Bicycles Thieves (1948) represents one of the most important films of Italian neorealism. ... The film portrays an odyssey through Rome by Antonio Ricci: thanks to Zavattini's theory of "pedinamento" - the following of someone - the audience is conscious of what the character in the film is doing at all times. The aim is to let the images speak for themselves, following the slow and fatigued step of the working class man: with this technique we follow character's situations and state of mind step by step. ... In "Italian film in the light of neorealism " Millicent Marcus makes us awa...

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The Ministry's objective was to ensure that the Nazi ideology was successfully communicated through art, music, theatre, films, books, radio, educational materials, and the press. ... Within the film the use of the traditional propaganda technique "appeal to authority" is used significantly and critically with the citing of the prominent figure Hitler- their Fuhrer- as a means to support the course of action taken within the documentary. ... Although not a propaganda source itself, within the film it shows the propagandist dictatorship of the country's late leader. ... Therefore, wit...

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Pastor helped set the stage for the family friendly standard and other vaudeville theatre owners soon followed suit. ... These filmed proved to be successful because they were often short silent clips that fit well into the already existing vaudeville format. ... Silent films already competed with vaudeville for popularity as films began displaying elaborate artistic stories that grabbed the audience's attention away from vaudeville and "as film technology improved, the American's public taste for motion pictures grew as well" (Morehouse 180). ...

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There aren't any actual definitions coined by Tocqueville for the 'key' terms he uses, so in "Democracy in America", we get more of a complex, yet focused, personified picture of America as a democratic system, or, as Ryan puts it, "a film rather than a photograph () a narrative of the movement that generated democracy". Alexis de Tocqueville, the French aristocrat interested in an involvement in politics and looking to find democratic answers to France's main social and political issues, regarded the American system as an incredibly efficient model of ...

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