Is Sex Comedy or Tragedy? Directing Desire and Female Auteurship in the Cinema of Catherine Breillat Author(s): Katherine Ince Source: The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism‚ Vol. 64‚ No. 1‚ Special Issue: Thinking through Cinema: Film as Philosophy (Winter‚ 2006)‚ pp. 157-164 Published by: Wiley on behalf of The American Society for Aesthetics Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3700500 . Accessed: 01/11/2013 13:03 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms
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Rom-coms The genre I have chosen for my film studies documentary is rom coms. I have chosen this genre because I enjoy watching them and it’s a type of film that interests me. Rom coms are usually light hearted and generally focus on romantic ideals. An example of this romantic ideal is true love overcoming all obstacles. The main feature is a love plot in which two sympathetic and well-matched lovers are united or reconciled. They are usually focused around a similar plot – two characters are
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Mid-way through his life and faced with an ignominious end‚ Dante Alighieri wrote his greatest work‚ The Divine Comedy. We can understand Dante’s motive in writing this epic by reading Cantos I through III of Dante’s Inferno. The Divine Comedy was a self-analysis by a man who found himself spiritually lost. Immediately in Canto I we see that Dante "the character" is lost on a spiritual level. He awakens mid-way through his life in a dark woods severed from both light and human connections. Dante
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Title Stand-up comedy industry Thesis 1: From an industrial organization point of view‚ the stand-up comedy market structure in the 1980s can be characterized as an oligopoly “The structure of a market‚ thus how a market is functioning‚ “ is the concept behind the industrial organization theory”. The Industrial Organization (IO) theory is about‚ how a structure of a market has an influence on the strategy and decision making of a company.” 1 The theory therefore focusses on the market wherein
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What Makes A Comedian Great? There are approximately 100‚000 professional standup comedians in the world. Less than 1% of that 100‚000 are actually well known. Obviously to become famous you have to be great at what you do. But what makes these comedians great? There are a few commonalities between famous comedians such as the fact that most have tv shows‚ most are raunchy‚ and they are clever. First off‚ the best comedians have their own tv shows. Louis CK has a show that has been on air for
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To what extent do you agree that in ’School for Scandal’ "The heroines of comedy are not necessarily heartless even though they are clear sighted" The School for Scandal written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. This play insults the virtues and customs of upper classes brought out through an ingenious exchange of ideas and a entangled plot with comic situations that are utilized to personify the characters in the 17th century. Lady Sneerwell plots to separate Charles and Maria for the reason that
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Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby‚ both famous for their standup comedy‚ have their own unique way of delivering their comedy to their audiences. These two African Americans have both made names for themselves through their standup comedy and films. The differences between their styles of comedy gave each their own fame. They both are famous for the films that each performed in. Their unique styles and characteristics made them who they are. Richard Pryor was born December 1‚ 1940‚ in Peoria‚ Illinois
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material for his comedy and by the late 1980s was already successful. At first he started small and did shows in club all throughout the continental United States‚ but slowly began his incline into television. He would appear in sporadic shows and comedy special‚ appearing in his first movie in 1990.In 2002‚ he began starring in his comedy series‚ George Lopez‚ that was partially based off some of his real experiences. But Lopez didn’t only stop at the movies; he dominated the comedy world in general
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Americans are adaptable is an understatement. After years of marginalization‚ genocide‚ and silencing‚ they are still here‚ creating‚ living‚ and thriving. All Native comedy is not just about jokes‚ it’s about representation. Native American comedians making jokes is political‚ because their very existence is a political statement. Comedy is a medium that gives Native Americans the opportunity to control representation of themselves in an especially accessible way. In the age of YouTube‚ Vine‚ Twitter
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artist. A performance artist is someone who creates a type of art and displays it to an audience or group of people. A comedian is someone who puts on a humorous show and acts out funny things to make an audience act. Also‚ a comedian is doing their comedy for entertainment like another type of performance artist. The goal for the comedian is to give something back to the audience by making them life and entertaining them. I would say that a comedian could be considered a performance audience because
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