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Visual Arts & Film Studies Essays

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The Human and Posthuman in Edward Scissorhands Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Before delving into the complex interaction between those two ideas, we must first define what the terms “human” and “posthuman” mean in the context of this discussion. The former is easy enough to recognize. A human is a member of Homo sapiens sapiens, a species which prides itself on being the most intelligent group.
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Stereotypes of Happiness in Movies: Disneys Snow White Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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“Once upon a time...” is probably one of the most widely known phrases. It is the password that unlocks the portal to a world of imagination, magic, and entertainment, the world of fairy tales.  Each person finds a different type of asylum within the region of the make-believe, as fairy tales can mean different things to various people.
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The Lamentations of Petrus Christus and Ludovico Carracci Visual Arts & Film Studies Assignment
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The author states that the two by Petrus Christus and Ludovico Carracci are no exception. Both pieces attempt to capture the identical moment in time when Jesus was taken down from the cross and while the event is the same for both pieces and there are certainly other similarities, these both represent quite different aspects of the event.
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Lost In Translation Visual Arts & Film Studies Case Study
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There are such movies such as The Music Lovers by Ken Russell and Men In Black by Barry Sonnenfeld but this one is a class in its own.  It deals with cultural shock and gap and the loneliness and alienation that emanate from it and how transported foreigners react and adapt to unfamiliar cultures.  In this movie, two American castaways are transported by force of necessity to far away from Tokyo, Japan.
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How & Why Does Narrative Cinema Provide Pleasure Visual Arts & Film Studies Research Paper
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As the paper outlines, changes have occurred in filmmaking styles, which have shifted from a focus on storytelling to a greater emphasis on other effects and innovative filming techniques that impact upon the viewing experience. Film narrative earlier comprises a story stricture that relied upon tensions, culmination, and resolutions.
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Reservoir Dogs as an Example of American Independent Cinema Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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American Independent movie came into origin at the beginning of the twentieth century. An independent film is a film that is made without the support and requirement of Hollywood studios. Independent movies are also called Indie movies. They are called independent because there are not any kinds of studio restrictions on the movie-making.
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Comparison of the Play and the Film: The Crucible Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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There are examples of literary texts that are converted for mass consumption by the general public in the form of a feature film. The text suffers a great deal in interpretation as the limitations of the screen necessarily entail a significant reduction in the amount of material that can be conveyed. In very rare cases, the text does not suffer to a great degree by its transition to film.
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Passion of Christ by Mel Gibson Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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Film scenes can offer a visual portrayal of abstract theories and concepts taught in organizational behavior and management courses as well as psychology topics. Inexperienced students will likely benefit from the use of film because of a greater feeling of reality. Showing concepts through different film scenes also shows the application of these concepts in different situations.
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The Pursuit of Happyness Critique Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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In doing so, the author hopes to convince the reader of the veracity of the following thesis statement: The Pursuit of Happyness is an average commercial film that fails to live up to its initial promise as a result of redundant themes and a predictable plot that leaves the viewer lingering with the question “What’s new?”
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A Critique of the Film Lost and Delirious Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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Generally, I have to admit that I am surprised by the reactions of other characters to the lesbian girls.  Considering that most girls in the school as well as the parents and administrators were born and brought up in the United States, it is a little disappointing to find them acting anachronistically.
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Crime Scenes in the Movie Zodiac Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The film brings about a greater understanding of how society seeks to capture criminals and how people react to unknown, intangible threats that are a part of life. While it is not a historic, life-altering film, it is certainly thought-provoking and quite intelligent which makes it a wonderful film viewing experience.
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Quentin Tarantino Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The author states that another big influential fact is that, Tarantino brought the criminal activities and the crimes to the notice of the people and the same are followed by so many directors these days. After watching a Tarantino movie people feel that they have just witnessed a discussion, so he involves the audience in that discussion.
