Allegory: - A narrative in which the agents and actions and sometimes the setting‚ are conveyed by the author to make sense of the “literal”‚ primary level of significance as well as a secondary level of significance. 1) Historical and political allegory: in which characters and actions represent historical personages and events. 2) The allegory of ideas: Literal characters represents concepts and the plot allegorizes an abstract doctrine. Personification of abstract entities such as virtues‚
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G. Parrinder “Sex”: (OED) i) divisions between organic beings into male and female ii) biological distinction iii) physical union ⎝ sexual intercourse Sexuality: ← Innate ← Context-specific ← Preference Gender: ← Biological or role ← Complex and changeable Stets and Burke ← “Femininity and masculinity - or one’s gender identity - refers to the degree to which persons see themselves as masculine or feminine given what it means to be a man or woman
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Quentin Tarantino paints with a palette of the past. As a young man‚ he worked in a video store‚ studiously absorbing film. When he began creating movies himself‚ he construed the elements of classic cinematic storytelling into his own modern pastiche‚ this is what sets him apart‚ and why he is often considered the most influential filmmaker of the 90s. Nearly twenty-five years after his first major film Tarantino gives us his eighth film‚ The Hateful Eight. The Weinstein company has rolled out
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pointed mostly toward people that have still not found themselves like a younger audience. The point of this speech is to create awareness and help people that need to change their view in life in order to become healthy‚ better and self-caring. A pastiche is basically using a piece of art or work as inspiration for your own art of work. It is a valuable form of writing because it helps to imitate the structure of someone’s recognized work and change it into your own thoughts and words. In this speech
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Introduction In this assignment‚ intertextuality will be employed to analyse drag performance and culture. Intertextuality was first introduced by the French semiotician Julia Kristeva in the late sixties‚ and describes how texts can be understood with references to other texts- often associated primarily with poststructuralist theories. Kristeva referred to texts in terms of two axes: a horizontal axis connecting the author and reader of a text‚ and a vertical axis‚ which connects the text to
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Karen Kilimnik (American‚ born 1955). Marie Antoinette out for a walk At Her Petite Hermitage‚ France‚ 1750‚ 2005. Oil on canvas‚ 20 x 15 in. (50.8 x 38.1 cm). Often‚ it is difficult to tell exactly what is going on in Karen Kilimnik’s paintings. Being that the title of her paintings never really match the face in the painting‚ she kind of play around with it. In this painting “Marie Antoinette out for a Walk at her Petite Hermitage‚ France‚ 1750‚ was painted in 2005 is a portrait of Paris Hilton
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Analysis of “The Last Samurai” Film Based On Postmodern Theory By: Mauliana Dewi (090511100001) English Department Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences Trunojoyo University of Madura 2012 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Films are made to be seen and heard‚ to appeal to our visual and aural senses. Like any art form‚ however‚ films are also meant to be felt and understood‚ to appeal to our emotions and minds. One of the best ways to determine whether a film has succeeded in any or all of
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The 1993 hit film Clueless ’‚ written and directed by Amy Heckerling‚ exemplifies how popular culture re-appropriates Austen ’s novel‚ Emma ’ to serve updated agendas. Clueless ’ involves a storyline‚ which closely follows the text of Emma ’. However‚ there are some key points of difference in the transformation that has taken place. This is due to the individual context of the 19th Century prose text and that of a modern appropriated film text. The context can be divided into three focal categories:
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be all about the multinational companies all over your country. You are globalized when you have many many multinational companies. We used to go all over to look for certain companies‚ but now we have them! Katangian of Post-modern literature. Pastiche at Intertekstuwal. Ang pagsasama-sama ng mga teksto at anyong sining na tila walang kaugnayan sa isa’t isa. The joining of seemingly unrelated things to join together to make an art. (Lady Gaga’s Meat dress statements). Parodya. Ang pagsira sa sagradong
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Throughout time‚ there will continue to be a considerable divorce between academic and popular historians. As Margaret Conrad argues‚ popular historians have established the tension‚ by recreating “historical films without the involvement of trained historians”. This underscores the troubling gulf that sometimes separates public academics approaches to the past. Academic historians have been “too long focused” on professionalism‚ and discarded “generating” a “dialogue” (Conrad) with their contextual
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