YLER HANDCOCK Commercial Reading - Love‚ fashion‚ brutality‚ death and special effects‚ these are just some of the most popular things when it comes to people choosing a movie to watch. But not usually all together at once‚ right? Gary Ross‚ the director of “The Hunger Games” followed a clear path of audience satisfaction when creating this incredibly fulfilling film. Through overwhelming mise en scene‚ plot portrayal‚ and exciting special effects‚ “The Hunger Games” has become one of the most
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Gina Ferrari Eric Netterlund Fall 2011 Textual Analysis Essay The classic 1996 film Fight Club is a social commentary about our generation‚ which is in many ways devoid of spirit and marked by consumerism. It is the story of a man’s spiritual journey towards enlightenment in modern society and his attempt to find his place in the world. It stresses a post-modern consumer society‚ reveals the loss of masculine identity amongst gray-collar workers‚ and examines the social stratification marked
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TV and Fictions: Viewing Log Deal or No Deal Airtime: Thursday 21st February 2013 (4pm) My scene is from ‘Deal or No Deal’ (Channel 4‚ 2013) [1]‚ a game show where the contestant has the chance to win a maximum of £250‚000. I will be analysing the opening five minutes of the programme. In this small scene the following themes are explored; class‚ community and rituals. From the book ‘Come on Down? Popular media culture in post-war Britain’‚ it is said that game shows ‘have always had
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The program starts with Deems Taylor breaking down the types of visuals the audience will see in Fantasia. He describes three different types of music‚ absolute music‚ program music‚ and definite story music. The first segment‚ featuring absolute music‚ shows the audience that music is not made up of any one component. Taylor tells the audience that it could envision anything it wanted to go along with the music‚ but that the images on the screen are what the Disney artists have envisioned themselves
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El cuadro que me llama la atención es Gernika por la artista Pablo Picasso. It truly catches my attention due to its unique fusion of figures‚ such as the dysmorphic features of animals and human form with faces and gestures full of enigma and strong emotions. And so‚ I would like to see and analyze Gernika in person. Gernika is the most famous work by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. The painting is a 25 ft. 6in. wide and 11 ft. 5in. tall and a mural-size canvas painted in oil‚ in which a palette of
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HiSupporting Account For my practical production I choose to design and create 5 pages of a magazine including a front cover‚ an advert‚ a contents page‚ an article and a horoscope page. These 5 conventions formed to make part of a magazine that would be used to complete my practical production. This task intrigued me as I have a genuine interest in reading magazines myself‚ and the idea of creating and editing my own appealed to me more. I decided to pursue this task by myself as this shows originality
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Although a community is a place where people come together and are able to draw strength and identity from each other‚ Alison Bechdel is not fortunate to have this kind of supportive and uplifting relationship with her family. Instead of wanting to delve further into learning about her parent’s early lives or stories of how they met‚ she wants to physically and mentally separate herself from them: “I had imagined my confession as an emancipation from my parents‚ but instead I was pulled back into
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Harry Potter films are based on a series of books and this film is the last in the series of eight written by Joanne Rowling‚ who writes under the pen names J.K. Rowling. An epic saga of childhood temptation‚ danger‚ and adventure‚ the Harry Potter series has been seventeen years in the making. This film’s unique selling point is that well-known story coming to an end. It is so well known that the title on the poster itself makes people want to go and see it‚ the audience recognition is so strong
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sure to create an arguable thesis‚ one which asserts your analysis and interpretation‚ and attempts to make some connection to the larger work as a whole. This essay should focus on the text as its primary source and should employ plenty of textual evidence from the text to support your ideas. While not the focus nor required‚ secondary sources may be consulted for this paper; however‚ the ideas and writing should be original‚ and the textual evidence should be from the allegory. Be sure‚ however‚
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‘Mirror’ By Sylvia Plath – Textual Analysis ‘Mirror’ is one of many works by the American poet Sylvia Plath‚ which was written within the last few months before her death‚ along with a number of other poems. One of the greatest qualities of her poems was its versatile nature. Her poems were never restricted to one interpretation. ‘Mirror’ is one such poem‚ where each reader is free to interpret her art differently. The speaker is not Sylvia Plath‚ but the mirror itself. As the first line of the
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