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A Troubling Beauty: Salome by Oscar Wilde Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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To begin with, Salome’s beauty cannot be denied. As king of the land, Herod Antipas is the most powerful person in the play, yet he finds himself unable to look away from her. As his wife’s daughter, Salome is in a position where she can say whatever she wishes to Herod without fear of repercussions.
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The author states that the humor in this movie is based on the intercultural differences between the American way of life and the Greek family, and Toula’s distance from a world in which she thinks she does not fit. The present project aims at analyzing the types of speech acts, the illocutionary points and the request strategy types in this movie.
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The Human Condition as Seen Through Art Work Visual Arts & Film Studies Coursework
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Leighton’s painting came from a different era, one in which it was acceptable to value one’s life while still on earth. It is only through this sort of world view that the sacrifices that Abelard and Heloise made would have been acceptable and would not have to result in either person finding themselves in wither a circle of hell or a level of purgatory.
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An Evaluation of An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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This is shown in subtle language by the author but is revealed in a more concrete manner on film. There occurs to the doomed person a flashback of all the important events in his life. These events flash before his eyes in stark reality and in swift succession to make him know the real reason for this wonderful gift of life.
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Evoking Emotion in Film Visual Arts & Film Studies Coursework
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The color blue also makes some strong points throughout the movie, interestingly used both to portray truth and justice as well as obscurity and confusion.  The first time Garrison’s office building is shown, the camera is looking up at it and the pure blue sky above it, giving a sense of relief and clarity.
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American Independent Cinema Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange is The Rocky Horror Picture Show’s rival for the title of the best cult movie of all time. That is the consensus of so many movie aficionados.  That it is a cult movie is moot and academics it is a futuristic, campy and controversial movie that deals with violence in a Dystopian society.
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Lucy Aubrac as a Historical Drama Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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Using the life story of Lucy Aubrac is the exact model of how to make the film an embodiment of war, human rights violations, political struggle, death, cruelty, freedom, and legacy. Lucie Aubrac’s life story is the most fitting story to depict all these in a single film, alongside her love story with Raymond.
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Summary of Gattaca Movie Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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Knowledge-as-contact was exemplified very well by the relation of friendship between Jerome and Vincent, Vincent and Irene and even Anton and Vincent while knowledge-as-control was exemplified by the goings-on at Gattaca where knowledge is through the sampling of one’s urine, hair, blood, saliva and whatever registered on the screen of the computer.
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Analysis of The Maltese Falcon and Le Mepris Movies Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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Godard courageously cultivates a budding divisive pattern to draw the line somewhere between garishly common-place melodrama and disaffected, yet, openly demanding rebellion. The story is founded on Moravia’s novel and the film was entirely made in Italy. The story invariably shows the consequences of estrangement between a husband and a wife.
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Osama by Sadiq Barmak Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The story takes place in Afghanistan when the country was ruled by the fundamentalist Taliban forces. The imposition of strict Islamic law and observance meant that a family of women, left without the social benefit of a male in the home to escort them in public and to work and to provide for them; meant isolation. 
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The Genre of a Film Visual Arts & Film Studies Term Paper
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It may be concluded that the interpretation of film text and images may be a cognitive and psychosomatic function. The viewer’s ability to distinguish fantasy, illusion, and reality can produce objective and subjective experiences, which will determine the manner in which film material is interpreted and evaluated.  
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The Secret of Hollywood Success Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Hollywood has been able to attract people from all corners of the world owing to the sheer class with which movie making is associated in this industry, the broad range of subjects that are dealt with as well as due to the effort that goes into film making on the part of the actors as well as the production personnel.
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Australian Films Visual Arts & Film Studies Research Paper
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Speaking of the Australian film industry today, we could say that though they continue to produce a reasonable number of films each year, yet they are no match for the films produced in the U.S which turn out to be much cheaper than their own films. Moreover, any film industry needs a certain amount of support from its government which it does not receive.
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Mrs. Doubtfire: Analysis of the Film Using Bergsons Essay on Laughter Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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Bergson (2004) suggested that ‘the attitudes, gestures, and movements of the human body are laughable in exact proportion as that body reminds us of a mere machine; there is no need to follow this law through the details of its immediate applications, which are innumerable’ (Bergson, 2004, section IV).
