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focus on one genre, this itself can prove that they led a much richer life. They did not just focus on the masterpieces of the authors, like what the Modernists do, that would be too minimal to fulfill any sort of goal of the writer. The earlier time period of literature focused on an array of genres to get many different things across to their readers; such as: histories, sermons, social critiques, political arguments, scientific and religious debates, aesthetic questions. All of the genres…

Books are often made into movies with the same titles and relatively the same plots, but it is rare to find a novel and a movie with completely different plots with so many similarities. Wall-E, an animated film about a robot, and The Handmaid’s Tale, a novel about a society where women are going sterile, can both be classified as having dystopian societies. In fact, they have many characteristics of a dystopian society in common. A few of these similarities include living in a dehumanized state…

“The Mighty Ducks”: A Sport’s Psychology View To practice implementing sport psychology concepts, I chose the 1992 film, The Mighty Ducks to be my example situation. Being that it was the only movie on the given list that was readily available to watch on Netflix, my decision was easy. Having only seen bits and pieces of the movie, I was now able to watch it in its entirety. The Mighty Ducks is a sport drama starring Emilio Estevez. Estevez plays Gordon Bombay, a high powered lawyer who will do…

Archetypes are universal patterns in all literatures regardless of culture and historical period. This pattern can be seen in characters, settings, events, symbols and themes. In poem Who Am I?, the speaker looks for his own identity as he does not see himself the way others recognize him. Although he cannot find answer to the question “Who am I?”(1), he accepts himself as a child of God in the end. There are archetypal themes, symbols, and Frye’s Literary Modes and Archetypes in the poem…

In the movie Pan's Labyrinth directed by Guillermo del Toro uses many significant scenes to highlight the important themes and ideas portrayed throughout the film. The scene i will be analysing is the pale man scene. Del Toro uses many film techniques to help highlight the important themes and ideas such as rebellion and disobedience, power and control and choices. Del Toro uses film techniques such as mid shots,diegetic sound, mise en scene and non diegetic sound. An important film technique…

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…

Introduction Movies are entertainment and they tell stories about characters going through experiences. But what exactly is the content of the film? To find richer meaning in film, a variety of theories are developed to analyze films in order to understand how they created responses in viewers and just what they might mean. Memento (Christopher Nolan, 2000) is presented by its non-linear narrative structure. It provides the viewer with the ‘clues’ necessary to decode the film and help them to…

Double sidedness is human nature. Therefore, novels of a variety of genres cover the subject of double sidedness. What is important is that the detective genre also covers this subject. As an example, this essay will analyze two detective series. The first is the well-known Sherlock Holmes and the other is Gojeonbu(A classic club) which centers around a club that studies classics. More precisely, two characters of each series will be analyzed in terms of the double sidedness concept. Detective…

Since its publication, Pride and Prejudice has become one of the most popular books in English literature. According to the idiom ‘’Don’t judge a book by its cover’’ it is understood that a title of a book plays an important role for the readers even though one should not form an opinion on a book by its title. A title must be attractive and stick in the minds of prospective readers. Jane Austen first entitled the book ‘’First Impressions’’ but then altered it to ‘’Pride and Prejudice’’. But why…

Andrew Niccol is a New Zealand-born director who has created futuristic films in his writing and directing career spanning 20 years. Some characteristics of his directorial style are colour and positioning to symbolise characters and themes in his work. These factors are highlighted in the opening scenes in Gattaca (1997) and In Time (2011). Each film parallels each other specifically through camera work and colour, helping the audience to have a clear understanding of Niccol’s directorial style…