STUDY GUIDE FOR 3Sc & 3-B ENGLISH SEMESTER I+ 1. Review Test I for questions on Genres of Writing. Be prepared to answer questions by giving examples. Genres are types of writing. Each genre has a specific purpose. Forms are subcategories of genres. Nonfiction Narratives: Diaries and journal entries‚ blogs‚ biography‚ personal narratives and eyewitness accounts‚ Memoirs‚ Reflective Essays E.g. Sandra Cisneros’ Straw into Gold Fiction Narratives: Realistic Fiction‚ Fantasy Story‚ Historical
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Film Genre Report Horror is considered an ancient art form‚ delivering thrills and telling stories of the dark and forbidden side of life and on the contrary‚ death. Horror’s most far back influences go to the year of 1235‚ where ideas of witchcraft took position in these ancient societies‚ it wasn’t until the seventeenth century these beliefs amongst society faded. By the 1400s artists begin producing paintings of a nightmarish impact‚ and illustrations and tales of supernatural forces begin publishing
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Question (5) Why are genres important? Discuss a television genre in term of its historical and ideological features. Introduction In general‚ genres points to the categories and subcategories of any sort of literature‚ art or entertainment based on some collective stylistic criteria. The term “genre” has been derived from the French language which literally means “type”‚ “kind” or “sort”. A famous media theorist Douglas Kellner has defined genre very precisely. Kellner explains genre refers to coded
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literature and locating the literature‚ even with support‚ was a lonely road. Never have I felt that the more I began to read and know‚ the less I felt I knew‚ lost and alone amid so many theories‚ expert knowledge‚ data and findings. And so this genre journey became a rumbling of thoughts‚ ideas and theories to be summarised‚ referenced and sometimes even violently tossed aside. Reviewing the literature and writing up summaries was a cup of tea‚ yet I was slowly dissolving‚ losing my own voice
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The genre of horror was created in 1896 and set out to frighten the audience with induced feelings of terror and horror. The sub-genre of Vampires does this‚ but the way it induces these feelings has changed over time‚ with the two features of Male Vampires and Female Victims representing this change. Three movies that exemplify the aspect of change within the two features are‚ Dracula (1931) directed by Tod Browning‚ Fright Night (1985) directed Tom Holland and Twilight (2008) directed by Katherine
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the movie instead. Genre analysis is a system of analysis by which observations are made on the repeated communicative functions found in genres and on the linguistic features of these functions (Brett‚ 1994). Genre knowledge played an important role in helping novices understand how to produce academics‚ professional or educational discourse. Genre study can help to improve Chinese students’ movie review writing skills. This study was conducted using the framework of genre analysis to explore move
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around since the 1920’s when Frankenstein and Dracula were created‚ Horror is a good genre to analysis because there are many sub-genre’‚ Slasher is a popular genre ‚ recent slasher films are popular amoungst a younger audience. The American slasher film has its roots in an Italian genre called giallo which usually combines elements of the crime thriller with stalk and slash style scares. John Carpenter got the sub-genre off the ground with Halloween in 1978‚ and pretty soon films about teenagers being
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The key issues an editor faces when moving between editing the different types of production I will need to understand the key issues of editing music video‚ documentary and drama‚ learning the skills and techniques each edit type requires. By learning what each type of edit needs individually I will be able to compare the different types of editing to find out the key differences in them. These differences will help me to find what the key issues an editor faces are‚ when
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Departmental Papers (ASC) Annenberg School for Communication 2002 Globalization of Culture Through the Media Marwan M. Kraidy University of Pennsylvania‚ kraidy@asc.upenn.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers Part of the International and Intercultural Communication Commons Recommended Citation Kraidy‚ M. (2002). Globalization of culture through the media. In J. R. Schement (Ed.)‚ Encyclopedia of communication and information (Vol. 2‚ pp. 359-363). New York
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Glory the movie has many different types of genres which includes: drama‚ epic film‚ action film‚ costume drama‚ war film‚ period piece‚ and political drama. 2. The main characters is Glory are Matthew Broderick as Col. Robert Gould Shaw‚ Denzel Washington as Trip‚ and Morgan Freeman as John Rawlins.. these three chracters changed the movie dramatically making it easy for the viewers to feel the passion and pain going on throughout this movie. 3. The genre throughout the film flips back and forth
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