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Geethma Madanayake
  • Tallinn , Estonia
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This assignment is about Editing, Sound & Music and Color of five films Those are, The girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) Gladiator (2000) A quite Place (2018) Pirates of the Caribbean: The cures of the Black Pearl (2003) Disobedience... more
This assignment is about Editing, Sound & Music and Color of five films
Those are,
The girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
Gladiator (2000)
A quite Place (2018)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The cures of the Black Pearl (2003)
Disobedience (2017)
This is an assignment done by me for my undergraduate third year for the subject of sociology of cinema. here I discuss two social issues in current Sri Lanka and how several movies take an eye to them.
A short critic about the documentary film named 76 minutes and 15 seconds with Abbas Kiarostami by Siefollah Samadian.
Cinema came a long way to earn the current situation. This is a paper which describes the way of cinema which we consider as the newest art form of the world.
This is an assignment about the historical path of the world cinema and the people who invented cinema as an art form. This document describes how some great people help to build up the cinema from Edison to Charlie Chaplin. includes... more
This is an assignment about the historical path of the world cinema and the people who invented cinema as an art form. This document describes how some great people help to build up the cinema from Edison to Charlie Chaplin. includes Russian filmmakers.
The Bow is a Korean movie directed by well-known filmmaker Kim ki-Duk in 2005. This is a critical evaluation of the movie.
This is an assignment about Sri Lankan television dramas. A systematic divide approached here to study more about the teles in Sri Lanka
Nimnayaka Hudekalawa ( Alone in a Valley ) is a psychological thriller directed by Boodee Keerthisena in 2017. This is a critical evaluation of the film.
Bandhanaya is a Sri Lankan horror movie directed by Udayakantha Warnasooriya in 2017. This is a critical evaluation of the movie.
28 is a Sinhala movie directed by Prasanna Jayakody in 2014. This is a critical evaluation of the movie. This critic takes and feminist approach to describe the incidence of this movie and this content all overwritten by a feminist gaze.
According to traditional Sri Lankan chronicles such as the Dipavamsa, Buddhism was introduced into Sri Lanka in the third century BCE after the Third Buddhist council by Arhanthà Mahinda Thero, son of Emperor Ashoka. This was during the... more
According to traditional Sri Lankan chronicles such as the Dipavamsa, Buddhism was introduced into Sri Lanka in the third century BCE after the Third Buddhist council by Arhanthà Mahinda Thero, son of Emperor Ashoka. This was during the reign of Devanampiya Tissa of Anuradhapura; an ancient Sri Lankan kingdom. After the arrival of Arahantha Mahinda, he invited his sister Sangamitta Thera to bring a sapling of the Bodhi Tree (where Buddha was enlightened) to Sri Lanka and the first Buddhist monastery, monuments, and monk were introduced.
. When the British won control at the beginning of the 19th century Buddhism was fell into decline, a situation that encouraged the English missionaries that then began to flood the island. But against all expectations, the monastic and lay community brought about a major revival from about 1860 onwards, a movement that went hand in hand with growing nationalism. Buddhism has been given the foremost place under Article 9 of the Constitution which can be traced back to an attempt to bring the status of Buddhism back to the status it enjoyed prior to being destroyed by colonialists after Sri Lanka achieved its independence.
However, by virtue of Article 10 of the Sri Lankan constitution, the religious rights of all communities are preserved. Sri Lanka is the traditionally oldest religious Buddhist country that has continually practiced the Theravada tradition and protected its legacy for the world.
What I presented you is a short history as to how Buddhism established as the key religious practice in Sri Lanka. Henceforth I will be focusing on the legacy of Buddhism to south Asia in a socio-historic level and discuss how in the present Buddhist approach can be used as means of solving  political, ethnic-based and other societal unrests issues in the present