This document is attributed to Jack Lule and Flat World Knowledge 8.2 Movies and Culture LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1. 2. Recognize how movies reflect cultural attitudes, trends, and events. Indicate how movies influence culture. Movies Mirror Culture The relationship between movies and culture involves a complicated dynamic; while American movies certainly influence the mass culture that consumes them, they are also an integral part of that culture, a product of it, and therefore a reflection
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Work order advised members that “The producers…have refused to engage performers on union-negotiated agreements” This would subject the actors who work on the film to possible displacement from the union. This is what caused Warner Bros and New Line Cinema to consider taking production elsewhere. The New Zealand government came to an agreement between the parties that they would rewrite our country’s labour laws, but the main thing that the government did was to give Warner Bros incentives to keeping
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Babette’s Feast is about two pious aging sisters living an extreme sense of Lutheranism in a small, isolated northern village; their very simple and mundane form of living is challenged when a French civil war refugee, Babette, knocks on their doorstep with a letter from Papin, the world renowned Opera Singer, who in fact was fairly astonished and infatuated by one of the sisters during his initial visit decades ago. The father of the two sisters was a delusional preacher, who believed in the ludicrous
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Americanization Impact Less in the World With the development of economic and worldwide communication, globalization becomes a familiar word for people today. Some people address that globalization is Americanization because of forced influence from the United States. Whereas, a history professor, Richard Pells argues that “What we have in the 21st century is not a hegemonic American culture but multiple forms of art and entertainment-voices, images and ideas that can spring up anywhere and be
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Garza Professor Owen Composition 1301.12 7 March 2014 TTRO#3 Topic: How have computers changed our cinema? Thesis: Over the years technology has majorly advanced in various aspects; one of these wonderful advances has been within the cinema industry. Source that I found for this topic: http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/9-mind-blowing-technologies-changing-the-film-industry%E2%80%99s-future--2 This article explains the growth of the movie industry and how clear it’s adapting
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were Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Warner Bros. and Radio Keith Orpheum (RKO Pictures). The Big Five controlled the market, because they had the largest and most beautiful movie palaces. About 15% of all cinemas were in their possession,
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Short Essays The essays should be typed with double-spaces. 1) Describe the three basic types of music heard in original scores during the silent film era and cites specific examples from The Birth of a Nation. (10 points) 1-2 ¶‘s * Adaption is one basic type of music heard during the silent film era. With adaptation you borrow substantial portions of existing music, usually classical, for use in film score. The music should remain largely in tack, although it can be altered or adapted
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Midterm 1: Short Essays 1. Describe the three basic types of music heard in original scores during the silent film era and cite specific examples from The Birth of a Nation. Music alone can become a powerful source that affects our daily lives also playing a huge role in regards to art, film, and everywhere we go in general. In movies, music foreshadow scenes for viewers and builds up our emotions which increases our feeling of happiness, sorrow, hilarity, fear, and much more. During the silent
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Midterm 1 Music 468 Spring, 2015 Short Essays You will write three essays in all. The essays should be typed with double-spaces. For the 10-point essays, think of a paragraph or two, and for the 20-point essays aim for three or more paragraphs. Since this is an exam, I am limited in the answers that I can give if you have questions. All of these points are covered in the book and addressed during lecture. 1) Describe the three basic types of music heard in original
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1. The three basic types of music heard in original scores during the silent film era, were adaptations, newly composed music, and arrangements. Adaptations of classical works are usually used in action and dramatic scenes and involve borrowing of a substantial portion of an existing composition for use in a film score. In The Birth of a Nation an example of adaptations was when a composition by Mozart was used for a scene that showed Lincoln’s assassination as well as for the ending of the entire
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