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The Producers: Max Bialystock as a Comic Hero Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The character of Max Bialystock is quiet far from being charming, ethical and upright, still it evokes a kind of mirthfully skeptic attention and appreciation from the audience owing to the varied ludicrously serious facets of his personality, which amply qualify him to be labeled as a comic hero.
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In a Family Studies Perspective: My Big Fat Greek Wedding Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The role of the family in the society has not changed so much since the dawn of human civilizations. It is an accepted fact that the family shapes an individual’s overall personality as well as his or her choices, beliefs, values as well as responsibilities to the family and to the state.
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Sarcophagus Relief Depicting Labors of Hercules Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The work named as Sarcophagus Relief Depicting Labors of Hercules, is a Roman sculpture, by an unknown artist, which belongs to 3rd–4th century A.D. Besides, this work was done in marble, which is still popular among the artists who are interested in sculpture.
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The History of the Taj Mahal in Agra, India Visual Arts & Film Studies Research Paper
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However, all beauties have truth behind them and many historical facts which can defame them. The controversial historical facts and the unmatched architect make the Taj Mahal one of the most famous monuments of all time. The architectural exhibit of Taj Mahal was the mixture of Persian and Hindu cultural and engineering elements (Mobile references, 2007, n.p.).
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The Innocents of Jack Clayton Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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In the movie The Innocents, directed by Jack Clayton, one of the main characters is Mrs. Giddens, an insecure and paranoid woman who in her need of affirmation becomes mentally unstable.  Because of her need for affirmation, she tries desperately to capture the attention of people around her, by making up stories of ghosts.   
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Idealistic versus Naturalistic Art Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The sculpture has many idealistic qualities to it that aid in celebrating the royal image of the king. For example, the piece shows Louis XIV as a Roman emperor, calling on the authority of the ancients to equate him with the heroes of the ages. He is shown wearing a contemporary curly wig and sitting atop a strong steed, further demonstrating his ties to authority and nobility.
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Impact of Performance Art on Art Itself Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Art is continually evolving. Various events and circumstances often affect it and often generate various changes and improvements. Wars, famine, poverty, drought, and other events have often had an impact on art, and have often driven artists into fits of inspiration with various masterpieces. This paper focuses on performance artists.
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Criticial review on Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth film (2006) Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The film was released, in the year 2006, with the original title being El Laberinto Del Fauno. This is one of the best works directed by Guillermo Del Toro. The film was nominated for the category of the best foreign language film, in the 79th academy awards of the year 2007.
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Concepts and modes of expression in human imagination, values, and emotions Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Importantly, art has adopted various styles over the history, which has advanced with humanity’s talents, interests and perceptions about the prevailing situations. Indeed, art is a reflection of the state of humanity and culture, hence dynamism presented by these virtues are constantly depicted in it.
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Trainspotting Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The critics found it difficult to decide whether the movie is a tragedy or a comedy or whether the movie is about drugs (heroin) or about the disparities in the British society, especially between the English and the Scottish. The story of the movie revolves around the group of friends who lived in Edinburgh and who were addicted to heroin.
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Impressionist and Post Impressionist Art and Sculpture Visual Arts & Film Studies Term Paper
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This met harsh opposition from the art community of France. This name of the art style came from the title of Claude Monet’s work named as the “impression, Sunrise”. Claude Monet provoked the critics of Louis Leroy who had published an article to coin in a satire in the Parisian newspaper.
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Black Women in Modern Science Fiction Media: Rosaria Dawson in Men in Black 2 Visual Arts & Film Studies Research Paper
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Appearance of black women in science fiction films is important since this genre is the one place where every social issue can be seen, for instance, gender roles that have been switched as well as exploration of civilization of black women that had been lost over the past years.
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Black Women in Science Fiction Movie Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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It is noteworthy that, during the production of Star Trek, there was a move by civil rights activists. The move aimed at reversing the situation that brought about segregation and oppression of the blacks. Martin Luther King was a notable leader in the movement (Finkelman 439). By the time science fiction appeared on NBC, the movement had been at its peak.
