Analysis of Pulp Fiction by Alan Stone Alan Stone states his thesis as “Pulp Fiction is already building a cult following‚ even as its mother-fucker language and graphic violence offends others” (610). Much like Tarantino’s film‚ Stone’s article biases toward an audience with a high level of tolerance for violence‚ sick humor‚ and strong language and his ideas jump around like the scenes in the movie and leave the reader confused with poor organization. Right from the introduction paragraph
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1. Hal Ashby’s film‚ Harold and Maude‚ is full of subtle uses of technique used cleverly to advance the plot of the film. Perhaps the slyest example of this is the use of overlaying once scene from the next. Often the dialogue are is over-laid from one scene to the next for example‚ a shot still focused on Harold’s face as his Uncle Victor begins speaking before the cut to him in his office has taken place. This is a clever way of drawing in the audience; the voice is displaced‚ neither coming
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captivates the soul‚ it does little to stimulate the mind‚ a clear pun to the Italian culture since they lack the common analytical brain of the intellectual. This harsh‚ real life view of the world‚ is reflected and ever present in Italian Noir Detective Fiction‚ and mirrors the daily realities faced by Italians who are both observers and victims of the organized crime performed by many criminal sanctions of the Mafia. Many of the horrific‚ jaw dropping stories told by authors of the noir‚ such as Massimo
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AN ESSAY "Speculative texts through the creation of distinct worlds can challenge or reinforce understanding of ourselves and how we live in the world" Utopian and Dystopian composers employ the creation of distinct worlds as a medium to covertly express political concerns. The fictional worlds created by Aldous Huxley and Ursula K. Le Guin in “Brave New World” and “The Dispossessed” elucidate prevalent social issues of their respective contexts‚ provoking alternate understandings of humankind
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two years on the field of World War I to the ordinary everyday life of a small Oklahoma town can be tough. Harold Krebs in Ernest Hemingway’s Soldier’s Home‚ has a tough time adjusting to his home life than most soldiers would when they return home. Krebs was expected to conform back into society’s expectations with not much time to adapt back into his life not being surrounded by war. Harold Krebs ignores his surrounding
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http://www.the-criterion.com The Criterion: An International Journal in English ISSN 0976-8165 Multidimensional dialogues in Harold Pinter’s Old Times Dr. Dinesh Panwar‚ Department of English‚ Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College‚ GZB‚ India Pinter ’s dramatic dialogue is based on both the colloquial and a neatly structured manipulation of the vernacular. In reviewing the Brimingham‚ Repertory Theatre ’s 1993 production of Old Times‚ Michael Billington stresses the important theatric
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More Minerva than Mars: The French Women’s Rights Campaign and the First World War This essay examines the role of French women during and after the First World War based on Steven Hause’s article "More Minerva than Mars: The French Women’s Rights Campaign and the First World War". He claims that the World War I in many ways set back the French Women’s Right Campaign. During the First World War‚ many French feminist leaders believed that women would gain right to vote by next elections. Their
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recognition. The research Murphy discusses in her article points out that metaphors were able to engage the sensory regions of the brain‚ whereas normal‚ less colorful‚ phrases did not. The brain instead treated the less colorful phrases as nothing more than mere words. Murphy also writes that‚ “words describing motion also stimulate regions of the brain distinct from language-processing areas.” (Murphy Paul‚ 2). Scans of the brains of subjects involved in the research revealed that words dealing with
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C:\WINDOWS\DESKTOP\sf1.htm To my sister Janice‚ Who taught me how to read‚ Which was the beginning of wisdom‚ And how to be charitable‚ Which is wisdom’s end. About the Author No one had ever won both the Hugo and the Nebula Award for best science fiction novel two years in a rowuntil 1987‚ when Speaker for the Dead won the same awards given to Ender’s Game. But Orson Scott Card’s experience is not limited to one genre or form of storytelling. A dozen of his plays have been produced in regional theatre;
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In this final assignment I will talk about the patriarchal fear of female sexuality. I will also be dealing with a brief summary of the female figure in the gothic novel. To begin with‚ I will give a brief summary of the changes that experimented the topics of the nineteenth century novel; then I will comment on the description which some scholars give about the woman of the nineteenth century. I will also exemplify the patriarchal fear of female sexuality by using two of the texts studied in the
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