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Motion Picture Movie Camera
873 wordsCinematography: Everything You Need To Know (sin-uh-muh-the'-ruh-fee) Cinematography is the technique and art of making motion pictures, which are a sequence of photographs of a single subject that are taken over time and then projected in the same sequence to create an illusion of motion. Each image of a moving object is slightly different from the preceding one. Motion-picture projector projects the sequence of picture frames contained on a ribbon of film, in their proper order. A claw engages...
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Meyer Lansky Lucky Luciano
1,867 wordsCharles "Lucky" Luciano, without doubt the most important Italian-American gangster this country ever produced, left a far greater impact on the underworld than even the illustrious Al Capone. In 1931, Luciano created what can be called the American Mafia by wiping out the last important exponents of the Sicilian-style Mafia in this country. Together with Meyer Lansky, Luciano was also a founder of the Mafia's "parent" organization, the national crime syndicate, a network of multi-ethnic crimina...
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African American Poetry Negro Race
670 words[Course Title] African American Poetry In her poem, tellingly titled A Southern Road the relatively idyllic portrait of the southern folk is disrupted by Helene Johnson with the representation of lynch violence, a representation obviously lacking in the popular film of the late 1920 s and the 1930 s: A blue-fruited black gum Like a tall predella Bears a dangling figure (Wagner 197) The poem is an ironic pastoral variation on the "Black Christ" lynching poem that was a significant subgenre of Afr...
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Early Twentieth Century F Scott Fitzgerald
2,519 wordsLouise Brooks and Josephine Baker In the 1920 s, a new and popular model of modern womanhood dominated the American cultural scene. Although not all American women of the early twentieth century would emulate the flapper model, that model quickly came to represent the youthful exuberance of the post-World War I period. According to F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author whose novels set a tone for the 1920 s, the ideal flapper, representing the ideal modern woman, was lovely, expensive, and about ninet...
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Early Twentieth Century F Scott Fitzgerald
2,530 wordsLouise Brooks and Josephine Baker In the 1920 s, a new and popular model of modern womanhood dominated the American cultural scene. Although not all American women of the early twentieth century would emulate the flapper model, that model quickly came to represent the youthful exuberance of the post-World War I period. According to F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author whose novels set a tone for the 1920 s, the ideal flapper, representing the ideal modern woman, was lovely, expensive, and about ninet...
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