Introduction A composite film is an area of film to which the script of the film contains a couple or even more than three different and detached stories. These diverse and varying stories may never clasp to the other in a sequential order. In some ways, however, these plots are can still be connected or be made relative to other existing narratives in a composite film. … [Read more...]
Art Films
Introduction Art films are generally independent cinematic films which are produced outside a dominant cinema system domain, also known as a film studio. A motion picture is a craft with components of speech and is likewise an artistic craftsmanship by itself. Art films are evaluative works of cinema that functions and deals with fundamental and relatively serious issues … [Read more...]
Black Cinema
Introduction Black cinema refers to films that arose in the early 1900s. They consisted mainly of black actors in the lead roles. It is also known as African American cinema. It has given rise to various genres of films such as ‘Blaxploitation’. Black cinema continues to exist in modern times with the rise of many famous black celebrities and … [Read more...]
Anthology Films
Introduction Anthology films is like a dipper of a motion feature that showcases a number of short films incorporated in a single film roll. This was created and imagined for the purpose of entertaining and catering to the different tastes and preferences of the film goers while dishing-out to them a group of a variety of segmented plots and storyboards all in one film. The … [Read more...]
British New Wave
Introduction The British New Wave is a genre of films and filmmaking which emerged during the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. The term is derived from the French phrase ‘nouvelle vague’ which means ‘New Wave’. The new wave films originated in France with the works of François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard gathering a movement called French New Wave. New Wave of … [Read more...]
Surrealist Cinema
Introduction The Surrealist technique in cinema is a contemporary approximation on a motion picture cinema presupposition, assessment and fabrication rooting itself from the era of the 1920s in Paris. It is typified by the positioning of two things nearest from the other and reflects a conflicting impact. Further attributes of a Surrealism craftsmanship are dismissal of … [Read more...]
Beur Cinema
Introduction Beur Cinema is a term reversely extrapolated from a word “Arabe” making an announcement of second coeval offsprings of North African settlers of France during their younger years. Beur cinema is a motion picture maneuvered particularly by any youthful moviemaker of North African descent. The prime lineage of these individuals work mainly on interpretations or … [Read more...]
Counter Cinema
Introduction Counter Cinema refers to the plethora of genres of movies which stand in opposition to the mainstream formalistic and ideological domination of Hollywood cinema. It means that discursive means and methods are consciously followed, and offers an alternative discourse to mainstream cinema. They offer a different mode of representation as opposed to mainstream … [Read more...]
Blaxploitation
Introduction The 1970s saw a memorable moment in motion picture history when blaxploitation came into the limelight an amalgamation of the words, ‘black’ and ‘exploitation’. This was coined especially for the ethnic genre of the more generalized ‘exploitation’ films with black people as primary casts. These films were mostly set around the poor neighbourhoods of the … [Read more...]
Pure Cinema
Introduction Cinema Pure is a means of cinematic variation that upholds and promotes the standings, notions of cinematic embellishments which cradles the orbits considering the virtuous ‘first principles’. The principles are the aspects of mundane actions, graphic ocular framework with the inclusion of upbeat cadence; these three are vital attributes as the pure cinema’s … [Read more...]