Index Index 1 Introduction 2 Biography 3 The Tudors dynasty. 3 Economy and society 4 Financial policy 5 The administration of justice 5 Bibliography 6 Introduction. The Tudors: the birth of the nation state. The new monarchy. The Century of Tudor rule (1485-1603) is often thought of as a most glorious period in English history. Henry VII built the foundations of a wealthy nation state and a powerful monarchy. His son‚ Henry VIII‚ kept a magnificent
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Abraham Lincoln‚ a marble figure who some view as one of the father of the great change in American history and the political legacy we live today. Today‚ Lincoln is viewed as an American Icon who preserved the nation from falling apart and indeed keeping it together. He is a model of history because he abolished the slavery system in United States of America. He also wrote a very important document which we all have heard of called‚ The Emancipation Proclamation. This important document states that
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Test #1: Study Notes Chapter 1 Cinephile: a lover of cinema Filmography: a list of films There are distinct types of explanation in film history: 1. Biographical History 2. Industrial/Economic Historybusiness procedures 3. Aesthetic Historyfilm art (form; style) 4. Technological History 5. Social/Cultural/Political Types of Explanation: 1. Chronology 2. Influence 3. Trends/Generalization 4. Periods (by positing trends‚ historians generalize) 5. Significance Methodological Individualism:
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INDIAN CINEMA... EDUCATES AND ENTERTAINS? Award winning film-maker and actress Nandita Das once said‚ “Without poets‚ artists‚ and film-makers‚ men would soon weary of nature’s monotony. The sublime idea that men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature‚ and which is only an effect of art‚ would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons‚ no civilization‚ no thought‚ no humanity; even life would give away‚
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The study of national cinema and the way in which its defined has been a topic of discussion that many scholars have debated. Stephen Crofts ‘Concepts of National Cinema‚’ Susan Hayward’s ‘Reframing National Cinema’ and Andrew Higson’s ‘Limiting the imagination of National Cinema’ attempt to define the tricky boundaries of what the term national cinema means and the impacts it has on the way in which audiences perceive these types of films. One of the key areas of debate in the discussion is determining
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The history came with the Greeks more than 2000 years before the appearance of Cinema that occurred between the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century historians of the time and just try to set the film as attractions of the fair. History and Cinema are two ways of conceiving the actions that seek to organize time recognizing him some feeling. Taking from the reality of their condition panoptic and chaotic‚ Cinema and History are building and redirecting hypotheses and testing possibilities and
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Classics of Italian cinema 2010 Federico Fellini’s films were‚ and still are in many cases very controversial. Fellini attempts to convey many of his own ideas and attitudes into his works. Nowhere is this more evident than in his attitude towards faith‚ ritual‚ and religion. Fellini’s attitude towards faith‚ ritual and religion has always been critical. However‚ the way in which he demonstrates this criticism varies. These varying methods of criticism are clearly demonstrated‚ when one considers
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100 YEARS OF INDIAN CINEMA Indian Cinema has now completed 100 years on April 21‚ 2012‚ a country where over 1‚000 films are made every year‚ in several languages. During these long years Indian cinema has broken many new grounds and established several milestones. The Times of India‚ India’s major newspaper then‚ hailed it as "the marvel of the century". As writer and essayist Mukul Kesavan wrote‚ "The art of the cinema was fashioned in India at the same time as it was developed in the West". The
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Betty White is one of the most influential actresses of television history. Born as Betty Marion White on January 17‚ 1922 in Illinois‚ her family moved to Los Angeles‚ California during the Great Depression. She began her career by reading commercials for the radio in 1939 when she was seventeen years old. Betty White then started acting on television shows and movies. Since then‚ she has won several awards and continues to act. Betty White’s autobiography‚ If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won’t)
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The Sixteenth Century (1485-1603) Literary works in sixteenth-century England were rarely if ever created in isolation from other currents in the social and cultural world. The boundaries that divided the texts we now regard as aesthetic from other texts that participated in the spectacles of power or the murderous conflicts of rival religious factions or the rhetorical strategies of erotic and political courtship were porous and constantly shifting. It is perfectly acceptable‚ treating Renaissance
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