Free Essays on Indian Cinema

  1. Indian Cinema: Bollywood

    What is Indian Cinema? Before attempting to answer what Indian Cinema is, I feel it is important to question the present day notion Indian Cinema. This notion, I feel is a misleading one. Indian Cinema at present is an image falsely created out of only a particular kind of cinema, namely the Bollywood...

  2. New Wave Indian Cinema

    1. Introduction New Wave cinema is defined as a way of grouping together a series of films and personnel that represent a change of direction or a break with the past. A New Wave is usually a historical moment within a national cinema. The most famous example is the French New Wave (Nouvelle Vague);...

  3. The Cinema of India

    INTRODUCTION TO CINEMAS The cinema of India consists of films produced across India, including the cinematic culture of Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat, Haryana,Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Orissa, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal. Indian films came to be followed throughout...

  4. Towering Figure in the World of Cinema

    1921, Kolkata (Calcutta), India Died: April 23, 1992, Calcutta, India Satyajit Ray, standing 6'-4" tall, was a towering figure in the world of cinema. He studied at the university in Calcutta and later joined Shantiniketan, Rabindranath Tagore's university to study art. He began his career as a commercial...

  5. The Hollywood Indian: the Portrayal of Native Americans in John Ford’s the Searchers and Arthur Penn’s Little Big Man

    The Hollywood Indian: The Portrayal of Native Americans in John Ford’s The Searchers and Arthur Penn’s Little Big Man Rachel Andrews November 30, 2005 The depictions of Native American in film have changed little over the history of the motion picture. The stories told hold fast to...

  6. Media A2 Critical Research - World Cinema

    focus on how east-Asian martial art films have influenced Hollywood cinema and the conclusion that east-Asian martial art films, especially from Hong Kong and Cantonese cinema since the 70s have had a great impact on Hollywood cinema today. I believe that martial arts in Chinese films are so much different...

  7. Learning Human Dignity and Rights Through Cinema

    Learning Human Dignity and Rights Through Cinema Human dignity forms the basis of human rights, as it signifies the intrinsic worth that lies in every human being. Human rights would mean that a person possesses the worthiness of respect on all levels of treatments concerning sex, age, status...

  8. She and the Silver Screen.

    “She and the Silver Screen” Depiction of Women and Cultural Identity in Indian Cinema Shounak Dhar VIth...

  9. american hitory

    100 Years of Indian Cinema and some of the milestones Lights, Camera, Action... Year 2013 was looked upon as the milestone for Indian cinema as the industry celebrated 100 years of entertainment and establishment. Hindi, Bhojpuri, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujrati, Punjabi, Haryanvi, Bengali...

  10. bollywood

    2.Is Bollywood killing regional cinema In the last five years the Indian production houses have been pumping truckloads of money in the Bollywood movies. The production quality has improved; the wardrobe is more international; the movies are being shot at exotic locations from start to end, but sadly...

  11. Prem de Prem Le

    Excess in 1970s Hindi Cinema Priya Jha [Figures] [pic] The Bombay film industry (Bollywood) is usually considered, along with other state-sanctioned institutions, in its role as a force for cultural and political consolidation within the architecture of postindependence Indian identity. 1 The products...

  12. Brand Bollywood

    report then states the following recommendations: • Formation of technological and strategic alliances in Bollywood film industry. • Partnership with Indian and foreign production houses. • Representation from Bollywood personnel in Independent bodies. • Recommendations on existing laws to regulate plagiarism...

  13. Wittgenstein

    Mining in World History Martin Lynch China to Chinatown: Chinese Food in the West J. A. G. Roberts Landscape and History since 1500 Ian D. Whyte Cinemas of the World Film and Society from 1895 to the Present james chapman reaktion books This book is dedicated to my father for encouraging...

  14. CENSORSHIP IN INDIA

    board has certified to do so. The history of Censor board goes way back to 1896, the year in which the first cinema came to India. With the production of the first cinema in India in 1913, Indian Cinematograph was passed which came into effect only in 1920. Censor Boards where then under police chiefs...

  15. Docx

    Maqbool Fida Husain (17 September 1915 – 9 June 2011[2]) commonly known as MF Husain, was an Indian-Qatari painter and Film Director. Husain was associated with Indian modernism in the 1940s. His narrative paintings, executed in a modified Cubist style, can be caustic and funny as well as serious and...

