‘The musical refers to films that involve the performance of a song and/or dance by the main characters and also include singing and/or dancing as an important element’ (Grant, 2012). In 1986, Grant wrote an article ‘The Classical Hollywood Musical and the “Problem” of Rock n…
In this weeks class we watched Berberian Sound Studio (2012) directed by Peter Strickland. I found this film very interesting and unique. The film plays with the usage of sound in film. The film screwed with diegesis. Early on in the film, I assumed that…
The part if this weeks film Aliens by James Cameron that captivated me the most was the part when Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) in attempting to save the character of Newt (Carrie Henn), stumbled into the queen bee’s hive, or in other words the…
The genre of this week is the romanic comedy, more commonly referred to as the romcom. This week we watched a film that epitomises the romcom, Sleepless in Seattle (1993) directed by Nora Ephron. For this weeks blog I want to discuss the themes and tropes…