From Vaudeville, Broadway, and Hollywood musical movies, to ragtime, jazz, swing, and rock and roll, all the way to television variety shows after the depression; the pianos of Tin Pan Alley are credited for laying the foundation for the many entertainments that have endured for over two hundred years. Before radio, people had pianos for entertainment purposes. This made Tin Pan Alley’s technique of having musicians pump out songs to then sell sheet music to consumers profitable since more often than not Tin Pan Alley’s publishers only paid a modest flat rate per song. The publishers had “pluggers” that they would pay to incorporate songs into acts in front of consumers. In doing this they created a synergy with the live entertainment industry that got consumers to buy sheet music as well as tickets to live entertainment acts.
Key words: adaptation, interculturalism, Chinese theatre, Shakespeare, Ibsen, O’Neill Introduction Since the beginning of the 20th century, the adaptations and performances of Western plays play an important role in the Chinese theatre. In those p erformances, W estern plays are translated, appropriated and staged, interweaving Chinese and Western performing cultures. Thus, they are typical examples of intercultural performance. What is intercultural performance? “Intercultural performance in general refers to performance/theatre that consciously or intentionally incorporates elements of performing traditions from disparate
During the Elizabethan era, The Globe Theater was the place where many different people could get together and be entertained for an afternoon. The architecture of the theater influenced how plays were performed while the props added to the professionalism of the plays being produced. The actors were the most important piece of the theater since without them; the theater would not have flourished as much. The architecture, props, and actors were all essential necessities that contributed to The Globe Theater’s success. The Globe Theater was built in 1599, in the Southwark district of London.
To start with, often when people from a foreign country don't fit with the American customs they became disoriented when they have to face a different system of living. Some foreigners come to U.S.A. and fit right in, while others develop a counterculture. New York City (N.Y.C.) is one of the biggest cities in the United States. It is so culturally diverse that you can walk down in Broadway street, got to the movies, go shopping, and go to the restaurant and hear nine different languages in one day.
Transportation. Better transportation together with smaller distances caused more people not to stay in park's hotels, instead coming to the park for shorter periods. Previous reasons are relevant to both American and Japanese example parks. In addition, American parks could not be used as an example because they were planned in the U.S. and developed from inside. Most planners, it should be believed, were native Americans who understood local culture and could use this knowledge to adapt offered entertainment to the needs.
BLOCKBUSTER WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT #1 Submitted to: Ms. Violet Christopher Submitted by: Christopher Allen Peek March 10, 2011 MGT 101 ANTELOPE VALLEY COLLEGE Not too long ago Blockbuster was on top of the world, they were the golden age for the video store. They had the movie rental business in the palm of their hand. But after a series of mistakes and unwillingness to see were the future was taking them now threatens to bankrupt them completely. Blockbuster didn’t have a good Business model or strategy. They didn’t plan or analyze what the general environment was doing and were it could take them.
IMAX films faced competition from other films produced by studio such as Pixar/Disney that are targeted for families. Within the large format film segment, Iwerks was the only rival to IMAX. It received two academy awards for scientific and technical achievement. There is a debt remained problem for IMAX which caused by the crisis that hit the theater industry in the late 1990’s because of
Tattoos Too Taboo? It’s hard to look authentically rebellious or menacing these days, when even well-behaved businessmen wear earrings and ponytails and college students destined for quiet suburban lives have body piercings and tattoos. Tattoos, in particular, are not radical, bold brandings (which many held as a violation of body) of flesh as they once were. There are more tattoo artists now than ever before and there are almost 1,400 licensed tattoo artists available in New York alone. Tattoos are probably better and safer now than they’ve ever been, and it goes without saying people get more creative with such a wide variety, applied in many cases by serious, highly skilled body artists.
However, they still do not compare to the speakers used in movie theaters. DTS Cinema Sound, Dolby Digital, and THX are all companies that specialize in high-quality surround sound systems, all of which continue to develop new technology in the realm of sound systems and push their best systems on movie theaters. With movie theaters being superior in quality, why would anyone not go? Simply put, the inconvenience. The price we pay for this quality is more than just the ticket price.
If the majority of the population finds the script of a film to be unclear and hard to understand then they will give their friends that feedback and so people won’t go to see the film, which is especially bad for a mainstream film as they cost millions to produce and rely on commercial success. Also a simple storyline and straight-forward dialogue helps when translating the film for foreign markets thus increasing its commercial success. A good film script can make a new film successful as more people will go and watch it if they have heard good reviews from critics or their friends and family. However, there are many other factors apart from just having a good film script that can determine whether a mainstream film will gain the desired commercial success. The producers want the film to appeal to a mass market so that they can get mass audiences to go see their film.