“Appropriation study of texts is interesting because the changing values and attitudes of particular time periods can be observed.” Evaluate this opinion in relation to the Jane Austen’s novel, Emma, and Amy Heckerling’s film, Clueless. In your response make detailed references to both texts. 3. In comparing your TWO texts you will have become aware of how the contexts of the texts have shaped their form and meaning. Of more interest, perhaps, is a comparison of the values associated with each text.
Star wars Written and directed by George Lucas, Star Wars premiered in 1977 and became a huge success. The film star wars episode IV a new hope. Made around 1 billion dollars. The purpose of this essay is to show the way that George Lucas puts to different films and makes them in to one and the thing that I find interesting I this film is the setting. Normally in si-fi films they go in to the future in steed of going back in time but in star war a new hope George starts his film with this famous line .A LONG TIME AGO IN AR GALAGCY FAR FAR AWAY .there are Many things about the setting that is interesting and in this essay I will talk about some of these thing such as the cock pit of the millennium falcon , the last seen of the movie
Though it’s not all going to be serious, as Daniel Craig has hinted there is a lot of humor in Skyfall, which I’m sure will be make this movie more balanced and enjoyable than Quantum of Solace for example. Barbara Broccoli recalled the wise words of her father, Albert R. Broccoli (who brought Dr. No, the very first Bond movie, to screen). “Whenever your get stuck, go back to Fleming. Capture the essence of Ian Fleming.” The adage had worked before — 2006′s Casino Royale was the first Bond movie in twenty years to be adapted from one of Fleming’s source material and, with the help of star Daniel Craig, breathed new life into the franchise. While Skyfall isn’t based directly on one of Fleming’s novels, Broccoli, director Sam Mendes and the rest of the cast all agree the books have attitude, and the key to a great Bond is staying faithful to that tone.
Examples of narrative complexity are ‘The Sopranos’, ‘The Wire’, ‘Breaking Bad’ and the lesser known (and probably the most narratively complex television show there is) ‘Damages’. The early days of American television was a time when a lot of hour-long anthology drama series were the most popular and often received great critical acclaim. With series such as ‘The Twilight Zone’, ‘Alfred Hitchcock Presents’ and the ‘Walt Disney’ anthology series dominating during the mid 1950s and early 1960s, this period of television was viewed as the ‘Golden Age’. The 1960s and 1970s saw the beginning of more complex narrative formats which we see dominating television these days. The first serial drama came in the form of ‘Peyton Place’, which was
Classical and Post-Classical Hollywood Cinema INTRODUCTION During the course of this essay it is my intention to discuss the differences between Classical Hollywood and post-Classical Hollywood. Although these terms refer to theoretical movements of which they are not definitive it is my goal to show that they are applicable in a broad way to a cinema tradition that dominated Hollywood production between 1916 and 1960 and which also pervaded Western Mainstream Cinema (Classical Hollywood or Classic Narrative Cinema) and to the movement and changes that came about following this time period (Post-Classical or New Hollywood). I intend to do this by first analysing and defining aspects of Classical Hollywood and having done that, examining post classical at which time the relationship between them will become evident. It is my intention to reference films from both movements and also published texts relative to the subject matter. In order to illustrate the structures involved I will be writing about the subjects of genre and genre transformation, the representation of gender, postmodernism and the relationship between style, form and content.
Working Girl: The Myth of the American Dream Any popular movie, old or new portrays the mindset of a culture. Popular scenarios tend to follow the same basic structure of a certain myth, many times in different settings. One popular American myth introduced by Jack Nachbar and Kevin Lauses’ essay “Songs of the Unseen Road,” is the house of “anti-intellectualism (Nachbar 94).” Although the film Working Girl directed by Mike Nicholas, was a popular hit during the late 80s Americans today would still be able to relate themselves to the theme of “individual freedom” in the success story of Working Girl. A “myth” discussed in “Songs of the Unseen Road,” is not used in the common definition of something that is “false” or in other words known as an “old wives tale (Nachbar 84).” A myth in the study of popular culture is the cultural foundation of a mindset linked to bedrock cultural beliefs, not the particular stories that express these beliefs (Nachbar 85). Out of these famous bedrock beliefs in America such as the desirable “nuclear family” myth or the values of “more is better,” expressed as “endless abundance” myth, the myth of “individual freedom” is one especially strong related to the roots of Americans (Nachbar 94).
I am going to look at if a film portrayal can be a truthful representation of a historical period in time using Pride And Prejudice as an example. When looking at the text in comparison to the 1995 mini series by the BBC it is apparent that the 2005 film has taken a very different approach and represents the lifestyles and environments extremely differently. I am going to attempt to prove or disprove that a film can or cannot give an accurate historical representation of the period and form some sort of conclusion from it. I firstly began by looking closely at the opening scenes of each of the films and the differences in the representations. Reviewing the opening sequence of Pride And Prejudice (BBC 1995) we begin with a ‘misted’ camera shot panning over elegant embroidery and refined materials to a classic piano soundtrack, connoting elegance and class as the camera slowly pans through an array of pinks and creams, the materials are lavish and very expensive looking, again connoting class and elegance and establishing ideals for the opening scene.
The original pop-punk bands would be The Ramones or The Lonely Ones but these bands were more punk but they started the change within the genre. The pop-punk genre over the next 20+ years continued to change and as result was looked down on by many criticizing it by referring to it as “mall-punk”, “popcore”, despite this it wasn’t until the start of the nineties that pop-punk was considered a real subgenre and it was at this time the real icons of this genre began to emerge. Bands such as, Papa Roach, Jimmy Eat World, AAR, Blink-182, Green Day, SR-71, Sum 41, The Offspring, Reel Big Fish, Goldfinger, and my personal favourite Less Than Jake and many, many more. The last three bands though belong to a popular sub genre of pop-punk; ska- punk. However, despite these bands belonging to a previous generation of music their popularity is still as high as ever.
In the analysis, examples will be drawn from a range of sources to contrast the inferential requirements of portrayals in each medium. There is a focus on two film adaptations in particular, Apocalypse Now and Trainspotting. The former, according to Stam (2005) would more intertextual in adaptation than faithful to Conrad’s novel. It uses a range of strategies to convey the text’s themes in an alternate context which illustrate the choices the director makes in order to balance the depiction and assertion of the narrative. The second adaptation employs highly visual depictions of mental processes which challenge the notion that viewers can only infer mental activity.
Gerald Graff, on the other hand, would commend A Walk to Remember as an art form that gives rise to many debates and arguments about the movie and that gives viewers a chance to prove their intellectualism outside of the academic realm. By exploring their opposing arguments with respect to A Walk to Remember and the movie’s historical context in romance films, one can reach a conclusion about the effects of the movie on audiences and whether or not these effects are considered positive or negative. A Walk to Remember began as a novel by well-known author of romance novels, Nicholas Sparks. It was written in 1999, and Sparks shares that there was a rather strong inspiration behind the writing of it. Sparks loosely based the novel off of the life of his younger sister, who developed cancer at a young age (Sparks).