Essays Tagged: "Appropriation"
Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin, the play that became "a black musical"
al tradition that flourished in the early part of this century. The play showed the height of white appropriation of what had previously been a black cultural form. All the creative talent backstage w ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama
Law- General Defences- Examining all the possible defences for some one charged with murder- Actus Reus and Mens Rea
tion. This is referred to as 'Actus Reus'. In most cases the actus reus will simply be an act (e.g. appropriation of property is the act of theft) accompanied by specified circumstances (e.g. that the ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Thomas More, about what he did in his life and why he was so hard to put down by the Catholic Church and many of his former friends in the English government
Sir Thomas became a member of parliament. One ofhis first acts was to urge a decrease in a proposed appropriation forthe King (Henry VII). Taking revenge for this, the King imprisonedMores father for ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
"Oedipus Wrecks", a Successful Appropriation of the Greek Tragedy?
"Oedipus Wrecks" is a successful appropriation of the Greek tragedy in that it uses the same themes as the play in a modern context.T ... of the Greek tragedy in that it uses the same themes as the play in a modern context.The film is an appropriation rather than an adaptation because elements of the original play's plot and characters ... communicates to the responder that the movie is a comedy, and creates awareness that the film is an appropriation of the play.As is so in the play, the inescapabilty of the character's fate becomes ob ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Koru and kowhaiwhai in New Zealand painting.
New Zealand has a long history of Eurocentric appropriation and assimilation that has led koru and kowhaiwhai to become signifiers both of New Zea ... sent day with an excess of koru motifs advertising logos. Since the politically engaged 1980's this appropriation of motifs by Pakeha artists have spurned great debate in New Zealand. Pakeha artists h ... biculturalism and cultural sovereignty. This essay will examine Koru and Kowhaiwhai and look at the appropriation debate that has centred on the work of three Pakeha artists, Theo Schoon, Gordon Walte ...
Subjects: Art Essays
The political theory of Plato and Hobbes
By comparing and contrasting the requirements necessary for the appropriation of knowledge or wisdom in the examples of both Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan and Plato in ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory
Criminal law
der for Albert to be convicted for theft.Within the actus reus there are three elements - Property, appropriation and belonging to another. Albert would be guilty here because he made out fake invoice ... l other property, real or personal, which includes things in action and other tangible property.The appropriation by setting apart of money's out to a larger quantity and belonging to another because ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
How is gender identity influenced by social structures?
line with social boundaries that guide us in specific directions throughout our lives, using gender appropriation as the tool. However, if we are to inspect the issue from a more dispassionate point o ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Extended Film Review - Baz Lurhmann's Romeo + Juliet
rmann's Romeo + Juliet - Film ReviewBaz Luhrmann's Romeo+Juliet is a revamped, trendier, modernised appropriation of the romance classic written by William Shakespeare. Luhrmann has commented on many ... throughout the film. The prologue is shown as a news report, immediately introducing the modern day appropriation, just as the epilogue is also a news report. This is done to give the story more authe ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
How successful was Baz Luhrmann's appropriation "Romeo and Juliet" compared to the original play by William Shakespeare
Baz Luhrmann's film, Romeo and Juliet, is very successful as an appropriation of the original play by Shakespeare. Transforming the pre-16th century play into a con ... eacute;d ending, which is the one in the original play.Baz Luhrmann's film is very successful as an appropriation of the original play not only because of his creative ways in modernizing the play, bu ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
The relationship between "Taming of the Shrew" and "10 things I hate about you" and the respective cultural context
ene 2). The initial attraction between Katherina and Petruchio is money, and this is similar to the appropriation. "Ten things I hate about you" also shows money to perform a significant and controlli ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Analyse the artist's use of materials and his intentions in artmaking. In your response make reference to Pieter Breugel's Parable of the Blind and Yasumasa Morimura's Blinded by the Light.
Yasumasa Morimura's Blinded by the Light is a clear appropriation of Pieter Breugel's Parable of the Blind. In close reference to the materials, techniq ...
Subjects: Art Essays
Appropriation: Heart of Darkness- Apocalypse Now
t some eighty years latter, a young Francis Ford Coppola would set the cinematic world on fire. His appropriation of Conrad's text, whilst fundamentally similar, would take on a completely new form, a ... based connections but differ greatly on setting, techniques and context. However minor or major the appropriation, both texts have stood the test of time and remain fine examples of their genre."Heart ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice against its appropriation Bridget Jones's Diary
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and it's 2001 film appropriation, Bridget Jones's Diary, are the two texts I chose to explore for this assessment. All ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors
How the changed or maintained themes of Cyrano De Bergerac and its appropriation Roxanne illustrates the context each was produced in
y values have been maintained and changed. Discuss with reference to the text from the past and its appropriation."Although Edmond Rostand's "Cyrano De Bergerac" and its modern day appropriation "Roxa ... ing dramatic irony and exhibiting the defeat of superficiality by inner beauty. Accordingly, in the appropriation Roxanne announces to Chris "I like you for your mind not your looks!" and begs him to ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Relationship between Pygmalian and its appropriation SHes all that and their respective context and how it provides insight into how values have been maintained and changed
eir respective society possess. This is evident in Pygmalion, a play by George Bernard Shaw and its appropriation She's All that, a film directed by Robert Iscove. In these two texts, the same Pygmali ... into the way values have been maintained and changed. Both Bernard Shaw's, Pygmalion and its modern appropriation by Robert Iscove, She's All That convey the context and culture in which they were wri ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Relationship between Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare and its appropriation West Side Story and how the respective contexts demonstrate values that have been maintained or changed
In comparing the play "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare (1596), with its' film appropriation "West Side Story" directed by Robert Wise (1961), it is evident that the portrayed val ... t, ("Did my heart love till now? Forswear it 'sight!" - act I scene V line 49). Accordingly, in the appropriation, the blurring and soft focus utilised in the appropriation when Maria and Tony see eac ... ed from rival "households" to rival youth gangs from different races in "Romeo and Juliet" and its' appropriation. Society in both texts dictated that the individuals have a strong sense of how family ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Pygmalion and Pretty Woman
values have been maintained and changed. Discuss with reference to the text from the past and it's appropriation.The intended audience of both Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw and Pretty Woman, dire ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Essay on Cinderella and its appropriation the movie "ever After". provide insight into the way values have been maintained and changed.
several forms, including novels, plays, films, and even operas and ballets. Ever after is just one appropriation of the original literary version of Cinderella, The Glass Slipper by Charles Perrault. ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
How does Simon Langton's Pride and Prejudice reflect and or challenge the dominant ways of thinking of the 19th century?
Prejudice reflect and challenge the values and attitudes of the 19th century through adaptation and appropriation of Jane Austen's novel. Time is an unchangeable force, and with time comes reflection ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers