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    as well as the types of films he produces is a result of filmmaking in rapid succession due to the motion of digital age. While there are still films that exhibit the same style as his earlier works such as Like You Know It All (2009) and Hahaha (2010), there are seemingly smaller and more fractured works like Oki’s Movie (2010) and In Another Country (2012) that show a different sensibility coming to the fore (Timothy 80). Although, Unger argues, the use of repetition in Hong’s films makes the…

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    Chapter 4 ? A Composer in the Making: Munich? And the maestro?who was a very great man?felt that she was the only one who understood. As it is always, it is to the one who understands to whom we turn, so after this the maestro found himself unconsciously teaching just that one person in class b. He would have scoffed at the notion had you been bold enough to accuse him of it, but nevertheless the truth remained. Mabel Daniels[footnoteRef:-1] [-1: Mabel Daniels, notebook…

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    Fiction is a piece of work created from the imagination of its creator. This piece of work can be communicated though TV shows, movies, novels, plays, etc. There are many different types of fiction genres such as mysteries, science fiction, fantasy, and romance. Fiction has been present for centuries in the form of storytelling and has evolved over the years so as to be part of our everyday life. The concept of fiction is more than just entertainment; it is personally enriching and offers an…

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    reading them we would go around and talk about the book we read. About our reaction to the book and how we felt towards it. From that day we have been reading more books of different genres. In…

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    cultures. The story follows the protagonist on a journey through time and space with various alien companions whose existence, beliefs, and ideas are far beyond the scope and scale of traditional tropes of science fiction. This exceptionally creative work is dense, and it is not for the faint of heart in terms of challenging reading. However, if you are willing to put the time in, this is possibly one of the best novels of its…

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    A Look Into The World Of Fantasy Fantasy as we know it today is by far the most difficult of all the genres to pinpoint a clear definition. In the book A Critical Handbook of Children’s Literature 9th Edition, it is defined to “depict a world unlike the one we usually call real.” (Lukens, Smith, Coffel, 2013) and others have define it has magical or dreamlike places. No matter how you define it the goal of Fantasy is to take readers away from the normalcy of everyday life and has long done so…

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    fiction (sci-fi), as a genre, provides an outlet for many visionaries to contemplate the endless possibilities of technological advances, and how they will impact our world. In this paper, a subgenre of sci-fi, known as cyberpunk, will be defined and related to a postmodern work of film, “Blade Runner” and the book the movie is based on: “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” by Philip K. Dick. These two sci-fi works…

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    A thriller can be defined as “a work of fiction or drama designed to hold interest by the use of a high degree of intrigue, adventure, or suspense.” While this is very true, there is one literary element that is or should be necessary when writing a thriller. There are two short stories that can be compared with each other in terms of the author’s use of a literary element known as irony. “The Watchers” by Florence Engel Randall and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson contain varying levels of…

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    I chose to watch the films Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection. These films reflect changing within the American experience and identify it three different ways. For one it discusses the idea of fear of the unknown, and the exploration of the new frontier. Two, it discusses the idea of advancement’s in technology and science, and how those two can quickly turn their backs on you. The third idea being a lead role for a women and a feminist character within a franchise. Alien as a…

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    Sci-Fi Science Fiction

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    is a film genre which emphasizes actual, extrapolative, or speculative science and the empirical method, interacting in a social context with the lesser emphasized, but still present, transcendentalism of magic and religion, in an attempt to reconcile man with the unknown”. Sci-fi movie has been around since the beginning of the 20th century. It was occurred during the…

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