The Evolution of Melodrama in Hollywood Melodrama films could be argued to be the most complex classification of films which address the society’s attitudes towards class‚ race‚ and sex. The films Rebel Without A Cause (1955) directed by Nicholas Ray and The Last Picture Show (1971) directed by Peter Bogdanovich are key examples of a shift in the melodrama genre. Rebel Without A Cause depicts the story of a troublemaking teenager‚ Jim Stark‚ with unaffectionate parents‚ who is faced with moving to
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to tell a story or entertain. Most was in a simple verse or rhyming format seemingly to be remembered better. It then developed into the epic poem. Finally‚ it transformed into free verse along with a set pattern of poetry. Romanticism led to modernism‚ which led to imagism. The poetry of today is a mixture of all of the forms both old and new. 3. "Describe the two different kinds of poetry as explained in the text." Two forms of poetry are lyric poetry and narrative poetry. Narrative poetry
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Markelle Palombo GLA 625: History of Photography Lisa Levine Fall 2014 Take Home Final Exam In the following essay‚ I will look at 6 plates from the Rosemblum text of selected photographers and classify their work using the following categories for interpreting photographs found in Terry Barrett’s Criticizing Photographs: 1) Descriptive 2) Explanatory 3) Interpretive 4) Ethically Evaluative 5) Aesthetically Evaluative 6) Theoretical I will explain why I have placed each of these images in such
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Innovative or Simply Post-Modern? Cultural Significance in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita America during the 1950s was both materialistic and socially conservative with less rebellion. Before this‚ Puritan thought still invaded and controlled many social and literary cultural norms. Many people still feared the ideas of consumerism and modernity‚ but as the times changed‚ this new generation of American culture slowly but surely worked its way into society. The nation was straying away from its old Puritan
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left from WWI‚ the absence of hope and faith and the loss of values contributed to many authors’ feelings that the world lacked purpose. This is visible in literary works: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and “The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot. Modernism generally encompasses a variety of specific artistic and philosophical movements. The premodernist world is characterized by sense of order and stability‚ rooted in: morality‚ faith‚ collective
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mid 1950’s. Sometime from the late 1950’s‚ through the 1960’s it made its way into America and flourished throughout the 1970’s. This art was known as "fun" art because of the sense of humor portrayed in the art. This art period marked the end of modernism and was at the beginning of the postmodern era. “With respect to pop art‚ an artist would select required material fro‚ its source‚ isolate the entities that it is composed of and combine them with others extracted in a similar manner for consideration
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instance‚ Olympia‚ by Edouard Manet‚ contains hard outlines and little to no modeling by chiaroscuro. If there is modeling‚ it is done with muted colors and still contains hard edges. Corot’s painting also contains hard edges around the figure‚ but has slightly more modeling with shadows and highlights. At the time Impressionism was starting to become more popular‚ more and more artists were becoming influenced by Japanese woodblock prints and the hard outlines created in such prints. With this influence
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Q) What philosophy do Ezra Pound‚ William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore share? A) Ezra Pound‚ William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore were all modernist poets. Modernist poetry deals with experiment and innovation. All three were imagists‚ though at a later stage‚ William Carlos Williams started disagreeing with Ezra Pound. Ezra Pound Ezra Pound was the most aggressive of the modernist poets‚ who made “Make it new!” his battle cry. He turned to classical Chinese poetry as his
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Easter 1916‚ Wild Swans at Coole and Second Coming The timeless essence and the ambivalence in Yeats’ poems urge the reader’s response to relevant themes in society today. This enduring power of Yeats’ poetry‚ influenced by the Mystic and pagan influences is embedded within the textual integrity drawn from poetic techniques and structure when discussing relevant contextual concerns. “Wild Swans at Coole”‚ “Easter 1916” and “The Second Coming” encapsulate the romanticism in his early poetry
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explore the marvels that they contained. However‚ some artists remained in the rural areas of Europe and some lived in more suburban areas. The Milwaukee Art Museum has a specific gallery that deals with this issue of the dichotomy of increasing modernism and continuing ruralism through the eyes of German Expressionist artists. All of the artists in this gallery were associated with a German Expressionist movement‚ mostly die brücke and der blaue reiter‚ and the pieces curated together show a gradient
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