... we can see from the presented above comparison the average age shift is increased in ten years. Such a translation from page to screen is not accidental. This development of literary characters is influenced by the set of modern stereotypes and perception aspects. In the twenties century a seventeen years old girl who is anxious about getting married will not be understood by ... such worries were fully acceptable and readers of Victorian time could comprehend the Marianne's behavior. In order to effectively interpret the adaptation in relation to the perception aspects two other charact...

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... convention of a character's bursting into a song at the slightest dramatic provocation. (Pg. 407) " A Star is Born (1954) took the genre even further with an inner battle between two main characters. The band singer becomes a star while the mentor tries to deliberately sabotage apprentices career with violet dances as well as singing. Continuing through the 1950's and early 1960's, Musicals served ... French New Wave Cinema. His belief as a conventional filmmaker was that, "it's not so much what the characters do, it is where they're placed, and how the react. " "In Jean Cocteau's Beaut...

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... gaze of the male star, looks upon the spectacle of the female body (Allen, 2001). Usually the woman portrays herself on two levels: First being an erotic object for the characters with the narrative, and secondly being an erotic object for the spectator in the auditorium (Mulvey, 1975). Erotic object is when an object enhances one's sexual fantasy. In this case ... the three basic components of the human mind which Freud proposed (Hayward, 2002). The ego ideal is being applied when we see Blue Velvet consists of many prohibited sexual fantasies: Literary studies on audience perception a...

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