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Write an essay discussing the role of the Standard Employment Relationship (SER) in the Canadian economy. In your work, be sure to make reference to the nature and impact of the neoliberal policy sh
Look at the information available (text as well as images) and develop a cultural profile for Maybelline by answering the following questions.
Think about the relationship of film to history in films such as Once Upon a Time in China, Farewell My Concubine, Crows and Sparrows. Choose ONE film we have seen and discuss issues of historical r
What steps did France’s Lumière brothers take to make cinema a commercially viable enterprise? What kinds of Lumière movies were the most popular? How did the Lumières&rsq
In what ways did motion picture exhibitors in the late 1890s influence the presentation of motion pictures, or how audiences experienced motion pictures? Why did their control over their programs st
What were Edwin S. Porter’s significant contributions to the development of early narrative film? In what sense did Porter build upon the innovations of contemporaneous filmmakers, and for wha
What is the difference between vertical integration and horizontal integration? In your answer discuss the company strategies of France’s Pathé Frères in the middle and late 1900
What were the factors behind the nickelodeon boom of the middle 1900s? What were the reasons for the nickelodeon’s popularity—what advantages did this type of exhibition venue offer to b
In what ways did the motion picture industry in the late 1900s attempt to make films more prestigious and film going more respectable? What pressures were producers and exhibitors responding to?
When you read the play, make notes of facets of identity that are inter-related in some way. Make notes about how the character’s identity develops and what causes the identity to develop and
How did the animated film develop during the early twentieth century? What types of animation techniques did the earliest animators use? Give examples of specific animators or from specific films.
What is a “serial,” as it was known in the early silent era? In what ways did the serial act as a transitional form between the one-reeler and the feature film? Support your answer with
Why did the Hollywood style emerge and develop as it did? Identify the most important American movie firms operating in the 1910s, and summarize how the economic objectives of those companies influe
Select a scene from an American film or clips of the 1910s screened in class, and explain how its visual style—mise-en-scene, editing, and/or cinematography—might be different had that s
Perhaps the most important artistic trend of the early twentieth century was labeled modernism. Summarize some of the principal tenets of modernism, and specify how these ideas influenced the develo
Considering the current controversies in this nation regarding race and violence (Ferguson, Staten Island, Travon Martin, etc…) discuss how you believe the concepts of liberty, rights, and ju
What created the problems confronting French film production between 1918 and 1928? Identify the three primary factors as identified in the text, and summarize the effects of each of these causes.
The formal qualities of French Impressionism derived partly from the directors’ beliefs about the cinema as an art form. What were these beliefs?
Why did French Impressionism decline as a unified filmmaking movement in the late 1920s? What was the role of pressures from both inside and outside the movement in this decline?
Explain how Germany’s film industry was able to thrive during the early 1920s, a period of severe economic hardship and hyperinflation. How did the film industry flourish while other industrie
German Expressionism in the cinema debuted with The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari in 1920, years after Expressionism was well established in other art forms. What techniques used in painting and theatrica
How were the elements of mise-en-scene used in German Expressionist cinema? Identify the important characteristics of costume, setting, and figure behavior in these films, and explain how these elem
Identify the primary formal concerns of the “New Objectivity” trend, and explain how the films of G.W. Pabst demonstrate those concerns.
Compare the activities of the Soviet film industry during the War Communism period (1918-1920) and during the years of the New Economic Policy (1921-1924).
Situate the Constructivist movement within the broader trend of Modernism in the arts of the early twentieth century. What were the objectives of Constructivism, and which of those aims were especia