  16. arman

    in this world is to save the country from the foreign invaders. When the children hear the word military they like to mimic the actions depicted in cinema. A career In the military is risky and is not recommended for people who aren't ready to sacrifice their lives for the cause of the country. We...

  17. Target Market Size

    financial businesses are headquartered in this area. CBD is the main business area for departmental stores, large offices, pubs, clubs, restaurants and cinemas. In order to be able to better estimate our target market size, we identified the major industries in Singapore according the business zones. The following...

  18. The Brave New World: India- a Nation in Transition.

    power-thirsty empire which is the big problem, but a volley of issues which has become all pervasive and encroaches upon the freedom of common man. Popular cinema has always been instrumental in portraying the tension of the age we are living in. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s film Rang De Basanti (2006) was one such...

  19. English Studies in India

    a number of agendas and initiatives in our own time. The nationalist phase elaborates the theory of Indianess through the critical appreciation of Indian writing in English. Indianess is associated with the customs, practices and values of the upper castes. R.K Narayan, Raja Rao and Mulk Raj Annand...

  20. History of Education in India

    were maintained by grants of revenue-free land. The East India Company, with its policy of maximizing land revenue, stopped this and thus starved the Indian education system of its financial resources. The current system of education, with its western style and content, was introduced & funded by the...

  21. Auspicious Occasion

    they could easily be put in the realms of farcical. Such stock characters of the abusive, comic Parsi are to be found in the Parsi theatre and Hindi cinema. “Rustomji and his wife Mehroo are not stock comic Parsis; they are real human beings who at the end of the story almost become tragic characters”...

  22. Mumbai 26/11

    India (Naxalism) and Seven Sister States (independence and autonomy movements). In the past, the Punjab insurgency led to militant activities in the Indian state of Punjab as well as the national capital Delhi. As of 2006, at least 232 of the country’s 608 districts were afflicted, at differing intensities...

  23. Teaching - Essay

    Bingo, arts and crafts, reminiscent therapy, singing,exercises, colouring sessions and massage. I also take them out on trips to the theatre and the cinema. I complete reflexology therapy on individual clients and advise them on future treatments that would improve their circulation or their arthritis...

  24. Group Discussion Interview Topics

    to IT • Will punch lines rule the Advertisements? • Premarital sex • is china a threat to Indian industry • "BALANCE BETWEEN PROFESSIONALISM AND FAMILY" • Effect of cinema on Youth • Love marriage/Arranged marriage. • Advantages of Co-education • Are Big Dams Necessary...

  25. CJ Entertaiment

    developed for one source for multi-use. 25 Korea’s first Multiplex Theater CGV boasts the largest number of cinemas in Korea and the greatest brand power. CGV has continued to develop a unique cinema experience so that the audience can watch a movie within the optimal environment. Cultureplex offers a...

  26. Rural Market

    stuck at the rural market - the so called untapped markets ! Each & every small shop I passed through reminded me the two books I have read on rural Indian markets, " The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid" By C.K. Prahalad and " We are Like that Only " by Rama Bijapurkar. My eyes were surfing through...

  27. ART 101 Week 6 CheckPoint Film and Popular Cinema

    Film and Popular Cinema Click Below URL to Purchase Homework http://www.homeworkbasket.com/ART-101/ART-101-Week-6-CheckPoint-Film-and-Popular-Cinema CheckPoint: Film and Popular Cinema Resource: Ch. 13 of A World of Art Summarize the distinction between film and popular cinema in 200 to 300...

  28. Phoenix Cinema

    Phoenix Cinema (East Finchley) Aim: To prepare a mini-report, containing a summary of the information gathered on the cinema and the environment (PEST) in which it operates. This report should refer to at least 3 separate sources, which must all be quoted and referenced correctly. How does...

  29. bayerish

    Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien 19:1 (1999): 175-84. Silberman, Robert. “Gerald Vizenor and Harold of Orange: From World Cinemas to Real Cinema.” American Indian Quarterly 9:1 (Winter 1985): 5-21. (page numbers: see above) NEWSPAPER OR MAGAZINE ARTICLES: Brian Laghi. “PM offers $20,000, apology...

  30. Indus Valley Civilization

    (Hindi: भारत गणराज्य Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west...

