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    significant for the understanding of the origins and development of the horror genre. Both of these genres differ‚ whilst Gothic literature is the text that explores the frightening extremes in mankind‚ horror focuses more on the unknown. The Gothic horror genre has changed over time and retains importance because it is the antecedent of the horror genre. Factors such as the definition of the word Gothic‚ the archetypes of the genre‚ and its social and historical contexts‚ have altered considerably as time

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    Ideology Genre Auteur

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    Summary of Ideology‚ Genre‚ Auteur By Robin Wood In Robin Wood’s essay: Ideology‚ Genre‚ Auteur‚ Wood revisits Hitchcock’s films and analyses the different characteristics in the films. Wood focuses mostly on Shadow of a Doubt and It’s a Wonderful Life in which he compares and describes the different values of Hollywood cinema. One of Wood’s major points to hear two opposing views. Wood stresses that a critics job should be to look at a piece as a whole rather than at the particular aspects of one

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    Revising Genre Western

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    The Revisionist Western In the late Sixties and early seventies‚ there was a revisionist movement in Hollywood. This revision of genre’s included the western genre. In this essay‚ I will analyze the differences between the classic Western‚ and the revisionist westerns. The movies which are considered to be revisionist westerns that I will be reviewing are the following: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid‚ McCabe and Mrs. Miller‚ Unforgiven‚ and Dead Man; Two of which were created during the movement

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    Film Genre Analysis

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    Module 7 Film/television genres Objectives: In completing this module‚ you will be able to: - understand and apply different approaches for analyzing genre: formalist‚ audience analysis‚ and ideological. - understand the history and evolution of advertising and the forces shaping that history - devise different genre analysis activities for use in the classroom - understand and analysis characteristics of different types of genres for the genres described in this module - present specific

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    Western Music Genres

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    Contemporary Western Music Genres Blues Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States around the end of the 19th century from spirituals‚ work songs‚ field hollers‚ shouts and chants‚ and rhymed simple narrative ballads. The blues form‚ ubiquitous in jazz‚ rhythm and blues‚ and rock and roll is characterized by specific chord progressions‚ of which the twelve-bar blues chord progression

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    Across the Barricades

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    Across The Barricades From the module‚ conflict‚ the responder learns about the context and values central to what is euphemistically known as ‘The Troubles’ in Northern Ireland and the complexity of life in Belfast in the 1970’s. Conflict in the context of Across The Barricades by Joan Lingard (Oxford 2003) is revealed as never acceptable as an option in conflict and resolution because conflict often has no bounds and grows to be indiscriminate. Joan Lingard states that

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    Genre and Science Fiction

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    Genre and Science Fiction Genre‚ as defined by the Oxford dictionary (2010)‚ is “a style or category of art‚ music‚ or literature”. It is a term that is easy to define but hard to understand. The mere division of what one genre is compared to another has been problematic for academics and scholars for centuries. As noted by Robert Allen‚ genre study has become “the division of the world of literature into types and naming of those types”. This has led the study of genre to become a more scientific

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    Macbeth Film Genre

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    Shakespeare’s Macbeth chronicles the ambitions of the title character through a text rich with power‚ murder‚ and revenge. Geoffrey Wright contorted these elements to fit the crime thriller sub-genre of film which uses action and psychological aspects to build tension and suspense (TSL). This sub-genre personally motivated Wright‚ for he wanted to convey the text from a psychological and materialistic view as was relevant to his home in Melbourne‚ Australia. According to Gary Braver‚ bestselling

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    Rock And Roll Genres

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    More specifically‚ America’s Rock and Roll genre‚ coming at a time when Americans desperately needed an upbeat rhythm‚ was an avenue for merging cultures and exploration as well as progressive expression. Rock and Roll’s roots cultivated when a sense of restlessness‚ in relation to the musical genres available‚ permeated through the American public. War had brought individuals around the world to fight‚ which allowed them to experience numerous genres of music. Soldiers yearned to have these sounds

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    Across the Universe

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    Across the Universe The movie begins with man but the name of Jude (a reference to the title of the Beatles’ song Hey Jude) who starts to sing Girl. Suddenly the movie progresses and shows a scene where you meet‚ at what seems to be like a school dance‚ Lucy (a reference to the Beatles’ song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds) and her boyfriend Daniel and she is singing Tell me I’m the Only One. Then it transitions to Liverpool to what seems to be an underground bar‚ which is considered to be an allusion

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