A true film genre relies on shared iconography‚ formalistic themes and similar narrative structures and content. ‘What genre does is recognize that the audience any one film within a context of other films‚ both those they have personally seen and those they have heard about or seen represented in other media outlets. …In general‚ the function of genre is to make films comprehensible and more or less familiar. (turner 97)’. Action/adventure‚ the Western‚ Gangster/Crime‚ Detective/Film Noir‚ Comedy
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Film is a different medium through which to convey historical experiences of war and its social and cultural contexts. As learned throughout class‚ memoirs and non-fiction portrayals of war are excellent sources in which to learn of war and its effects on society and vice versa. Film‚ however‚ is no better or worse than these books. Throughout the semester‚ the class learned of the development of modern warfare since the Civil War in the late nineteenth century and the society that surrounded these
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The film Witness(underline witness)‚ Directed by Peter Weir was famous in 1984. This film is about two cultures clashing with each other the Amish and The Western Society and a story line of a murder crime. “A big city cop who knows too much...His only evidence: A small boy who’s seen too much”. The main character of this film is Harrison Ford as John Book. Today I will be talking about two of the themes Peter Weir uses in the film ‘Witness’. They are the clash of two worlds and power. The first
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Gastronomy 1 GWIR Assignment Trying to narrow down my favourite food wasn’t very easy‚ but if I had to choose one‚ it would have to be pasta. The reason being is that pasta can be dressed up in so many different types of sauces and there are many different types of noodles. I also like the fact that pasta is such an old type of food but is still loved by everyone. There are stories that say that Marco Polo brought pasta back when returning from one of his journeys to China‚ but in fact that is
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In October 1927‚ the first feature film was presented as a silent film‚ The Jazz Singer. Made with a Vitaphone‚ “an instrument that synchronizes motion pictures and sound perfectly‚” it was a major hit to the general public (Eyman). After years of silence‚ someone finally decided to change the disc on the Vitaphone to film‚ introducing audible movies. Since then the introduction of Technicolor‚ Cinemascope‚ and Aromascope used first by the 1960 film‚ Scent of Mystery. All of these new cinematic
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The science fiction thriller film ‘Gattaca’‚ directed and written by Andrew Niccol‚ set in the “not too distant future”‚ it portrays a society in which genetic engineering has created an advanced yet dystopian world. In this world‚ we can clearly see that people have secrets and they are willing to lie‚ cheat and even kill to get where they want to be and to be their very best. No one is who they seem to be and everyone has something to hide. Throughout the film‚ there are 3 main characters that
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innovations made in the industry during this time. Classic films released during that decade include Gone With The Wind‚ The Wizard of Oz‚ King Kong‚ and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. One major development that came in the late 1920s was the advent of the synchronized sound system in film. This allowed mass audiences to watch feature length films with dialogue‚ music‚ and sound effects for the first time in history. The development of these films (known as “talkies”) truly came to mainstream cinemagoers
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effective or original production techniques. Joe Wright’s film Atonement is an excellent example of how even if a storyline is one we have heard before‚ a text can make it new and refreshing. The film is essentially a love story‚ but Wright creates interest through playing with the ideas of perspective‚ time and happy endings. By doing so he refreshes an overused storyline‚ making it an original twist on an otherwise clichéd story. In the film‚ the perspective someone has on various events are shown
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Throughout the years‚ documentary films have gain esteem by viewers. In contrary to a stage or screen performance‚ a documentary film displays real people living everyday life. For many viewers‚ the notion of documentary film is based on the genuineness of a normal individual playing his or her role in society; without being staged or designed by a producer. However‚ documentary films‚ in the aim to portray a daily routine‚ may encompass professional actors to reenact such performance. Bill Nichols
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Ysavela Corral 06/25/13 PoliSci01/Crain Final Paper Mahatma Gandhi The film I decided to watch was the film on the activist/lawyer Gandhi. He was most known for his non-violent ways of getting his point across when the United Kingdom’s takeover of his home country India. Gandhi first emerged this protest when he was on a bus and he was forced to move to the back of the bus because he was an Indian man. This is when Gandhi first entered into the activist world and began to merge his country
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