fantastic portrait of the best dozen years of American film and the insane circumstances that created them. The reading included many features in one‚ cultural anthropology‚ film criticism‚ and gossip. This book is an excellent account of the film industry revolution during the 60’s and 70’s. It focuses more on the directors and not the actors‚ which is good because most of the decent directors of that time were completely out of their minds. The films made by the featured directors were so rich with the
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Walking down an old moldy hallway with distressed stairs screaming with every step‚ there is a dimly lit doorway leading to a hunched withered old man aggressively working on a grey‚ decomposing body. This is what horror films have drilled into our heads of what a mortician is; when in reality a Mortician is not just an embalmer with the stigma of death that shadows them around. Morticians have a wide variety of undertakings; they supervise the preparations of the burial‚ arrange funerals and services
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the game when making a movie. Suspense is a strange aspect in film‚ the audience almost knows that something is going to jump out‚ but they still scream as if it was unexpected. Alfred Hitchcock was the king of suspense‚ especially in his film Psycho. Hitchcock uses different camera angles‚ lighting‚ and especially music/sound effects to really get the audience’s heart racing. Alfred Hitchcock is notorious for using McGuffin’s in his films. A McGuffin is an occurrence or action that seems like the whole
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What Makes Interstellar a Good Movie. With genres varying from horror and comedy‚ romance and sci-fi‚ everyone has his or her favorite movie. Their favorite movie is the one they think was so good and entertaining that they would watch it time and time again. However‚ other people may view the same movie as horrible. So what makes a movie truly good? How can philosophers help us come to a universal meaning “good” in the movie industry? Philosophers such as Plato‚ Aristotle‚ and Socrates can give
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The Girl with All the Gifts came very recommend by a coworker with similar tastes in films. He thought this would a film I would like since he feels it’s an interesting take on the tradition zombie film. Which is something I do agree with‚ though I don’t hold in the same kind of regard as he does. The Girl with All the Gifts feels like its trying to get me to like by being as much like other zombie stories that are popular. The Fungus‚ and the Carol character being the most egregious. In the somewhat
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words or concepts more clearly. Sometimes‚ however‚ we simply need to define what something is so that the reader understands it the same way we do. This is what your definition essay will do. Just like Sayoh Mansaray’s “The Offbeat Allure of Cult Films‚” which you should have read for class‚ your first assignment will define a particular sub-genre of movie‚ music‚ or television program. In other words‚ you need to choose a sub-genre you find interesting and define it for the reader‚ using both examples
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worldwide are scary because of the metaphors and allegories used behind them. How can a fictional monster be used as an allegory or metaphor? Simple‚ a person’s basic fears are derived from a fictional character from a horror film. For example‚ Leather face‚ from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre film‚ is a character that wears a mask of human skin and kills people who have sinned with his chainsaw (Liebesman). He serves as a real world fear because most individuals who sin know that there is not anything they
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The Cove Reflection The Cove is an Academy Award-winning documentary about the horrifying and merciless slaughter of dolphins in Japan. I watched the film in absolute horror... Sometimes with my hand covering my eyes‚ and saw something horrible‚ something bloodier and more brutal than any fictional horror movie could ever do to my mind. I’d seen the previews of the bright red water in the cove where dolphins were killed. I just never realized that what I would learn in the documentary and
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don’t have to worry about dead laughs because people will laugh because there are so jokes put out that even if they don’t laugh at everyone‚ there are plenty to where at some point they will. It is completely parody and it is over horror‚ this tops a lot of the other horror parodies in my opinion. The people who made this movie did a great job of making sure that all of the lighting‚ sound‚ dressing‚ makeup‚ special effects‚ and camera work did very well. There was always enough light and never too
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GENRE The slasher genre started in the late 70’s as a sub-genre to horror. It began with a very specific target audience: teenage boys who were able to experience safe‚ vicarious thrills through the consumption of slashers as a media product. However‚ this relationship between the slasher genre and its demographic has since greatly evolved thanks to concepts such as post modernism‚ gender neutrality and audience sophistication. With the introduction of a female demographic‚ the relationship has
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