Trustworthy sources and fake news

Due to large corporations such as Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, and even well-known gossip magazines etc., the notion of fake news has been circling around. All of these listed above have one thing in common and that is they’re credibility for real news. These days youth are drawn in by the bigger news i.e, headlines of … Read more

Impact of Kesha and Dr Luke lawsuit

Kesha, the pop star formerly known as Ke$ha, produced hits that infected our middle school ears such as ‘Tik Tok’ and ‘We R Who We R’. She quickly became known as the party girl – hell she even had a dollar sign in her name. Often donning glittery and sparkly outfits on stage, the Tennessee … Read more

Fifth Generation Chinese Filmmakers

Film history cannot be discussed without the context of the history of society.  The Fifth Generation of Chinese Filmmakers emerged in the in the 1980s and 1990s after the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.  The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is a ten-year social and political movement from 1966 to 1976 in China that emphasizes the importance … Read more

Corpo Celeste

Outline and discuss a film of your choice studied in the course paying particular attention to gender and sexuality (1500 words) It can be argued that throughout Corpo Celeste, gender and sexuality are a main and constant theme. These two themes without-a-doubt plays a huge part in the development of the main character Marta as … Read more

Exploitation films and boundaries (I Spit On Your Grave)

This essay will explore exploitation films, the history of them and how exploitation is still used as a major tactic in modern day cinema. This essay will investigate the theme of rxxe and revenge exploitation films, and the boundaries they potentially cross to question an audiences morality and in turn get financial gain. Specifically, I … Read more

Ava DuVernay – 13th (film)

The documentary, filling the viewers with statistics and history spanning nearly a century is packed with eye- opening reality and challenging questions. The director, Ava DuVernay created this documentary to showcase the harsh reality and daily discrimination faced by the African-American community for ages by the American government. In the wake of the 2016 presidential … Read more

Robert Weine’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

German Expressionism was a movement that was developed at the turn of the 20th Century, inspired by artists such as Munch and Van Gogh as a reaction against realism, as well as being influenced by the horrors of the First World War (1914-1919) which claimed the lives of over 15 million people. German Expressionism could … Read more

The History in the Black Panther

When someone watches a movie, they watch it for entertainment but if you take a different approach, you notice the history. Black Panther is the very first Marvel movie to have an almost entirely black cast. But that is not the only thing. They are also the very first Marvel movie to combine entertainment with … Read more

Comparing book and film variants of ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee

There are typical contrasts in two distinct renditions of something. This can regularly be seen when a book is made into a motion picture. There are numerous likenesses and contrasts in the book and film variants of To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In the first place, there are multiple similitudes between the book … Read more

Alexander Nevsky by Sergei Eisenstein (film)

“Alexander Nevsky” by Sergei Eisenstein is a historical film that gained so much recognition since its release to the public in 1938, then was removed due to peace treaty with Germany and came back onto screens in 1941 after German invaded Russia. It functions as a depiction of a heroic figure, Alexander Nevsky, in a … Read more

The Fault in our Stars film review

Based on the novel written by John Green, “The Fault in our Stars” was a heart wrenching and emotional motion picture, that taught me the valuable lesson about the hardships of life. Through the main characters, Hazel Grace Lancaster and Augustus Waters, the film showed me that although life is one hectic rollercoaster, it shouldn’t … Read more