Genre fiction

Photography is the key element of mise en scene that determines how an audience will interpret the visual information in film. Orson Welles used the photography of his 1941 film Citizen Kane to emphasize aspects of the film he wanted viewers to focus on, and to remove non-essential information from the frame. This was accomplished through various camera tequniques including manipulation of angles and proxemity. Approaching the end of the film there is a scene just after Susan (played by Dorothy…

film remakes as a cultural phenomenon. The contributors to this collection focus on the multiple ways in which horror, science fiction, and fantasy films have been remade and analyze them through a range of perspectives from the philosophical to the technological elements that reside in them. The compilation of these essays all argue that the remakes of horror, science fiction, and fantasy films reveal our recurrent fears, anxieties, and hopes for the future, while offering the opportunity to…

The tone of a poem sets the mood for the attitude one will feel while reading it. The theme of a work is the meaning of a piece yet can be achieved through multiple tones. The two villanelles, Martha Collins “The Story We Know” and Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art” both depict themes of love and loss, however, Martha Collins portrays a collected, accepting tone, while Elizabeth Bishop exhibits an indifferent tone. In the poem “The Story We Know” by Martha Collins, she portrays a strong feeling…

Poets all have diverse writing styles. Poets like to express their ideas in an original way. Maya Angelou and Langston Hughes were two prodigious poets. Their styles varied much but they had many similarities. Maya Angelou and Langston Hughes both wrote during times or segregation and race problems, personally I believe all these problems made them want to write so that they could have an effect on people and open their eyes to what was going on. Maya Angelou’s and Langston Hughes’ writing…

Poetry and songwriting both share a significance when it comes to creating a vivid image in the readers mind. Rapper Tupac Shakur and Harlem Renaissance Poet Langston Hughes both share that in common as artist when it comes to using imagery and personification to showcase their feelings. “The Rose That Grew from Concrete” by Shakur and “Juke Box Love Song” by Hughes are prime examples of both artist explaining their harsh environments to express the beauty they find in it all, and although they…

In the paradoxical world of the modern, rejection of traditional poetry allows for new contrasting and often conflicting ideas to come together into one. The poetry of Marianne Moore in particular is full of contradictions; she examines average subjects in hyper-detail and employs both precision and an overabundance of metaphor and anecdote in order to develop her own personal style. Her poem “Marriage” is a fragmented piece that tackles the inherently contradictory “institution” of marriage.…

as this old art form started to regain momentum among Italian actors. After studying all of these art forms in school, he was finally putting them into practice. He started realizing that this style was finally reaching the audience. This comedic genre developed characters and events that were over exaggerated to create a He then used the structure of farce that included a run of stock characters (masters, servants, fools, braggarts, cuckolds, mistresses, young wives) and an array of…

How to Live Life In E. B. White’s “Once More to the Lake”, White describes the tale of his trip to a familiar lake he went to with his son. Since White also grew up at that lake, he experiences moments of déjà vu. The theme of “Once More to the Lake” is written through the author’s tone, his literary devices, and the similarity to “What are Homosexuals For?” Throughout “Once More to the Lake” White’s tone is consistently anxious (Tone Vocab…). Although, at the beginning White seems nonchalant…

More traditionally poetry is used to share details of a poet’s thoughts, emotions and views on different things that he or she has experienced. The author of the poem “Sixteen”, Chelsea Rathburn, seems be using it to share experiences she has had facing motherhood as a single parent but Chelsea then explains that it is a persona, kind of like a fictional narrative. Chelsea is a creative writing professor at Young Harris Collage and is marred to James Davis May. Together the couple had…

Martina Navratilova once said, “Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people” (Navratilova). Stereotypes can be encountered everywhere, and every person is guilty of doing it. Stereotypes can lead to people thinking and acting differently, this is often done without realization. Stereotyping can be found everywhere, it can be found in books, movies, and the places people go. Stereotypes can generally be defined as fixed images or a set of characteristics that a person might attach to a…