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Pink Floyd: The Wall and Quadrophenia Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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For instance, the adaption of the album The Wall to the film Pink Floyd-The Wall and the music Quadrophenia to a film bearing a similar name did not bring a change in rock culture but enlivened the performance of rock.Initially, rock artists could record their pieces and performance to their audiences without displaying a movie of the same. The emergence of rock films helped in promoting the rock culture through visual display. While the performance of rock music centred on recording as means of promoting the rock culture, film performance promoted the visual display of the live performance.
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Alvin Ailey's Polotics in the Art of Dance Visual Arts & Film Studies Research Paper
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Ailey was keen on integrating styles in dance that are influenced not just by white or black America but by other cultures as well, including Asian and Latin American. It is because of this that he was able to establish a reputation as a genuine artist whose creativity in dance is unbound by stereotypes, traditions, racial discrimination and nationalism.
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Waiting for Superman (2010) Film Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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After its release, there were several opinions and programs on education reforms on its impact and influence to the society. Storytelling has the authority of moving audiences and even generates debate regarding a certain social issues. This movie is a documentary film.
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Rebellion against an Authoritarian Society Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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He is transferred to a state mental hospital, where he is under evaluation for his “insanity.” During this time, McMurphy makes friends with several “inmates,” especially Billy Bibbit (Brad Dourif) and the “deaf and dumb” “Chief” Bromden, also called “Broom” (Will Sampson).
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Back to the Future by Robert Zemeckis Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Biff bullies George and Marty helps him. What happens next is an incredible thing: Marty’s mother falls in love with Marty instead of George. When Marty meets Doc in 1955, he asks to bring him back to 1985. Marty has almost failed to make his parents meet each other and thus their family was in danger.  
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Visual Arts - Charlie Chaplin Visual Arts & Film Studies Research Paper
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Some producers create television commercials; others create movies meant for entertainment. The role played by visual artist is immense as this provides impetus to the entertainment scenes. Most of the themes in this industry are based on history. In this industry, several characters and people have been regarded as the icon.
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Pan's Labyrinth: a Critical Analysis Visual Arts & Film Studies Research Paper
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The main themes of the film center around rebellion, imagination and power struggles, all of which interweave between the fantasy and myth of the labyrinth and the reality of dealing with the post-war rebels in Spain. The purpose of this paper is to explore how these themes relate to the cinematography and style of Pan’s Labyrinth and how del Toro has used these to contribute to the overall form and structure of the film.
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Michael Ray Charles Forever Free Painting Visual Arts & Film Studies Admission/Application Essay
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This essay discovers 'Forever Free' Painting by Michael Ray Charles. Besides being a creative artist, he was also a talented basketball player.He completed his masters in fine arts from university of Houston in 1990 and his main work covered areas regarding African American stereotypes and the racial problems faced by the African Americans.
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Practical Project Assessment Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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It must be taken to account that Psycho provided fertile breeding ground for horror films in Hollywood and in considered by many to be a watershed (Psycho, 1960; Bassett et al., 2002; Bordwell & Thompson, 2004). In this sense, it must be said that the current project is nowhere as ambitious or large in scale and scope compared to Psycho or its remakes.
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Difference between Real and Artificial in the Age of Digital Technology Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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An image, despite being taken originally has to go through digitalization in this modern era. This includes alterations made on these images; transformations, editing, and renovations. A graphic designer would hold the job to modify a real picture through the many tools available. The detailing and working on a picture would lead it to have special effects that would make it evident that the picture has been simulated.
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The Edge of Human: Blade Runner Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The film depicts the conditions that must be present for one to be regarded as human. Moreover, the film raises the same concerns as those of past philosophers and religions that were downright. In addition, Blade Runner moves a step further by showing how people respond to the painful situations that surround them.
