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    History of World Dance 3813-001 April 7, 2010 An Exploration to the History of Bollywood Dance In 2008, the movie “Slum dog Millionaire” inspired a new dance craze, quickly spreading across the globe. Due to the movies, popular hit song, “Jai Ho” and the famous choreographed dance shown in a memorable performance during the closing credits of the film, known as Bollywood dance, has exploded into dance studios, workout facilities, and films worldwide. For decades, the infusion of song and dance

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    like it does today it had to evolve from something. Digital film evolved from Film or celluloid film as it is originally more recognized. I have a few questions that I wish to cover early on and continue to develop as time goes on. What is digital Cinema and what are the advantages and or disadvantages of it over film. What is film celluloid and where did it originate from ? Why did digital film start ? finally what is next for digital film is there more to come or will it transition to something

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    Review of the Film Adaptation of The Butcher Boy ‘The butcher boy’ was made into a film adaptation in 1997 by Neill Jordan and author of the original book Patrick McCabe. The Novel was highly praised and controversial. Many saw it as the best account of Irish childhood. Its time frame is reminiscent of the early 1960's. It is about a young boy called Francie Brady who becomes isolated from reality and eventually commit’s the ultimate sin of murder from this isolation

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    Research Question 3 How English is used in Bollywood films ? 1.Code-switching with English in the Indian situation English in Bollywood frequently takes the form of code-switching. In a bilingual speech community, speakers tend to mix words, phrases, clauses and sentences when they communicate with others. They are able to switch linguistically built upon different situations. When two languages are expressed in this way, they differ remarkable from the same languages as spoken in their separate

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    Solo Sunny Film Analysis

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    Konrad Wolf and Wolfgang Kohlhaase’s 1980 film Solo Sunny follows Renate Krößner as Ingrid “Sunny” Sommner living in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as a young, struggling pop singer. On a surface level, the film contains many of the common motifs in East German film with a dramatic, musical plot that involves a working woman’s pursuit of happiness. In actuality, the film manages to subtly deliver an effective critique of the culture of Eastern Germany’s socialist political society, despite

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    New Wave Cinema

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    of Narrative Film," it is said that “the prevailing mode of postwar French cinema was literary adaption, which caused French films to become increasingly verbal and theatrical. It was against this tendency- identified as ‘the tradition of quality’ by Francois Truffaut and the other critics writing in Cashiers du Cinema, that the New Wave reacted in the late 1950’s and 1960’s.” Camera-stylo, which would permit the cinema “to become a means of expression as supple and sbutle as that of written

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    Chicago Film Analysis

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    Chicago is a 2002 musical film directed by Rob Marshall inspired by the Broadway musical of the same name. Chicago stars Renee Zellweger and Catherine Zeta Jones as two female killers who both yearn for stardom in the vaudeville circuit during the roaring 20’s. Queen Latifah and Richard Gere play supporting roles as well. The musical numbers combine elements of jazz and vaudeville to add a great layer of depth. This film was well received and received an Oscar for “Best Picture” at the 2003 Academy

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    Robberies, murder, revenge… some of the most renowned films are centred on some of the vilest human acts. Our instinctive nature to crave unpredictability is often satisfied through crime films whether it is through fear, thrill, perplexity, mystification, disgust, horror, amazement, shock, or even offence. So what is it exactly that constitutes the quintessential crime film? People find themselves being transfixed by this popular medium, forming an addiction to the unfolding and prodigious plots

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    Italian neorealism (1945-1953), through directors like Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica, made its trademark on cinematic history not only in Italy, but also throughout the world. It was films such as Rome Open City (Roma città aperta, 1945), The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di biciclette, 1948), and Umberto D., (1952) whose style of depicting the harsh economic and social realities of the poor and working class of Italy took off as a new cinematic style after World War II. Neorealism is a response

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    The dominant feature that the films share is the use of narration to guide the viewer through each plot. They are the same in how they are used to describe settings and some situations. In Amelie, this manifests at one point as the narrator describing the activities of the local nuns on a warm and humid day. In Y Tu Mama Tambien, there are many examples of the narrator describing the political and economic climates that Mexicans exist in and must deal with. The use of narration is different in several

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