69 days ago by KittyKnits

My rhetorical prowess is not limited to roadside signs -- oh no! It extends even to song lyrics. Commentary on popular songs, of course, is not new around here, but here are a couple of "gems" that have been niggling my brain for some time now. Beyonce's "Irreplaceable": First and foremost, at least ...

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80 days ago by Erica Firment

The 70′s band Journey is kind of a big deal out here. Apparently they are from the Bay area, and there is a San Francisco civic statute requiring all radio stations to play Journey songs every three hours. Or, so I gather. While doing a deep textual analysis of the song Don’t Stop Believin’ (sic) th ...

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102 days ago by IB Film Studies

From Memento, the final scene. "Do I lie to myself to be happy? In your case Teddy, I will..." An example textual analysis (DF) The scene I have chosen to analyse is from Christopher Nolan’s Memento made in 2000, and I will be analyzing the final scene. Memento was one of Christopher Nolan’s earlies ...

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103 days ago by mwidner

I like to discover and play with digital humanities tools. One I recently discovered is Voyeur, which creates word clouds and word frequency graphs for texts you provide it. Despite the warning by Jacob Harris that we should be wary of word clouds, they can serve as a gentle introduction to automate ...

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109 days ago by Nuna Bossi

Context of the film The contextual study aims to place the film within a wider social context, examining how and why a film should be affected by the conditions of its production. The Third Man (1949) is a visually-stylish thriller - a paranoid story of social, economic, and moral corruption in a de ...

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110 days ago by Lalo

The Third Man is a British film-noir directed by Carol Reed. It is a paranoid story of social, economic, and moral corruption in a depressed, rotting and crumbling, 20th century Vienna following World War II. In the story, pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find ...

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110 days ago by Matias

The context of the film: Where and when was it set, and what social and politic themes does the film explore? The film was released in the 31 August 1949 at the UK. It was filmed at Vienna at different parts of the city. Genre: What genre is the film? (You need to know this in depth) Technically, wh ...

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110 days ago by IB Film Studies

ES5 Sorry I'm not here guys, I am at the Peruvian Embassy, sorting out my paperwork that I need to abandon you... This lesson, you should use this time to do your research into The Third Man (Reed 1949). In tomorrow's lesson you should be able to answer the many questions I am going to ask you on th ...

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116 days ago by IB Film

In your analysis, one of the key things to consider is how characters are represented, and WHAT characters come to represent. Casting of actors and actresses is, of course, key to this. Consider what image and ideas an actor like Brad Pitt has with the target audience for the film, for example: Brad ...

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118 days ago by Ernesto Camilo

Definition of "genre" and "Fin de Siecle" by the dictionary: Definition of GENRE Genre: " A category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content" Se7en contains horror and neo-noir things. The type of genre can be a horror, suspense, detective- ...

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