  31. Cricketmania

    it is a fact that, after the big release of Aamir Khan's Lagaan, the considerable part of audience was interested in spending money and time in the cinema halls so as to get the taste of cinematic cricket. The beauty, was that in more than hour of the film, the characters entertained the audience playing...

  32. Starbucks

    software to know subscriber, to tailor the offerings, communicate and increase the retention rate. ➢ Active team member on the successful launch of ART cinema channel, “SMS/ call or register your details on website to get 1 week of FREE premium movie channel” campaign. ➢ Raised direct marketing program...

  33. Perception About Fast Food

    factors affecting the choice of fast food outlets by Indian young consumers. Design/methodology/approach – The study applies multivariate statistical tools to estimate importance of various factors affecting the choice of fast food outlets by Indian young consumers. In addition, the authors analysed the...

  34. Hollywood Cinema

    Hollywood Cinema The birth of the Hollywood cinema as we know it in it’s current form came about in the late 1960’s. In a market previously dominated by musicals and historical epics. The box office sales were dwindling at a rapid rate and the production houses couldn’t grasp the baby boomer market...

  35. City Under Threat

    people hell bent on creating fear among peaceful citizens of a friendly country like India. Needless to say that it has shaken the very roots of the Indian administration. The entire country has gone into mourning and has rendered prayers for its unlucky victims. Everyone is facing the same fear . When...

  36. India in the Decades Post-Liberalization

    Allahabad, I spotted a boy on the cusp of adolescence reading Dan Brown’s Digital Fortress, a book that adorns my own bookshelf. MTV now runs its own Indian channel, replete with all the debauchery and crassness we American’s seem so fond of exporting. Louis Vuitton’s most successful store world-wide is...

  37. A.R.Rahaman

    Biography Allah Rakha Rahman (Tamil: ஏ.ஆர்.ரகுமான்; born January 6, 1967 as A. S. Dileep Kumar in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India) is an Academy award winning Indian film composer, record producer and musician. His work has garnered considerable acclaim and a large global fan base since his film scoring career began...

  38. Film History Essay

    community which was led the Chicano Movement and the Brown Berets, the American Indian Movement, and also the Feminist Movement became imperative. All of these movements while happening virtually simultaneously, led to some great controversial...

  39. Macroeconomics

    per thousand in India, Girls in a classroom in the Indian model village compared with just seventeen in China; the mortality rate for of Ralegan Siddhi, northeast of Pune, Maharashtra, 2006 children under five is sixty-six per thousand for Indians and nineteen for the Chinese; and the maternal mortality...

  40. Neorealism and Pure Cinema: the Bicycle Thief

    Neorealism and Pure Cinema: The Bicycle Thief What seems to me most astonishing about the Italian cinema is that it appears to have escaped from the aesthetic impasse to which neorealism is said to have led. The dazzling effects of 1946 and 1947 having faded away, one could reasonably fear that this...

  41. Indian Constitution

    India 1949 (rev. 2002) Page 3 constituteproject.org PDF generated: 19 Sep 2013, 12:58 8 Rights of citizenship of certain persons of Indian origin residing outside India Notwithstanding anything in article 5, any person who or either of whose parents or any of whose grand-parents was born...

  42. Global Media and the Social Construction of Reality

    advice in how to deal with a difficult boss whereas the Indian version gave suggestions to help managers improve their communication skills. Machin & Van Leeuwen point out the assumption that the Dutch readers are subordinates at work, and that the Indian readers are elite managers. The differences go beyond...

  43. Male Crisis in New Korean Cinema: Reading the Early Films of Park Kwang-Su

    Male Crisis in New Korean Cinema: Reading the Early Films of Park Kwang-su Kim, Kyung Hyun, 1969positions: east asia cultures critique, Volume 9, Number 2, Fall 2001, pp. 369-399 (Article) Published by Duke University Press For additional information about this article http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/pos/summary/v009/9...

  44. Culture Regions

    heard almost everywhere. However, not all American culture is derived from some other form found elsewhere in the world. For example, the birth of cinema, as well as its radical development, can largely be traced back to the United States. In 1878, the first recorded instance of sequential photographs...

  45. Commemorating the Past: an Introduction to the Study of Historical Memory

    collective memory of Thanksgiving, “we” (Americans) hosted Indians to give thanks for the abundance of food we’d grown. In the historical record, it looks more like we stole food from the Indians and grew it in fields that had been abandoned by Indians who died of imported European diseases.4 But the collective...

