Literary Items And Cinematic Arts

What were Edwin S. Porter's significant contributions to the development of early narrative film? In what sense did Porter build upon the innovations of contemporaneous filmmakers, and for what purposes?

The article “Your Brain on Fiction” by Annie Murphy Paul (2012) asserts that reading can motivate the human brain, and even influences on a person’s behaviour, as has been proved by neuroscience. Not only well known parts of the brain, which responsible for written words, engage in the process of reading, and react to it, but also other sections, for instance, one of them relates to the sense of smell. The article provides information about the study that describes the reaction of participant’s brain to different words and their combinations. The words that have a strong connection with the smell or texture metaphors activate the sensory cortex. Moreover, researchers determine the response of the motor cortex by the words that represent movement.

Ellen Hunnicutt once said “. . . figurative language adds pizzazz. It raise work above the plain, the dull, the ordinary.” This quote explains how using figurative language helps create a more interesting and useful way of expressing a tone of a character or event.Figurative language is a uses of words, phrases, and sentences to help to make the characters and story line come more to live in the reader’s mind. Some examples of Figurative languages are similes, metaphors, hyperbole, personification, onomatopoeia, and many more. Figurative language help the reader see tone and mood in each of the example of figurative language because the reader can see or image the event or character in their mind. In a story, poem, or any form of writing, figurative language is extremely important to a reader because if a sentence didn’t have figurative language the reader may not find the story or poem interesting or even find it confusing and difficult to understand.In addition the use of figurative language is crucial when an author is writing. In the stories “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers and The Pigman, By Paul Zindel, the authors used Figurative language to develop the tone of their stories so that that the reader can visualize it in their mind.

Imagine yourself shipwrecked upon an uninhabited island. The experience of being stranded will cause you to pose many questions, with the possibility of only one of those questions to being answered. One answered question is: what is the purpose of literature? Northrop Frye, within “Motive for Metaphor”, uses the analogy of being within an uninhabited island to examines the purpose of literature by connecting it to the purposes of language and their use within the different worlds and levels of the mind Frye sees present.

Rarely has a film impacted an audience and held the test of time as the film Gone with the Wind. I have always been curious if director, Victor Fleming and producer, David O. Selznick and screenplay writer, Sidney Howard knew what they were creating a masterpiece and how this film would have such an enormous impact on audiences for years to come. Interestingly enough there were some who thought the film should not be made, as Irving Thalberg said to Louis B. Meyer in 1936, “Forget it Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel” (Ten Films that Shook the World).

When discussing the adaptation of books and short stories into film, one must begin with the understanding that adaptation can refer to two related yet distinct phenomena. The most common definition of adaptation connotes a kind of translation, wherein a filmmakers attempts to recreate a story more or less faithfully by translating the essential elements of the original text into a new medium. A less frequently discussed definition for adaptation refers to a kind of evolutionary response, wherein an organism or species changes in reaction to its environment. Film adaptations can exhibit this same kind of change in response to outside pressures, and the degree to which they diverge from their source texts reflects how much if this kind of adaptation is necessary. By comparing these two kinds of adaptation one is able to see how stories are simultaneously acted upon by the filmmaker and semi-autonomously adapting to external pressures, a realization that forces one to reexamine the common standards for what constitutes a good and a bad film adaptation.

A descriptive word that creates a vivid image in one’s mind is imagery. Imagery is used in all different forms of literature like short stories, dramas, and poems. Words or phrases that use imagery can describe the senses such as sight, taste, or even smell. Poets use imagery in their poems as it helps readers connect to the poem. Readers can create their own personal images and pictures in their head with the assistance of imagery. Imagery also has readers look at and analyze poems through their own individual experiences with the imagery used. Imagery can also set the mood for a poem. If words like “sunny” or “soft” are used in a poem they’d set a happy mood, but if words like “rainy” or “foggy” are used they’d set a sad mood. “The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot uses plenty of imagery to give readers insight as to what exactly the speaker sees and feels. The speaker in the poem takes what seems to be the woman he loves on a walk through, what he describes, “streets that follow like a tedious argument/ of insidious intent” (Eliot 759). The imagery that the speaker uses to describe the street is strange because instead of taking the woman he loves through a romantic and nice street, he describes the street as an argument, which is something that can be annoying,

for instance, in the text, when he stated words like ``excruciating pain``, instead of saying, it hurt a lot. or ``March rain drilling his jacket and drilling his body and washing away the blood that poured from his open wound.`` instead of saying, it started to rain harder.Lastly,he hooked the reader in, by creating pictures using all of this. for example, the higher level words add feeling to the text. in the text, for instance, when the author says ``excruciating pain,`` I could almost feel the pain Andy was going through. the author adds picture to that by describing the knife, when it cut Andy.(The knife entered just below his rib cage and had been drawn across his body violently, tearing a wide gap in his flesh.) but then we also know, that none of this wouldn't have happened if Andy had been

He further says that literature especially poetry is “more simply sensuous and passionate.” In order to make this connection, Frye uses a series of comparisons such as objective versus subjective words, intellect opposed to emotion, and arts in contrast to science.

In addition to the brain scans, the article titled “Romance novel” on Wikipedia also shows support to my claim of the romance genre affecting the reader.  The article states, “By the 2000s, romance had become the most popular genre in modern literature.”, and in speaking of 2008, “making up 13.5% of the consumer market.”  With evidence of readers choosing romance genres, I believe the audience will also lean toward an essay containing a romance genre.

    Film and literature are two media forms that are so closely related, that we often forget there is a distinction between them. We often just view the movie as an extension of the book because most movies are based on novels or short stories. Because we are accustomed to this sequence of production, first the novel, then the motion picture, we often find ourselves making value judgments about a movie, based upon our feelings on the novel. It is this overlapping of the creative processes that prevents us from seeing movies as distinct and separate art forms from the novels they are based on.

How does it feel starting over in a completely new place? In the movie “The Karate Kid”, Daniel, the main character, and his mom moved to the California from New Jersey because of his mom’s new job offer. Daniel started going to school in California and met a girl named Ali, whom he started to like. He started going out with her. Daniel was getting beat up by some bullies; one of them was Ali’s ex-boyfriend. They knew karate very well, but Daniel did not. So Daniel decided to learn karate. Daniel and his mom were living in an apartment and one day he discovers that the handyman at his apartment, Mr.Miyagi, knows karate very well. He asked Mr.Miyagi to teach him karate, and Mr.Miyagi became his karate teacher.

This Psychological Bulletin and Review will summarize the “mind wandering” during film comprehension experiment. In the summary, I will be discussing what “mind wandering” is and the methods used to test this this hypothesis.

No matter who a person thinks invented the motion picture camera, whether it was Louis Lumiere or Thomas Edison, I'm sure they had no idea what it would become at the turn of the century. Motion pictures, has become an entertainment medium like no other. From Fred Ott's Sneeze to Psycho to Being John Malkovich, the evolution from moving pictures to a pure art form has been quite amazing. Different steps in filming techniques define eras in one of the most amazing ideas that was ever composed. Silent to Sound. Short to long. Black and white to color. Analog to Digital. All were important marks in the History of Motion Pictures. "It's different than other arts. It had to be invented"

Finally, after a hard-working day, what can be more satisfying than watching films and concentrating with amusement on the plots? Dancing, Swimming requires a specific time to be followed. After getting very much tired I basically like to watch movies or watch Television. It is an excellent medium for mass education & recreation. We enjoy drama, sports, events, news etc and utilize our time efficiently.