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Current Pop Culture Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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To function smoothly, pop culture requires that the masses be engaged in practicing and consuming the culture, thereby making it popular. It is for this reason perhaps that the current pop culture is regarded as the authentic culture of the people. In the contemporary society, it plays a vital role in revealing many facets of human behavior throughout history so much so that it has become hard to define human experience without it.
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An Analysis of Art and Architecture Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The spire is made of stainless steel and there are a band of hubcaps on a section of the spire. The top of the building is pyramid shaped with overlapping arches that give the building a taller appearance. The Chrysler is an example of Art Deco Architecture because of its use of angular, symmetrical geometric forms.
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Popular Culture and Contemporary Communication Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The stated intimate connection between fandom and objects and texts leads to a conclusion that celebrity has the same level of comparison or measurements to public consciousness. Self-presentation in most interpersonal techniques and relations of public impression management are currently under the mediation of celebrity influences.
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Sarah Bernhardt Biography Visual Arts & Film Studies Research Paper
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Her descent is partly Jewish. Ironically, she was raised in a Catholic convent. She was an illegitimate child to a French-Dutch couple. Her interest in theater paved her way at the age of 13 when she got an admission in the Drama school of the Paris Conservatoire.
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Les Miserables By Victor Hugo -Social Injustice Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The title which is in French can be loosely translated to mean villains or poor wretches. This sets the tone for the entire book, a book which brings out the France’s dark side in the 19th century. Hugo does not restrict the book to a specific theme, rather, the book ranges far and wide its most dominant themes being human suffering, poverty and ignorance.
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Summary of the Adventure in the human Spirit Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Western world is rich in music and culture ranging from antiquity to the present day. Survey and a close analysis of the characteristics of Western Arts, Antiquity, culture of the prehistoric times, reconnaissance and Baroque are well documented in the Adventures in the human spirit by Phillip Bishop particularly in the sixth edition of the book.
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Chinese Action Artist of 90's Visual Arts & Film Studies Admission/Application Essay
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Action songs or movies are always associated with certain individuals from some nations. For instance, it is rare to find action movies in the Islamic dominated regions like some parts of Asia. China is known to be popular with action performances and singers.
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Queen Charlotte: Public Sculpture with Whimsy Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The piece of sculpture that Kaskey created is dynamic and in tension as the visual representation of the body is stretched, pulled by forces of gravity and wind as they work against one another. She is balanced with her legs close to one another on a ball, her dress pressing to her body in rolling folds as the wind pushes against her.
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Survey of Modern Art Visual Arts & Film Studies Research Paper
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This researcher of this paper aims to analyze Herbert Boeckl, the modern art painter. He began the study of architecture at Vienna’s Technical University after he failed in the admission into the Fine Arts Academy in Vienna. After an initial period of study, he turned self skilled, to painting in 1914 exercising a lifelong weight on Austrian art.
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Ways in which Movies distort our image of the World Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Ways in which Movies distort our image of the World. A movie, which is also called a motion picture, is a set of still or moving images. A film production requires one to make images through animation or visual effects. Movies are powerful tools of educating the target group and a source of entertainment, too.
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Use of Motion Pictures in the Painful Deception Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Use of Motion Pictures in The Painful Deception The steps towards coming up with a compelling documentary include deciding on appropriate and riveting and carrying out elaborate research on the subject. Documentaries make use of different sources of motion pictures which may include recorded motion pictures to portray reality especially on subjects that are of much interest to the society.
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Americans Ordinary Life and Tsotsi Movie Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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While many points out at the film won the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, scholars and literary artists cite the film’s thematic value as proof of its importance. With its plot having been set to develop in South Africa, particularly in Johannesburg’s Alexandra slum, the film presents Tsotsi, a youthful street urchin as the protagonist.
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The Kid with a Bike Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The discussion seeks to answer the question: What three or four sequences are most important in the film? Why? What does the film reveal about the personality and interests of the filmmaker? In what ways were the techniques of film making used to get the film's message(s) across, or to make the message plausible or compelling? In what ways were they ineffective or misused?