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Art and Society in Early Modern Europe Visual Arts & Film Studies Annotated Bibliography
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Steele considers the parallel between poetry and art in Renaissance Venice. Steele suggests that the initial ‘charm’ of a beautiful woman in a portrait is not, as earlier suggested, the point of the work itself, but that it entices the viewer into a further examination of moral and intellectual questions raised by the portrayed beauty.
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Portraying Sex on the Television Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Therefore we can say that although many people feel offended by these programs, not many are willing to have them banned from the TV. However due to the effects that they are having on the children and young people, there is a need to put some restrictions on the program to ensure that they are not accessed all the time by children. Here the option of regulation the time when these programs are aired comes strongly with majority support.
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The Demonized Woman Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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In first reducing Alex to a voice on a cassette tape and then silencing her altogether by choking the life out of her, Dan asserts his masculinity and dominance while Beth, in shooting Alex without a quiver, proves her right to defend her home and family while still retaining her happiness in being able to be ‘merely’ a wife and mother 
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Film Noir: A Popular Film Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The popularity of film noir declined only with the advent of TV and according to Bruce Eder  "the final nail was hammered into the genre's coffin when color photography became standard for Hollywood films." Color could not convey the bleak atmosphere that could be conveyed so well with black and white colors.
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Stereotypes Dominating the Movies Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and The Searchers Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Stereotypes are prevalent in society because they have been allowed to continue, for a variety of reasons, and films like this can continue this effect if they are believed to be true. Therefore, filmmakers must find a way in which to avoid these stereotypes and present films in a manner that reflects the values or society or they risk herding society into the direction of these stereotypes.
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Lady Liberty in Todays Culture Visual Arts & Film Studies Assignment
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The author states that the suggestion of creating a token of the pleasant French-American relations that resulted from the aid given by France to America during the American Revolution was conceived by Edouard-René Lefebvre de Laboulaye, a French historian and a reputed interpreter and enthusiast of the American government. 
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The Graduate by Mike Nichols Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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Benjamin is expected to immediately pursue a career in plastics, a career that emphasizes the emptiness of the adult corporate world before he’s really even had a chance to realize that he’s finished school. As he becomes involved with Mrs. Robinson, he loses any desire to enter the corporate world in favor of the sensual world that she has introduced to him.
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The Elephant Man Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The author states that the film makes us realize how much physical appearance is a necessity for societal acceptance and how much an individual’s intellect is submerged by his form. More awakening is the reception that the society endows to its unfortunate citizens; which despite the Victorian era having given away to modernity has not changed much.
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A Critical Appraisal of a Permanent Exhibition in London Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The Manitoba Museum οf Man and Nature will co-operate with the Manitoba Archives to ensure cross-referencing between the museum and archival collections and participation in joint activities such as public presentations, exhibitions, and training programs. The museum will also be working with Lower Fort Garry in its exhibition refurbishment program, and with the aboriginal community.
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Art: A Futile Endeavour or an Important Task Visual Arts & Film Studies Assignment
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The author states that beauty, grace, and melody are also ill-equipped for definition without a cultural or social context to frame the definition. Art, which may be a combination of several senses colliding with the cognitive process, becomes especially problematic as we search for a definition.
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The Film Michael Clayton by Tony Gilroy Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The scene in the taxi is a long, continuous shot that stays framed on Clayton’s face as the credits keep rolling. There is an extension of time in this scene, the minutes appear to stretch on and on with the character doing nothing but sitting in the taxi, while far in the background, there is the busy movement of people and traffic.
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Design Movements of the 20th Century Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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However, black and white contrasts were also employed, in this art form, with telling effect.  The veritable virtuoso in this type of art is Vasarely, who was born in Hungary. Its popularity was so great, in the 1970s that it made a bold foray into the world of fashion design. Nevertheless, its glory was short-lived and unlike Pop Art, Op Art did not attain the status of a popular mass movement.
