PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Historical

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

Costume design is an essential visual narrative element in the film, which aids in the character building, cultural representation, and theme expression. This paper analyzes the history of the costume aesthetics in the Bollywood films of the same genre over the time featuring an emphasis on the determination of the shifts in the style depending on the genre. The qualitative research method is applied, and the chosen…

Reference · Wikidata

genre in painting defined by historical matter (see also religious painting and mythological painting)

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

History painting is a genre in painting defined by its subject matter rather than any artistic style or specific period. History paintings depict a moment in a narrative story, most often Greek and Roman mythology and Bible stories, opposed to a specific and static subject, as in portrait, still life, and landscape painting. The term is derived from the wider senses of the word historia in Latin and histoire in Fren…

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Book · DOAB

This definitive work offers a new approach to the period film at the turn of the twenty-first century, examining the ways in which contemporary cinema recreates the historical past. This book explores the relation between visual motifs and cultural representation in a range of key films by James Ivory, Martin Scorsese and Jane Campion, among others. Looking at the mannerist taste for citation, detail and stylisation…

Full text · Open Library

From the post-apocalyptic world of Blade Runner to the James Cameron mega-hit Terminator, tech-noir has emerged as a distinct genre, with roots in both the Promethean myth and the earlier popular traditions of gothic, detective, and science fiction. In this new volume, many well-known film and literary works - including The Matrix, RoboCop, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -are discussed with reference to their relat…

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16 pages.