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    1980's Film: The 1980s

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    1980’s Film Jodie Foster was stalked by mentally-impaired John Hinckley‚ who tried to impress the actress by attempting to assassinate Reagan in late March‚ 1981. Along with that exciting news‚ Disney channel was launched in 1983 and the American Movie Classics TV channel (AMC) started in 1984 (National Geographic). Also making its way into the film industry‚ was the AIDS movement through the play production the Normal Heart. One could say that the 1980’s was a big year for movies‚ television‚ and

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    Caché was that it was an incredibly suspenseful film with an unsatisfying ending. The film was able to project its suspense by doing something that isn’t seen in many films. Caché omitted the use of extra diegetic sound. By doing this the viewer is left with silence. This is something that the audience is not used to experiencing. Horror films have been known to capitalize on the use of silence‚ but never to this extent. Generally‚ horror films use silence only to follow it with something comparable

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    There are some advantages to watch horror film. People who watch horror films can have deep understanding about the place where the films where talk about. There are some horror films are basic on the truth. So‚ they involve lot of historical themes. For example‚ in the movie “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” shows the background of the countryside of Texas. It portrays the place as a desolate field. The film develops a place as quiet and silence but full of dangerous. This would help the audience to

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    Psychological Horror Movie Directed by Alfred Hitchcock‚ the movie‚ Psycho (1960)‚ is well known for its effective use of suspense to trigger tension among the audience and to complement its central genre‚ “Bad Guys and Killers.” The film revolves around the idea that violence is part of the American culture and nobody is to be trusted. It uses a myriad of settings and imagery to highlight the qualities of specific characters and hint future events. According to The Art of Watching Films written by

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    America Televising the Holocaust During the 1950’s The events that took place during the Holocaust began to make its way to film during post-World War II America. In the 1950’s‚ the film The Diary of Anne Frank‚ and the Judgment at Nuremberg and the TV show This is Your Life gave the American audience an understanding of the disturbing events. The objective‚ of most TV and film writers that chose to portray the Holocaust‚ was to get the American audience to connect with the Jewish people. Through

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    problems in symbolic language.” is the key of understanding. Writers‚ especially Stephen King have this ability to transform this language into moving‚ scary stories that keep people wanting more. Most experience writers have the gift of using life experiences as King’s analogy of the flipbook of personalities‚ events‚ and settings for their book. For example‚ Danielle McGee‚ a friend of mine‚ wrote a story about a

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    For my project I chose to write about Stephen King‚ Winslow Homer‚ and Robert Frost. I chose these men because their styles are unique‚ also all three men are very widely known. In Stephen King’s book Carrie the main character had no control over her isolation. Her classmates and mother had all of the control. Whereas in The Shining Danny had complete control over his isolation. He chose not to tell his parents about his gift. In Robert Frost’s poem The Lockless Door the man in the poem was in

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    well-endowed analogy formulated by Mitchell Stephens‚ in By Means of the Visible‚ readers can quickly note the strengths and defects of both devices. Defects‚ that ranges from words‚ lacking the ability to portray abstract ideas to images‚ not being coherently clear to display one perception. Had it not been for the level of preparation the authors may have‚ one can infer that both images and devices can accommodate to one another equally. However‚ we all know that in the majority of the cases‚

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    story in high school) and 2. Stephen King’s‚ Suffer the Little Children (because I really like Stephen King). The one I chose to write about however was the second one. The plot starts out with a third grade teacher named Miss Sidley. King in the first paragraph of the story aptly compares her to God‚ by explaining how she knows every detail of her class from those chewing gum‚ to those wanting to go to the restroom to trade baseball cards instead of use the facilities. King shows this absolute power

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    Cult Films and the 1950's

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    1950’s Over past nine weeks we’ve embarked on a journey spanning seven decades of cult films and also received a brief education of our not so distant past. We’ve seen the outrageous‚ the good‚ the bad and the ugly‚ the weirdly dramatic‚ and the just plain weird of the last seven decades of cult films and how in the end somehow find away to incorporate a piece of American culture at the time. However‚ by far the most intriguing decade to me would have to be the nineteen fifties. There are many reasons

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