“I would argue that feminist film studies is not only still alive and well‚ but has‚ in fact‚ become much more heterogeneous‚ dynamic‚ and open in its scope‚ encompassing not just film analysis but also television and new media studies…” says Karen Hollinger from Feminist Film Studies (Hollinger 19). Film’s have definitely grown and expanded from the years pass. Women are now starting to be given roles other than those to please the male eye such as the girlfriend‚ secretary‚ receptionist‚ or mother
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Mash‚ a counter culture classic‚ the themes and techniques used‚ represent the ethos of 1960s - 1970’s youth perfectly. The first thing i really noticed with Mash was that it did not hold back‚ religion was mocked and Mash really didn’t hold back‚ this is very pertinent in one scene‚ the legendary Last Supper scene‚ followed by Painless rising from the dead‚ only after a nurse has sex with him. This scene also shows the use of satire as sex‚ and honoring the “Faux Dead” with the use of sex and booze
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Vinny O’Brien Dr. James Getz Honors Mosaics 1 October 26th‚ 2014 One of Sigmund Freud’s most prominent claims that he makes in Civilization and its Discontents is that the laws that make up society are what holds man back from what man truly desires‚ and that if not for the superego‚ man would break those laws. Based on Plato’s recording of the dialogue in the Crito‚ Socrates would completely disagree with this claim. According to Socrates‚ laws are what allow the state to exist‚ and the state exists
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Epic Doomsday By: Maria Eloisa L. Montablan A pleasant Morning to our respectable Professor‚ Ma’am Dela Cruz and also to my fellow students‚ the BBTE 2-1. I’m here in front of you to deliver my speech entitled Epic Doomsday. It is my article last year for the trending issue about end of the world. Okay let me start! As I woke up last morning‚ I felt the cold breeze throughout my skin‚ I can see the sunlight passing through my window and I heard the chirp of the birds in the roof. With
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regarding the future of mankind through the use of representations within varying forms of texts. The novel Frankenstein (F) by Mary Shelly composed in 1818‚ and film Blade Runner (BR) directed by Ridley Scott in 1982‚ embody the above notions. A comparative study of these texts reveals that‚ despite the fact that the context of composition moulded both works‚ the distinct universal ideologies embedded within each text consisting of the obsession of certain individuals to push beyond natural limitations
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told like an imagination‚ rather than telling it as though it was a memory. Therefore‚ these creative techniques of having darkness around the character from the beginning makes the stories sound threatening. The main characters in both author’s texts are shaped to be vulnerable while being exposed but unaware to upcoming threat. For example‚ Hunter uses the line‚ “she clutches her paper bag of groceries like a shield against the dark”. A shield is used to protect oneself from harm. The helpless
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by Mr. McGuire to Benjamin Braddock‚ the main character. The film‚ The Graduate‚ directed by Mike Nichols in 1967 shows the audience how hard it is to stand out in a “plastic” world through the uses of screenplay‚ performance‚ cinematography‚ music and sound. Nichols wanted us to feel what Benjamin felt as well as be engaged in his decisions. Nichols achieved this by using subjective shots in the film. The cinematography in this film shows many symbols that are often the protagonist’s point of view
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Great Gatsby: Book vs Film Before the invention of television and film the art of story telling was restricted to theater and literature. Theater was and still is performed live by actors who tell some kind of story through their performance. But theater is still limited greatly in its ability to convey setting to the viewer. In order to fully grasp the power of any story one must believe‚ in a sense‚ that the events are happening before them. Literature is better able to accomplish this by utilizing
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MEDIA CULTURAL AND SOCIETY: MEDIA TEXT: In media studies‚ the word ‘text’ is used to describe any media product such as TV programmes‚ photographs‚ films ‚ either on video or in the cinema ‚ newspaper articles ‚ radio programmes ‚ advertisements‚ video games or web pages. ‘Text’ are therefore the main point of our study in understanding how media languages create meaning. * One of the keys to understanding the meanings in the texts in the use of codes. CODES: * Rules or conventions by
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The Iliad SEAO I. Homer and Robert Fagles. The Iliad. New York‚ N.Y.: Penguin‚ 1990. Print. A. The title relates to the story literally‚ because the word “Iliad” means “poem about ilium”‚ and ilium is an alternate name for Troy which is where the Iliad took place. II. POV A. The story is told in 3rd person omniscient because he has access to every character’s mind and he frequently gives insight into the thoughts and feelings of even minor characters‚ gods and mortals alike. The narrator also
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