Midterm 1 Essays 1) Describe the three basic types of music heard in original scores during the silent film era and cites specific examples from The Birth of a Nation. (10 points) The film Birth of a Nation used the three basic types of music heard during the silent film era‚ which were adaptations‚ arrangement‚ and newly composed. Adaptations borrow a complete passage from another source and usually accompany large action scene. The composer Breil used Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyrie to underscore
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How To Find Happiness Despite The Depression mass media underwent considerable growth. Newspaper companies shut down by the thousand but circulation of papers went up a remarkable amount. In 1930 less than half of the U.S. households owned radios but ten years later over eighty percent owned them. Life during this time period was a continues struggle and for the most part extremely miserable. Unemployment grew to
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Film studios were able to immerse the audience with sound and involve another sense in the movie process. This added depth to movies that had never been present before. Film studios then added color which brought fantasy lands‚ such as the Land of Oz‚ to life. This added another dimension to films. The combination of these technological innovations allowed film studios to create a real life experience. This experience gave the audience a place to go to leave the Great Depression behind. The golden
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Speak to me/Breathe and Any Colour You Like/Brain Damage. Another special quality about this album that you will not find on any other album is if you play The Dark Side of the Moon and The Wizard of Oz at the same time‚ they fit exactly together. That is really something to have an amazing movie like The Wizard of Oz and the mind blowing album The Dark Side of the Moon fit together. That is a double whammy right there. Ever since March of 1973‚ Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon album has sold
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side.” Using the word emerald to describe Wellington makes it seem desirable and sought after. It makes life in Wellington look worth aspiring too much like the fantasy land ‘Emerald City’ in the Wizard of Oz. “The road leads to Wellington. The big city‚ The Emerald city!” In the first book The Wizard of Oz the walls of the city are green but the city itself is no different in colour to any other. The people in the city are made to wear green tinted glasses which affect their perception of the city
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When I was a child‚ my favorite movie was The Wizard of Oz. Out of all of Dorothy’s friends‚ the Cowardly Lion was probably my least favorite. He had gone to ask the Wizard for courage and I didn’t understand why. Others wanted tangible items such as a brain or a heart and yet he wanted courage. I had thought of courage as something that you just dug down and found within yourself when you needed it not something not just a material thing that was necessary to live like a brain or a heart. Courage
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change has been digressing- the newest trends are to revert back to earlier decades. Some wonder why this retro movement is gaining such a fierce following...maybe it’s because everyone recalls the simplicity of their youth. Such pictures as "The Wizard of Oz" and "Casablanca" refer to a time when there was truly something to fight for‚ a time when the worlds of entertainment and politics collided in a prosperous manner. This viewpoint cannot be argued‚ as The Second World War was in full swing during
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character development and interaction‚ as well as other technical aspects. A great movie in my opinion must include all of these aspects as well as a great story line. Some movies are classics because of repeat viewing. How many times have you seen The Wizard of Oz for example? You do not personally have to enjoy a movie for it to be a classic. I know several people who could spend an afternoon watching John Wayne movies. Westerns are not my favorite genre but to many people they are classic. One movie I
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Literary Analysis: The Book Thief Markus Zusak has taken many stories that his parents told him about their childhoods and has created what is known as The Book Thief. In the novel the author shows vivid images throughout his book on characterization and the setting that is portrayed in a way that makes the story come alive. As the story begins‚ the reader is introduced to a narrator that will be noted many times throughout the book‚ but this narrator is a special narrator that gives this story
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