Introduction Transpersonal psychology is an area of psychology that encompasses on the spiritual attributes that circles around the contemporary mental processes, defined as the awareness of which the discernment of individuality limbs out at full length further away from particular immediate characteristic demeanor of the populace. It is solicitous on the dissertation of … [Read more...]
Motion Picture: An Introduction
Introduction to Films Over the passing years, innovations and the emphasis of pioneering realization in the course of the primeval stage of cinematic antiquity configured the craftsmanship applied to filmmaking. Visual gizmo, silhouette spectacles, spectrum stratagem survived for decades, thriving by keeping an eye on illustrative occurrences and succession of placid images … [Read more...]
Post-Structuralism Theory on Films
Introduction Post-structuralism is a theory that acclaims the authority in defining the quality of realism as to understanding what is reality in its core essence and how substantial this very reality is being discerned by the human mind by the means of the given mediums. Presuppositions may construct a vision of imaginative items or may likewise refuse to accept the … [Read more...]
Postmodernism in Films
What is Post-Modernism ? Postmodernism defines as defiance and as a form of refusal to conform the ideas and theories of the modernist approach in films. It stands to revolt against the traditions and views and cultures offered by modernist theories and aims to replace the existent innovation with a fresh new one that is more revolutionary and refined and an extra-ordinary … [Read more...]
Marxist Theory on Films
Introduction Marxist Theory on Films is one of the most archaic frame of cinematic hypothesis. It was not until the dawning of the era of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in the 1920s that this age-old supposition was administered in the academic work in the realm of motion pictures genre. This particular exercise was carried down and got adopted through the … [Read more...]
Cognitive Theory On Films
Introduction Cognitive Theory is a presupposition that tackles and is dedicated about the individual’s understanding of things happening around him. It is a theory that zooms in on uncommon series of quintessential circumstances in a person’s life, from the music that he listens to, from the books that he reads, from the subjects he learns in the university, from the daily … [Read more...]
Apparatus Theory
Introduction Apparatus theory began its sprawling sweep in the 70's and pulled its core alpha existence from a few suppositions such as Marxist Film theory and Psychoanalysis. Its manifestations and activities orbits on the techniques of the cameras and its eagle-eye abridging. Apparatus theory circles-in about the cinema and audience connectivity relationship. This theory … [Read more...]
French New Wave
Introduction French New Wave otherwise called as Nouvelle Vague is a film movement in France began in late 1950s. The wave was started by the critics in association with Cahiers de Cinema who later became filmmakers. Thought Nouvelle Vague is not a movement, it was visible that they challenged the ‘quality’ of French Cinema setting a postwar trend within the French film … [Read more...]
German Expressionism
Introduction German Expressionism is a part of modernist movement initially started with poetry and painting in Germany. It was the movement where people sought to express what felt or saw during the First World War. German expressionism mainly spread around Germany and Northern European states. The Expressionist movement today is considered as one of the artistic … [Read more...]
Auteur Theory
Introduction Andre Bazin is a renowned and influential French Film Critic and theorist. Bazin believed and favoured films having ‘Montage’ and ‘Realism’. He has been considered as one of the best critics of all time; it is also considered that the founder and author of ‘Cahiers du cinema’ – Andre Bazin paved way for a breakthrough in traditional film making to French New … [Read more...]