French film theorist Louis Delluc would call these filmmaking techniques and methods cinematic formal elements, or those elements unique to film as an art form, such as editing and camera movement (Jaramillo). As the evolution of film has progressed, the catalogue of cinematic formal elements has grown, enabling filmmakers to, at their discretion, make more complex films. Even restricted to the confines of what Tom Gunning calls "cinema of attractions," the dominant paradigm before 1908, this is evident. ... Rather, even the seemingly stylistically neutral film consisting of a sin...

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He communicates this message to his audience by presenting a bleak view of the universe that is typically Langian - thematically, stylistically and narratively. ... What also remind the audience of the machine-like precision are the clocks that are so prevalent in this film. ... While the presence of clocks contributes to the bleak and pessimistic atmosphere, the mood that encompasses the feeling of entrapment depicted in the film is also created by the stylistic techniques employed in the film. Lang employs numerous stylistic techniques, many of which can be attributed to Film Noir, to emphas...

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In both cases, Futurist and Anarchist art became symptomatic of the movements' wider desire for political and social liberation, as Varias puts it, "Paris' fin-de-siècle character was also evident in the struggle for stylistic freedom and aesthetic expression that its avant-garde poets, painters, and sculptors led against the conformist demands and... the rigid, oppressive forces of traditional standards"4. ... But what is it about the stage, both the interactions performed on it and the audience's engagement with it, that imbues it with the revolutionary potential to int...

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This stylistic choice is a large part of the message. ... It is telling that he does this while discussing what "can only be understood in the context of the bewildering global system of exploitation and migration-produced by European imperialism," (qtd. in Moglen 5). ... He is using it to show what is, what is not, and what ought to be. ... These elements of his life that he describes in Not Without Laughter certainly seem to be reflected throughout his literary career. ...

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My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. ... (Marital) Though the specifics of his unique and revolutionary style are well known to students of Ernest Hemingway, it is worth our time to revisit what it is exactly that makes his style so notable. Bernard Bereson summarized brilliantly what it is about Hemingway's prose that makes it so powerful when he provided a blurb for The Old Man and the Sea at Hemingway's prompting. ... (Morgan 5) Hemingway would a...

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It will be necessary to analyse the elements of the plot that we deem suitable and finally we will discuss the translators who were picked to take on this challenge. 2.2 The Origins of Asterix The origins of the Asterix series can be traced back to 1959, when the first issue of this bande dessinée appeared in the pages of a French magazine called "Pilote". ...

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I find it interesting this was painted in 1940 as the city had already expanded past what is shown; perhaps he was painting a memory or even painting a longing for yesteryear. ... This painting is very important stylistically as it was Fortin's famous style called "la manière noire.... The technique used in this painting was actually what first drew me to it as it creates such a powerful image. ... His creativity and experimentation with medium and technique as well as his unique personal view of nature are what made him grow to lead the way in Modern art in Quebec. ... All thes...

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The question immediately arises as to what extent simultaneous interpreters are similar to second language users with respect to speech perception and, consequently, whether or not evidence from the L2 users in the study presented here is of interest in the context of simultaneous interpretation. ... This problem, simply stated, concerns how is it possible for a perceiver to interpret what appears to be an inherently ambiguous and varying stimulus as a string of invariant linguistic units. ... The phonemes of a language then, were considered to be a language specific inventory of contras...

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Can you imagine what our influence could be if more groups like The Fugees or Tribe Called Quest created music and lyrics to inspire a new wave in Pan-African thinking? ... Bakarie Kitwana in her essay Walking The Tight Rope: the Art, Reality and Impact of Tupac Skakur, defends this statement, "In All Eyez on Me, his attempts to glorify street culture is overshadowed by his willingness to glorify it Thus many young people are imitating what they assume to be reality. ... While Tupac was put into the category of "gangsta rapper", he did not abide by many of the outlines that have been laid do...

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At this point in time, there were a lot of elements that allowed American cinema to draw from, and in turn, steer American film in the direction that it has been going in for the past fifty years. ... 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 Beauty and the Beast, there wasn't any other figure that incarnated the literary tendency of French cinema. ... As James Stewart approaches Kim Novak near the door, the audience is on the edge of their seat wondering wh...

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Whitman's style of free verse develops in complex and expansive lines and stanzas, which are nevertheless visually descriptive, painting to the readers a clear picture of what he wants them to see through a direct and impacting tone. ... This can be deduced particularly through the analysis of two stylistic elements: the demonstrative pronoun "this", at the end of the second line, and the synesthesia in lines 4 and 5. ... "That certain truths must remain unspoken is a roundabout way of saying that one knows what these truths are" and this "suggests the speaker pos...

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Bernays equated what propaganda is to a democratic society to what force is to a dictatorship. ... Schivelbusch uses the example of neoclassical monumentalism to underscore how the same stylistic, formal, and technological developments are used to serve ostensibly different political systems. ... Garraty begins by distinguishing the Nazi destruction of democratic institutions and imprisonment and murder of dissidents and what they considered non "Aryan". The New Dealers, as Garraty calls them in New Deal, National Socialism, and The Great Depression, did not imprison people for thei...

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During the early twentieth century architecture took a new turn into the more modern way, with clean lines and a new influence of nature, which resulted in a new era of design as a whole. With this new way of thinking came a line of architects that would take architecture into a revolution, such as William Le Baron Jenney, Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. Their ideas would change the way of architecture and would have a lasting impression on architecture in the future along with how it was taught. The Industrial Revolution had so changed technology and design that old concepts ...

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Seeking and Maintaining Balance: Rohinton Mistry's Fiction. (Critical Essay) Abstract: Balance is an important quality in the fiction of Rohinton Mistry, as suggested by the title of his second novel, 'A Fine Balance.' Mistry was born in India, a member of the Parsi community, and immigrated to ...

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Seeking and Maintaining Balance: Rohinton Mistry's Fiction. (Critical Essay) Abstract: Balance is an important quality in the fiction of Rohinton Mistry, as suggested by the title of his second novel, 'A Fine Balance.' Mistry was born in India, a member of the Parsi community, and immigrated ...

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Not unlike Thoreau's work, Emerson's writing in natural philosophy moves toward what we will come to think of as an ecology of mind. (12) My thesis is that Emerson's neglected "metonymy" provides a path toward a more complex relation between Emerson's rhetorical idealism and the protoecological empiricism most often associated with Thoreau. ...

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It will identify and discuss the general characteristics of K-pop, focusing on elements of sound, look and "family friendly" content. ... Gangnam Style was the first, and possibly last, time that a South Korean popular artist has had such widespread success based on purely a combination of elements beyond their record label's control. ... - What is the process behind the K-pop media machine? ... - In what way is the K-pop industry a continuation of Adorno's theory of popular music? ... This is not the case with mass media, and the K-pop industry, as it generates song ...

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What went out was narrative, description, rational exposition; what emerged focused on stream of consciousness, images in poetry (rather than description or narration), a new use of universal myth, and a sense of fragmentation both of individuality and of such concepts as space and time. ... But all through what might be termed the period of Modernism there were writers who kept working away in more traditional modes. What is significant is that both kinds of writing could flourish at the same time. ...

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