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Visual Arts & Film Studies Essays

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Does the Technique of Improvisation in Acting and Technical Field Really Improves or Impoverishes the Film Visual Arts & Film Studies Coursework
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Mike Leigh feels that the common man has witnessed so much of violence through films, video games and on TV that he has become “desensitized” and therefore the improvisation portrayed by his characters who are rather odd but still very human is intended to rouse them from the stupor or lethargy and make them “feel” compassion “for others” around us 
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Photo Collage Project Responces Visual Arts & Film Studies Assignment
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Protection of the environment is a concept that exists in Bahrain but often loses out to commercial concerns. There are relatively few areas marked as conservation sites, despite the presence of a few rare species of wildlife, but with a growing environmental awareness in Bahrain over the last few years this is likely to improve in the future.
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Oliver Stone: Director Visual Arts & Film Studies Term Paper
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Although primarily seen as a form of inexpensive entertainment and amusement, the films coming out of Hollywood can often provide a great deal of insight into the functions of the greater society.  Films capture the sense of current modes of thought in terms of political, social and economic structure in a given part of society.
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City of God - Film of Despair Visual Arts & Film Studies Term Paper
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The authenticity of the film and its narrative comes from the fact that it was based on a real shantytown in a corner of Rio de Janeiro.   It captures the lives of its inhabitants across three generations in one of the most dangerous places that the civilized world had seen.
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Leonardo da Vinci: A Man of His Times or a Visionary Visual Arts & Film Studies Assignment
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The author states that the artistic techniques were recorded regarding his use of color and light to create more realistic, dimensional images on a flat surface. The word ‘Renaissance’ literally means ‘rebirth,’ but “the term ‘Renaissance’ might now be defined as a model of cultural history.
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Twentieth Century German Photomontage and Naturalism Visual Arts & Film Studies Assignment
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In Germany during the 1920s, there was a wave οf mass media images οf the so-called New Woman. These images were seductive in their depiction οf modern women as having greater mobility and sexual freedom. Paradoxically, the reality for the New Woman included entrapment in low-paying jobs and subjection to male-dominated hierarchies.  
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The Auteur Theory and Jean Luc Goddard's Work Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The referential frame is evident as her emotional reaction to Carl Dreyer’s La passion de Jeanne d’Arc and her identification with the protagonist is discussed, Godard appears to be injecting historical realities side by side with the narration about Nana to further accentuate the impression of a documentary and thus reality 
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Fargo Scene Analysis Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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Basically, the film opens on the day Jerry Lundegaard hires two hitmen to kidnap his wife, agreeing that they can have half of the ransom money and he’ll keep the other half.  It turns out, Jerry is in significant financial trouble and has a passively adversarial relationship with his father-in-law, who has lots of money but refuses to consider helping Jerry get ahead financially.  
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Manet: The Realism of Human Body Visual Arts & Film Studies Case Study
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His use of realist techniques is envisioned in an almost blatant referral to the social reality of his times and allows him to formulate a bold commentary on morality and gender relations. Moreover, Manet developed a highly individualized quality of presenting human bodies by endowing his works with the potential to render his vision by means of evoking obvious connotations. 
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The Modern Mona Lisa Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Throughout history, women’s depiction in paintings and other types of images has been designed most often as a means of pleasing the male gaze.  “According to usage and conventions which are at last being questioned but have by no means been overcome – men act and women appear.  Men look at women.  Women watch themselves being looked at”.
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Features of the Film Story Lagaan Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The Director of the film, Ashutosh Gowariker, and the art designer Nitin Desai has given rise to a genuine scene of an Indian village Champaner of 1893 (ApunKaChoice.com, n.d.). The story of the film sets in the second half of the nineteenth century and points out the misfortunes and unfairness committed by the British against the poor guiltless farmer community who faces these odd situations with great courage and self-respect. 
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Goodfellas: How Elements Transcend Enhancement Visual Arts & Film Studies Assignment
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The author states that the fils starts as Henry is driving a car with something loud and disturbing bumping occasionally from the trunk and two other men in the front section of the car with him, who he identifies as Jimmy and Tommy while he asks if they hear the noise too. A badly beaten and bloody man is in the trunk trying to get out.
