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Classic Slasher Movie Slasher Movie Genre Scream
743 wordsTo Scream or not to Scream In the realm of horror movies there are many genres. There is the slasher, the rogue animal, the alien monster, and even the freakish natural disaster just to name a few. The genre that seems to dominate the field currently is the slasher movie. There is a movie in the slasher genre that adheres to many of the slasher movie rules and at the same time violates many slasher rules. This dynamic slasher genre movie is called Scream. To be included in the slasher movie genr...
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Nightmare On Elm Street Film And Reality
1,373 wordsThe original A Nightmare on Elm Street was inspired by an extraordinary series of unnoticed stories in the Los Angeles Times. A young immigrant male, early 20 s, usually from Southeast Asia, a son, would have a severe nightmare where he would wake up screaming. The next day, he would tell his family it was the worst nightmare hed ever had, and he had been terribly shaken by it. The next night when he went to sleep died. Six months later I looked in the paper and there was a very similar story. I...
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Film Genre Narration Reality Tv
1,711 words(Researched from "Film Art: An Introduction " by D. Bordwell and K. Thompson. ) "Types of films are commonly referred to as genres (pronounced "zahn-rate"). The word genre is originally French and simply means kind or type. " (Bordwell & Thompson, 2004: 108). Genre groups films, which share similar film qualities and themes, into various subsections according to the type of film they are associated as. Various film genres are recognisable by the way they are presented and patterned or the wa...
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Paris And London Easy To Read
2,139 wordsAutobiographies and conservation of identity George 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...
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Soap Operas Gender Identity
2,950 wordsSOAP OPERA GENRE Before I saw Neighbours, I didn? t know there was an Australia (Jerry Hall, The Clive James Show, UK, 31 December, 198 he soap opera genre originated in American radio serials of the 1930 s, and owes the name to the sponsorship of some of these programs by major soap powder companies. Proctor and Gamble and other soap companies were the most common sponsors, and soon the genre of soap opera had been labeled. Like many television genres (e. g. news and quiz shows), the soap opera...
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Bonnie And Clyde Point Of View
2,054 wordsCrime Films When looking at the crime film it is important to understand the nature of the films genre. The genre is a way for the audience to distinguish types of films. These are categorised together because of standard protocols developed for a particular types or styles of film. These films usually follow similar guidelines in order to produce a predictable style for the audience. The development of genre films is not entirely the prerogative of Hollywood. It is more the desire of the public...
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Sci Fi Science Fiction
3,573 wordsTABLE OF CONTENTS I. INRODUTION page 2 II. NEAL STEPHENSONS PERSONAL LIFE AND LITERARY CAREER page 3 III. NEAL STEPHENSONS PHILOSOPHICAL BELIEFS A. Neal Stephenson's Literary Beliefs page 8 B. Neal Stephenson's Scientific Belief page 10 IV. DOMINANT THEMES DEVELOPED IN NEAL STEPHENSONS The Diamond Age A. Female Protagonists page 11 B. Ineffective Government page 12 C. A Little Flight of Fancy page 15 D. Omnipresent Societal Dilemmas page 16 CONCLUSION page 18 V. Works Cited page 19 INTRODUCTION ...
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Murders In The Rue Morgue Literary Works
948 wordsTo define genre is to embark on a conjectural journey within a theoretical minefield. Genre theory has drawn immense debate and contemplation throughout literary history, however, several conclusions have emerged. Genre types are unfixed categories whose characteristics differ considerably among the specific genres; furthermore, the role of literary history plays a significant role in discussions of genre, for genre types evolve and shift with each new literary text. An approach to the discussio...
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Producer Director Deep Throat
3,169 wordsThe ability to sexually stimulate an audience is one of the earliest distinctions of film. Before the turn of the century, an exotic dancer named Fatima performed her act for the motion-picture cameras and for at least those segments of the public who saw the film uncensored. In the brief peep-show films of the early 1900 s, scantily-clad women posed, danced, or undressed in such then-daring efforts as Her Morning Exercise and The Pajama Girl. Municipal censorship boards started appearing in Ame...
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World War Ii Femme Fatale
2,526 wordsFilm Noir Almost every critic has his own definition of film noir, and a personal list of film titles and dates to back it up. (Schrader 2). The United States of America emerged from World War II drastically different from when they entered. The American society had changed in every aspect, even the American ideology differed from earlier ages. These changes had cultural impact, and in the middle of these confused times there occurred something previously unseen in the magical world of celluloid...
