The slasher film is a sub-genre of horror that is particularly concerned with exploring the themes of sexuality and gender. Discuss the extent to which you agree with this statement‚ drawing on relevant academic reading and one slasher film of your choice. The slasher film is a sub-genre of horror that is particularly concerned with exploring the themes of sexuality and gender. Discuss the extent to which you agree with this statement‚ drawing on relevant academic reading and one
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Intorduction Mary Shelley was brought up in radical surroundings. Throughout her life she was dominated by writers and poets. She had a very intellectual and opinionated family; her mother was a campaigner for women’s equal rights and her father was a political free thinker. Chapter 5 reveals that Mary Shelley has overturned the usual gothic conventions. She uses violent thunder storms to create an eerie‚ tense and ghostly atmosphere. The storm in chapter 5 is undramatic‚ it lacks violence and
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1. The three positions taken when decoding an image are said to be dominant‚ negotiated and oppositional. Choose two images‚ one from the genre of documentary and one from advertising‚ and explain the process of encoding and decoding to explain these three positions the viewer may take when decoding your chosen images. Stuart Hall’s text‚ “Encoding‚ Decoding” identifies three positions one can take in decoding an image. These three positions are dominant‚ negotiated and oppositional. In light of
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three of the five frameworks studied in the first block of the unit‚ and the elements of the western genre studied in the second block of the unit. Films selected: The Great Train Robbery (1903) v True Grit (2010) Introduction: When Thomas Edison asked Edwin S.Porter to make The Great Train Robbery (1903) little did either realise that this film would be the beginning of not only the Western genre but an entire movie industry. The silent classic‚ The Great Train Robbery depicts a famous railroad
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Texts can be modified or appropriated to suit different audiences or purposes‚ yet still remain firmly within the genre. Discuss Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ and at least one of the films you have studied. FW Murnau’s 1921 film Nosferatu is an appropriation of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula. Despite it being an appropriation‚ explicit gothic conventions remain evident‚ which explore societal fears and values. These fears and values differ from Dracula‚ due to distinct contextual influences of different
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The comedy of the Importance of Being Earnest uses spoken language to convey comical actions rather than physical actions. The Importance of Being Ernest is a drama because of its origins as a play‚ but also a contextual comedy as the characters follow the general format of falling in love with each other and ending with the idea of marriage. However‚ the play is also very satirical‚ making light of the aristocratic classes‚ exaggerating the upper-class morals and the frivolity of the characters
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and the ‘real person is exposed…These flickers of authenticity are the prize for watching. (Roscoe‚ 2004) Discuss the above quote in relation to ‘Reality TV’ programmes‚ with a specific analysis of whether or not you feel that programmes in the genre can in fact portray ‘reality’. You must reference at least two academic texts. Reality television is the ultimate peak into next-door’s bedroom‚ the enthralling and exciting real-time screening of all the places that the audience is not. Reality
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Sol Hallam English Literature AS 10 February 2010 ‘They were young…’ to ‘…now forgive’ pages 3-6 How does McEwan establish the genre of tragedy in this extract? In relation to the rest of the novel‚ how typical are the tragic features used here? When thinking of a tragic novel or play‚ you may think of the great Greek tragedies. You may think of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. You may even think of a more modern play such as Death of a Salesman or Hardy’s Novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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Trace the development of English lit during any one period...As part of your discussion highlight how significant events in the influence the writing...Additionally show how characteristics of the genre the writer uses reflects the period in which it was written. James Arthur Baldwin once stated that: "know from whence you came. If you know whence you came‚ there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go." This quotation may apply to the span of the Anglo-Saxon period because of the coherent
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Gothic novels are a type of romance‚ Gothic meaning “wild”‚ “barbarous” and “crude” and rise from the idea of darkness‚ supernatural events‚ anti-heroes and a form of tyrannical or evil presence felt throughout the novel. The first Gothic Novel to be published in Britain was Horace Walpole’s “The Castle of Oranto”‚ subtitled “A Gothic Story” in its second edition. Later novelists include Ann Radcliffe (The Mysteries of Udolpho)‚ M.G Lewis (Monk). Their influence to this type old literature can be
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