The “Final Girl”: The Exploration of Gender in Slasher/Horror Movies Much is made of the anti-female sentiments expressed in slasher/horror films. The classic scenario or formula used in most slasher movies includes the psycho-killer who slashes to death a string of mostly female victims‚ one-by one‚ until he himself is killed or subdued by the final survivor‚ usually the female lead character. The slasher film is rife with forbidden sexual overtones and graphic bloody violence‚ making
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Masculinity in Umuofia The novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe follows the character Okonkwo‚ an influential and powerful man in the village of Umuofia. Through the book he goes through the intense inner struggle of trying to be the man his father never was and also makes quite a few big mistakes along the way. Some mistakes include beating his wives and even killing a young man. He is exiled from his village for seven years and he seeks a place he can call home in the motherland. During his
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Introduction Imagery‚ sounds‚ storytelling ability‚ excellent editing‚ serious acting and creative imaginations are all technically combined to make a good movie. Movies represent storytelling at its best. The writer gives a script to the director who interprets it and creates a core team of professionals that includes the cinematographer‚ the designer (and his team)‚ the sound engineer‚ the actors‚ and the editor. They make films to entertain‚ to express emotion‚ tell stories‚ deliver
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The raison d’etre of the Western is arguably to celebrate masculinity‚ but Brokeback Mountain is a revisionary Western that challenges definitions of masculinity. Discuss this statement with reference to Jane Marie Gaines’s and Charlotte Cornelia Herzog’s comments on the homoeroticism of the Western. The Western genre is undoubtedly one that is governed by the traditional male ’hero’ and its masculine stereotypes. Rarely does the genre break away from this mould‚ however Ang Lee’s renowned film
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The Psychological Effects of Violent Video Games and Movies Is there any family that have not technological tool that can play games and watching films? Nowadays ‚ most of people have at least one technological tool like computer ‚ phone ‚ tablet ‚ and so on.According to researching forty-nine percent of people that use computer that is between sixteen and seventy-four years old are using computer for playing games.Even ‚ the percentage is increasing under sixteen years. Research
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depends on the director’s point of view as well as the casting director‚ the 1948 Laurence Olivier ’s black-and-white version of Hamlet starting Laurence Olivier and Eileen Herlie‚ is a classic film that is generally considered to be one of the greatest movies of all time. The Olivier version is a story as merely the centerpiece in front of a roving camera. It has been accorded numerous honors‚ including four 1948 Academy Awards: Best Picture‚ Actor‚ Art Direction-Set Direction‚ and Costume Design. In
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Barbu Andreea Marina Grupa :3212 Anul:2 How do movies or television influence people’s behavior Great changes have taken place in human society along development of technology‚ and movies or television are a big part of this. Such entertaining methods affect on people’s behavior in many ways. I believe that television and especially movies are one of the major and outstanding achievements of humankind. Every movie
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English Essay Marilyn Colon Do you like movies? I know I do! I watch movies all the time. There are so many different movies to choose from. There are comedy‚ thriller‚ action‚ romance and suspense movies. There are some movies that always make you cry no matter how many times you see them. There are also some that you can get emotionally attached too as well. “The Wizard of Oz” is a classic movie that I grew up watching over and over again. I love this movie more
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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe depicts masculinity highly as a virtue. In the Igbo culture‚ masculinity is bravery and control and every other good thing one needs to possess to become self-sufficient. For Okonkwo‚ his masculinity is strongly interconnected with his self-worth. A distinct contrast between men and women is seen throughout the structure of the book. Women are to be weak and controlled‚ and men are to be strong and be the controllers. Okonkwo’s father‚ Unoka‚ is an agbala‚ term
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the bigger movies in the 20th century and compare them to those of the 21st century‚ the production companies‚ although sometimes overlap‚ often don’t. However‚ if we look at the movies that were released throughout the 20th century and compare them to those of the 21st century it is evident that there has been an increase in strong female leads. Just in the last 30 years‚ which would include all of the 21st century so far and the last 13 years of the 20th century‚ the change in movies has been large
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