the more recent cinematic adaptations of Shakespeare ’s comedies‚ Trevor Nunn ’s Twelfth Night and Kenneth Branagh ’s A Much Ado About Nothing [Much Ado ’]. Although both films can to an extent be seen as comedies with serious‚ almost tragic aspects inherent throughout‚ Nunn ’s film deals with these serious facets as central to the depiction‚ whereas Branagh‚ although not entirely ignoring the deeper issues‚ prefers a more light-hearted and visually attractive adaptation. Twelfth Night has been
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Beyond language: the postmodern poetics of Ang Lee’s adaptation of Lust/ Caution Shaoyan Ding Abstract Based on Robert Stam’s notion of filmic adaptation as a cultural critique and through a detailed analysis of the postmodernist styles of intertextuality‚ dissolving the history‚ parodic representation‚ and the body narrative in the filmic text‚ this article argues that Ang Lee’s film Lust/Caution (2007) adapted from Eileen Chang’s fiction Lust‚ caution is a re-creation embedded with subtle
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Dear Mr Mitchell I strongly agree with your review of the film adaptation of ‘Othello’. It is evident that the director tried to make Othello “more lifelike by [bringing} it down to a younger audience.” This is attempted through drug abuse: a contemporary Elizabethan audience would not be able to relate to this as it is a recent convention. This is much more identifiable to today’s society. However‚ the outside influence of drugs completely eradicates Iago’s linguistic manipulation. Shakespeare
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SYEDA SAIRA HAMID (PhD SCHOLAR) NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MODERN LANGUAGES ISLAMABAD PAKISTAN mehdipkisd@gmail.com ABSTRACT It is universally recognized that education is the basic human right and teacher education is heart and life blood of educational system‚ which play pivotal role for the progress
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received from issuing securities is the present value‚ and valuable financing opportunities are unavailable. There are three conditions that will cause market efficiency‚ which are the rationality of investors‚ dependent deviations from rationality and arbitrage. Three forms are divided by researcher according to the availability of information. The first one is Weak Form. The price in this form were just focused the past stock price. This is the cheapest‚ easiest strategy to find the pattern in stock
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Question In this period of rapid technological change‚ planning for strategic adaptation is an important factor in individual success. Do you agree? Abstract The intent of this essay is to argue that in this period of rapid technology change‚ planning for strategic adaptation is not only an important factor in individual success but also for organizational success. In this research‚ the relationship between strategic adaptation and future success is presented to demonstrate the importance of planning
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There are multiple scenes in act 1 scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet‚ where the theme of love at first sight is shown. This is shown using various poetic techniques‚ and by demonstrating that often love is stronger than many other emotions such as spite and revenge (seen in both the script and the film) Also‚ the script and film both have very different ways of presenting love at first sight‚ and while the film utilises the visual aspects of media‚ the script also has numerous powerful techniques such
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Kenneth Branagh takes Hamlet from play to screen in an intense‚ full-length adaptation and he got it right! Gregory Doran also takes a whack at bringing Hamlet from the stage to the screen but with a more modern-day interpretation. Branagh restores Hamlet’s greatest scenes and brings out the most in Shakespeare’s awe-inspiring revenge-tragedy plot; in both performance and direction‚ Branagh displays energy and cogency. The language has the upmost clarity and makes the film feel accessible
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Sociologists like Emile Durkheim used the structural functional theory of crime to understand the world and why people act the way that they do. Its main thought is that our culture is a whole unit. This unit is composed of interconnected portions. Sociologists who believe theory often focus on the social structure and social function. Durkheim based primarily all his work on this theory‚ the structural functional theory. Durkheim debated that deviance is a typical and essential part of our culture
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1. Compare the story "Super Toys Last All Summer Long" with the movie Artificial Intelligence. Do they use the same symbols? Do they have the same themes? Explain why or why not. * ** Adapting literature for the big screen is a risky process‚ and can yield great results as well as a poor‚ butchered‚ dubbed-down version of an otherwise major work. Fortunately‚ Stanley Kubrick ’s Artificial Intelligence movie has proved‚ by its extended use of dystopia and its focus on the human/machine relationships
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