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before the march. The black people of Selma recently celebrated a 52nd anniversary to remember the marches. Marty Roney said, “The marchers thought they would only be arrested” but they didn’t know how much more they were were in store for much more than just a mugshot. Lyndon B. Johnson compared bloody sunday to Gettysburg and Lexington based on turning points for the nation. Lyndon elucidates by saying “the Bloody Sunday riot sparked the marches from Selma to Montgomery…just like how the conflict

The Civil War, though ended, would leave a long lasting scar in the nation. Southerners lost both the war and their labor force. In 1865 the thirteenth amendment abolished slavery. The amendment was a big step towards equality by granting freedom to the slaves. However, it did not grant African Americans the right to vote, nor could this amendment prevent discrimination and mistreatment of African Americans. Due to the continuing inequity, the suffrage movement gained momentum.. African Americans

fight one of states’ rights versus federal decree. Klarman’s argument claims that this mobilization of white resistance in the South led to increased tension and violence against African-Americans. For example, the bitter protests in Birmingham and Selma, along with the violence in the Black Belt areas of Lowndes County, where police dogs, fire hoses and lynching were used came as a result of this massive resistance movement. This violence, when media attention was paid to it, “converted northern

Cloverfield, the screams and images of smoke heaving through the city of Manhattan hint at post-September 11th. To understand the growing popularity of Found Footage Cinema and why we discover these political undertones, this paper will examine The Blair Witch Project (1999, Myrick and Sanchez) in the

write about the contrast between sound and the moving image in horror films and how the use of sound can create intense feelings and unknown situations that the mind itself. I will look at the low budget, found footage, psychological horror film The Blair Witch (1999) because of it 's uncommon use of techniques used in a film and In Absentia because of it 's emotional efficacy. Ambient music and sound effects enhance the diegetic and non-diegetic sounds, The difficult thing to do while analyzing the

The Blair Witch Project is a highly successful and widely innovative independent film that was released on July 30th, 1999. The film followed three student filmmakers who aimed to create a documentary about a local legend called the Blair Witch. While the film alluded to various hallmarks of the horror film genre, it was groundbreaking in its marketing strategy, the use of found footage, and cinematography. In many ways, The Blair Witch Project adheres to various tropes and traditions of the horror

The absence of sound or music in Blair Witch Project, as well as no fancy Hollywood sound effects (that could have been added to support a jump scare) is what made it authentic to audiences. This means that any crackle or snap in the night was that much more terrifying. The director wanted to keep the film authentic, as if a group of college students actually shot the footage. The raw and unfiltered tone of The Blair Witch Project makes it much easier for the viewer to identify

The Blair Witch Project, shown in 1999 at the Sundance Film Festival, and later in theaters, is the story of three student filmmakers who decide to make a documentary about “The Blair Witch” in the woods near Burkitsville, Maryland. The film was very effective in the way it was advertised, first through the infamous “stickmen” and missing posters, to an internet campaign increasing the rumors that the movie was an actual documentary; if it had been advertised in any different way, it is possible

A Critical Reflection of The Blair Witch Project Perhaps one of the most influential modern horror films, The Blair Witch Project pioneered an entirely new subgenre of horror films in 1999- the found footage film. The Blair Witch Project uses simple yet effective set design and dream like sound editing to highlight the gradual mental decay of main character, Heather Donahue over the course of the story to illustrate a dramatic shift in the orientation. This, along with the first hand experience

Afterlife with Archie was one of my favorite pieces we viewed throughout the semester. It was separated from the other works before it because it used visual horror within a book. Many of the works in the internet horror module are visual but different because they are short films. “The Black Hole” was one of the works we viewed that showed a different kind of horror than any of the other pieces we viewed. The works have similarities, but very different stories. Both works are similar in the fact