‘British North America and the Atlantic world 1660-1763.’ The British North American colonies diversified in this period, and they also became more uniformly and distinctively Anglo-American. Using evidence, explain the factors that promoted the development of a unified identity despite growth and diversification. In the 1660s, the colonial enterprise patterns in the Americans became clear. The colonies of England became what is now Britain after the 1707 Act of Union with Scotland, with 1660-1763 becoming a period of growth and diversification (Armitage & Braddick, 2009). At this period, there was an explosion of slave imports to plantation colonies as a variety of the European natives from Ireland and other parts pushed together in fast-growing areas of neo- European settlement. There was also a coherent imperial vision for the American holdings, which grew slowly, and the colonies remained mostly independent of crown control. Europe plunged into a period of warfare in 1689, which had a significant impact on America. The spilling of the war into North America, Spanish, British, and French colonies made the colonies engage deeper with neighboring Indians. The…

“Bread and Tulips” Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation                 “Bread and Tulips” Bread and Tulip rank among the best of Italian romance comedies of all time. Also known as Pane e tulipani, it is an Italian and a David Di Donatello Awards Winning movie that was directed by Silvio Soldini and co-scripted by Doriana Leondeff, in 2000. I would compare it to “isn’t it romantic’ that debuted in 2019. Intertwined with romance and comedy, Bread and Tulip take us through a kind of a fairy tale journey of a woman named Rosalba Barletta (Licia Maglietta) who finds herself in two different worlds. One of these environments was that of a materialistic housewife in her home in Pescara living with her womanizer husband Mimmo (Antonio Cantania). The other world was that of romance and support in Venice, a city she had never been to before, where she encounters an Iceland gentleman Bruno Ganz as Fernando Girasole. He would later become her lover (David, 2000). She also meets an anarchist florist Fermo (Felice Andreasi), and Grazia…

Name: Course: Instructor: Date: Birdbox Review In a movie list of Knock Down the House, Season 1 Jessica Jones, Into the Spider-Verse, and Birdbox, the latter is certainly a must-watch for me. The Netflix original that premiered on 21 December 2018 was a hit. Susanne Bier, an award-winning director, starred the amazing Sandra Bullock as Malorie, together with John Malkovich and a couple of other notable and talented actors. The movie, based on a book by an American author Josh Malerman is a thriller worth every second of the 2-hour 4-minute watch. Malorie is set up in a post-apocalyptic world that has been invaded by creatures that are kept mysterious from the viewer’s eyes throughout the whole movie. The mystery of the creatures made the movie intriguing, and one would have struggled to catch a glimpse of it by some fast-pace shots but to no avail. The story surrounds Malorie, starting with some news that there were people who were acting severely aggressive and brutal and eventually end up killing themselves. The news spreads, and it is determined that these…

Movie Silence (2016) review Introduction The turn of events in the movie Silence immensely borrow from the ordeals in the Bible especially in the New Testament. The movie silences examines the struggles, persecutions, denials, and betrayals by the Christians in the early Japanese society when Christianity was fanned in the region (Kroenert, 3). In great depth, the movie reflects the aspects of denial as evident in the four gospel books in the Bible. Though the denial in the Bible only revolved around Christ, such act in the movie is multifaceted and manifests in different levels. It exists through the denouncing religion, denying association with people from the Christian faith, betrayal of the missionaries and becoming blasphemous. The acts of denial as highlighted in the four gospel books are evident in the several ways as examined in the subsequent paragraphs. Summary of the Film In the movie, Scorsese portrays the characters in a manner that reflects the happenings in the four gospel books in the New Testament. Kichijiro, immensely epitomizes Judas and his betrayal of Father Rodriguez confirms the assertions that…

Analysis of ‘Cherish’ Music Video by Madonna When we get attracted to a music video, what raffles, us is the artistic skills such as drums,  lyrics, images, and the melody that are conveyed in the video. Analysts of a music video, usually encounter questions about the structure of a music video from the view of sociology and cultural studies. This paper attempts to describe the ways that music and visual codes operate, and how to make them flow in the entire music video. Musical and visual codes work together to show us the artistic skills of the singer and the ideological apparatus. If we narrow down the features of a single video, we can comprehend how much is displayed in just a short period of time of about three minutes. It is by studying the features in the video that we can be able to see how the video represents race, gender, and sexuality through the lyrics and video of a song. In this article, I will examine the aspects of the music video “Cherish” by the famous Madonna, and…