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In a Better World by Susanne Bier Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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Sudanese people in her movie. She has tried to expose the miseries of the third world nation to the developed countries through her projection which has successfully gained the world’s attention towards Sudan and likewise countries. Bier has contrasted the lives and circumstances in warm Africa with those of chilly Danish green meadows.
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The Difference a Movie Paradise Now Makes to Regular Americans Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The film Paradise Now is about two best friends, Said and Khaled, who are recruited to do suicide attacks on Tel Aviv. The major theme of this movie, in my opinion, is the oppression of the Palestinians at the hands of the Israelis. And, in this way, the film would, and should, make a difference to ordinary Americans
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Perception Key Rothko and Arp and Conception Key City Planning Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Comparing Rothko’s Earth Greens with Arp’s, Growth is compelling to the imagination. Both leave us an image to interpret through our own lens. While the class described Rothko as sensuous, it may also be seen as masculine in it angles and the shapes which seem square and rectangular.
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Research and Comparing Documentaries Visual Arts & Film Studies Assignment
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According to another survey conducted by Kevin Brice of Wales University2 January 2012, the youths give their reasons for conversion as the need and desire to do everything for God. They also cite alcoholism and sexual immorality within the society as some of the reasons they opt to convert.
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Portlandia Television Show Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The author of this paper will begin with the statement that Portlandia refers to a satiric sketch comedy television series. It was set and shot in Portland, Oregon. The film features Saturday Night Live actors, Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein. Carries Brownstein is the lead singer and guitarist for Wild Flag.
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Grant Wood, How Painting Influenced his Life Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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This essay concerns the art of Grant Wood. Like every other artist, Grant Wood has been influenced by a number of aspects during the course of his short lived life; his family struggled right from the start in order to make ends meet and this need within his home life to earn and take care of family members stimulated his desire to push his creativity.
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Promoting Global Tolerance through the Film Industry Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The media is a very powerful tool that has a lot of influence all the world over. It is on record how the use of the media has been used to propagate various acts of evil including genocide and civil war in Rwanda and other parts of the world (Gellately and Stoltzfus, 2001, p.74). Equally disturbing is how the media has been so powerful in bringing about ethnic and religious conflicts in other parts of the world.
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The Blockbuster as the Defining Characteristic of Post-Classical Hollywood Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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 The arguments and debate have particularly existed because very few were those who thought the reign of the New Hollywood era otherwise known as the post-classical Hollywood would ever end; considering that the era came as a very influential phenomenon in the history of filmmaking in the United States.
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British Cinema and Industry 1980 and Present Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Films can belong to the genre of Western, comedy, horror, romantic, thriller and many more. Each genre of cinema has distinct narratives and themes. They are also known by their specific iconography and characters. Another important aspect that marks the identity of a film is its styling element like lighting, camera, sound etc.
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Visual arts: Film Adaptation Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Trends in visual arts changed when Erich von Stroheim tried an adaptation of the novel Mc Teague to a film in 1924 (Balio 256). Other similar adaptations are evident today in most films. Artists have made successful attempts in adapting novels, short stories, plays and other pieces of artwork to successful film show.
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The Hours-Critique Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The character of Virginia Woolf has a close relation to the actual and acclaimed writer whom people celebrated for a long time. Analysis of the film shows that there is an impressionistic and free flow of imitation of people’s consciousness and the thoughts of humans as well.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The film also showcases the role of nurse Ratched played by Louise Fletcher in the recovery of the institutionalized patients. The highlight of the entire film revolves around the escape scene, whereby McMurphy convinces a few of patients to escape with him.
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Shot by Shot Analysis of Stephen Spielbergs Film Schindler's List Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Shot (6) four seconds: The camera is at a high angle that shows R running through the interior stairs of the building. The banister of the stairs, which she shoots through the slots as she runs through the stairs is in the foreground is. The banister slots are sharply focused, as she remains blurry in stark contrast, the singing continues in the background (Zaillian and Thomas 30).
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