But what specifically do the critics like about Casablanca that has resulted in its popular appeal? From a woman’s prospective, Lauri Boeder writes on About.Com that “Casablanca is a great romance, a stirring wartime adventure, a suspenseful action movie, and in the end, a terrific buddy movie.” She further states that “Casablanca is thrilling on the first viewing, and so richly textured it rewards being watched over and over. The dialogue is clever, touching, and dryly funny by turns and utterly irresistible. See it once and then see it again.” is what she recommends. But what does Roger Ebert say about Casablanca?
Taylor Biggs Roughing it We get from the start of “Roughing it” that this is a fairly young twain. We pick this up immediately when he mentions his brother and all of his accomplishments. When he is excited about being his brothers assistant we get a sense of a young boy that is yearning to get out and experience something different. The language he uses is very descriptive compared to “Tom Sawyer”, Twain takes in everything around him and enjoys all that his eyes see. I feel like through the book Twain matures progressively through his experiences.
After reading it, there were a couple things that stood out to me. One in particular, was that it stated her narrative was America’s first best-seller. I knew it was big for a woman at the time to be an author but, for her to be America’s first best-seller is amazing and made me proud to be a woman. The other interesting insight is that over the years her narrative was reprinted and modernized. When it was modernized there were mistakes that resulted in changing her narrative that completely changed her story.
Uses and Gratifications of Vampire Fiction The way that audiences have consumed vampire fiction has changed dramatically over the years and with it, so has the reason why people watch vampire fiction and become involved in the vampire world. Personal identity has become a large part of why people watch vampire fiction as the modern, deeply personal story lines connect with audiences in a way that traditional vampire films such as Dracula or Nosferatu never did. Audiences, particularly teens choose to insert themselves into the world of vampires to distinguish themselves as an individual. The most recent example of this, is the Twilight Saga. Twilight has integrated itself as a part of modern teen culture in a way that could only be rivalled by the likes of Buffy.
This little Jo became one of the most famous writers, J. K. Rowling. How did she hook the world? Rowling wrote in her biography that she was on a delayed train when the ideas fell into her head. But she didn’t have a pen that worked. She simply sat and thought.
Although the book first got negative reviews, it has became a staple in American literature and is now being given to as young as high school students to read. The book is also continuing to predict what the future for our world will turn out to be. Using drugs to deal with our everyday problems and new technology emerging everyday like the recently released apple iPhone 5. Not only does this book predict the future, but shows the consequences. We’ll go insane because we cannot control our own
Franco Zeffirelli’s Jane Eyre Film Adaptation Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is one of the most popular texts of all time. Since it’s publication in 1847, there have been stage, television, and film adaptations of this classic. One of the more popular adaptations is director Franco Zeffirelli’s film version. What makes his version of Jane Eyre interesting compared to other adaptations is his ability to take particular scenes from the book and dramatize them in a way that make them seem more profoundly powerful than they were originally portrayed in the book. Jane Eyre is the story of a girl who struggles to keep her independent spirit despite the problems that society and circumstance conspire to throw against her.
During the 19th century, among the Brontë sisters, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre was considered the best from all their work but later on the critics declared Wuthering Heights to be superior in work. The novel has inspired the world of art and numerous adaptations of the book have been made. The novel has several movie and T.V series adaptations that have been successful both commercially and among the critics. It has also inspired several creative adaptations such as operas, musicals and theatrical adaptations. Even though Wuthering Heights is her only published work, Emily Brontë is one of the most recognized writer, her work i.e.
Whether we realize it or not, mass media surrounds us in our daily lives. Newspapers, magazines, advertisements, and television are all around us and have a very clever yet powerful force on how we view them. The media can be potentially harmful because it conveys certain messages that are supposed to be socially desirable are part of the norms. Adolescents become prime targets of what the media displays because they are new consumers. Advertising is one of the most compelling messengers in a culture that can influence an adolescent.
What happens when a show defies this ideology? Television and film are both popular forms of narrative, though television tends to exhibit a single character's life much more extensively than film; we get to visit with these people every week. Dominate culture and ideology influence what is put on television, but this pop-culture with emerging values then turns around and influences our ideologies and dominant culture. The lesbian-themed drama, which debuted in January 2004, has been groundbreaking. Never before had a show with an all-lesbian ensemble that spoke directly to lesbian issues aired on television.