... social realist films; they are seen as an ˜unbroken tradition' of the British cinema experience. (Hill, 2000: p.178) The term 'social realism' is one that is broadly used to capture the essence of the films' content, concerns and visual style. (Lay, 2002: p.5) British social realist ... , this scene is present over Britain with high unemployment and poor housing states. Each of these things in a filmic sense, although realistic, signifies realism rather than reality because true reality cannot exist in a recorded form. This links closely Bazin's idea of the multiplicity of realist inven...

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... of the gritty-realist tradition being set in northern landscapes. As the term implies gritty films are concerned with realism, however any realism in films is an altered, sculptured realism designed to fit into a constructed narrative with suitable plot turns and drama. Dating back to the industrial revolution ... told as shown in the Brassed Off and The Full Monty. Simply stated the sociological environment of northern landscapes provided both the necessary realism and drama for documentary- realist films explaining the predominance of these films set in the North. Many political reaso...

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... view is the key to the sound design of Ryan. The analysis of Ryan will primarily be concerned with how it is realistic and not realism itself. However, realism does play a part in the idea that film can be realistic or authentic. It will useful to use the word authentism' for this ... a certain aesthetic effect, or to affect the audience in some way. Some of the techniques used in Ryan are derived from the Italian school of Neo-realism. For example, the use of location shooting and natural light, closer to the documentary style than a studio fiction film'. Spielberg had realised that "ci...

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... will analyse all the characteristics that make Bicycles Thieves a realistic film, and all the non-realistic elements that, in some ways, determine its realism as well. Initially, it is important to make a short introduction about Italian neorealism and its aspects. This movement had been developed in Italy between ... seems to have been created through a direct approach to reality without any cinematographic artefact, there are some non-realistic elements that contest the pure realism of the film. In "Italian film in the light of neorealism " Millicent Marcus makes us aware that the film...

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... outlined life during the Holocaust. Though this film does not need it, without these specific scenes the movie would not have a foundation and any sense of realism to it. Yet, some critics believe that Life is Beautiful is the furthest thing from realistic. David Denby reviews this film, in his article he ... potential to give a breath of a new perspective about certain topics. So fable or not, Benigni re-illustrates the Holocaust with a comedic flow that still depicts realism in it as well. Without creation there can be no appreciation of film's that are made to grow past the same, know...

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... scene. People were amazed to see the hovercraft driving across the square. The scene shows the reaction of the people. By using this kind of technique, it brings out the realism in the action. Another spectacular scene was that there were a lot pigeons on the way when Bond was crossing the square and those pigeons were roaming to get away. It ... one the dog, they don't start eating it. When the conversation between Bond and Drax was over, Drax claps, in a sense that they can start eating the meat. This shows realism how real the dogs were and also show how much authority that Drax has ...

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... II have anything to do with this new type of movie? In general, according to all reviews of the time, the most impressive aspect about Kiss of Death was its realism. "It illustrates a new and vigorous trend in U.S. moviemaking. One of the best things that is happening in Hollywood is the tendency to move out of the place -to base fictional ... semi-documentary films before with two of his previous films: The House on 92nd Street and 13 Rue Madeleine. A reviewer said, "Though those were good this one tops them in realism, suspense and dramatic interest." (Variety) So as a filmmaker with ...

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... the other horror films of the time (Dillard 15). George Romero, the film's definitive auteur (in that he directed, co-wrote, photographed, and edited it), was focused on expanding the realism of the horror genre, so turned to sources such as EC horror comics and issued in what some called the "era of the filmed comic book" (McCarty 101). While this ... are professional actors, the rest are mostly local residents of the area in which the film was shot. This condition of being totally ordinary helps the film give a feeling of realism. Even the zombies themselves, seeming the most outlandi...

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... a director of high standards with his release of My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) this film, carried on, "a tradition of 1960s social realism- and deviated from it. In Dirty Pretty Things Frears tries to continue in this same tradition with the use of social realism shown in a different more un real way known as hyper-reality which I will discuss later. In this essay I will ... ...

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... Disney intended it to be told. Yet, the new film will be in hearts because of the effects that were put into it to make it come to life. The realism in the movie would be terrifyingly real to the people of the 1900s, which is why it touched hearts just as much as the old one does. It brought childhood ... ...

