... since the discovery of cinema - our obsession with fantasy. Over the years, from Mélie to the Wachowski brothers, cinematographers have been trying to create the ultimate fantasy world that seems like it could be real. It is a new kind of realism - fictional realism. Films like Blade Runner and The Matrix create ... obvious as a little boy irritates the gardener by stepping on the hose. The piece is of course aesthetically real, the boy and the man are actors and there are no special effects involved, but the action itself is not realism but fiction. Of course one could argue that real...

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... directors a much greater freedom in believable visuals. Along with these innovations, audiences have also advanced, and have come to expect the infinitely deceiving, seamless computer graphics to give them the ultimate visual experience, forfeiting the need for imagination. This in itself brings a marked difference between Psycho and Scream. When Hitchcock produced Psycho in 1960 censorship played a major role in all film ... for the film to work. For the majority of the film, particularly at the beginning, the camera remains static. Mostly in mid shots, the focus is generally trained o...

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... ' (Feuer ibid.). Although the narrative of musical can be somewhat anticipated, Feuer is referring to spontaneity in terms of personality traits of characters played by Astaire and Kelly, not the actors themselves. 'As a visual medium, cinema can also define genres through conventional iconography. A genre's iconography consists of recurring symbolic images that can carry meaning from film to film' (Bordwell and Thompson ... in the theatre or Hollywood - that is, to demystify the production of entertainment'. Feuer goes on to note that 'only unsuccessful performances are demystified' and...

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