The Book on Mediums

Fairy God Medium: Gender roles through shifting adaptations of Cinderella Once upon a time, there lived a story told far and wide. This story goes by many names, but we best know it by the name Cinderella. The Cinderella story is a truly inter-medium story. Its basic structure can be found in books, comics, television shows, the news, and movies. A Cinderella story needs three features: a slipper, an ill treated heroin, and a fall from grace followed by the rise to a greater positon after some…

Lord of the Flies by William Golding and “All There Is to Know about Adolph Eichmann” by Leonard Cohen have the same theme of “monsters exist, not within monsters, but within the soul of every human.” The two pieces of literature have the same theme because in Lord of the Flies, all of the kids believed there was a supernatural monster that was hunting them down, but the real threat was the leader of the savage tribe, Jack, who repeatedly had his people beat and sometimes kill other boys. “In…

United States history from the 17th Century thru to the Emancipation Proclamation which has been misinterpreted for decades. This misinterpretation has been fostered by history text books, teachers, lecturers and the modern day cinema. It is ironic that the same medium used to produce these misconceptions will be same medium by which to correct them. This 1997 TV movie hosted brilliantly by Alfre Woodard dispels and enlightens the viewer’s with four key themes concerning the Underground…

“The control which designers know in the print medium, and often desire in the web medium, is simply a function of the limitation of the printed page. We should embrace the fact that the web doesn’t have the same constraints, and design for this flexibility” sustain the notion of the cultural clash between web design and print design. Though print and web designs shares mutual features, there are significant deviations that distinct individual medium - fluctuating from file formats, tools,…

Project background Auckland is the largest city and main transport or business hub of New Zealand. Moreover it is a financial capital of New Zealand most of the economy of the country based on this city. St Marys Bay and Northcote are the two suburb of Auckland and its population in 2006 was 2,481 (1) and 4,122 (2). It is estimated by government of New Zealand that major structure breakdown will occur during upcoming ten years. New Zealand government found that lack of connection between two…

captivities and freedoms within both the novel and film mediums of Persepolis, and how these two versions of the same story are capable as well as limited in exploring this concept. Through this exploration, the novel’s more complete exploration of these concepts will be demonstrated. An immediate distinction between the novel and film is the use of artwork and space. While both mediums explore and utilize these elements, due to the differences of mediums they are implemented in contrasting…

improvised a story about this historical figure, with as the only starting point, his imagination. In The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, the author Michael Ondaatje uses the medium of photography as a recurrent metaphor throughout the whole book to emphasize the mysteriousness of the character of Billy the Kid. The first page of the book, the descriptions of Billy’s visual impressions and the recurrent photographs found in the story…

or the wanton lover regarding carnal pleasure. Then, he delivers a second speech which begins with him discarding the truth in the prior speech and refers to true beauty. With this book, Plato wants us to find our own understanding of the book through analysis and synthesis. This is capability to break down the whole book down and put it back together to find the truth of it ourselves. This is Plato’s dialectics. Furthermore, Socrates and…

1.1. Understanding Media The term ‘Media’ is understood in two ways and it is the plural of the term ‘medium’. The word refers to the print medium, the broadcast medium and the internet. It refers to the media through which messages are delivered. The print medium, which is the oldest form, includes pamphlets, newspapers and books. The broadcast medium includes TV and radio. The Internet medium includes all this and much more. The media also refers to billboards, applications and photographs.…

resonates with them the most, however that can not be found with the lack of representation in movies. Diversity in media, books, toys, and other mediums is an aspect in America that needs reformation. Since the United States is seen as the melting pot of the world, one would believe erroneously that the United State is teeming with diversity with respect to the formerly stated mediums. I believe that diversity is imperative throughout our everyday lives and in media. Diversity in media,…