It's a literal darkness, in that where there is fog there is a lack of light, 'black drizzle' and 'the death of the sun'. ... He moves from the outside, rural setting and the sensationalism it brings with isolation to instead an isolation in a crowded place which the classic Gothic novels didn't do, thus bringing in his deep criticism of the current social structure. ... Setting, in these types of novels, is integral to the story, and the same goes for Bleak House, which is why this opening passage is so important. ... The isolated country mansion or castle is n...

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As each cut-away occurs, the degree of the lighting, colors, and acting changes based on the setting; This method of cutting away is used to clue in the audience and grab their attention (or to do the opposite). ... Overall, these instances are used to teach the audience that the story will be told via cut-aways while also setting up the later points in the film for aggressive lighting, colors, and acting. ... Zero framed by the contrast lighting as the camera comes closer to his face and he begins his epic story to which the setting cuts to its deepest root. ... Gustave and the ZZ soldiers ...

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First, lets take a historical look at this films setting. The murders and Carters conviction and imprisonment took place in the turbulent times of the late sixties when blacks were fighting for their civil rights. With so much social unrest at this time it is not hard to see that there would be tremendous feelings of disenfranchisement among the black communities. It was hard for blacks to find secure jobs at this time, so many blacks found other methods and means of procuring income such as the underground economy. ... When Carter stabbed the powerful child molester (bourgeois) as young b...

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The main mention to costume in the books was the man in black, who ironically proved to be the opposite of what his dark clothes and mask suggested. Similarly, props and setting play a much greater part in the film than in the book, close attention being paid to ensure the rural village is idyllic and the castle magnificent. Where in a book the imagination provides the information that is left out, each responder creating their own image of each setting, in a movie it is essential to design each individual element to create the right impression. ... Where many of the props, such as the Rod...

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Filmed in black and white, with deliberate lack of Hollywood' gloss, it earned Spielberg the greatest accolades of his career. ... However, black people were not represented. On both occasions Spielberg took a realistic approach by not using black soldiers because during the 1940's, American society segregated black people and so there were few mixed regiments, if not any. Nevertheless, black soldiers were an important source of man power for the armed forces in World War II but were all put into all black regiments. ... Well in this case realism is extremely important to th...

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In the Songs of Experience version, the narrator introduces the boy chimney sweep as no more than a 'little black thing'. ... In first two verses of both the Innocence and the experience Chimney Sweeper poems, Blake employs basic colour imagery to contrast the 'little black thing' with the white of the snow, which represents the purity of the childhood that the sweep has had taken away from him. The sweep's clothes are 'clothes of death' not just because the soot has turned them black, the colour of mourning, but also because the soot will soon kill the chil...

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In the foster home there were other kids, amongst them were a few babies and one seven year old little black boy named Harmon. ... As this happened Janie got to name her self and she named herself after her case worker's daughter, whom had also died, Leshaya, she did not only want this name because of who's name it was also because it was a black girl's name and she always wanted to be black she taught her self to talk slang so she sounded more black and also told everyone that her daddy was black even though her skin was so pale with blonde hair and blue eyes. ...

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According to Rebeca Duran because Rio de Janeiro was the primed location for modernization and introduction of unfamiliar cultures, it was the right location for setting up the first cinema in the country in 1896 (1). ... The films of this period were mainly low-budget films which were screen on location to utilize the natural beauty of the arid Sertão where these films took a realistic view at Brazil's social condition and portray poverty, drought and race discrimination which where beautifully highlighted in black and white and play out by non-professional actors. ... However, starti...

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Barrie's response is anxious and nostalgic, the desire to return to an imagined past of stability that, if it ever existed, is impossible to recuperate, a point marked by the setting of the play in "Never Land."" ... Hence it included a wide array of individuals from merchant princes and entrepreneurial wizards, to an ever-growing number of professionals, bankers, bureaucrats, and civil servants, to local shopkeepers, artisans, teachers, clergy, and clerks, along with their families. (19, 20) The broad range of individuals who make up the middle class means that, given the differing s...

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A whole subcontinent was picked up without half trying Images of the British raj in India are everywhere of late. On television reruns, the divided rulers of Paul Scott's Jewel in the Crown sip their tea in scented hill stations and swap idle gossip in the palaces of local princes. At movie houses, we can savor all the hot intensities that blast a decorous English visitor the moment she steps ashore after A Passage to India, to be engulfed in a whirlwind of mendicants, elephants, snake charmers and crowds. In New York, British director Peter Brook's nine-hour production of an ancien...

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