A Tale of Two Cities is separated into three different books‚ Book one: Recalled to Life and Book two: The Golden Thread and Book three: The Track of a Storm‚ Which is one of the things that i like about the book. The first part of the book is explaining the era in which the novel takes place‚ England and France in 1775. The age is marked by competing and contradictory attitudes—“It was the best of times‚ it was the worst of times." I like that the Dickens wants the reader to understand what is going
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Film and cinema 1 Match these words with their definitions below: star director scene critic review 1. somebody who reviews new films 2. a very famous actor or actress 3. what a critic writes about a new film 4. the person who tells the actors and actresses what to do 5. one small part of a film 2 Put these words into the sentences below: screen subtitles row trailers credits 1. Let’s sit at the back. I don’t like being too near the ........ . 2. I like
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Lastly‚ the cinema was considered to play a significant role‚ and Stalin himself liked watching films and had his personal cinema. Cinemas came under the control of the Politburo’s economic department. The objectives of films were to gain understandings by the masses and promote the state. Plots and storyline were prescribed by Stalin. Accordingly‚ many documentaries supporting the First Five-Year Plan were produced. Moreover‚ all the films had to be precensored in the State Committee for Cinematography
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How important was Weimar Cinema to the Development of the German Film Industry? The cinema of the early 20th century saw a vast rise in popularity of the film industry across the world and especially so in Germany after the early development of moving pictures had surfaced at the very end of the 19th century. One of the most significant influences in the film industry was of course the advancement of technology. The reason for this is that Thomas Edison invented his “Kinetoscope” in 1891 and
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Cited: Bordwell‚ D.‚ Staiger‚ J. and Thompson‚ K. (1985) The Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960. Routledge: London Bordwell‚ D. and Thompson‚ K. (2001) Film Art 6th Edition. McGraw-Hill: New York Bloodworth‚ R. (2000) The Allegorical Significance of The Wizard of Oz [online] URL: http://www.2b2b.org/docs/papers/WizardOzFilm370
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INDIAN CINEMA AND COMMUNAL POLITICS “Pictures can and do make a difference. Strong images of historical events do have an impact on society. They can help with change.” -Charles Moore Indian Cinema or Bollywood produces over 750 films a year‚ released across 12‚000 theatres in the country. Popular for its tear-jerking plots‚ colourful and exotic
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The Golden Arches The Golden Arches‚ Mickey-D ’s‚ Macca ’s‚ or Mick-dicks. Whatever you would like to call it‚ they all refer to the same money making machine‚ McDonalds. Selling more than 75 hamburgers every second‚ McDonalds serves anywhere from 62 to 68 million million customers each and every day‚ more than the population of Great Britain and about 1% of the world ’s population (Schlosser‚ 2004). Since its inception‚ McDonalds has not only grown into a global money making super power
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Apuleius wrote the Golden Ass during the Second Century A.D. In it he talked about many complex allegorical contexts and layers of meaning pertaining to varying religious practices. He was able to do this by essentially switching back and forth between side stories which might or might not intertwine with the overall story. The religion of Isis was predominant in comparing the other lesser known or rather “inferior” religions of the time such as Christianity. It seems as if Isis was praised in a
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while others are documentaries about marijuana. Whatever a film might consist of depends on the topic of interest and the goal behind it. Cinematography is a business and a lifestyle. People have the potential to influence the world from a television screen thousands of miles away. Most people might have herd about the film industry in Hollywood or Europe and before sound that may have been all they saw. In the twentieth century filmmaking erupted throughout Latin America. Some of historical filmmaking
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hall‚ the Diwan-i-Am. Shah Jahan had the famous Koh-i-noor diamond placed in this throne. The French jeweler Tavernier‚ who saw Delhi in 1665‚ described the throne as of the shape of a bed (a "takhteh" or platform)‚ 6 ft. by 4 ft.‚ supported by four golden feet‚ 20 to 25 in. high‚ from the bars above which rose twelve columns to support the canopy; the bars were decorated with crosses of rubies and emeralds‚ and also with diamonds and pearls. In all there were 108 large rubies on the throne‚ and 116
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