... popularity and audiences' seemingly endless macabre fascination with, what were truly horrendous events in the course world history. Some theorists have put forward the notion that the genre has proven to be successful because film has become one of the more enduring and effective way of educating, and indeed, transposing facts and ideas to modern generations. This being the case, the proposition ... Holocaust was delayed in reaching a mass audience until the mid 1960's and therefore, generations of people have not yet fully come to terms with what occurred. Regardless of why this genre...

• Word Count: 1992
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... genre film, besides having the two opposing forces of good and evil, often contains a third party character, a character I refer to as the enigma westerner. The enigma westerner is a character who is often torn in two by the devices of evil and the benefits of goodness. He typically sways this way and that throughout the film ... nature of humanity. Humanity, society is more closely represented in the character Ethan Edwards. In conclusion, the enigma westerner is the character in the western genre film that provides a human quality to the story line. The audience, on the most human of le...

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What makes a classical Hollywood film a "classic?" Many films employ such explicit and characteristic styles that there is never any question of their intended genre. If one sees a lot of explosions and fight sequences it can easily be assumed that the viewer has been ... it is an indicator that the viewer has just witnessed a suspense thriller. Yet, the difficulty in identifying a film as being part of classical Hollywood cinema is that the characteristics of this genre are not always as obvious. It is rather easy to sit back and explain classical cinema as being: "you ... the viewer to be...

• Word Count: 1976
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... as scriptwriter, Hitchcock was able to infuse what are, in some ways, characteristically dark stylistic and thematic tra! its with effective local colour, to produce an encyclopaedically playful gallop through "genre cinema".(1) In so doing, he achieved one of the most interesting and detailed portraits of a disappearing small-town American milieu. This complex rendering of what might appear to be simple ... , Charlie (Joseph Cotten). Of course not all is what it seems and Charlies' prodigal return, urbane manner, big city sophistication and East Coast ways are but a smokescreen for the ...

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... . Following the success of Dr. Strangelove, Kubrick hired noted science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke to develop an original scenario about man's encounter with extraterrestrial intelligence which later became Kubrick's next film 2001: A Space Odyssey. 2001: A Space Odyssey is generally considered not only one of the greatest films ever made, but a landmark in cinema history, setting the standard and tone for ... eleven million dollar costume drama based on the 19th century novel by William Makepeace Thackery. In 1980 Kubrick released his contribution to the horror genre, The Shining, ...

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... common element in both book and film versions of the story is the use of satire, making fun of the fairytale genre. However, whereas in the books the framing is the most important satirical device, in the film the visual effects impossible in ... the written medium take precedence. In the novel, the "omission" of pages of information describing thoroughly irrelevant things mocks the extensive use of description and tangents in stories, but ironically this information in itself is omitted for the film. For the film ... with characterisation, such as Fezzik's slow speech, Inigo's typical S...

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... Australian template. This can be seen in "Robbery Under Arms" where a real Australian bushranger, Captain Starlight, is conveyed in a typical bushranger genre based on the melodrama practices of good verses evil. While the focus of the film is not momentous to Starlight's actual life story, but more to the template taken from Hollywood of the conflict between good and evil ... further understood by examining the various ways in which these films represent and resolve conflicts, and their relation to broader issues of Australian identity and cultural values. "The agonism of a film is the...

• Word Count: 1458
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate