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The Lighter Side Of Figurative Art
814 wordsSome works might make viewers laugh out loud; others may provoke a smile while still others will probably induce no more than an un exhibited amusement, (SJMA The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration, 1). Susan Landauer says this in regards to the latest exhibit at the San Jose Museum of Art. The show offers a wide range of pieces from the technically proficient to the texturally interesting; all had a lighthearted quality. I found Joe Bot by Clayton Bailey and Untitled by Joan Brown to be two pa...
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Theatre Of The Absurd Monty Python
1,057 wordsThe very essence of Contemporary Theatre is that is such a diverse realm of performance art. Many different playwrights have contributed to this post World War Two theatre that instead of keeping to just one narrow genre it was able to branch out to cover all aspects and views of an ever transitional modern society. Theatrical pieces from this time period have ranged from Existentialism, pioneered by Jean Paul Sartre, to the Theatre of the Absurd, which was precedent by Samuel Beckett, and all a...
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Morally Responsible Truman Show
1,202 words... o viding him with an absolutely totalitarian, micro-controlled, repetitive environment. Such an environment reduces the set of possible decisions so that there is only one favourable or acceptable decision (outcome) at any junction. Truman does decide whether to walk down a certain path or not. But when he does decide to walk only one path is available to him. His world is constrained and limited not his actions. Actually, Truman's only choice in the movie leads to an arguably immoral decisi...
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Everyday Life Real Time
1,732 wordsQuestion: For the elements of music are not tones of such and such a pitch, duration and loudness, nor chords and measured beats; they are like all artistic elements, something virtual, created for perception... sounding forms in motion. [Suzanne Langer, Feeling and Form (1952), p. 107 ]. The success of music in film relies on the perceptions and interpretations of audiences based on their social experiences. Discuss. Response to Question: The function of film music is not easily defined. Film m...
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Why Macbeth Is An Aristotelian Tragedy
1,174 wordsShakespeare's Macbeth is an exemplary form of Aristotle's definition of tragedy. Macbeth, on par with Oedipus and Medea, begins the play on a noble pedestal, but, before the eyes of the viewers, loses the battle with his destiny, and degrades from a hero to a butcher by its denouement. This is not all there is to Macbeth, however. Aristotle took the concept of tragedy very seriously, and, in order to be tragic by his standards, something would have to fulfill numerous goals, stay within certain ...
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Kill The King Lady Macbeth
1,467 wordsH 2 >Write about the dramatic effectiveness of act 1 and how it prepares the reader for what is to come. Macbeth is a tragedy written by the playwright William Shakespeare in the year 1606. The story tells of a young man called Macbeth who is given three prophecies by three witches and kills the king in an attempt to make them come true. The moral to the story was that in the end Macbeth went crazy and died painfully therefore showing that people who tried to kill the king would suffer. ...
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Race And Class Southern Blacks
950 wordsIn his 1988 film Mississippi Burning, Director Alan Parker sets out to corner the audience into an awareness of the segregation and bigotry in Americas south during the 1960 s. Ironically he attempts to achieve this by using cinematic methods that fall in line with exactly what his films central message is attacking; the ugly stereotyping of race and class. While the films message is as important in todays society, where segregation of race and class still occurs, the use of blatant misrepresent...
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Extremely Important Mass Media
1,227 wordsThe following was written, 20 April 2005. In 21 st century American society, there seems to be a growing infatuation with technology and mass media in the midst of natural disaster and terrorist attacks. Specifically, Americans seem to be inundated by so much television that they no longer have the capacity to think outside the box, and would rather be immersed in the idiot box than in a good book or a news paper. Mr. Murray, Washington bureau chief for CNBC and the Wall Street Journal columnist...
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Sprite Use Of Advertising In Securing Consumers
682 wordsAdvertisements of today are frivolous at best, downright ridiculous at worst. Buy this cream and never age. Wear these jeans and attract beautiful men. Get perfect abs with no effort at all. Todays market-savvy consumer will not buy into the fraudulent television commercials of yesterday. Ads that center on a products powers to transform a person into someone more hip, sexy, and fashionable, have become easily recognizable as ludicrous and false, and have thus lost their effectiveness. In the la...
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Television Shows Substance Abuse
1,525 wordsEach and every person was born in a family. "The family is an arena in which virtually the entire range of human experience can take place. Warfare, love, violence, tenderness, honesty, deceit, private property, communal sharing, power manipulation, egalitarian decision making- all can be found within the setting of a family. " (web) In society every place people turn the issue of family life is always being portrayed. Most movies and television shows try to represent the ideal perfect family. B...
