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Marriage Of Figaro Opera Seria
4,209 words... r marriage was trying to persuade Leopold of her attributes: "But before I cease to plague you with my chatter, I must make you better acquainted with the character of Constanze. She is not ugly, but at the same time far from beautiful. Her whole beauty consists in two little black eyes and a pretty figure. She has no wit, but she has enough common sense to enable her to fulfil her duties as a wife and mother. It is a downright lie that she is inclined to be extravagant. On the contrary, she...
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Bad Guys Close Ups
1,359 wordsWhich is the cheesiest? The answer is pretty obvious, but lets take a close look. Spaghetti Westerns, as their called, are a genre of western films, that have been created or filmed in Italy and are meant to portray the Wild West of America. Macaroni Westerns, as Ill call them, make up the traditional western genre, made in the United States. Lets take a look at the similarities and differences of these genres, and at two films in particular that represent each genre; The Good the Bad and the Ug...
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18 Th Century Robinson Crusoe
1,672 words... devised was to convince man that he can take his time. This was just the lie that resulted in the birth of the novel genre in Latin countries (Boccaccio, Le Sage, Cervantes) and its refinement in England (Defoe, Richardson). It needs to be added, though, that a number of more or less faithful Christians also tended to fall prey to this three hundred year- old vogue. The pinnacle of their output - serious, thoughtful, focused novels on strictly Biblical themes - can be classified as secondary...
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Red Riding Hood Roald Dahl
3,977 words... et Atwood, which has a contemporary setting, thus disproving the notion that Disney has halted the natural evolution of the fairy tale. I have to agree with the substance of this argument but would have to suggest that one example of a modern slant to an ancient tale is hardly enough to prove the point. But something that James did mention in his post to the forum reminded me of the work of an author unquestionably relevant to our discussion: read some Angela Carter he urges: in fact, watch ...
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Nightmare On Elm Street Film And Reality
1,437 words... x Seven, eight, gonna stay up late Nine, ten never sleep again. As a teenage girl wanders around a dark boiler room in only her nightgown, as a screeching is heard as knives are scratched against the pipes. A badly burned man wearing a dirty hat and striped sweater with knives for finger grabs her from behind and she then wakes up screaming in her bed, it was only a dream. Not long after this, the same girl is in another dream where she is being chased by the same man, Freddy Kreuger. As the...
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Definition Of Science Fiction
1,070 wordsThe first example of science fiction I'd like to take a look at is Alien. A prime example of straightforward science fiction would be this movie. Space miners (or merchants... something like that) are awakened from their cryogenic sleep-state much earlier than was originally planned. A distress / warning beacon on an unfamiliar planet caused their ship to awaken them so that help could be dispatched. Of course, it turns out to be a ship that was taken over by the Aliens and the Earthlings's hip ...
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Autobiography As A Genre Separate Person Life
412 wordsGeorge Orwell's book Down and Out in Paris and London is a unique autobiographical story. It contains not only real events but also devised facts. Why the author used them in his autobiographical work, if he could do that in that genre and what he wanted to showed by that we could find out after tracing the history of the autobiographical genre. Usually an autobiography is an independent description of human life. To this definition it is necessary to add one more component: it is free, unrestri...
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Autobiographical Genre Renaissance Person
364 wordsFor Renaissance which replaced Middle Ages exclusive interest to the separate person is characteristic. The humanism, the Renaissance philosophical current placed the person in the centre of the world and refused representations about its sinfulness and negligibility, having passed to eulogy of the person for his intellect, beauty, force, possession of sciences and arts. Not casually in Renaissance in painting such genre, as a portrait (and a self-portrait), and lyrical poetry in literature deve...
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39 Steps And North By Northwest
2,510 words39 Steps and North by Northwest Many people share the same point of view: spy movies belong to genre that has an integral right for existence. Sticky atmosphere of suspense make your blood still and chill you to the bone The genre is a mere adrenaline pumping. Why do people continue watching Hitchcock's spy movies? What power forces them to hold their breath trying to guess what will happen next? People watch movies belonging to this genre to take a rest from sweet and dull reality, to get a por...
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De Mott P 123
1,553 wordsDogon Masquerades The artistic interactions between the Dogon people of the Niger Delta and their neighbors who dominate Southeastern Nigeria to the north and east are not difficult to demonstrate. Art objects, including textiles, bronze shrine sculpture, and masks, have been traded between these regions for generations. More than objects alone, numerous masking and figurative traditions have crossed ethnic and regional boundaries and are practiced in both areas. Dogon Masquerades are by far one...
