... book defines genre as a category or classification of a group of movies in which the individual films share similar subject matter and similar ways of organizing the subject through narrative and stylistic patterns. Additionally it can also function as cultural rituals in which rituals are both formal and ideological practices that can become a beneficial means of responding a variety ... for developing stories in a particular genre, and Expectations describe a viewers experience and knowledge while watching a film that help anticipate the meaning of a particular convention or direction ...

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... , he was able to draw realities that are unnoticed by the imperfect human eyes. Vertov, especially, has adequately used movement and intervals of the images to bring about "rhythmical artistic" style to delineate the enlightening perspectives of lives and realities to provoke social transformation. Vertov's montages were structured at different intervals and the intervals cover movement between shots, visual correlation of ... to another. Hence, the correlations of planes, movements, light and shadow, for instance, were managed through controlling the intervals. In the movie, for example...

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... emphasizes that the prevailing representation of people and politics at a given time is a function of power instead of truth. Firstly, in the beginning of the film, it introduced with a military style drumming combined with the banjo in the beginning which appealing to the heartland of America with a quote: "Why does the dog wag its tail? Because a dog is smarter than ... ...

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... be noticed that, symbolically, all the drama of the film starts when Antonio attaches Rita Hayworth's poster to the wall. Consequently I do not believe that realism is purely a matter of style, since De Sica's purpose was to create something not only realistic, but also different, thus giving the viewer something entirely fresh and unconventional. Watching Bicycle Thieves, the viewer realises that ... ...

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