Focusing principally, though not exclusively, on the film, television and music industries, in this course we will study literary and cinematic narratives dealing with fame and notoriety alongside academic and popular studies of celebrity in America in order to relate these many functions to each other in terms of both historical continuity and historical change over the course of the last century. ... Borrowing from the themes and style of the French New Wave and responding to the social changes in the United States, directors such as Martin Scorcese, Francis Ford Coppola, and Robert Altm...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There are literally hundreds of fictional or documentary-drama pieces about the Holocaust with a number of themes in use. ... Themes popular throughout this era were the depiction of Jews in hiding and Jews as successful, accomplished individuals who were unfairly persecuted. ... A poignant feature of the literary version of Anne Frank's Diary centred around the point that Anne's childish innocence was to be shattered by the events of the world around her. ... This could explain why the Vietnam War, with its moral ambiguities, invoked renewed interest in the Holocaust in the...

• Word Count: 1992
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, the themes of Expressionism were integrated into later films of the 1920s and 1930s, resulting in an artistic control over the placement of scenery, light, and shadow to enhance the mood of a film. ... 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. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Additionally, the use of everyday conversational speech as opposed to rhetorical or literary dialogue was employed to give it an authentic feel. ... The blending of Christian themes and Marxist humanism ideals were also common place. ...

• Word Count: 995
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Additionally, the use of everyday conversational speech as opposed to rhetorical or literary dialogue was employed to give it an authentic feel. ... The blending of Christian themes and Marxist humanism ideals were also common place. ...

• Word Count: 995
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The studios not only controlled most of the people and talent of the American film industry, they also regulated artistic vision, theme, content, and subject. ... 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
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate