... dust off traditional ballet. He made generous use of composers such as Bruckner, Gershwin, and Stravinsky. Balanchine realized, like all great choreographers, that the true soul of ballet is music. Modern Dance Although Modernism was already established as a definable movement in many art forms by the turn of the century, it did not emerge in concert art ... dance until the 1920s. Modern dance discarded the strict formality of classical ballet to explore radically different physical forms and philosophies. It developed simultaneously in Europe with Germany's Mary Wigman and in the Unite...

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... generation. "Scorsese's body of work addresses various themes such as the Italian-American identity, Roman Catholic concepts of guilt and redemption, machismo, modern crime, and gang conflict." (Tribute.ca, 2011) He has directed landmark films such as the crime film Mean Streets (1973), the ... techniques such as black-and-white and color film stocks, the usage of fast and slow motion, a montage of still photos, a choreographed dance routine, and various musical interludes. Scorsese utilized a few of these elements as well as a similar theme of promiscuity which was brought out clearly ...

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... classification of film/cinema. Feuer (The Self-Reflexive Musical and the Myth of Entertainment 1992) characterizes the musical genre as 'spontaneous self-expression through song and dance' - The Barkleys of Broadway (Walters, Charles 1949), Singin' in the Rain (Donen, Stanley; Kelly, Gene 1952) and The Band Wagon (Minnelli ... can be defined by its desire to be uncaused and unfamiliar, as much as possible unindebted to any tradition, popular or otherwise. The modern prejudice against genre in art can be traced to the aesthetic theories of the Romantic period' (Braudy Genre: the Convention...

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... Falcon and even George Orwell's literary masterpiece and Michael Radford's adaptation of 1984, and somehow try and discover what it is that makes this most modern aesthetic medium, the most offensive of all adaptive techniques. The Jane Campion film Portrait of a Lady is the perfect example of an enormously diverse response ... interpretation. As Robert Ebert from the Chicago Sun-Times states it 'gives us Isabel from a completely different angle. It is common for modern directors such as Jane Campion to come under fire for the artistic approach to adaptation. The post-modernistic ideals...

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... ;, as such which also points out the troubles the characters and cultural references of the times play to the narrative. As Landry describes about flapper films, they are more about modern femininity, "female independence within the traditional confines of romance and marriage"(Landry 3). Yet as Gold Diggers shows, the women find solidarity by marring the wealthy men. As Polly ... them to fall in love with each of the women and marry them. For Gold Diggers of 1933 to be classified as a flapper film is true with regards to the dance numbers and choreography, the independent women successf...

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