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Shabtis and Egyptian Iconography Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The statue of Gudea of Lagash has been an icon of a good shepherd, a pious ruler, and a strong leader. Every detail of a work of art should be valued equally with the work as a whole, for, most of the time, it is in these details you would realize the value of art. From elements to visual metaphors, the worth cast upon by the iconography of objects is a remarkable step in understanding our history.
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Fight Club by David Fincher Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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A shot of Tyler’s foot depressing the gas peddle, and then a car on the side of the road stands between them and an embankment. There is a short take-off of the tire passing over highway flairs and then impact. The sound of the vehicles smashing together is delayed so that you see the impact before you hear it.
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A Short History of Japanese Film Industry Visual Arts & Film Studies Case Study
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Moreover, with the growing popularity of Japanese films in the west, Korean film productions suddenly carry on the trend and follow the tradition of the J-horror. In the light of these, questions of why Asian productions abruptly stream into the west all point to answers pertaining to the modern innovative concept of Japanese films.
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Character of Werther in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Whatever you want to call it - volatility or thuggery, passion or belligerence, courage or obstinacy - Wright has it. Wright's baby is named Nevada; he met her mother, Ruby O'Rourke, during the making οf his latest film, an antipodean Macbeth influenced by Melbourne's gangland wars. O'Rourke sings the witches' chant "Double, double toil and trouble''. 
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The History of Japanese Horror Cinema Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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During the 1960s, the film director and screenwriter Shindo Kaneto produced for the first time a companion jidai geki (historical drama) film – Onibaba (1964), in both of which a woman and her daughter-in-law prey upon lone samurai. In these films, Shindo uses existing traditional narratives and stage techniques to produce entirely original films.
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British Cinema in the 1980s Visual Arts & Film Studies Report
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I think that it is an inevitably more permissive path that British cinema has followed throughout history. The film has progressively become a far more accessible, and daring, medium as technological advances have allowed increased distribution channels for film and with a greater use οf more fantastic special effects, this has released the imaginations οf scriptwriters, producers, and directors.
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Platos Theories Have Proven Influential in a Wide Variety of Fields Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Art is good if it brings a person closer to the Forms, hence, the Truth. Generally, art is not good for Plato because it is already an imitation of an imitation. It is therefore twice removed from the Forms. If art and artists are to vindicate themselves, they should at least, for Plato, prompt a move back to the Forms.
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Different Cultures in Art Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The narrator of this essay aims to tell that the discovery of Coyolxauhqui in 1978 was dramatic for two reasons: first, the divine songs about the battle between Huitzilopochtli and Coyolxauhqui had been known since the middle of sixteenth century but it was the first time that the actual stone carving of the goddess came to light.
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The Lament for Icarus by Herbert James Draper Visual Arts & Film Studies Case Study
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By the same token, knowing the reason why the painting was created can often help to identify particular faces used in the paintings or other important elements that might otherwise go unnoticed.  Finally, it is also necessary to understand the time period in which the painting was created as this also helps to inform the elements of the piece and the techniques used to render it. 
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Performing the Real: An Analysis of Improvisation in Film Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Dover accompanied by his daughter to end his life. He undergoes emotional trauma and confused as his daughter takes him with eyes blinded and says the final goodbye. For unknown reasons he retracts from his motive, breaks down removes his blindfold to realizes that he is not on the cliff but on an open field 
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Analysis of Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves Movie Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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Many sequences in the movie making use of all these elements in an understated manner and exhibit De Sicca’s mastery of craft and form that has made it the most representative among Italian Neorealist movies. It reiterates the relationship between not just the text and context, but also the character and the context. 
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Arts Council of Great Britain Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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From the break-up emerged the arts council of England which took up the responsibility of being the distribution center for the National Lottery. Shortly after a few years, the Arts Council of England was further merged with the regional arts board to form a single organization for the development and control of arts and culture in England. 
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