The Fall of the Western Genre The "Myth of the West" has provided the film industry with plenty of material‚ and Western films have probably become the genre most characteristic of American films and television. From 1910 through the end of the 50’s‚ a quarter of all Hollywood films had been Westerns. When thinking of Westerns‚ names like John Wayne and movies like The Last of the Mohicans or High Noon come to mind. The Western enjoyed its highest popularity throughout the 40’s and 50’s. Then its
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Masculinity is very dominated in the zombie genre. Most zombie films and TV shows usually use the men as the hero and the saviours form the devastation. The men are displayed as the stronger sex and the women as the weaker sex. Because of this all the heroes and donors in the zombie genre are men. In the working dead trailer the first thing we see is a close up of a man. We can tell this is going to be the hero as he fits all the attributes of a hero in the zombie genre. For example he is a muscly man‚ blonde
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Multiple Identity Crisis It was the summer before my junior year of high school that my life changed. My mother‚ along with my stepfather‚ younger brother‚ and sister had moved to Oregon. My older sister and I stayed on Maui‚ although it took a lot of convincing and persuading my mother that I could handle it she eventually let me stay. I originally lived with my Uncle for a few months. It was those few months living with my Uncle that I really experienced a change inside of me. My
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Genre fiction‚ also known as popular fiction‚ refers to plot-driven fictional works written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genre‚ in order to appeal to readers and fans already familiar with that genre. Genre fiction is generally distinguished from literary fiction. Fiction is mainly known as literature in the form of prose‚ especially short stories and novels‚ that describes imaginary events and people. Fiction is an out for two people: the reader‚ and the author. It allows
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Film Western films are truly an American genre. The Western genre is usually based on the American cowboy hero‚ and usually involves conflicts with things such as outlaws‚ bandits‚ Indians‚ and many other things. Other conflicts included in the Western genre include societal conflicts and problems during expansion or travel. Overall‚ all the elements and things such as cowboys‚ Indians‚ robberies‚ gunman‚ sheriffs‚ and other things make up the Western genre. Through several examples such as High Noon
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The documentary genre has changed over time. Changes in society have had an impact on the change. There are large commercialist pressures for documentary to become more entertaining and engaging to capture a wider cinema going audience. Documentary has become increasingly popular. Documentaries such as Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore have been given numerous awards and were widely popular at the box office. The Grey Gardens is a 1975 documentary by Albert and David Maysles. The film depicts
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More specifically‚ America’s Rock and Roll genre‚ coming at a time when Americans desperately needed an upbeat rhythm‚ was an avenue for merging cultures and exploration as well as progressive expression. Rock and Roll’s roots cultivated when a sense of restlessness‚ in relation to the musical genres available‚ permeated through the American public. War had brought individuals around the world to fight‚ which allowed them to experience numerous genres of music. Soldiers yearned to have these sounds
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Contemporary Western Music Genres Blues Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States around the end of the 19th century from spirituals‚ work songs‚ field hollers‚ shouts and chants‚ and rhymed simple narrative ballads. The blues form‚ ubiquitous in jazz‚ rhythm and blues‚ and rock and roll is characterized by specific chord progressions‚ of which the twelve-bar blues chord progression
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around since the 1920’s when Frankenstein and Dracula were created‚ Horror is a good genre to analysis because there are many sub-genre’‚ Slasher is a popular genre ‚ recent slasher films are popular amoungst a younger audience. The American slasher film has its roots in an Italian genre called giallo which usually combines elements of the crime thriller with stalk and slash style scares. John Carpenter got the sub-genre off the ground with Halloween in 1978‚ and pretty soon films about teenagers being
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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – Faculdade de Letras LET060 INGLES: EXPRESSAO ORAL - M4 Profa.: Gladys de Souza Leonardo Henrique Machado Topic: Oral Genres The language user is in a position to act in different communicative situations and with different purposes. To be able to express oneself fluently‚ the language user draws on a number of different competences or linguistic resources which‚ together‚ make up language proficiency or communicative competence. Many of
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