In Nanook of the North‚ both the idea of reproduction and representation come into play. The documentary is able to use both of the ideas of film Scholar Bill Nichols in order to help demonstrate the struggles that Nanook‚ an Inuk tribesman from the Canadian Arctic‚ and his family must go through in order to survive. While the producer of the film‚ Robert J. Flaherty‚ attempts to make an accurate representation of how the Inuk live‚ he appears to make part of the film a reproduction by modifying
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Midterm 1 Essays 1) Describe the three basic types of music heard in original scores during the silent film era and cites specific examples from The Birth of a Nation. (10 points) The film Birth of a Nation used the three basic types of music heard during the silent film era‚ which were adaptations‚ arrangement‚ and newly composed. Adaptations borrow a complete passage from another source and usually accompany large action scene. The composer Breil used Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyrie to underscore
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field scattered with thousands of lifeless birds. This animal genocide was the shocking reality that stunned millions of Americans worldwide. Rachel Carson‚ a marine biologist and conservationist‚ released the book Silent Spring in order to address the harmful effects of pesticide usage. Silent Spring pointed out long-term consequences of chemical use that far outweighed the immediate benefits. Although Carson’s controversial book was denounced at first by the chemical companies‚ it eventually led to
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affected affected? -What is the history? What were the Pesticides called DDT were being sprayed on circumstances? everything (crops‚ grass‚ etc.) to kill bugs. At the same time‚ DDT was getting into the water supply. Carson wrote her book “Silent Spring” to aware people of her findings. “…her book provoked a firestorm of controversy as well as personal attacks on her professional integrity.” (fws.gov) -When did this happen? Where did this take This happened around the 1940’s-1960s
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film‚ considered a one-of-a-kind masterpiece from the silent era‚ has a set of existent imperfections within itself along with its ingenious
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also called a movie‚ is a modern art that combines pictures and voices to entertain people and express certain ethnic or political attitudes and other concerns. Movies have absorbed the characteristics of literature‚ photography‚ painting‚ music‚ dancing‚ writing‚ sculpture‚ architecture and many other kinds of arts. However‚ they are not produced through a simple combination‚ but rather‚ with a process that includes digestion and recreation. Globally‚ every country has formed its specific character
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Throughout the 1900’s great and monumental changes were made in our country. Changes the Like Fair Labors Act of 1938‚ the Dyer Anti Lynching bill‚ and Women’s Suffrage all took place in at this time. The 1900’s also brought in Muckraking‚ the Dust Bowl‚ the Great Depression‚ and the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. The mid 1900s gave way to crime and gangs a problem that we still have today. Satchmo and Louis Armstrong along with Duke Ellington‚ And Frank Sinatra are all products of the 1900’s. All
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Keaton are the founding actors for the comedian world. They both starred in numerous silent films in the early 1900s. They are commonly compared for their numerous similarities in their acting careers. Chaplin and Keaton are both comedians‚ they act in such a way to get the maximum laughs out of their audience. Comedic acting was much more difficult in silent films then it is now in regular films. In silent films Chaplin and Keaton had to rely on their actions to portray their comedy to the audience
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I think that the critiques described by the students in “The Silent Epidemic: Perspectives of High School Dropouts" are based on many factors that can be attributed to the classroom instruction but also the students’ levels of motivation. In my experience so far in the high school classroom‚ I have had many students who are just trying to do the absolute least amount of work possible to get by and I know this because only many occasions‚ I have been asked‚ “What’s the least I have to do to make
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Jenna Zeringo Singin’ in the Rain In 1952 Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen directed MGM’s musical comedy “Singin’ in the Rain”. Fifty five years later in 2007 it ranked number five on the American Film Institute list of “List of Greatest Films”. It’s evocative to Americans and is generally considered the best Hollywood musical film; it was not a Broadway production until several years later. Gene Kelly not only directed the classic but he also choreographed and starred in it as Don Lockwood.
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