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Analysis Of The Cinematography American Beauty
1,186 wordsCinematography is an art form, not just an aspect of a movie. Cinematography affects the mood and tone of a movie as well as the viewers feelings while watching a movie. In American Beauty this is demonstrated beautifully through camera techniques, lighting, and the framing of the shot. Camera techniques include aerial, deep focus, pan, shallow focus, slow motion, soft focus, and the tracking shot. Lighting is more than just shining a light on a character. The cinematographer must know how to ma...
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20 Th Century Vertical Integration
1,952 wordsBackground The entertainment industry demonstrates a multi channel structure, with companies owning several forms of companies in each link of the value chain. The industry is converging toward a single model, which combines production of content with multichannel distribution. All companies try to sell content in many ways, e. g. movie, TV show, book theme park, etc. All but two of major players in the industry conform to this model. Non-conforming companies have regulatory barriers (foreign ow...
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Adolescents And Parents Six Hours Played
959 wordsAs a product of the 80 's, one of the most recognizable movies of the time was the Breakfast club. With a cast of the hottest, up and coming actors and actresses of that decade, the movie depicts the experiences of true adolescence development. This movie telling a tale of five distinctly different teenagers force to give up a Saturday in detention. What they learn from the next six hours was that despite their separate social affiliations, they are in fact the same. They each had to deal with i...
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Li Nd Zhr High Moral Values Children
1,475 wordsChildren of Heven. Mjidi Mjidi's Children of Heven hs recently become Irns first-ever Or nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, nd this clim's to be very important, for, indeed, the film is not only simple story bout the Irnin family nd the problems they fce in their life. On the control, l though this film might seem simple story to some viewers, Children of Heven depicts very important problems of the common peoples life nd even social nd ethics dilemma the characters are faced and how they t...
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Blair Witch Serial Killer
2,251 wordsQuestioning Reality Mockumentary Mockumentary: Questioning Reality and the Tenets of Documentary Film Itself A mock documentary is successful when it is able to combine both the appearance of historically accurate elements and present believable situations through a false lens, leading the audience to question the reality of what they are seeing. The genre of false documentary aims to present a convincing story through the use of credible documentary tactics to portray a fictional documentary. E...
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Time And Energy Aggressive Behavior
1,550 wordsSports are an important part of our world. Take a look at any newspaper, listen to any radio, or watch TV for any length of time and there will surely be some sports information that is being passed along. The fact that sports figures get paid salaries that teachers can only dream about lets us know where our priorities lie in this society. Sports consume a lot of our time and energy, and because of this, they have great influence in our culture. Because sports news and sports figures are consta...
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Story Lines Doesn T
1,000 wordsHooked on Soaps by Paula Todd is an article that attempts to explain the allure of daytime television dramas. Soaps, as most people call them, are chalk full of unrealistic situations, most being too sensational to entertain any thoughts of being remotely real. That doesn t stop tens of millions of Americans and Canadians from tuning in religiously each day. You will never witness someone using a washroom, blowing their nose, or doing anything that a real person would do; that would be boring te...
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One Of The Most Important Zen Buddhism
2,509 wordsThe Japanese Gardens Japanese Gardens The role of gardens play a much more important role in Japan than here in the United States. This is due primarily to the fact the Japanese garden embodies native values, cultural beliefs and religious principles. Perhaps this is why there is no one prototype for the Japanese garden, just as there is no one native philosophy or aesthetic. In this way, similar to other forms of Japanese art, landscape design is constantly evolving due to exposure to outside i...
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Ability Social Relations
2,010 wordsChannels of Identification When we see stories on the news of children murdering each other, what must we think in terms of responsibility and which influences contributed to the decisions which left four children and a teacher dead? Who is responsible? How do we as individuals make decisions? What in our culture influences our behavior and impacts our value systems? More specifically, what exactly does it mean to be influenced? I have chosen television as my focus because I feel it is the most ...
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West Side Story Romeo And Juliet
753 wordsIn 1961, West Side Story, a filmed version of the hit Broadway musical that was inspired by William Shakespeare s Romeo and Juliet, was released to viewers, who just could not resist the energy and excitement of the movie. Thirty-eight years later, viewers, like myself, still cannot resist it. I had never seen the film, which was directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, before, but I had always wondered why people loved this multi award-winning movie so much. After viewing the film, I think t...
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