... become a beneficial means of responding a variety of situations. Genres have been used to classify various art forms well before the creation of films. For literature, Tragedy was considered the most important in Aristotle's Poetics, Musical genres were composed of classical sonatas and symphonies, and genre ... painting depicting domestic life and daily social encounters began to surface in the 17th century and were then followed by genre painting that came to suggest an image of a "slice of life. Ultimately these genres were linked to the stage ... emotions and thoughts through song a...

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... employed other gimmicks to entice respectable patrons such as offering prizes like sewing machines. Pastor helped set the stage for the family friendly standard and other vaudeville theatre owners soon followed suit. Another major pioneer in the history of vaudeville was Benjamin Franklin Keith considered "the father" of American Vaudeville and his partner E.F. Albee, who begun together turning vaudeville ... of American entertainment. Ultimately though, the evolution and popularity of motion pictures would eventually be one of the major contributing factors for the decline of vaudevill...

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... like the control of directors in modern moviemaking) Selznick broke all boundaries. After recommendation from Margaret Mitchell, Selznick hired experts in southern history, speech and social customs to represent the films setting as vividly and authentically as possible, Mitchell herself did not want any personal involvement in the film at all, due to the books success she neither needed or wanted ... came back to Howard to produce the script, Selznick himself adding the scene at the end of the film that brings Scarlett back to Tara. Selznick himself also wrote the films now famous prol...

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... propaganda as the distribution of pamphlets and documentaries portrayed how good life was in America, demonstrating the life of the American worker and selling the democratic way of life. Feature films such as "Nikotchka- which satired the lives of Russians went a long way in winning the war against communism. This film was repeatedly shown in the working class regions of Italy ... time to release 29 merchant ships to the Italian government that had been seized during the war as a gesture of "friendship and confidence in a democratic Italy-(Miller). This event was followed four days lat...

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