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... child. His design is sleek and smooth looking like he would actually move in the ways we see him. It's a brilliant design but it's not Robocop it's this pathetic cliche realism approach that all modern action sci-fi films have taken in recent years where every design of a character has been morphed into one with all black Kevlar. The film deserves ... ...

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... , making direct contact to the subjects, and having their presence influence the film. Reflexive documentaries draw attention to the fact that they are representations and try to distance themselves from realism. Performative documentaries gives the viewer a strongly personal and subjective experience on it's subject matter. (Alex Burton, 2009) By looking at these six types of documentaries, it is clear that &apos ... ...

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... is a sense of communication, a sense of atmosphere and the feeling that the world is spinning out of control. This gives a sense of split personality. There is also the idea of realism, the illusion of the way that one would see something. It is almost as if Nosferatu is living in a dreamlike atmosphere because communication from him tends to only happen at ... ...

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... office such as the sound of the photocopier, the sound of him eating the chocolate bar, and the sound of him kicking the photocopier. For this purpose, the film maintains realism. In contrast, the sound of the non-diegetic mysterious sound of a black hole plays a significant role. Whenever the protagonist put his hand through the black hole, it makes a buzz sound ... ...

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... on dialogue, a crucial Hollywood convention of narrative structure, to achieve its intended purpose. Production Context, Controls and Constraints At the time of production, it was far more difficult to achieve realism in films than with current technology. Obvious fake effects breaks the illusion and suspension of disbelief, which is something Kubrick well and truly understood. Kubrick went to extensive efforts to ... ...

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... , as a viewer we know whose film we are going to watch and how it's going to be from the start. Lee has used numerous experimental techniques in order to transfer realism to the big screen. On the Do the Right Thing film set, he purposely raised the temperature so that the actors would appear extremely hot and sweaty. He did this ... ...

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... ;In a state of innocent hopefulness, we wait to hear the tale: Who knows? It might actually be good but more often than not it turns out to be some magic-realism baloney about a giant fish in a stream or some similarly numbing metaphor for the unpredictability of lifemaybe it needed the advance advertising campaign because it wasn't such a great story to begin ... ...

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... well as in America, was inspired with Victorian morality, and this affected the later style of Griffith. That's why all his films give the aesthetics characteristic of Romanticism and early realism. Sentimentality, all this is very strongly felt in Griffith's work. He always referred to the literature and human psychology. Griffith was one of the first directors who managed capturing the ... ...

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... see how large of a body count you can get. If you knew that your seven year-old son was playing such a game would it bother you? With today's technologies the realism of the graphics is incredible. It is so real looking, in fact, that some describe newer games as "playing a movie." Consider what is worse, seeing violence on a screen, or making ... ...

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... because she carved a very unique niche in the industry by portraying realistic and very average people which audiences are able to relate to. What is unique about Lupino's use of realism is that while she wanted her audience to understand and relate to the characters it did not necessarily mean she wanted them to be well liked. It is problematic that ... ...

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... madness, insanity, betrayal, and other "intellectual" topics (as opposed to standard action-adventure and romantic films); the German name for this type of storytelling was called Kammerspielfilm. The extreme non-realism of Expressionism was a brief-lived fad, however, and it faded away (along with Dadaism) after only a few years. However, the themes of Expressionism were integrated into later films of the ... ...

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... extremely unique showing wide-open Australian landscapes and animals giving the feel of freedom, although sometimes coming off as rather corny, but giving the film a real Australian feel, which created realism. The towns and the city of Melbourne from are all really well put together, giving a feel of the time when the story accured. Throughout the film use of symbolism occurs ... ...

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... camera light) giving the impression of being there in reality. He also adopts continuous direct filming, with little editing in comparison to other documentaries. This again gives the impression of realism and non-interjection from the director; he just lets things happen and unfold in front of the camera. There is usually some narrative form to inform the viewer which person ... ...

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... gives his work a postmodern feel. Many of his stylistic techniques draw attention to his directorial brilliance and to the film's fiction much like an author of postmodern literary metafiction sacrifices realism to explicitly expose his artistic craft or to comment on the subjectivity of reality in his work. Fincher does not let his audience forget the work involved in putting a novel ... ...

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... see how large of a body count you can get. If you knew that your seven year-old son was playing such a game would it bother you? With today's technologies the realism of the graphics is incredible. It is so real looking, in fact, that some describe newer games as "playing a movie." Consider what is worse, seeing violence on a screen, or making ... ...

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