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    suffering of its victims, are spoken of in literary texts and shown in films. Can the Holocaust actually be represented ethically, in a way that honors the horrific suffering of the victims, and in a real sense, by either of these forms of narrative representations, especially film? Critics argue both sides of this question; some stating that the movie, Schindler’s List, trivializes the Holocaust; whereas, others defend the film. This paper will look at both sides of this argument; the positive side

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    In examining Zach Inglis’s scene breakdown of ‘Better Places to Go’, the document gave an overwhelming sense of dialogue and plot rather than a scene-by-scene breakdown of the film. I noticed that this document is a scene breakdown and treatment combined which was not the task, making it difficult to mark. Some issues within the document that I wish to raise are formatting (abiding by editing house requirements, audio), the structure (layout, scene consistency), writing (readability), and characters

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    Around the premonition of the rising of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party, two German World War I veterans named Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer wrote the script for the German silent film, ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’. Based on experience from their time in the German military, they wrote the script based on the mistrust of authority while with the military in World War I. The plot tells the story of a crazy hypnotist, Dr. Caligari, who hypnotizes and uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.

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    In the film Winter in the Blood, directed by Alex Smith and Andrew Smith, there is a constant tone of humor as well as a feeling of disconnection. The film has several aspects of a Western, but it is more dramatic as well as comedic in some ways. While the film succeeds in portraying the harsh realities that some Native Americans face today, such as feelings of displacement, many characters also represent some stereotypes of Native Americans as well. The film takes its time developing characters

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    Besides the critique on the traditional women’s roles in modern society this art video are also a parody of the television cooking demonstration that was popularized by Julia child in the 1960s. For the second video that I’m going to talk about is a film called safe which directed by todd Haynes. The film was release on the june 30, 1995 and was voted as the best film of the 1990s in the 1999. This film starring three main actors Julianne Moore, Peter Friedman

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    For anyone who has ever watched a film is a critic in some form. They judge various aspects based on personal feelings or attitudes, then state them for anybody to hear. I, the writer, am guilty of this type of film analysis. I based my ‘review’ of a film solely on how I felt the narrative evolved or how well the acting was done. I never considered why the rhetor of film choose certain details or what might have influenced the rhetor in the first place. However, through this course I was exposed

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    up with funny situations for silent films--was the early form of what would eventually become the screenwriting industry. Since the silent films being made in the 1890 's had no dialogue, it wasn 't until the emergence of sound in film, in the 1920 's, that writers flocked to Hollywood in order to become a part of the new, promising industry. (“Cinema”) Screenwriting is the workmanship and art of composing scripts for mass media communications like feature films, television,and video games. Screenwriters

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    Texts reflect the culture and values of their eras by presenting and addressing perspectives of the composers on the issues of the context. The poem The End and the Beginning by Wislawa Szymborska and the Austrian film 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance by Michael Haneke accomplish this by exemplifying issues in 1990s society such as the increasing influence of media and the breakdown of interpersonal communication. The End and the Beginning is a Polish poem by Wislawa Szymborska which captures

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    proclaiming war on all those complicit in the disparity between white and black; especially in the film arena. His subject changes with paragraphs, movie critics, Oscar nominees and watchers, readers of the article, and anyone discriminatory. The Oscar Whiteness Machine is a mix of genres but it gets its main point across, black people have been discriminated against in the Oscars, and in life, and the film business plays a role in the suppression of black culture. We honor the best and whitest. Neil

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    result of her issues with an offended man and her alcoholic father. Events in the novel and film also differ in their importance. First being titles “The Cheated” Will a novel about Hollywood dispersed 70 years back still honest to goodness today? In "The Day of the locus," created in 1939, Nathaniel West joyfully sinks his teeth into a movie business bloated with accomplishment. Many critics critique The Day of the Locus as being the best novel as the best ever written about Hollywood. The setting

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