The period between 1830-1931 saw significant extensions of the franchise in Britain. At the beginning of the nineteenth century‚ a narrow elite held a dense concentration of both economic wealth and political power‚ with little sign of wanting to concede either. Certainly there had‚ until then‚ been no major electoral reform since 1432‚ when Henry VI franchised male owners of property worth 40 shillings – which‚ by the 1830s‚ allowed only 635‚000 out of a population of 20 million to vote. Bribery
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cinematic vampire. Giving proper recognition to Bram Stoker for his 1897 best-selling Gothic novel‚ Dracula‚ the original prevalent image of the vampire was that of a tall‚ pale-skinned‚ debonair‚ tuxedo and cape sporting nobleman‚ with fangs (Taylor 91). This distinguishing semblance and deportment was suitably brandished by Bela Lugosi with his classic portrayal of the Count in the Tod Browning’s Dracula (1931)‚ and would be copied to one degree or another in myriad films for decades to follow (Wikipedia
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during the great depression. Some musicals like gold diggers were not just made to be enjoyed but intended to go against the economic depression. It did just that by showing the spirit of optimism and cooperation. Gangster film such as "Public Enemies"(1931) and "Scar face"(1932) dramatized violence. Violence in those films were inspired by illegal distributing of alcoholic drinks in the prohibition Era (1919-1933) Due to the Great Depression the American film industry got strongly impacted‚ and many
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published Frankenstein in 1818‚ a relatively small Hollywood Studio‚ Universal Pictures‚ brought Dr. Frankenstein (Colin Clive) and his monster (Boris Karloff) to the big screen in a film adaption of the same name. When it hit theaters on November 21‚ 1931‚ Frankenstein immediately succeeded as a box office hit‚ launching a franchise which eventually grossed over twelve million dollars (IMDb). Even today‚ the image of Frankenstein’s monster from this film (hereafter simply referred to as the Monster)
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the oldest ones‚ dating back to the early 1920s. From day one to around the 1960s horror films were almost always just about your typical horror monsters- Count Dracula‚ the Frankenstein Monster‚ Mummies and occasionally zombies- notable such films including Nosferatu (1922) The Phantom of the Opera (1925) Frankenstein (1931) Dracula (1931) Bride of Frankenstein (1935) and the wolf man (1941) In the 1950s horror films sometimes had representations of the Cold War and Communism in the underlying themes
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Prosthetic special effects are illusions or visual tricks used in film‚ television‚ theatre‚ and video games to simulate the imagined events in a story or virtual world. This field of practical effects is more essential to horror than it is to any other genre. Prosthetic makeup consists of severed limbs to acid-spitting aliens‚ from expertly applied knife wounds to the walking dead‚ from heaping piles of spilled intestines to howling creatures of the night. They have the power to bring to life‚ out
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captivating and entertaining the audience at the same time. Horror films feature a range of styles from the earliest silent films‚ to todays CGI monsters and deranged humans. There are many subgenres of horror: slasher‚ teen terror‚ serial killers‚ Dracula and so forth. Two Interesting Facts In the film The Exorcist (1973) the main actor Ellen Burstyn received a
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tall tale teller himself‚ he wanted to see Radley Place. There might even be an innocent reason‚ an adventure with his new friends. For all we know it could be sheer curiosity‚ but for the sake of literature there is a meaning behind it. Dracula‚ the movie of 1931‚ seen by Charles Baker Harris 12 times. To Dill‚ Boo Radley is just another horror story that he was anticipating to see. Boo Radley’s story intrigues Dill‚ after all it was like a film come to life There was a time when Boo Radley went
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Susan Hayward Cinema Studies The Key Concepts(‚ Routledge‚ 1999) 5. Jill Nelmes (ed) An introduction to film studies 3rd edition (Routeledge‚ 2003) Filmography TOUCH OF EVIL (Orson Welles‚ USA‚ 1958) Dracula (Tod Browning‚ Universal‚ US‚ 1931) Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian‚ Paramount‚ US‚ 1931) The War of the Worlds (Byron Haskin‚ Paramount‚ US‚ 1953) Invasion of the body snatchers (Don Siegel‚ Allied Artists‚ US‚ 1955) Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock‚ Shamley‚ US‚ 1960) Night of the Living Dead
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figure amassed not only one of the largest fan bases in film‚ but directly influenced its own underground culture. Bela Lugosi donned the crimson cape in 1927 as Count Dracula in a Broadway adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel‚ where he was talent-spotted as a character actor for the new Hollywood talkies‚ appearing in the first Dracula film with sound. It would be four years later‚ with the movie adaptation of that play that vampires would become a public icon. Here we are almost ninety years later‚
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