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    Distinctively  visual techniques affect the way in which we perceive meaning and  emphasise  significant aspects of life  through heightening our sensory appreciation of texts. The use of distinctively visual texts emphasises the ways that individuals respond to significant aspects of life such as love‚ time and hope through various tools and techniques. In Tom Tykwer’s motion picture Run Lola Run‚ the aspect of love and how we will do anything for it is emphasised through techniques such as split

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    is sunny and I am going to briefy discuss about the play Shoe Horn Sonata by John Misto in relation to distinctively visual. The Shoe Horn Sonata is a play that shows distinctively visual narratives of female prisoners of war. Misto convey ideas of female survivors who live through war in Japanese camps suffering brutality from their violent Japanese oppressors. He does this by using visual techniques including photographs displaying humiliation‚ starvation and torture and also projected images

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    Distinctively Visual Image Page 52 “On the other side of our barbed wire fence were twenty or thirty Aussie men – as skinny as us – and wearing slouch hats. Unlike the Japs‚ they had hairy legs. And they were standing in rows – serenading us.” John Misto created a written visual image that comes through in Act 1 Scene 7 (Page 52). This is brought up in the play when Bridie and Sheila are being interviewed by Rick (Host)‚ they were originally talking about the conditions that they were in‚ how they

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    heart cards. • Dialogue - changes in this. Things go from being ’swell’ to ’cool’. Things are better than ’pleasant’ they are ’sexy or silly’ • Parallel montage shots of the average day in Pleasantville and in David’s school. • Colour - people turning colour by realisation‚ attitude and • Visual allusion - to Adam and Eve with the apple. • Symbolism - the mirror (idea of self-reflection/knowledge). the mirror behind big bog shows how he believes he is some messiah. its religious iconography

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    of the novel Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy and the film Pleasantville by Gary Ross are both successful in conveying their purpose through the use of distinctively visual images. In Maestro‚ it is clearly evident through Goldsworthy’s use of a memoir styled novel‚ the reader can see Paul’s (the protagonist’s) journey to a changed in perception after maturity has been accomplished. Goldsworthy reveals his purpose through his distinctively visual portrayals of Eduard Keller‚ Paul’s music teacher‚ and

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    In the movie Pleasantville‚ a brother and sister from modern day became part of a black and white ‘50s television show called Pleasantville. This was done using a special remote given to the main character David‚ by a TV repairman. In the beginning David believed Pleasantville should remain the same. Pleasantville was his utopia; he thought everything was perfect. His sister Jenn was determined to change Pleasantville. Jenn thought people acted like losers‚ and wanted them to be “cool”. David later

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    Pleasantville essay “We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action‚” - Learned Hand. During the 50s Hand was seen a defender of civil rights when subversion‚ the downfall or corruption of something‚ was on the verge of dividing the nation‚ also known as the Red Scare. So‚ this quote is relevant to the film‚ Pleasantville‚ directed and written by Gary Ross because not only

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    Pleasantville Popular culture is the artistic and creative expression in entertainment and style that appeals to society as whole. It includes music‚ film‚ sports‚ painting‚ sculpture‚ and even photography. It can be diffused in many ways‚ but one of the most powerful and effective ways to address society is through film and television. Broadcasting‚ radio and television are the primary means by which information and entertainment are delivered to the public in virtually every nation around the

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    satisfying life a woman could lead by fulfilling her duties. Gary Ross’s 1998 feature film Pleasantville examined the differences between the 90s and the 50s image of family by transporting 90s characters into the ideal black and white image of the ideal 1950s family of a mother‚ father‚ son and daughter. Not only did this movie explore ideas in feminism‚ but racism as well. When a character of the original Pleasantville was exposed to something new‚ they turned from black and white to an image of color

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    1. I am going to describe David and his sister Jennifer. Before David “jumped” into PLEASANTVILLE‚ he is isolated. He only has one friend‚ when he wants to hang out with a girl‚ he pretends that he is talking to the girl‚ but the truth is he stands a hundred yards across the schoolyard from the girl. He reads all the books‚ and was addicted himself to the firm: Pleasantville which he can remember all the name of the person‚ all relationships between every characteristic‚ all the words they said‚

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