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Assess the importance of the British Documentary Movement and its influence on 'realism' within British Cinema.
... Film Unit (1927-33), argues Ian Aitken, was modernist and aesthetically experimental. To back this up, he employed the likes of Len Lye, Norman McLaren and Alberto Cavalcanti, who, with Harry Watt, helped to develop the documentary-drama form of the Second World War for the Crown Film Unit ...
Review of the film "God's and Generals".
... colonel who was a former professor in Maine's Bowdoin College. He loved poetry and languages. Chamberlain was appointed to lead the 20th Maine Regiment. Chamberlain became a hero at Gettysburg and received the Medal of Honor in 1893. Stephen Lang plays General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. Jackson ...
What factors led to the provision of Britain's fourth television channel? How did Channel Four change public service broadcasting?
... and the public. The reason why television channels were not meeting the needs of the more diverse population goes back to the early days when Reith was the Director General at the BBC . His austere, middle class values rubbed off into his work ethics and his philosophy at the BBC ...
Flash Floods.
... by the usually small Jacob's Creek. The two missing people were presumed dead, "but you can't give up hope," Conboy said. The search would continue until dark Sunday and would resume Monday if necessary, he said. Light rain fell while search crews worked ...
Discuss the idea of the flaneuse as an image of contemporary urban femininity.
... the existence of the flaneuse in the modernist era. (Richards 2003:151) Janet Wolff (1990, cited in Friedberg 1993:36) has forcefully dispute the unfeasibility of a flaneuse. Wolff elucidates a modernity that was "predominately identified with the public sphere of work, politics and ...
Theories in film spectatorship regarding stereotypes of Asian Americans portrayed in films specifically in Harold and Kumar go to White Castle.
... love relationship between the film and spectator. The protagonist in the film, Harold, played by John Cho represents the shy, compliant and hopeless romantic Asian American stereotype. Throughout the film he fuels and fulfills this stereotype in multiple scenes such as doing other people's work ...
Anti-hero within literature, music, and film.
... and turmoil, its fascination with the anti-hero has caused it to become more of an accepted figure. Through the use of the anti-hero, society's desire to imagine and express anti-traditional ideas can be fulfilled. The anti-hero in modern music, literature, and film ...
Issues of gender representation and gender stereotyping in television, focused around Fox Studio's "24"
... The general public have also started to see that the lack of varied gender representation in the media and television industry could be linked to contemporary problems such as the dramatic increase in the numbers of eating disorders within women in the Western world and the ...
Alfred Hitchcock films and his style of filmmaking
... and we see the blond woman again on a Paris Fashion magazine. We learn from all this that the kind of photography work Jeff does is adventurous (film site). The blond in the picture and magazine is Lisa, Jeff ...
The Inter-relation of Television and Violent Social Changes
... and our youth of today are seeing the difference between reality and the ideological fantasy. While middle class Americans sit in the safety of their living rooms abhorring the violence that is called entertainment today, about 30% this country lives at or below the poverty line and ...