Thesis - 5 pages - Film studies
Horror films, rich in texture, are capable of interpretatively referencing specific national contexts. Using the supernatural, these stories can aid in understanding national themes by correlating particular social ills or historical periods with the uncanny: the film's...
Alice and Anna: The women of 'Closer'
Essay - 9 pages - Film studies
Feminist film criticism during its glory days focused on three major themes: the objectification of women on the screen, their marginalized role in the narrative, and the effect that movies as a product of popular culture have on that popular culture. These three perspectives, which began...
The tensions between Claude Chabrol's use of realism and his stylized artificial mise-en-scene
Thesis - 11 pages - Film studies
Jacques Rivette defined mise-en-scene as 'a precise complex of people and decors, a network of relations, a moving architecture of relationships somehow suspended in space' (1954: 44). In the films of Claude Chabrol, the mise-en-scene seems to embrace this definition. On the one...
Distinctive pleasures offered by independent features
Thesis - 8 pages - Film studies
The definition of what makes a film “independent” has been difficult to clarify with polarized opinion on whether independent status depends on finance or alternatively Andy Warhol's nihilistic perception of “independent” as meaning opposition to the dominant media on...
Bollywood: On the road to conquering a challenging world market
Thesis - 6 pages - Film studies
The topics studied under this heading will include: a lack of attraction for foreign investors, low profitability, and a lack of international recognition for Bollywood owing to the inadequacy of Bollywood films in international market, and the structure of the Indian film industry....
Pathe: Internal and external analysis of the company
Thesis - 70 pages - Film studies
Pathe is a French movie company. This company was founded as Societe Pathe Freres in Paris in 1886, by four brothers: Charles, Emile, Theophile and Jacques Pathe. First, thanks to Charles Pathe, the company became a major producer of phonograph records. Then he decided to extend his company to...
The Lickerish Quartet
Essay - 3 pages - Film studies
The play between high and low culture has become an important subject in film studies and criticism. In particular, the subject has proved a relevant context for the exploration of exploitation films, and vice versa. In looking at exploitation film, critics and theorists...
Georges Melies: Movie Magic
Essay - 2 pages - Film studies
As is the case with many art forms, the exact origin of Cinema is tainted with controversy. While numerous innovators played important roles in the dawn of the medium, the Lumière brothers (Louis and Auguste) of France are most directly accredited with creating the first...
Stranger Than Paradise: Meaningful Minimalism
Essay - 3 pages - Film studies
The term “independent film” is extremely malleable in the realm of American cinema. A film may be considered “independent” if it is financed and/or distributed outside of a Hollywood studio, or if it bends and/or breaks the conventions of mainstream American...