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Fidel Castro Puerto Rican
1,221 wordsSince Columbus Salsa Salsa Music Since Columbus? discovered? America and the slave trade began, music has always been a very important part of the Cuban culture. Cuba? s strategic position in the Caribbean, made it a real crossroad for all the trades between Central and North America and for most of the incoming slave ships from Africa. Cuba became a? sponge? that absorbed and processed all the surrounding music influences and all the incoming African rhythms and melodies. Since those days the m...
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Clich Breakfast Club
3,125 wordsThe Decade Of Realizations: Amercian Youth During The Decade Of Realizations: Amercian Youth During The Last Century Of all the 1980? s films, that can be described as? Eighties Teen Movies? (Thorburn, 1998) or? High School Movies? (Messner, 1998), those written and (with the exception of? Pretty In Pink? (1986) and? Some Kind of Wonderful? (1987) ) directed by John Hughes were often seen to define the genre, even leading to the tag? John Hughes rites de passage movies? as a genre definition use...
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Avant Garde Boris Karloff
3,386 wordsCertain films which today are regarded as classics of American cinema John Ford&# 39; s The Searchers (1956), Orson Welles&# 39; Citizen Kane (1941), the Judy Garland musical The Wizard Of Oz (1939), Frank Capra&# 39; s It&# 39; s A Wonderful Life (1946), Walt Disney&# 39; s Fantasia (1940) are, or at least used to be, cult films. Box-office disappointments when they were released, these films were kept alive over the decades not by reviewers or studios or theaters, but by film goers who loved t...
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Good And Evil Bram Stoker
1,410 wordsWhere Dracula Stoker v. s Coppola Where there is no imagination there is no horror. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Imagination is the force that keeps human desires alive. It is a state that allows someone to give up repression and indulge into temptation. Where the conscious mind is a state of composed and rational behaviour, imagination becomes the unconscious setting into a world of countless fantasies where one does not need to worry about the consequences. However, civilization is built on the fact...
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Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury
1,633 wordsIn the genre of science fiction, many writers have changed the way people think about the future and the thoughts of society, but none have created the same amount of change as Ray Bradbury. Through his unique writing style of combining science fiction and sophisticated writing, (Discovering Authors 1) Ray Bradbury changed the genre of science fiction by questioning society's absent-minded use of technology by portraying apocalyptic futures. His works have inspired many science fiction writers a...
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Mary Shelley Frankenstein Abnormal Psychology
1,276 wordsMary Shelley s Frankenstein is representative of the gothic genre, and has influenced film and literature, particularly the television program Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The novel s genre can be determined through the identification of gothic conventions and characteristics within the novel such as sinister settings, fascination with the unconscious and abnormal psychology and the atmosphere of fear and horror. These characteristics can also be found in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, thus proving the ...
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Tells The Story Film Noir
3,624 wordsOverview Fritz Lang (1890 - 1976), an Austrian-born film director, was one of the commanding figures of German and American cinema. In a career spanning over four decades, he pioneered entire new genres and modes of cinematic expression. From the distortions of German Expressionism to the malignant brooding of American film noir, Langs films depicted a fatalistic universe where all possibilities are predetermined. Fascinated by the psychology of violence, his movies were populated by murderers, ...
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Boris Karloff Horror Films
3,055 wordsAs a companion piece to the articles outlining the histories of the eight major film studios, this survey examines four low-budget studios. They produced mostly Grade-&# 34; B&# 34; films: genre efforts made quickly and cheaply for targeted audiences usually young ones, whether it was the fare aimed at juvenile cowboy enthusiasts, provided by Monogram, PRC (Producers Releasing Company), and Republic during the 1930 s and &# 39; 40 s, or the older teen crowds sold on AIP&# 39; s (American Interna...
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Nine Inch Nails Freedom Of Expression
881 wordsIn April of 1999, two students shot 15 fellow students and a teacher in Columbine High School. A few years before that, a teenage boy committed suicide in his bedroom. What do these two have in common? In both instances, their choice of music was to blame. Alternative music has been the center of a lot of controversy as well as a scapegoat for many adolescent tragedies. This type of music is meant to be different and it is being persecuted because artists do not fall into the categories of R&# 0...
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20 Th Century Point Of View
1,991 wordsMore Human than Human How meaning is constructed in the film The Fifth Element The Fifth Element is a futuristic action move, which was produced in 1997 by the famous French movie maker Luc Besson. Also known for films like Leon, Nikita, The Big Blue, and Atlantis. Besson was just twelve years old when he wrote the original script of the movie. I was just a kid in boarding school, I mean boring school, dreaming about science fiction and the movies Besson (cited in Ryan, 1997, p. 29) recalls. Lit...
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