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    The common assumption that hollywood gives the upper-hand to Americans in everything lies in the truth that Americans‚ especially white males run the hollywood scene. The invisibility of representation in hollywood is a reflection of the lack of diversity on the big-screen‚ and behind the screen.This asymmetry of status gives Americans the upper hand in portraying non-Americans‚ their internalized superiority comes from Americans being seen as the victors in everything. This “winner” mindset is the

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    Slasher Films

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    “Disturbing New Pathways”). The legacy of Psycho (1960) by Alfred Hitchcock‚ renowned American movie director‚ inspired countless movies and created a new sub-genre in horror‚ known as “slashers”. According to Carol Clover‚ an American professor of film studies‚ the slasher movie is characterized as following the story of a psychotic killer who brutally victimizes a group of young attractive women with a phallic sharp object‚ until he is eventually overpowered or killed by the one “final girl” who

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    Film and Movie Industry

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    org/wiki/Cinema_of_the_United_States#Hollywood_and_politics 3- http://www.poynerspruill.com/publications/Pages/LegalIssuesinFilmProduction.aspx 4- http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-08/icl-gst082211.php 5- http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jun/14/us-film-industry-growth-forecast 6- http://www.the-numbers.com/market/ 7- http://business.time.com/2009/12/07/movie-theaters-make-85-profit-at-concession-stands/ 8- http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/05-059.pdf 9- http://moneysoft

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    The Film Metropolis

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    The film Metropolis‚ Fritz Lang adopts the same way of thinking as Eliot. Lang depicts the fragmented society through social stratification. He depicts the bourgeois as people who lead a callous and monotonous life in order to serve the wealthy upper class. The crescendo in the non-diegetic music with the addition of wavering vector lines in the beginning of the film forebodes the exploitation of the working class and creates a sense of chaos. The centralisation of the clock indicates that the workers

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    The temporary transvestite films have offered a different perspective for a mass audience that isn’t used to these different gender constructions. In the movie I watched‚ Some Like it Hot‚ they did a very good job by making the whole disguise thing very funny and easy to follow once you get into it. It wasn’t normal at all back in the 50s for any one sex to dress like another. There was a very large audience that wanted to see these transvestites dressed in different situations‚ getting away from

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    Film Noir Film Noir Essay

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    Cisneros Film Noir Assignment 1--How is the mood of Sunset Boulevard representative of the Film Noir style? The mood of the film is immediately established as decadent and decaying by the posthumous narrator - a dead man floating face-down in a swimming pool in Beverly Hills. As we fade backward into the story‚ we quickly come to understand that this film is about "behind the scenes" Hollywood‚ self-deceit‚ spiritual and spatial emptiness‚ and the price of fame‚ greed‚ narcissism‚ and ambition

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    Krabat Film Analysis

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    The ingenuity of Kreuzpaintner in Krabat (Question 1) The movie Krabat‚ directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner‚ addresses the adventure of a young orphan named Krabat who learns black magic from an evil sorcerer in a satanic mill. Krabat goes through several struggles that help him develop into this heroic character and ends up fighting for his freedom through love and friendship. The movie was released on September 7th‚ 2008. The main actors in the movie were David Kross as Krabat‚ Daniel Bruhl as Tonda

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    POSTMODERN FILM

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    Open Rubric “Postmodernism has enriched film theory and its analysis by calling attenti0n to a stylistic shift toward a media conscious cinema” (Gonarkar 2012)  Postmodenism can be characterised by various aspects including:  Pastiche  Nostalgia  Disjointed narratives  Emotional detachment  Self-referentialism  Time bending  Altered realities  ‘Quoting’ from different film genres and film     movements/periods as well as from other visual media and actual historical periods

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    Silent Way

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    Methodology * The Silent Way was originated in the early 1970s by Dr. Caleb Gattegno * It derives its name from the fact that the teacher conducting a Silent Way‚ class is silent for most of the time the learner should be encouraged to produce as much language as possible * The Silent Way advocates that we start from what the student knows. The teacher assists learners to use that knowledge in the target language‚ and then the teacher can continue putting together sounds to make a word

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    A Comparison of Supernatural Films Horror has been one of the most popular categories of films in the movie industry. Horror movies are divided into genres with different subgenres. Horror movies are defined by the emotional status of the person focusing on people darkest secrets and fears in relation to other genres such as science fiction or crime films that are defined by setting and narrative context (pdf). However‚ the problem with most horror movies is that disgust and fear can be interchangeable

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