Societal and Technological Changes Through Four Representative Films

The style in which films are created alters with time to mirror changes in society and technology. The films, Eat Drink Man Woman, Rocky, Suffragette, and Avatar all reflect the views of society from their respective times in history. Eat Drink Man Woman along with Rocky both mirror constraining gender roles for women, while Suffragette…

Technologically and Artistically Similar: Avatar and Inception

The films Avatar and Inception can both be analyzed through their unique artistic styles in addition to the astounding technology they used to enhance the plots. Globalization played a large role in the production of each film, as the film industry expected large audiences composed of people from around the globe, and financed the movies…

Rocky

The historical question of how Rocky interprets the societal values of America, and reflects that culture in an art style that is evident in the way the story unfolded, is relevant when considering this influential movie. The New American Cinema movement played a clear role in the filming of this movie. Rocky is a blockbuster…

Blazing Saddles

The historical question of how Blazing Saddles illustrated the style and social politics of the auteurs cinema movement is particularly relevant. In the auteurs movement, the directors were viewed as the major artistic influence behind the movie. This film is a strong example of a movie made during this movement, as Mel Brooks was highly…

Head

The historical question of how the film relates to and reflects the popular culture of the time immediately comes to mind while considering the movie Head. In an article by Dorian Lynskey in 2011, titled, ‘The Monkees’ Head: Our Fans Couldn’t Even see it’, it is argued that the Monkees did not have any control…

Voyage to Italy

In the book chapter from the scholarly source in the UC Press E-Books Collection, the author argued that Rossellini, the director of the film Journey to Italy, “refus[ed] to do things in the Hollywood manner”. Even though the film included famous Hollywood actors, the storyline was purposefully vague, unlike the straightforward strategy of the conventional…

The Suffragette

  The timeless strength of Maud Watts filled the screen of the Suffragette with her radical fight alongside countless other women, to attain the vote. The injustices of being a woman in that time period were vividly portrayed through Maud Watts’ character, as she was not able to keep her child when her husband wanted…