PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Reference

Paper · Semantic Scholar

Randai is a traditional Minangkabau performing art based on storytelling that combines elements of dance, martial arts, singing, and traditional music. The strength of Randai lies in its oral narration, rhythmic dialogue, and improvisation by the performers. This is what makes Randai attractive for adaptation into an ethno-fiction film script. Ethno-fiction film is an ethnography-based cinematic approach that is fic…

Reference · Wikidata

British-American actress (1932–2011)

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was a British and American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She then became the world's highest-paid movie star in the 1960s, remaining a well-known public figure for the rest of her life. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her seventh on its list of the greates…

Book · DOAB

"Films are integral to national imagination. Promotional publicity markets “domestic films” not only as entertaining, exciting, or moving, but also as topical and relevant in different ways. Reviewers assess new films with reference to other films and cultural products as well as social and political issues. Through such interpretive framings by contemporaries and later generations, popular cinema is embedded both i…

Full text · Open Library

First published in 1951 as Socialgeschichte der Kunst und Literatur, Arnold Hauser's comprehensive work explores the interaction between art and society. Through the detailing of social and historical movements Hauser provides insight into the origins of visual art.

Image · DPLA

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