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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Implications in the Hollywood Genres"‚ Jean-Loup Bourget discusses what is implied about social groups in movies. In the last paragraph of the essay‚ Bourget asks "Must American society be like this? Must the Hollywood system function like this?" (57). Bourget actually answers these questions within his essay and I agree with his interpretation of the complexity of films‚ especially in regards to context meaning and the meanings implied by techniques. Bourget describes several forms of techniques
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Compare and contrast to films from the same genre. Revolutionary Road [Drama] American Beauty [Drama] American Beauty is a superb‚ beautiful piece of work by first time director Sam Mendes; easily a very accomplished film. This story centers around a man named Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) a man who has lost passion in his life. His wife Caroline (Annette Bening) is a workaholic real estate agent. Both are frustrated with their marriage which is basically just for show. Sexually frustrated Lest
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Hulks‚ or prison ships were a common punishment during Dickens’s times. In the opening scene of Great Expectations‚ Pip stumbles upon a convict having escaped from one of these prison ships. Their first interaction is brief‚ but while Pip is standing in the marshes‚ the convict makes two things clear: he desperately wants a file and desperately needs food. Living conditions upon the Hulks were unpleasant at best‚ according to Diane Yancey’s book‚ Life in Charles Dickens’s England. With one fourth
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Genre Comparison “O” & Othello Many tend to use the words: jealousy and jealous‚ as a description of an attitude or emotion; but few actually knows the definitions of these words. To be jealous has to do with or arose from feelings of envy‚ apprehension‚ or bitterness. Jealousy is a jealous attitude or disposition. Jealousy is a very powerful emotion and has the potential to make people do various things. There is a statement for jealousy that states “jealousy kills”‚ although this was meant
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Lili Montoya Mrs. Smith ENG2D1 16 May 2014 Fantasy Genre Essay Imagine living in a world that defys the laws of physics‚ filled with mythical creatures and beings. The fantasy genre has been a favourite for many years and has grown in popularity an immense amount over the past decade. Within the fantasy novel‚ Evermore by Alyson Noel a girl named Ever loses her family in a tragic car accident. When she awakes in the hospital‚ she notices that she now hs psychic abilities and can see people’s energies
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Annie and Lillian coming together as best friends after their friendship falling apart in Bridesmaids (2011) . Without the happy ending‚ the film may fall into another genre category. Similarly‚ this is just like asking why a horror movie is so scary; the basic codes and conventions of a horror allow a particular film to fall into this genre category. Genre is a way of categorizing a particular media text according to its content and
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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 and experiencing a sense of losing of my own identity. In robot-like fashion I found myself speaking and quoting studies done by experts in the field and then became aware of another storm brewing in my teacup: what miniscule contribution
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In the film “Shallow Grave” directed by Danny Boyle several techniques including visual and verbal were used to show the genres and film styles of gothic and film noir as well as exploring ideas of true friendship when it comes to the choice of friends or money. The gothic style consists typically of a castle‚ beast and a mystery. The film opens with the tipsy turvy image of David saying “If you can’t trust your friends‚ what then?” right at the beginning of the film the audience gets hints that
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Are superheavy elements really so unstable that there is no point trying to synthesis new elements? This leads to the question: ‘How does the size of an element affect the stability?’ What are superheavy elements? The scientific term ‘superheavy’ means elements that have an atomic number that is heavier than‚ element 101‚ which is Rutherfordium. As they suffer from radioactive decay when exposed to lighter elements‚ they are not naturally occurring. Meaning‚ scientists can only artificially make
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