The term 'genre' has been historically referred to as the classification of literary texts and forms. In modernity and postmodernity it has been extended beyond literary boundaries to encapsulate (among other 'art forms') the classification of film/cinema. ... The singing and dancing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in The Barkleys of Broadway; Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds and Donald O'Connor in Singin' in the Rain and Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse in The Band Wagon, all adhere to the constructs of musical genre - 'characters spontaneously self-expre! ... In...

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Expressionism was a major force in German culture - in theater and painting as well as film-during the 1920's, just as during the same period, Formalism marked the burgeoning cultural life-both literary and cinematic-in the Soviet Union. ... Using "types- (Eisenstein was not interested in using professional actors, but used amateurs who were asked to draw on the experience of their own lives) rather than fully developed characters, he created a forceful, incessant logic for this story of the 1905 mutiny of the crew of Battleship Potemkin. ...

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The Holocaust Films: A Genre Analysis Introduction Over the last fifty years, literally hundreds of films have been created on the subject of the Holocaust. Numerous theories have been put forward to somehow explain the popularity and audiences' seemingly endless macabre fascination with...

• Word Count: 1992
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Additionally, the use of everyday conversational speech as opposed to rhetorical or literary dialogue was employed to give it an authentic feel. ... This harsh greyness of the celluloid connoted a sense of hardship endured by the characters. ...

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Additionally, the use of everyday conversational speech as opposed to rhetorical or literary dialogue was employed to give it an authentic feel. ... This harsh greyness of the celluloid connoted a sense of hardship endured by the characters. ...

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Spectacular visual tricks and effects, often combined with rather formulaic plots and characters, have given American films a special reputation as some of the most entertaining, yet intellectually vapid, productions in the world. ... The auteur system of evaluation frames the entirety of a film's literary and visual content as a reflection of the director's personality, his personal agenda and assorted obsessions lurking below the surface of a given entertainment. ...

• Word Count: 2032
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