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Bicycle Thieves by Vittorio de Sica Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The strong script behind the scenes is hidden effectively in this make-belief realism. The real events outside the script that takes place in front of the camera are cleverly interwoven to the plot. It adds more meaning to the movie since the story deals with the time and space (post-War industrial Italy) in which it is screened.
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King Kong of 1933 - Analysis Visual Arts & Film Studies Assignment
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The film King Kong, The black-and-white version made in 1933 is a typical Hollywood film.  All aspects of the film have trademark Hollywood elements in them.  The following passages will see an explication of this assertion. In many ways, this is a groundbreaking film.  It set a precedent for all the subsequent thriller/horror/animation films that have been made in Hollywood. 
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How Can Seeing a Live Performance Enhance Your Experience or Reading of a Drama Visual Arts & Film Studies Assignment
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Literature is usually perceived to be aimed at being the reflection of society. Drama is a fabricated story in the fabricated environmental setting, with a predefined end. In order to get success among the masses, excluding those who read literature for the sake of literature, the drama needs to reflect reality.
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Analysis of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 1954 Movie Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers was being shot simultaneously with Brigadoon, “a production led by three of the four members of the highly successful ‘Freed unit,’ which comprised Vincente Minelli, Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen and of course Arthur Freed, and was being touted as MGM’s next big hit” (Northcott 2007). 
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Cultural Values Enforced by Hollywood Films Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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Although primarily seen as a form of inexpensive entertainment and amusement, the films coming out of Hollywood can often provide a great deal of insight into the functions of the greater society.  Films capture the sense of current modes of thought in terms of political, social and economic structure in a given part of society.  
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Body Art Evaluation and Western Tattoos Visual Arts & Film Studies Article
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Beginning in pre-historic times, the practice of tattooing has been used as a means of decorating the body or denoting information important to the individual.  The art has been used on the bodies of tribe members, gang members, military members, and other individuals in every culture throughout the world. 
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Representation of British Identity in the Films of Post World War II Visual Arts & Film Studies Case Study
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The Second World War was clearly a defining moment in British history, but it was also of immense importance to the British film industry. What started out as a means of conveying propaganda became a way of revisiting, and rethinking the experiences of the years of war. In this way, many of the war films of the post World War period turned out to be true portrayals of the British identity.
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Changes to Cinema due to Television Visual Arts & Film Studies Term Paper
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The producer does not have to worry much about low-box office return because even if the film is not yet shown, it is already assured of showing in pay television or cable channels. Producers can get additional funding through the pre-sale of the film or while it is still in the process of production. Pay cable and home video need feature films.
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Imperial War Museum North in Manchester Visual Arts & Film Studies Assignment
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The author states that the award-winning building is designed by an international architect, Daniel Libeskind. The museum is a talking figure of our world that has been torn apart by differences and conflicts over the years. It is situated at The Quays, about 2 miles from Manchester city center.
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Phenomenon of Realism in Films Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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Movies, as one o the most strong media, has always been subject to critism regarding its exaggeration of the actual facts. Interestingly, tearing off the hypothetical world of exaggeration, realism has always been present in the cinemas. This paper is an attempt to justify the claim that realism does exist in movies.
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Is Harry Potter Who He Is Because of Nature or Nurture Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The old concept of personality development – according to theorists – is that developmental changes are controlled by biological factors, i.e. nature.  Our behavior “unfolds” over time, like a plant growing from seed to flower.  Other theorists also advocate the “nurture” concept: the psychological environment is the master of our development.
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Justifying an Evaluation Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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Based on structure, the movie can be distinguished into two specific components: the initial component of the movie introduces the main characters Charlie, the pilot, and the female Inuit native, Kanaalaq, as well as their innate attitudes and traits, and just as significantly, the emerging signs of the potential clash between the two characters.
