‘Home Alone’ is a magnificent movie title since it suggests all kinds of scary wistfulness. The idea of being left at home when one is a child means being afraid, hearing noises and being afraid to look in the basement of the basement of the house. However, this also means one can do all the […]
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Top Hat by Mark Sandrich and Go into Your Dance by Archie mayo are some of the greatest Hollywood musicals produced in 1935. The attires worn by the characters in both movies as well as the classical music played reflect the period in which the movies were released. The Top Hat film contains some wonderful […]
Explain genre theory and, using Chapter 4 of the text as a reference, Going by the definition, genres are types, classes, and groups of films that comes as divisions or fractions of specific genres. By this, it becomes uncertainly clear of what the real definition of what a genre is. Several theories have been made […]
Gina Prince-Blythewood’s “The Secret Life of Bees” is a film based on a novel by Sue Monk Kidd. A little white girl, Lily, escapes from his father T. Ray’s oppressive rules and seeks her dead mother’s past. Soon, she arrives at the Boatwright sisters’ pink house in Tiburon. The Boatwright sisters, August, May, and June, […]
Genres must no longer be considered solely as impersonal agents of narrative organization, but as discursive acts, an active part of the industry’s direct address to its audience, a rhetorical ploy destined to enforce a single pre-determined reading or at least to increase the probability that certain other interpretations will remain unexplored (Altman, 2005). With […]
In the music field Germany boasts of some of the world’s most renowned producers, composers and performers. Germany is the third largest music market in the world and the largest in Europe. The earliest roots of the music culture in Germany are within monastic chants and religious music. The 12th century saw the mystic abbess […]
Jamaica Jamaica is an island country of the Greater Antilles, situated in the northwestern Caribbean Sea, around 90 miles south of Cuba and 119 miles west of the island of Hispaniola, where Haiti and the Dominican Republic are found. As an island, Jamaica shares no borders; however, adjacent nations include the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Haiti, […]