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World War Ii Humphrey Bogart
2,898 wordsFilm noir is one of the most beloved and popular &# 34; period&# 34; film genres of the late twentieth century, although at the time that the movies comprising the genre were made, the term film noir was unknown. Essentially, it mean &# 34; black film&# 34; a variation on the nineteenth-century French critical term roman noir, or &# 34; black novel&# 34; referring to any number of doom-laden, deeply psychological crime dramas of the 1940 s and 1950 s. At the time they were made, the movies were ...
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Makes The Artist Wesley Snipes Genre
794 wordsGenre in filme+re (zh n+re) noun 1. A type or class: Emaciated famine victims... on television focused a new genre of attention on the continent (Helen Kitchen). 2. a. A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, marked by a distinctive style, form, or content: his six String Quartets... the most important works in the genre since Beethoven's (Time). b. A realistic style of painting that depicts scenes from everyday life. [French, from Old French, kind, from Latin genus, gener-...
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Agatha Christie Maltese Falcon
1,417 wordsHistory of the Detective Novel Perhaps the first crime writer was Cicero. He was born Marcus Tullius Cicero in Arpinum, a small town on the outskirts of Rome on January 3, 106 BC. As a young man in Rome his skill as an orator had already begun to grow. He began to plead cases in the public forum in his 20 s, becoming well known in a very short period of time. By the time he was in his mid- 30 s he was the most recognised pleader at the Roman bar. A magistrate as well as a public speaker, at 42 h...
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Don Acute T First World War
2,327 wordsFM 3011 Comedy To what extent, and why, does contemporary Hollywood romantic comedy follow or depart from the conventions established in the classic Hollywood era? Answer with reference to at least two films. In the 1970 ´ s, Brian Henderson predicted that, due to changes within family structures and sexual relationships´ , and a loss of faith in the interest of romance as a subject´ , the romantic comedy would become outdated and therefore, supposedly, an impossibility´ ...
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Bram Stoker Wes Craven
1,364 wordsHorror films have always been designed to frighten and invoke the audiences worst fears, often in a terrifying or shocking way. Yet at the same time, horror films are suppose to be entertaining, despite, or in addition to the scariness. They deal with our most primal nature and its fears: our nightmares, our vulnerability, our alienation, our terror of the unknown, our fear of death, or loss of identity. Horror films have developed out of a number of sources from folk tales with devil characters...
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Wes Craven Horror Genre
2,324 wordsAt a time when the stalker movie had been exploited to all ends and the image of mute, staggering, vicious killers had been etched into society? s consciousness to the point of exhaustion, a new kid entered the block. The year was 1984 and it was time for a new villain to enter into the horror genre. A villain that was agile, intelligent, almost inviolable yet viscous, and by all means deadly. A Nightmare on Elm Street introduced the distinctive presence of Fred Krueger to the horror industry an...
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3,465 wordsThe first prison films in American cinema were short documentaries and melodramas which all shared a strong social consciousness. For The Commonwealth (1912) showed the benefits of convicts performing useful labor; The Convict&# 39; s Parole (1912) and The Convict King (1915) denounced the exploitation of prisoners as cheap workers. Convict Life In The Ohio Penitentiary (1912) and The Modern Prison (1914) depicted the beneficial effects of the humane treatment of convicts; Life In A Western Peni...
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Natural Born Killers Mise En Scene
5,594 wordsPlot, Pulp Fiction Pulp Fiction Plot, Story and Style 2. 1 Definition When considering plot and story, I will stick to the convention of using plot for the films contents what we are presented on the screen and story for the whole of the events we are presented and the events or facts that are relevant to them. This distinction is important because, as will be shown later, Pulp Fictions plot leaves out some aspects of the story, and leaves us to imply or simply guess at several loose ends in the...
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Sexually Transmitted Punk Music
10,925 wordsIntroduction: Often when people think of punk music they still think of the eighties down with government beat the hell out of your neighbor get wasted stereotype. It oge's without saying that punk music has earned its reputation for being high impact, loud, energetic and intense. However people often associate the message of all punk music as containing nothing more then violent anti-government statements and messages of alienation. Many people share the view that it has nothing to say and has ...
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