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Due To The Fact Needham Heights
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The Hypodermic Syringe Model
826 wordsThe hypodermic syringe model suggest that the media is alike a magic bullet and when an audience is targeted it will immediately be knocked down when they are hit. The hypodermic-syringe model also suggests that society is passive and the media inject their media influence into society and manipulates it. The Frankfurt school envisioned the media as a hypodermic syringe, and the contents of the media were injected into the thoughts of the audience, who accepted the attitudes, opinions and belief...
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The Rebirth Of American Musical Theatre
1,634 wordsTwo great writers of American musical theatre, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, had one idea in common. They wanted to present to the American public a new and revolutionary musical that would stand out above the rest. They wanted to make an impact on the societies of the era. They wanted to be creative and do something that was considered rebellious. When they finally combined their ideas together they created an American masterpiece in musical theatre: Oklahoma! . It was the first Rod...
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The Rebirth Of American Musical Theatre
1,611 words... oma! had proved, on opening night, a stunning stage experience such as one does not often encounter in a lifetime of play going. From the moment the curtain rose and the first lines of the first song were sung, down to the final scene with the presentation of the title number, the audience sat spellbound as a new kind of stage art unfolded with incomparable beauty and majesty. (181) Along with dance and villains, Rodgers and Hammerstein also took on a new approach to forming the music that t...
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Appearance And Reality Lady Macbeth
1,211 words... dance knows Macbeth is in trouble. The invading army, lead by Macduff and Malcolm, is coming towards the castle and Macbeth's prophecies seem to be fading away. When Macduff and his army arrive, Macbeth and Macduff find themselves in a showdown, where Macduff reveals that he was untimely ripped from his mothers womb. In other words, he was a Caesarean birth. Macbeth at this stage realises his fate, and is eventually killed. Macbeth was looked at as a tragic hero. Although he was the cause of...
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Play Was Written Inspector Goole
1,439 wordsIs an Inspector Calls a detective story or a social critique and How will the audiences views have changed on this from the time the play was written to today? Many people believe that An Inspector Calls by JB Priestley is a detective story because it is centred around an investigation of the Birling family and it is also indicated by the title. However, when you study the play in detail it becomes apparent that the play is not simply a detective story but it is also a social critique. However, ...
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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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Representations Of The Black Male In Film
1,251 words... genre quickly died out. While Hollywood continues to portray black male characters with "good" or "bad" extremes, some progress is being made. Audiences in the 1990 's are experiencing a boom of movies by black directors (Guerrero, Framing 158). Spike Lee's Clockers (1995), is an example of a film that shows improvement in how the black male is portrayed. Clockers is the story of drug dealer Strike and his relationship with the white cop Rocco. Like Priest in Superfly, Strike deals death to ...
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Makes The Audience Open The Door
1,070 wordsMany plays have passed the audiences eyes with no recognition. There are some plays which most people do not remember. There are plays about cats, dogs and most anything one can think up. There are also plays which try to send a hidden meaning to the audience. There are plays which are covers for a real purpose of wasting an audiences time. More importantly, there are good plays. As the 1990 winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Piano Lesson, by August Wilson, stands out as one of the greatest plays...
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Learned More About Magic Magic In The Play Audiences
727 wordsThe Tempest: Magic The Tempest, written in 1611, was one of William Shakespeare's last plays. It has a combination of superb characters, interesting settings, and a good plot line? all held together by the running theme of magic, and its ever- present importance. A closer examination of the magic in The Tempest, and the publics view of magic at the time, will give insight as to Shakespeare's choice of magic as a theme, and why it has made the play so successful and timeless. Magic presented itse...
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Corpus Christi Mass Culture
4,480 wordsRoland Barthess essay on " The World of Wrestling" draws analogically on the ancient theatre to contextualize wrestling as a cultural myth where the grandiloquence of the ancient is preserved and the spectacle of excess is displayed. Barthess critique which is above all a rewriting of what was to understand what is is useful here insofar as it may be applied back to theatre as another open-air spectacle. But in this case, not the theatre of the ancients, but the Middle English pageant ...
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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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World War Ii D W Griffith
2,022 wordsIn the final years of the twentieth century, rare is the documentary that attracts mass audiences or attention. At a time when people get to declare their desire for entertainment in a multitude of media, the fate of the non-fiction film that attempts to tell a true story is not a happy one. But there are documentaries that succeed at the box office and even achieve status as popular fare, mostly either by appealing to a specialized audience of sufficient size, or taking a point of view that mas...
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West Side Story Makes You Feel
3,811 wordsThe Search For New Direction In The The Search For New Direction In The Musical. From The American Dream To The Rock Opera. The Search for New Direction in the musical. From the American Dream to the Rock-Opera. 1950 to 1978 were despondent ones for the musical. American musical theatre had been showing signs of exhaustion. This most seemingly anti-intellectual of genres carries its own ideological project. Before this, the musicals not only exhibited singing and dancing; they were about singing...
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Technological Advances Star Wars
1,832 wordsIn the period previous to the 1930 s, the predominant form of filmmaking was that of the crank camera. This is not to say that motor-driven cameras were not possible. However, the motors to advance the film were so large that they were simply too cumbersome to be effective. Thus, it was the cameraman himself who would crank the film at a steady rate to expose the frames. When it came to showing the film, on the other hand, motor driven projectors were quite convenient, and by the 1920 s a standa...
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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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Shakespeare Hamlet Shakespeare Play
1,135 wordsHow has the composer of the contemporary text used the earlier text to say something new? Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, written in the 1960 s by playwright Tom Stoppard, is a transformation of Shakespeare? s Hamlet. Stoppard effectively relocates Shakespeare? s play to the 1960 s by reassessing and reevaluating the themes and characters of Hamlet and considering core values and attitudes of the 1960 s- a time significantly different to that of Shakespeare. He relies on the audience? s a...
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Los Angeles Times Japanese Animation
4,311 wordsThirty-five years ago, Japan s entertainment industry found an answer to its problems. Still developing in the aftermath of defeat in World War II, and the subsequent restructuring plan instituted by the United States, Japan was without surplus resources. There was no money for the production of films. American films soon began invading the Japanese entertainment industry. Yet the Japanese people longed for entertainment which would reflect their own culture. And so animation developed in Japan ...
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Quot Poetry Mass Culture
1,870 wordsJames Smethurst No portion of Hughess literary career has been more commonly dismissed than that of the 1930 s. Even many of Hughess admirers compare unfavorably his writings of the 1930 s to his work in other decades. In this view, Hughess 1930 s efforts in many different genres including short and long fiction, poetry, drama, reportage, song writing largely sounded over and over the same ham-fisted didactic note, lacking the lyric humanism and folk wit of his work in the 1920 s, 1940 s, and 19...
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Special Effects Star Wars
909 wordsPeople saw the news on the TV, hundreds of Star Wars fans lined up out side of movie ticket box office when Star Wars: Episode I- the Phantom Menace just starts showing in theaters. Star War fans waited hours in the line, just to get the movie tickets so they can watch this latest Sci-fi movie. The sneak previews of the Phantom Menace showed many spectacular computer generated scenes, graphics, and characters that gave me an impression that the movie was going to be a very good. Sadly, I was qui...
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