Jerram Barrs presents to creatives a way to critically analyze and design their creations before a presentation. His eleven are critical in ensuring a piece of art meets the expectations of the intended audience to avoid unsolicited negative perceptions. Nonetheless, it is essential to acknowledge that regardless of the standards,...
Introduction As an important aspect of socialization and human development within a particular country, national identity is formed due to different cultural elements β language, religion, art heritage, and some other criteria. These factors, in turn, are reflected in different spheres of life and create unique ideas about people of...
The Harlem Renaissance is one of the most significant cultural revivals of the black community, which took place in New York, Harlem, from 1920 to 1930. The movement reshaped African American art from rural to urban, forming a new identity for the black artists in different spheres of culture: politics,...
The Rashomon is a psychological thriller directed by Akira Kurosawa. The Rashomon‘s referral meaning can be described as the following: a woodcutter and a cleric are situated underneath the impressive entryway into the city of Rashomon as a implies of security against the rain when a common show up. He...
The recording of Speaking of Art: Poetry and Ekphrasis has been written and presented by Dr. Kane. In his recording, Dr. Kane talks about different works on poetry, writing, and visual arts. He notes that poetry and painting are intertwined, and they work together (00:05:54-00:07:40). According to the recording, music...
Introduction African American representation in films has always been a controversial subject because of the history of racism in the united states. This dark history was also present in the creative art industry as movies adopted the same ideologies. Before the 1960s black people were represented negatively as rapists, drunkards,...
The two interpretations of Round Midnight that will be compared and contrasted in this paper are a recording made in 1947 and a live performance dated 1966. Both the record and the live performance were played using the same set of instruments but had different sounding depending on the improvisation,...
The film Film 12 Years a Slave bears many similarities to Frederick Douglass’s autobiography The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. The movie portrays the old South as the heart of darkness for the black people. Chiwetel Ejiofor, the main character in the movie, lived a free man in...
Lectures and personal studies helped me understand how varied the cinematography is. How points of view, characters and plots are conveyed depending on the year of filming, actors, genre, culture and vision of the director and actors, generally accepted and promoted culture and many other factors. Therefore, completing this course...
Little Buddha is a classical drama filmed by Bernardo Bertolucci in 1993 and valued by the audience worldwide for its outstanding description of Buddhism, magic, spiritual attitudes, and society’s biases. The plot is based on the reincarnation of Lama Dorje and the Buddhist monksβ search for their teacherβs rebirth in...