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    article entitled, “J. H. Reynolds Re-Echoes the Wordsworthian Reputation: ‘Peter Bell," Remaking the Work and Mocking the Man,” Brian Bates focuses on subsequent parodies of “Peter Bell” in order to expose how the parodies mock Wordsworth’s use of genre, poetic diction, and subject matter. Despite this harsh criticism, Bates suggests that the parodies renew our perspective and distance us from the first reading of Wordsworth’s “Peter Bell.” This distance prohibits the reader from fully conceptualizing

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    tell you the is a great choice.Books come in different shapes, colors,genres,fonts and so on.Author’s have different styles on how the create each book and that is what makes each author and book special.So remember when you go to a public library so please remember the author did not have to spend hours on the book to hear you criticize them.Books are the key to success but when you get a book ask yourself is this my favorite genre?Is this book relaxing?Last but not least,does this book have educational

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    can write is called a genre, they are identifiable types, categories, classifications or groups of films that contain conventions (Dercksen, 2015), in other words, Film genre are the categories in which the film being taken into consideration fall into. In this paper, a range of visual narratives and how they communicate effectively to a specific audience will be analyzed. These three visual narratives are; the horror film genre, the Film Noir/ Gangster Genre as well as the genre Science Fiction. Horror

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    How is a genre picked for a film? There are many theorists and critics that judge the films and voice an option and eventual a genre is picked for the movies. There are many different kinds of genres, however, todays focus is on the genre type fantasy. What in a fantasy film makes it a fantasy genre? This paper will break down what a film genre truly is, explain how costume design can effect viewers, and describe the key elements of a film in detail to determine what makes it a fantasy genre. The word

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    What if Darth Vader had been one of the rebels as opposed to the face of the Empire? What if Huckleberry Finn’s story had continued, and detailed his ambitions of running west to Indian territory? What if the story of King Arthur and his knights had taken place in the future as opposed to the past? Questions such as these have been asked for as long as people have been reading for entertainment. Very rarely are questions such as these answered by the authors of the work, meaning that, if a reader

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    Genre Theory and John Ford's Stagecoach The analytic theory posited by Robert Warshow in his essay "The Westerner", itemizes the elements necessary for a film to belong to the genre of the "western". Most contentiously, he mandates that the narrative focus upon the individual hero's plight to assert his identity, and diminishes the importance of secondary characters and issues, or any tendency toward "social drama." (431) He states that it is subtle variations that make successive instances

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    War Film Genre: Platon

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    The war film genre includes films about warfare, including naval, air or land battles. Films in this genre may focus on the battles, prisoners of war, military training, life during wartime or morality and humanitarian issues of warfare. This genre commonly includes works of fiction, works based on historical facts and occasionally works based on alternate-history fiction. According to American Cinema/American Culture, the genre also includes four narrative elements: the suspension of morality during

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    Music has been divided in different types and styles that have ranged from traditional to the current new genres. Many of the genres of music have had a history behind themselves having both geographical and cultural significance. Many of the genres has had a following resembling a cult going beyond the 20th century. Some of the genres that continue to be popular in the world today include Alternative Music, Classical music, Dance music, County music, Electronic music, Hip hop, Opera, R & B and Reggae

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    attitude at the end of the film usually define the genre, to which the film will fall. In most cases, the purpose of the films and the attitudes developed by the audience as the plot of the film grows, will help shape the genre to which the film will be categorized. Even though these expectations exist, it would be unfounded for the film to follow an individual ideal like communicativeness and knowledge that defines the genre. The shifts in these genres between combat and romance, for instance, are used

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    The given literary works are very diverse regarding their genre ranging from fiction to poetry. Their difference brings out different aspects and concepts that can be used to support the topic in question. Even though they lack similarity in their chronological designation, with the application of tools such as modernism it is easy to understand their loosely defined characteristics. The characteristic feature that can quickly be noted from all the literature work is that they share related theme

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