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    The Heart of Darkness, written by Joseph Conrad , is a very interesting and intriguing novel . It was originally published in 1899 . A great deal of the criticisms focused on racial tension and imperialism, which were very important topics that stuck out in reading the Heart of Darkness . Many literary criticisms praise the novel and the entertainment it brings to the audience . Although the Heart of Darkness receives a lot of praise, many critics negatively criticize the novel for various reasons

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    In recent years, Disney has begun concerted efforts to adapt several of their animated classics into live-action movies. Though this move has garnered new interest in the original versions from new audiences, older audiences that grew up watching these beloved classics have had mixed reactions to the remakes of their childhood favorites. This year’s Beauty and the Beast, an adaptation of the animated movie of the same name originally released in 1991, was received warmly by nostalgic audiences, highly

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    1. Introduction In recent years, movie class plays a more and more important role in English teaching in China. Most teachers require students to write movie reviews after watching the movie. However, how to write movie review is still remain unclear to students. Some student download a review from the internet, and some write a summary of the movie instead. Genre analysis is a system of analysis by which observations are made on the repeated communicative functions found in genres and on the

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    Berardinelli. The late Roger Ebert is perhaps the most well-regarded and influential film critic of the modern age. Ebert achieved notoriety in the world of film criticism with his review of George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. The review was picked up by Reader’s Digest, and what followed Ebert was a substantial career in film criticism, culminating in a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, successful

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    America for the Chicago Sun-Times, as a host on his hit show “Siskel & Ebert” and as a man battling cancer. The main reason I wanted to watch “Life Itself” was to learn more about Ebert himself, and perhaps garner some knowledge about good film criticism. On the first front, James absolutely succeed. (I now know that latter part was unrealistic, although I did learn something about good writing). He does a great job of picking the people (the talking heads) to discuss Ebert, from old drinking buddies

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    Social criticism can be involved in detective fiction, we see equality of the sexes being laughed at. Men in “A Jury of Her Peers” written by Susan Glaspell story, make fun of women, and Glaspell is deliberately critiquing the way men see women. Also, Klein argues that in detective fiction stories the detective is a detective male and the victim is always female. Which refers to in most detective stories women are just the laughing victims in the story and not the hero or seen as the favorite. A

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    Social Criticism In The Hunger Games And Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland “Off with their heads!“ (Carroll 122) could be the motto of Suzanne Collins’ bestseller The Hunger Games. Published in 2008, the novel tells the dystopian story of Katniss, a young girl who has to participate in a fight-to-death-tournament with 23 other teenagers. Connoisseurs might have recognized the quotation of the classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, first published in 1865. Mostly known as a children’s

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    When creating a movie about Neo-Nazis living in Los Angeles, one might expect there to be violence. Indeed, American History X; directed by Tony Kaye is a film just about that subject and absolutely gives the viewers watching it an immense amount of violence. There have been critics like Peter Travers; movie critic from Rolling Stone Magazine, for instants, who have gone on to praise the film and even calling it “An explosive, scorched-earth drama.” They explain how the film was powerful and important

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    Learning to Criticize Scholes sets the stage for his argument by examining and describing the three matrices of video text. The first being visual fascination, a concept we are all too familiar with; the main reason we believe movies and media can keep our attention longer than a book. He notes how “filters and other other devices cause us to see the world… with more emotion more effectively than verbal pathetic fallacy…”(619). Scholes recognizes the power that visual fascination possesses, he

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    Georgia O’Keefe (word count includes annotated bibliography) Georgia O’Keefe is a famous American painter who painted beautiful flowers and landscapes. But she painted these images in such a way that many people believed she was portraying sexual imagery. “O’Keefe’s depictions of flowers in strict frontality and enlarged to giant scale were entirely original in character . . . the view into the open blossoms evoked an image of the female psyche and invited erotic associations.” (Joachimides 47)

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