Gina Ferrari Eric Netterlund Fall 2011 Textual Analysis Essay The classic 1996 film Fight Club is a social commentary about our generation‚ which is in many ways devoid of spirit and marked by consumerism. It is the story of a man’s spiritual journey towards enlightenment in modern society and his attempt to find his place in the world. It stresses a post-modern consumer society‚ reveals the loss of masculine identity amongst gray-collar workers‚ and examines the social stratification marked
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TV and Fictions: Viewing Log Deal or No Deal Airtime: Thursday 21st February 2013 (4pm) My scene is from ‘Deal or No Deal’ (Channel 4‚ 2013) [1]‚ a game show where the contestant has the chance to win a maximum of £250‚000. I will be analysing the opening five minutes of the programme. In this small scene the following themes are explored; class‚ community and rituals. From the book ‘Come on Down? Popular media culture in post-war Britain’‚ it is said that game shows ‘have always had
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The program starts with Deems Taylor breaking down the types of visuals the audience will see in Fantasia. He describes three different types of music‚ absolute music‚ program music‚ and definite story music. The first segment‚ featuring absolute music‚ shows the audience that music is not made up of any one component. Taylor tells the audience that it could envision anything it wanted to go along with the music‚ but that the images on the screen are what the Disney artists have envisioned themselves
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Although a community is a place where people come together and are able to draw strength and identity from each other‚ Alison Bechdel is not fortunate to have this kind of supportive and uplifting relationship with her family. Instead of wanting to delve further into learning about her parent’s early lives or stories of how they met‚ she wants to physically and mentally separate herself from them: “I had imagined my confession as an emancipation from my parents‚ but instead I was pulled back into
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El cuadro que me llama la atención es Gernika por la artista Pablo Picasso. It truly catches my attention due to its unique fusion of figures‚ such as the dysmorphic features of animals and human form with faces and gestures full of enigma and strong emotions. And so‚ I would like to see and analyze Gernika in person. Gernika is the most famous work by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. The painting is a 25 ft. 6in. wide and 11 ft. 5in. tall and a mural-size canvas painted in oil‚ in which a palette of
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HiSupporting Account For my practical production I choose to design and create 5 pages of a magazine including a front cover‚ an advert‚ a contents page‚ an article and a horoscope page. These 5 conventions formed to make part of a magazine that would be used to complete my practical production. This task intrigued me as I have a genuine interest in reading magazines myself‚ and the idea of creating and editing my own appealed to me more. I decided to pursue this task by myself as this shows originality
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class has all the classic TV tropes of any film set in a high school would be cliché‚ but it’s the truth. We have our freshmen‚ preps‚ nerds‚ jocks‚ Asian Nerds‚ cool Asians‚ girls who eat their feelings‚ girls who don’t eat anything‚ desperate wannabes and burnouts‚ but also the greatest people you’ll ever meet. All Mean Girls quotes aside‚ the people in this class are some of the greatest people I’ve ever met. I came to Toowoomba Christian College in Year Three. I was quickly put in the ‘desperate
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Textual Analysis and Genres Auteur theory holds that a director’s film reflects the director’s personal creative vision‚ as if they were the primary "auteur" the French word for author. In spite of—and sometimes even because of—the production of the film as part of an industrial process‚ the auteur’s creative voice is distinct enough to shine through all kinds of studio interference and through the collective process. In law‚ the film is treated as a work of art‚ and the auteur‚ as the creator
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ideas was a teatime serial called Doctor Who. ‘The Daleks’ (Christopher Barry‚ 1963) and ‘A Christmas Carol’ (Toby Haynes‚ 2010) are the two most important in relation to the discussion to be made in relation to Doctor Who and give the best textual analysis due to the aesthetics and narratives of both episodes. Focusing on the context into Doctor Who’s production and broadcast‚ it will allow two key issues to be explored - the BBC’s channel identity and the cultural discourse of ‘quality’
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father of “Modern Portfolio theory”‚ developed the mean-variance analysis‚ which focuses on creating portfolios of assets that minimizes the variance of returns i.e. risk‚ given a level of desired return‚ or maximizes the returns given a level of risk tolerance. This theory aids the process of portfolio construction by providing a quantitative take on it. It integrates the field of quantitative analysis with portfolio management. Mean variance analysis has found wide applications both inside and outside
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