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Hollywoods China Doll - Dragon Lady Syndrome Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The origins of the stereotypical images of Chinese women in Western society are analysed, and how they were transferred to filmmaking in such a way that the image of the Chinese and Asian woman is one that is referred to by this author as China Doll Syndrome. The thesis explores the early Hollywood films actress Anna May Wong worked in.  
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Film Adaptations of Hamlet Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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However, the Zeffirelli version remains closer to the original in comparison both in its treatment and setting, while Almereyda has entirely modernized the play, experimenting with plot reconstruction and fully altered setting. Zeffirelli sticks to the claustrophobic
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Hollywood Cinema - Culture of Viewing Visual Arts & Film Studies Assignment
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The whole of Europe experienced this boom. However, with the end of World War 1, the focus of this boom shifted to the United States of America, which started assuming the top position. The first major success that American cinema faced was that of ‘The Great Train Robbery’, directed by Edwin. S. Porter.
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The Role of Women in Pedro Almodvars Films - Todo Sobre Mi Madre and Volver Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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This study hopes to shed light on the films’ depiction of women as an illustration of who they really are and how they feel. This paper also aims to show how the film-director Almodóvar contributes to the causes of feminist and gay/lesbian movements through these two films, as quoted in Time Magazine in 2005.  
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The Terrifying Scenes of Alfred Hitchcocks Psycho Visual Arts & Film Studies Coursework
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Psycho is based on a story of a serial killer, but Hitchcock added some subplots to make it more suspenseful and horrifying to the movie viewers. American economy in the ’60s was still in crisis.  Traditional values still overpowered over the age of bikinis or Americans showing a lot of flesh in public.
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The Impact of German Film Industry on the Development of World Cinema Visual Arts & Film Studies Case Study
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Rumelin [2005] observes, “when the film is most widely considered a medium of entertainment it remains, as before, a cultural object and a cultural messenger”, likewise films carry the cultural message and political and social background of the respective country. The film industry has stepped into the field of innovations. 
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Black Images in Film Visual Arts & Film Studies Coursework
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The first from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr which says that violence is never justified under any circumstance while the second quotation from Malcolm X says that violence is intelligent when it is in self-defense. Thus Lee leaves it to the audience to reflect on the quotes and decide what was right and what was wrong. 
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Renaissance Attitudes Works of Art Differ From Those of the Present Day Visual Arts & Film Studies Assignment
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Renaissance period refers to a time when the mode of thought itself changed as it has been never changed before. New information was being garnered every day by scientists and scholars: theories hitherto held heretically were being pursued in a mood of exhilaration and hope and those held inviolable were cut to smithereens.
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How Useful Are the Analogies That Can Be Made Between Films, Daydreams, and Dreams Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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The idea that spectators looking at something being performed (whether live or on a screen as in the film) is somewhat similar to a dream, is not new to the 20th Century when movies appeared. One of the most famous creators of performances in history, William Shakespeare, referred to the similarity between drama and dreaming within his plays. 
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Film and Television Genres Visual Arts & Film Studies Case Study
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The capability of this technology to transmitted different entertainment programs and news directly to people’s homes makes it a critical national resource for communicating news information as well as the main source of cultural exposure amongst the local citizens. Over the years, British television producers have created numerous television programs that are designed to entertain the viewers.
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The Movie Eve's Bayou Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The relationship between Eve's older sister and her father is damaged and we learn that it is not her father who tried to seduce her, but it was she who instead tried to seduce him. Thus we see the sister slowly begin to unravel and as she further tarnishes her father's image in her young sister's eyes.
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Artemesia Gentileschi Visual Arts & Film Studies Assignment
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The author states that by careful observation of her paintings, it could be vividly understood that her works have been influenced by the styles of Caravaggio. As an Italian painter, Caravaggio was noted with the definitive use of shadows in his paintings, giving his subjects with the contrast of shadows and lights to achieve the astonishing effect.
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The Dimension of Leadership in the Movie Alive Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The author states that in the 70 days that they stayed there, they were exposed to the deaths of their close friends and relatives who did not survive the ordeal. Twenty-nine died in the mountains and a mere sixteen survived. Such life and death situations necessitated leadership in some circumstances.
