The two movies I viewed were Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Poltergeist‚ which were both directed by Tobe Hopper. Both films displayed the general rules horror films generally follow through the use of horror film genre conventions. For instance‚ both movies follow the good verses evil story lines and in each the end does ultimately win. However‚ this is not entirely true in Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The friends represented the good and the chainsaw carrying monster and his family portrayed the evil
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REPORTING AND COMPARING SCHOOL PERFORMANCES Geoff N Masters Glenn Rowley John Ainley Siek Toon Khoo Paper prepared for the MCEETYA Expert Working Group to provide advice on national schools data collection and reporting for school evaluation‚ accountability and resource allocation December 2008 Commissioned by the Reporting and Accountability Branch‚ National Education Systems Group‚ Commonwealth Department of Education‚ Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) i Reporting
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significant feature of many horror stories‚ in “What is the Horror Genre?” the author‚ Sharon A. Russell discusses how there are more effective way to explain the categorization of the horror genre itself. Russell mentions five ways horror can be categorized: suspense‚ setting‚ organization‚ source of horror‚ and theme. The first category‚ suspense‚ talks about how tension is created because of the readers’ knowledge of the horror genre in that they know that the characters always meet something bad
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Comparing Death In the two poems “Death‚ Be Not Proud‚” by John Donne and “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night‚” by Dylan Thomas both deal with the issue of death‚ yet in different ways. The theme of each one of these poems is the subject of death. Each author chooses to tackle this difficult topic head on‚ but they do so in different styles. Like day and night the mood in each poem is in total contrast to each other. Although the tone is totally different in each poem‚ the theme of death
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Genre Definition Paper The science fiction film genre is absolutely the hardest to define. It can easily be confused with or applied to Fantasy films and some horror films as well. Genres are used to identify types of films‚ and outside of science fiction this is a fairly simple process. A Western is set in the west and has cowboys and Indians. A gangster film has a plot revolving around the mafia. A horror film is centrally purposed to scare the viewer. Science fiction‚ on the other hand‚ is not
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between Texts and Genres When studying genres in literature‚ one of the main questions which one has to ask one’s self is if the category of genre determines how a story is narrated or if there are more complex connections between a text and genres. There are many theories about this relationship and a good number of them seem to suggest that there is a direct influence of genre upon narrative. In particular‚ the Structuralist approaches to these issue “acknowledge the power of genre to shape textual
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happened to her poor little dog Toto. In the beginning of the film “Over the Rainbow” is played by MGM orchestra over the starting credits. There is a big taste of fantasy in this particular film which kind of in a way departs away from the musical genre. There is many scenes of flying monkeys‚ and the wicked witch of the West and Glinda‚ the good witch of the South‚ and the munchkins‚ and talking lions‚ and a tin man‚ and a talking scarecrow. There are many musical scenes that I am fond of in The
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Policing Fantasy: Problems of Genre in Fantasy Literature By Svein Angelskår A Thesis Presented to The Department of Literature Area Studies and European Languages The University of Oslo In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements For the MA Degree Autumn Term 2005 2 Table of Contents: TABLE OF CONTENTS:......................................................................................................................3 INTRODUCTION ................................................
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“concept musical” era‚ with the entire film being one extended metaphor. The songs offer commentary in counterpoint to the action of Cabaret and amplify the impact of show’s complicated‚ controversial themes‚ such as survival and politics rather than traditional happy themes found in musicals‚ reshaping the genre. In and out of the film is the unnamed emcee‚ symbolic of the liberal and carefree lifestyle Sally Bowles is living‚ as well as the rapid growth of the Nazi party.
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Often in literature there are common themes that occur throughout eras and genres to link two otherwise different pieces of writing. One particular example of this occurrance can be seen in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Although these works have been written in very different time periods and use separate styles‚ there are two themes which link both stories and convey a very similar message. Strict societal roles and the treatment of women
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