  46. Snap Test Paper

    were direct which required basic understanding of QA.           Sample Questions: 1. If P=6Q then Q is less than P by what %. 2. 6 tickets of a cinema hall are given out of which 4 are on front row. If 2 tickets are chosen, probability that both of them are front row seats is…? 3. A Number when multiplied...

  47. The Concept of "Heritage Cinema".

    The concept of “heritage cinema” is now firmly established as an influential, as well as much “debated and contested” critical framework for the discussion of period or historical representation in film, most prominently with reference to British heritage and “post-heritage” film successes since the...

  48. Development Mexico

    opportunities or its population. Discuss the complexity of the Mexican national identity. Explain how the post-revolutionary governments used culture (cinema, literature, visual arts) and education as vehicles in order to promote a “new” conception of what it means to be Mexican. How race and language are...

  49. Hospitality Mangement

    prominent services like Waterfront Restaurant, 8bars, 4 shops, Ocean view Gym, Hair and Beauty Saloon, Swimming Pools, Internet café, 9 lifts, Casino, Cinemas and 7,000 sq. m. of open deck space. [pic] Analysis of service quality Assurance- the cruise does not provide guarantee that they will...

  50. reforms in education

    Location: Andaman and Nicobar islands are located in the Indian Ocean. Lakshadweep Island is situated approximately 220 to 440 kms away from coastal city of kochi, in kerala. Population: Andaman and Nicobar islands has a population of 356,154 people. The population of Lakshadweep Island is 51707...

  51. Martial Arts Cinema - Progression of an Art

    Once Upon a Time in China series, but it was this set of movies that created Wong Fei Hung’s image as a hero. This step was crucial to martial arts cinema at the time because it emphasized real life heroes and gave the audience a story that was more believable. Also the Wong Fei Hung series helped brought...

  52. Marxism

    as a Swami shows the significance of spirituality on the psychology of the common man in India. An average Indian believes in supernatural powers of the Sadhu. When a child dies the average Indian mother runs to a Sadhu believing that he will bring the child back to life. When a child is sick and does...

  53. Gd Topics

    Indian economy is old wine in new wine! Politics is run by the barrel of gun. Retirement age for politics. Sensex - Hype or Real. . Delhi - Rape capital of India. Moral Policing Media - Too much of a free hand?. Disinvestment - Would it go through this year? Ihttp://www.economist.com/ ...

  54. International business

    service industry. Singapore has built up an “East meets West” culture of multiracial people, promoting a mixture of Chinese, Malaysian, Middle Eastern, Indian and Western cuisine. Singapore cuisine is presented at the annual Singapore Food Festival. This is accentuated with little India, Chinatown, and with...

  55. Rel17 Religions of Asia

    shaping Indonesia’s future. Welch (1997, p.210) states that in more recent times the Wahhabis have denounced such ‘Western’ innovations as tobacco, cinemas, American (and many Egyptian) television programs and videos, Western dancing, nightclubs, and similar non-Islamic forms of entertainment, thus justifying...

  56. Cinema and American Cuture

    (indeed, potentially universal) than a play acted nightly in a singe theatre, even after a successful run, can achieve. Indeed, an invention like the cinema allows us to witness and appreciate any number of documentary inspections, or fictional recreations, of current or past cultures. And that past, for...

  57. Indians

    fierce battles and melees between the Indians and the settlers that were born from this cultural conflict. In spite of this, many people may not know about the systematic and deliberate means employed by the U.S. government to permanently rid their new land of the Indians who had lived their own lives peacefully...

  58. Cherokee Indians

    RUNNING HEAD: CHEROKEE INDIAN TRIBE 1 THE CHEROKEE INDIAN TRIBE AND THE NEW WORLD CALVIN YOUNG AIU CHEROKEE INDIAN TRIBE 2 Abstract The Cherokee Indian were some of the first settlers in what is now the United States. They had...

  59. Swiss Bank

    stashed away abroad into secret bank accounts located in some of the world's best known tax havens. And to that extent the Indian economy has been stripped of its wealth. Ordinary Indians may not be exactly aware of how such secret accounts operate and what are the rules and regulations that go on to govern...

  60. The Indians

    The Indians where put on plots of land called reservations. The Indian tribes possessed or owned the land but the government had total supervision. There they could not hunt their own food, instead, had to live on government rations. The children could no longer speak in their native tongue and where...