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Pleasures of Science Fiction Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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Fans can take the ‘completely furnished world’ of Firefly and reinvent it wholly or partially for their continuing entertainment and ‘pleasure.’ They can ‘break, dislocate’ and ‘unhinge’ it and then return to it as a familiar location and methodically constructed zone of archetypes and ‘family’.
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Mommie Dearest Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The author states that at the beginning of the movie the audience gets the impression that Joan Crawford’s decision to adopt Christina comes out of her genuine desire and need, especially when she reveals her romantic lover, the Hollywood lawyer, Greg Savitt that a child can fill the void in her life.
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Martin Scorsese Use of Violence in Films Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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It is no secret that the industry has evolved from a microscopically censored one to a very liberal one employing not only violence but other graphic filmmaking and directorial choices that have of late caused industry and non-industry professionals and consumers to be highly critical of the liberties taken by the industry.  
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Sleepy Hollow by Tim Burton Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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Even the events that follow do not disprove his beliefs, though they terrify him to death at first. After he meets the Horseman and witnesses one of the murders, Crane falls ill. He recovers and returns his self-control with Katrina’s help. Crane finishes the investigation with the help of his deductive method, proving the strength of logic and sense.
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Analysis of Camilo Jose Vergaras Award-Winning: The New American Ghetto Visual Arts & Film Studies Case Study
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In the end, we may conclude by saluting the author for a unique project undertaken in an era where people put money and professional growth above national interest, applaud the efforts taken to present to the world an unimaginable America and sum up the entire award-winning book in just one word: Phenomenal.
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Commercial Aesthetic of Titanic Visual Arts & Film Studies Case Study
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 Its creator has managed to combine the strong sentiments with the exceptional visual effects in a way that the spectator feels like being actually in Ocean. The above assumption has been also supported by the theorists of the particular area, like Maltby and Sanders et al. who all agreed that Titanic is an excellent example of commercial aesthetic.
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Violence in the Movies Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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We have seen violence in cinema create all types of reactions from people; tough criticism, assassination attempts, and claims of demonic possession. There is something else that these films have in common besides the violence though. They are of course all GREAT films. All of these filmmakers set out to make a film that for the most part tells the truth, whether it be about war, street life, or demonic possession for that matter. 
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Destiny in Human Life in the Films Grand Canyon, Ground Hog Day and Christmas Carol Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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A chance happening is an incident is one in which no reason can be identified to explain its purpose or cause. It is also called an accidental event. “Destiny implies that there is some Power which decrees or determines the course of events beforehand” (Is Destiny a Matter of Choice or A Matter of Chance?).
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Comparing Artwork Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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For many artists, the inspiration for their works stems from the things that they know or have experience with.  It is for this reason, among others, that comparing two works of art from differing time periods helps one understand more about the artisan’s culture, beliefs, interpretations and intentions.
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The Film Wall Street Directed by Oliver Stone Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The film highlights the low representation of women in the industry and the predominantly patriarchal nature of Wall Street. The film also highlights in its conclusion, the inevitable destruction that results from materialistic, self-serving goals in organizations and provides food for thought on the need for the introduction of ethical standards in the functioning of corporations.
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Postmodern in Action Visual Arts & Film Studies Essay
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ost-modernism is more practical and worldly accurate because it takes into account the ideas of modernism also. They claim that it’s important that one is not just stylish but one should also care about their actions. Globalization and other things have altered the world and there are new portals of communication and periods. They consider post-modernism to be sophisticated and advanced in comparison with modernism.
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Disclosure by Michael Crichton Visual Arts & Film Studies Movie Review
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The author states that the film also highlights the power play that is a constant feature in mega-corporations, especially during a merger as is the case in “Disclosure” and the fading of ethical issues when it is overpowered by the greed for profits. The protagonist is Tom Sanders, employed at a Seattle based Company.
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The Roman Tradition in Art Visual Arts & Film Studies Assignment
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The author states that the horse under Charlemagne seems almost too small for the larger body and one of the back hooves remains slightly raised. There are two possible reasons for this. The first is that Charlemagne was a physically larger man in a time when horses were traditionally smaller.
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