The Story of the STAR WARS Trilogy George Lucas Brief biography George Lucas is a film director and an author who gained cinematography skills and knowledge at Southern California University. Lucas wrote and directed some of the world’s leading films, including Indiana Jones series and Star Wars, as well as establishing Industrial Light and Magic Special Effects Company. Lucas was born in Modesto, California, in May of 1944 (Biography, 2017). His parents were business people owning both Walnut Ranch and sold retail office supplies in the state of California. His Oscar award film, American Graffiti produced in 1973, was inspired by his early childhood passion for racing cars as well as the suburb neighborhood of Modesto. In addition to film making, Lucas dedicated most of his life to improving education through his educational foundation. Birth of Star Wars After the American Graffiti, Lucas began his next project, Star Wars, the first script was a handwritten 13-page story synopsis that was finished in 1973. The project initially started as a children’s morning Saturday serial but eventually evolved into a full-length feature.…

Cinematographic Effects in the Film “In The Mood For Love” In the academic world of films, filming elements employed in a film can be analyzed to give a clear understanding of how they are applied to give the film the cinematic uniqueness. Some of these film elements include mise-en-scene, cinematography, and editing. Mise-en-scene refers to the arrangement of everything appearing in the framing of the film. On the other hand, cinematography refers to the storytelling art and all the camera movements involved in the film. Editing is also a vital filming element and includes all the editing techniques involved in the development of the film. The film elements are crucial in adding to the experience of watching movies. In the development of interactive movies, new techniques have been developed, and the result has been an added viewer understanding dimension of these movies and the characters involved. In the film “In the Mood for Love,” several filming elements have been deployed.  The cinematography filming element will be analyzed in this essay. Wong Kar Wai’s “In the Mood for Love” is a…

Fall of Liberty City Heroes Essay The movie begins with individuals driving recklessly while cursing, which leads to the black car getting ruined, and the owner has to stop (0:03). Another green car comes along and hits the black car, which stopped in the middle of the road, ruining it completely. Jonny comes along in a bike and holds a gun to the other characters as the city screen presents an advertisement of the American dream. In this section of the film, the producers used dark lighting to help set the mood and also to add mystery to the players. The dark lighting also makes images more dramatic, thus its incorporation in the film to help set the mood and tone. This is a type of lighting that is often used in cinematography to isolate a particular character or highlight important aspects of the film. In this case, low lighting is used to minimize distraction in the first few minutes of the film to emphasize the terrible situations the characters are involved in before getting on the plane in search…

movie gang analysis in Sherlock Jr. by Buster Keaton In film history, it is claimed that the first movie was presented in the form of a comedy. Since silent movies were the main manifestation of moving pictures, it is nothing unexpected that the greater parts of the producers in that period were exploratory with their work. At the time, films were made with no sound. This being the case, the high focus was on other artistic methods, for example, camera work and acting. One of the most notable silent movie pioneers by the name Buster Keaton got celebrated for his acting and coordinating in the 1920s. In this essay, I will do film studies on the movie gang analysis in Sherlock Jr. by Buster Keaton. Buster Keaton film is the prime cause of a slapstick comedy. Nonetheless, it likewise ends up being a wonderful film in a more significant number of ways than one. All through the film, Sherlock Jr toys with thoughts of the real world and fiction and the qualification between them. The film utilizes two accounts, one…

Film Critical Review             The Endless is an interesting film directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. The storyline was written by Justin Benson and composed by Jimmy Lavalle. The main actors are Justin Benson, Moorhead, Tate Ellington and Callie Hernandez. I chose this film because the names of the directors are also enlisted in the cinematography which makes it common as one of the most popular student films. The film is about two men who had fled from a certain cult and they decide to go back. Some plots in the film are unnecessarily repeated. This is depicted in the plot that one of the two brothers finally gets the answers to what he yearned for and on the other brother also given the same explanation in another scene hence replicating the narrative (Reilly, Kara 28, 2018). Another critical aspect of the film comes out when the runtime of scenes is extended by creating conflict. The roles of the two working actors is to bring out their protagonist nature by sending a quiver of terror to the audience. The…