In the final chapter of the text book, the author talks about the multiple major motion picture companies. These companies include Universal, Miramar, Paramount, and others. These companies are the Hollywood companies that that have achieved global success due to the way that they broadcast their films. They broadcast there films all around the world instead of just sections of the world. In the past chapter, the authors talked about movies being made in other countries that have not been able to get out to a global viewing field. The companies that a part of Hollywood seemed to have all been able to get their films out to the world. This is because of the notion that Hollywood films are among the elite when it comes to film making. These films are positively seen as ones that can effect the world, which is what Germany tried to do when Hitler was in charge, but he tried to effect the world in a negative way than in a positive way.

In chapter 11 of the text book, the writers talk about German cinema. They talk about how it was recreated after World War 2. During the war, the German cinema was controlled by their government because of Hitler. He used the media in an attempt to take control of the country and to persuade people to follow him. Once the war was over, Germany experienced a "rebirth" in cinema. They believed that the German people had to be re-educated in film and media in order to get rid of the Nazi ideology. The films that were shown to the German people were screened and checked to make sure they did not have and Nazi material in them. The people from Germany who worked in the media and fled because of the Nazi propaganda were welcomed back. These people helped create films that were not part of a Nazi background. All of these things helped the Government get Germany back to the way it was before Hitler took over and began corrupting peoples minds. To a certain extent, you could say that this was re-corupting peoples minds but at least it was for the good of the people instead of for the bad.

In chapter 4 of the text book, the author talks about different kinds of formalism. The author defines formalism as a name often ti film criticism concerned with matters of structure and style in a movie, or with how features discussed in chapter 3 are organized in particular ways in a movie. The author talks about different examples of how a formalist might investigate a narrative differently.

 One example is through the film, His Girl Friday. In this example, the author says that a writer might look for stylistic or formal repetition in the editing or writing because they would be able to describe how they work to the rest of the film. This type of formalism is directed towards the audience. The critic would study how each screen, color, sounds, or anything else in the film has an effect on the audience watching the film.

The second example that the author gave was for the movie, Shane. In this example, the author says to choose a visually complex scene and describe how it works and why it is important to the movie. In the movie there is a quick and involved look between the four main characters, this set up a social relationship through the remainder of the film. This was important for the movie because it developed the characters of the movie into who they were for the rest of the movie

 
    













As I look at the horror movie covers from the 50's, I notice that they used much more color than the horror movie covers that have been made in 2014. The covers in 2014 seem like the creators of the cover were trying to be as terrifying as possible. The colors from the 50's seem as if they film makers were trying to take advantage of the new technology of using color rather than to make them look scary. As we look at them now, the reason they don't look scary could be because current media has desensitized the things that we once thought was scary.
Most of the covers in 2014 also use faces with their mouths open, many of them have blood in them or coming out of them. These covers in 2014 make it seem that the person in the picture is screaming for their life while they are in the act of dying. In the pictures in the 50's, more of them have pictures of the villain rather then the person being attacked.

As I look at the horror movie covers from the 50's, I notice that they used much more color than the horror movie covers that have been made in 2014. The covers in 2014 seem like the creators of the cover were trying to be as terrifying as possible. The colors from the 50's seem as if they film makers were trying to take advantage of the new technology of using color rather than to make them look scary. As we look at them now, the reason they don't look scary could be because current media has desensitized the things that we once thought was scary.
Most of the covers in 2014 also use faces with their mouths open, many of them have blood in them or coming out of them. These covers in 2014 make it seem that the person in the picture is screaming for their life while they are in the act of dying. In the pictures in the 50's, more of them have pictures of the villain rather then the person being attacked.

As I watch the football games, and also listen to my father and how he yells at makes statements about the ability of the players, I find it possible that the media is the reason for his arguments. As I watch the games, the reporters well always say that a team is either a good team or a bad team depending on how they play in that one game. This type of reporting ends up making its way into the news and newspapers. I personally do not let it affect the way that I see the game, because I know that players will have bad games. The media tries to change the way you think about it by saying that the only reason that they had a bad game was because the team is not good and the team will continue to loose unless they change the way they play. This information that is reported changes the way that people think about the game, my father is one of those people. He seems to believe that just because one person has a bad game, then he will have a bad game every week because he goes along with everything that the reporters say during the game. I, myself, would personally enjoy watching a football game with nobody reporting the game, it would allow me to think on my own about how the game and players are playing without any possible bias being heard from any other people or media outlet.

Chapter 4 of, A short Guide to Writing About Film, is titled, Six Approaches to Writing about Film. In this chapter, the author talks about national cinemas. He says that a writer should know something about the society and culture India to be able to correctly analyze an Indian film. Once this is said, the author says that once an individual is able to understand the culture of other societies, then they will be able to understand there culture and be able to analyze it. If a person criticized a certain film or any type of cultural aspect from another culture, then they would never be able to do it without being biased. They would be biased because they would only have their own personal culture to judge the films too. They would compare it to what the critics culture says is what and how a film is made, and how it is composed. I feel that for a person to be a successful critic, if they want to pursue it as a career, then they must first have a great understanding about how many different types of cultures there are in the world.