interesting genre. At a glance‚ books which can be put under this classification may be seen as something which is merely meant to make an otherwise boring experience a bit less boring‚ by offering a superficial‚ engaging‚ and lengthy story to pass the time whilst one is waiting for a delayed flight‚ waiting in a baggage line and the normal fare of an airport’s monotony. While to a certain extent the Airport Novel is merely a vehicle for the passing of otherwise boring hours‚ as a genre it is an integral
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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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Fantasy Literature and Fantastic Language Kelli Pearson Eng/290 7/30/2012 Crystal Sands Fantastic Literature and Fantastic Language Fantasy literature is fantasy in written form. Historically speaking‚ literature has composed the majority of fantasy works. Since the 1960s a segment of the fantasy genre has taken the form of movies‚ television programs‚ novels‚ video games‚ music and other media. Fantasy Language is is a constructed language designed for aesthetic
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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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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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Introduction to Genre Theory Daniel Chandler 1. The problem of definition A number of perennial doubts plague genre theory. Are genres really ’out there ’ in the world‚ or are they merely the constructions of analysts? Is there a finite taxonomy of genres or are they in principle infinite? Are genres timeless Platonic essences or ephemeral‚ time-bound entities? Are genres culturebound or transcultural?... Should genre analysis be descriptive or proscriptive? (Stam 2000‚ 14) The word genre comes from
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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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Shakespeare’s Macbeth chronicles the ambitions of the title character through a text rich with power‚ murder‚ and revenge. Geoffrey Wright contorted these elements to fit the crime thriller sub-genre of film which uses action and psychological aspects to build tension and suspense (TSL). This sub-genre personally motivated Wright‚ for he wanted to convey the text from a psychological and materialistic view as was relevant to his home in Melbourne‚ Australia. According to Gary Braver‚ bestselling
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