... scientific theories, such as Darwin's evolution theory', and the tension between the European nations that was to eventually escalate into World War One, called into question the existence of God and the rationality of Mankind. Modernism was a part of [this] disturbed, transformational period of European history [which] contained and incorporated its sensibility of transition and its rising sense of crisis, (Bradbury 13). The greatest ... works of the Modernist era were written around and during the time of the Great War (1914-1918) and conveyed the turmoil that transpired in European wa...

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... in Ryan are derived from the Italian school of Neo-realism. For example, the use of location shooting and natural light, closer to the documentary style than a studio fiction film'. Spielberg had realised that "cinema was no longer an entertainment in the usual sense, but a tool to unite audiences with reality, with truth-. This is clearly evident in Ryan, as he has ... ; the sound of the guns being fired are authentic because they are recordings of the same guns used at Omaha back in 1944. Ryan needed this authentic sensibility to create its shock value. Most people in the western world...

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